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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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Springboards to Opportunity: The Middle-Skills Occupational Landscape in 55 US Metro Areas
Across the 55 largest US metro areas, institutions are producing roughly 30% of the credentials needed to fill middle-skills springboard occupations – the occupations that offer workers above-median earnings at the start of their careers and strong wage growth over time, compared with other middle-skills work. This tool shows where providers are awarding too few credentials to meet employer demand; how severe the shortages are; and where providers, employers, and policymakers can work together to address these shortfalls.
Cultivating intellectual humility in America’s students
This initiative explores intellectual humility, or an awareness of our own fallibility and the opportunities and risks it creates. It focuses especially on adolescence, considering schools’ role in helping students develop intellectual humility and engage constructively in our society and democracy.
Child Advocate's Roadmap to 2030
Count All Kids' Child Advocate's Roadmap to 2030 is designed to help child advocates and child serving organizations improve the count of young children in 2030, and to address new opportunities and communities at high risk of missing young children, such as communities of color, communities with language barriers, and communities with many renters.
The Funder’s Palette: A Spectrum of Approaches for Systems Change
Foundations across the sector are embracing a broader vision of what it means to create change. As philanthropy evolves, so does the role foundations play, moving beyond traditional grantmaking to influence the systems that shape communities.
Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Public trust is the currency of the nonprofit sector. Without the public’s trust, everything nonprofits and philanthropies do to advance their missions becomes harder, if not impossible.
Coming Through in a Crisis: Child Care Organizers Find New Ways Forward
In 2025, child care organizers faced mounting challenges. Homes and child care programs were caught up in climate disasters. Immigrant communities faced new attacks. Safety-net supports eroded. Through it all, Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF) grantee partners strengthened relationships, mobilized mutual aid, defended public investments, and created opportunities for parents, providers, and early educators to organize and act together.
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