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Member Insights: Why Is Now the Time to Invest in Public Education Advocacy?

Funders should take note: grantmakers who want to strengthen public education and support multi-racial democracy can invest in this critical pathway forward.

Grantmakers for Education

New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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March 2024

New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy

This piece by Nicole Rodriguez Leach and John H. Jackson discusses how after myriad funder press releases and pledges, both racial equity and racial justice grantmaking dropped significantly between 2018 and 2021.

Stanford Social Innovation Review
March 2024

When schools tap parental love

A survey last year by Grantmakers for Education found that 60% of education funders support efforts to help families become more involved in their children’s education.

The Christian Science Monitor
March 2024

What Is Going on in Education Philanthropy? Here Are the Currents Shaking Up the Field

This is the second of two articles to explore the apparent changes in the field of education philanthropy.

Inside Philanthropy
March 2024

What Is Going on in Education Philanthropy? Cutbacks and Shifting Strategies Disrupt the Field

This is the first in a two-part series about a wave of disruption and uncertainty in the world of education philanthropy.

Inside Philanthropy
March 2024

Justice Is the Foundation

This action brief shows that despite a chorus of funders committing to changing their grantmaking practices amid the racial justice protests of 2020, grant dollars awarded to racial equity and racial justice work have declined compared to the period before it. The brief provides a number of starting points for those interested in making the necessary changes in their grant strategies.

Schott Foundation for Public Education
March 2024

Small Towns, Big Opportunities: Many Workers in Rural Areas Have Good Jobs, but These Areas Need Greater Investment in Education, Training, and Career Counseling

This report counters to some degree the popular narrative that rural America has been “left behind,” with data on the percent of the working popoulation that holds a share of the country's good jobs. It also provides recommendations to mitigate the region’s high labor-force non-participation rate, low bachelor’s degree attainment rate and overall population decline.

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce

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