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Philanthropy’s Role in a Transitioning Education Landscape

Read Grantmakers for Education and The Philanthropic Collaborative for Education's joint statement on Philanthropy’s Role in a Transitioning Education Landscape.

Grantmakers for Education

Kids Are Philanthropists, Too: "The Future of Education"

The Giving Square

Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025

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March 2025

What Proposed Federal Budget Cuts and Policy Changes Will Cost Children

This analysis dissects recent Federal proposals, explain how they disproportionately harm children, and make the case for a budget that values our youngest citizens. 

First Focus on Children
March 2025

Work In Progress: State Child Care and Early Education Updates 2024

This report highlights strides made by various states during their 2024 legislative sessions to enhance child care and early education. Key initiatives include increased funding for child care assistance, improved compensation for early educators through wage supplements, efforts to expand the availability of child care services, and new or enhanced child care tax credits.   

National Women's Law Center
February 2025

Lessons from LEAP: Creating Opportunity for Systems-Involved Youth

For the past eight years (2016–2024), the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) initiative has sought to strengthen the economic opportunity and well-being of young people. 

Equal Measure
February 2025

What Is the Financial Risk of Nonprofits Losing Government Grants?

This resource allows users to understand the financial risk to nonprofits if they lose their government grants. Explore the data at the national level by state, subsector, and nonprofit size. Or click on a state to see a county, congressional district, size, and subsector breakdown.

Urban Institute
February 2025

Break Fake Rules Podcast

Some rules are meant to be broken—especially the fake ones! Join Glen Galaich, CEO of the Stupski Foundation, as he sets out to discover how philanthropy can evolve to meet the challenges of our time. Each episode features conversations with rule-breaking leaders in philanthropy, nonprofits, government, media, and more, uncovering the challenges they have overcome by breaking fake rules and which rules we should commit to breaking together.

Stupski Foundation
February 2025

Why we have and need a U.S. Department of Education

This series of articles examines what the department does to shape education policy and practice in the United States. It also addresses misconceptions about the department’s role and the president’s authority to dismantle it.

Brookings Institution

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