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2026 IgnitED Award Winners
The Grantmakers for Education IgnitED Awards celebrate outstanding leaders who drive bold ideas and innovative thinking in education and philanthropy. Learn more about the 2026 award winners here!
Principles of Grantmaking for Education Equity and Justice
Making the Whole Visible: A Multidimensional Approach to Strategic Collaboration in Education Philanthropy
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Making the Whole Visible: A Multidimensional Approach to Strategic Collaboration in Education Philanthropy
The Grantmakers for Education 2026 case study invites the education philanthropy community to take a multidimensional view of its work and explore how strategic collaboration can create the necessary conditions for scaling impact. It explores the work of New Profit — a venture philanthropy organization — and its focus on strategic collaborations.
Principles of Grantmaking for Education Equity and Justice
Grantmakers for Education has prepared the Principles of Grantmaking for Education Equity and Justice to affirm a set of attitudes, beliefs and practices that, when carefully considered and conscientiously applied, can support education philanthropy in realizing its core purpose: to nourish human potential and improve the human condition. Providing both inspiration, sensibility and guidance, these principles offer an approach to grantmaking that can productively foster education equity and justice.
Investing in the Out-of-School Time Workforce: Recommendations for Grantmakers
This report outlines the challenges facing the out-of-school time workforce, highlights solutions and provides recommendations for philanthropy. Funders and field leaders are invited to engage with the research, recommendations and a workforce solutions database.
Research Brief Series: Twenty Years of Education Funding in the U.S.
Explore this series of research briefs that share information on giving patterns in education over the past twenty years among foundations and grantmakers. The briefs cover funding by education levels, regional funding and funding by topical areas.
Learn By Doing: Strategies to Support Work Based Learning Pathways in Post-Secondary Education
Nationally, over 43 million adults have college experience but did not earn a credential. These completion rates have intensified concerns over a widening skills gap, prompting calls to redesign postsecondary education through lifelong learning models that integrate strong education-employer partnerships. This research is the product of a unique research fellowship facilitated through Grantmakers for Education and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE).
Bringing Students Back
This study profiles successful programs that re-engage students who left college before earning a degree or credential. Commonly known as students with some credit, no credential (SCNC), this student population has increased the urgency of the college completion crisis. This research is the product of a unique research fellowship facilitated through Grantmakers for Education and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE).
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