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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!

Grantmakers for Education

Investing in the Out-of-School Time Workforce: Recommendations for Grantmakers

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Member Insights: Education Access Is Under Threat: Philanthropy Can Protect Education for All Children

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August 2026

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.

Brookings Institution
August 2026

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.

Count All Kids Coalition
August 2026

Member Insights: Young Leaders Are Speaking. Are You Listening?

We all know what it’s like to feel unheard at some point in our lives. Read the latest Member Insights from Katrina Mitchell, director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site and Grantmakers for Education board member.

Grantmakers for Education
July 2026

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.

July 2026

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.

Independent Sector
July 2026

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.

Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC)

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