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Member Insights: Leadership for Education Equity in Trying Times

How can those of us focused on racial equity in education and philanthropy make a greater impact and do our part to guide the nation toward justice?

Grantmakers for Education

Youth Civic Empowerment: Insights from the Student Experience

YouthTruth

Report Card 2024: New Perspectives from Students on U.S. Schools

Walton Family Foundation

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September 2020

Balancing Purpose, Payout, and Permanence: Strategy Guide

How much should we spend? This is an essential question for foundations, and one of the most complex, particularly in moments of change or turmoil. This Strategy Guide invites you to reflect more deeply on how your foundation chooses to balance four factors—purpose, conditions and trends, time horizons, and assets for mission—especially in times of greater crisis or opportunity. It leaves the final decision to you, without judgment for your payout amount, lifespan, or mission.

National Center for Family Philanthropy
September 2020

#InclusiveImpact Resource Guide

New Profit
September 2020

Transforming Positive Youth Development: A Case for Youth Organizing

This study of the unique contribution organizing plays in a young person’s development is based on a two-year inquiry into 500 young people’s experiences using rigorous pre- and post-test methods to compare the developmental outcomes of young people engaged in organizing with those engaged in more traditional youth development programs.

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
September 2020

Tomorrow Today: Letters from a Future in the Making

Through a series of letters from the future, this booklet envisions a tomorrow where learning is a lifelong pursuit, caring is a shared value, equity is how we measure success, innovation is driving us forward, and our connections to each other are keeping us whole.

Remake Learning; The Grable Foundation
September 2020

Building a Better K-3 Literacy System

This Policy Brief provides an overview of state strategies to promote literacy in kindergarten through third grade. It also includes current state examples that incorporate research-based approaches and policy takeaways for consideration.

Education Commission of the States
August 2020

Impact Investing Handbook: An Implementation Guide for Practitioners

Two years in the making, this practical publication features case studies and detailed guidance for individuals, families, foundations, and corporations. Written by Steven Godeke of Godeke Consulting and Patrick Briaud of RPA, it features input from over fifty experts and practitioners.

The Handbook comes at a pivotal moment. In the midst of urgent social, economic and environmental challenges including COVID-19, a rapidly changing climate, growing economic inequity, and broader realization of systemic impacts of racism, more investors are seeking to better understand the positive and negative consequences of how they deploy capital. There is a growing realization among those who seek to influence society that they can use more of their assets to complement and even accelerate their social impact goals.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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