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Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025

Our Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking report, based on the latest survey of education grantmakers, offers insights into where and how funders are working and their evolving priorities.
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Higher Education and Post-secondary Trends to Watch in 2022
Ulcca Joshi Hansen, Chief Program Officer at Grantmakers for Education, provides some of her predictions for 2022 and beyond in the post-secondary landscape.
Moving toward human liberatory models
The Coconut Thinking podcast brings together educational provocateurs who are re-thinking school as a concept and a space.
The Future of Smart
Just released! New book by Grantmakers for Education's Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen. The book explores how funders and policymakers can leverage the disruptions of COVID to build P-K through postsecondary systems in ways that reflect research on human development, learning science and the future of work and civil society.
The Future of Smart
In The Future of Smart, author Ulcca Hansen discusses the changes needed in education to sustain healthy communities, economic systems, and civic society.
Ep. 268 A Theory For Change: The Future Of Smart
Drew Perkins talks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen, Chief program Officer at Grantmakers for Education, about her new book, The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive, and how she thinks about a structural and sustainable human-centered liberatory approach to better meet the needs of students and the modern world.
Rethinking Education
Episode 150: Rethinking Education (ft. author & educator Ulcca Joshi Hansen)
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