[{"Name":"Academy for Urban School Leadership", "Amount":"$960,000", "Description":"To support a new public high school on the west side of Chicago that will also serve as a teaching academy for new Chicago Public School teacher", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achieve Inc", "Amount":"$2,148,910", "Description":"To help states align secondary school math expectations with the demands of postsecondary education and work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"ACORN", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To conduct outreach to increase the number of applicants for the new and existing small high schools in Brooklyn, particularly focusing on the least-informed students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"All Hands Raised", "Amount":"$646,851", "Description":"To expand and strengthen public understanding, involvement, and demand in trasnforming secondary schools in Portland", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"All Hands Raised", "Amount":"$7,023,100", "Description":"To design and implement a district and community-wide agenda to transform and sustain excellence in all of Portland's secondary schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Education", "Amount":"$125,000", "Description":"To generate recommendations on the development and implementation of a viable short- and long-term fiscal strategy to advance academic achievement in every public school in Seattle", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Council on Education", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support a conference 'Educating All of One Nation: Realizing America's Promise: Embracing Diversity, Discovery and Change'", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institute for Social Justice Inc", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support a multi-year outreach campaign to achieve statewide education reform in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$479,602", "Description":"To provide an empirically-based cost estimate of the transitional and ongoing costs of effectively implementing comprehensive high school reform", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans", "Amount":"$477,691", "Description":"To support AAMA school model and to develop organizational capacity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association for the Study of Higher Education", "Amount":"$15,000", "Description":"To support the 2005 ASHE Annual Conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Atlanta Public Schools", "Amount":"$1,972,800", "Description":"To develop and launch a comprehensive secondary reform plan for Atlanta Public Schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Austin Independent School District", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support a comprehensive district-wide High School Redesign Plan for Austin Independent School District high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Austin Voices for Education and Youth", "Amount":"$75,820", "Description":"To strengthen the high school redesign process in the Austin community", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bard College", "Amount":"$999,900", "Description":"To implement a series of summer seminars for 100 fellows from Early College High Schools each year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Battelle For Kids", "Amount":"$637,532", "Description":"To build the infrastructure for a longitudinal value-added database at the high school level to measure contributing factors to students' academic progress", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bellingham School District #501", "Amount":"$2,131,800", "Description":"To make systemic and high school program changes which will result in all students being ready for college, work, and citizenship", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Brown University", "Amount":"$3,230,000", "Description":"To manage a process of knowledge generation and sharing, in collaboration with other reform support organizations and site-based practitioners, for redesigned school systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"California Charter Schools Association", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To implement a three-year strategic communications and advocacy campaign to increase the awareness, support, and enrollment in California's charter schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"California County Superintendents Educational Services Association", "Amount":"$16,600", "Description":"To develop a dynamic, web-based capacity analysis to identify the needs of schools and districts, and the 58 County Offices of Education across California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Campaign for College Opportunity", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To increase public awareness of the importance of college access and the need to expand access and capacity in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Collaborative Education", "Amount":"$3,779,763", "Description":"To build on the momentum achieved by the Boston Pilot Schools Network and to assist model replication in other school districts nationally", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Cesar Chavez Public Policy Charter High School", "Amount":"$1,570,000", "Description":"To improve the existing school model and open new schools in Washington, DC", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Chicago Public Schools", "Amount":"$3,427,323", "Description":"To support the implementation of strategic planning efforts to transform Chicago high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Chicago Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,300,000", "Description":"To support a business planning process for current reform efforts to improve performance in Chicago public high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"College Entrance Examination Board", "Amount":"$9,446,532", "Description":"To support the expansion of the College Board Schools Initiative in New York City", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Children's Campaign", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To develop model schools in Colorado", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas", "Amount":"$20,000,000", "Description":"To develop and support a network of high performing math science technology academies serving disadvantaged students throughout Texas", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To support a conference to establish and improve relationships with educational organizations that are crucial to the success of the Texas High School Project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas", "Amount":"$1,800,000", "Description":"To build principal leadership capacity in Texas to support new school and redesign activities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities in Schools, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"To develop and pilot a comprehensive strategy that will strengthen the CIS Network of Performance Learning Centers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment", "Amount":"$799,673", "Description":"To support a student-led outreach effort promoting universal access to college preparatory courses for South Los Angeles schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Community Partners", "Amount":"$646,212", "Description":"To support policies that increase graduation and college-going rates by educating students and parents in East Los Angeles to be advocates in their community", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Digital Learning Commons", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"E3: Employers for Education Excellence", "Amount":"$100,239", "Description":"To identify real and perceived barriers to high school reform, assist high schools engaged in reform efforts to overcome barriers, and educate state policymakers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSource Inc.", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To raise public awareness about how California high schools could better prepare students for college and work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Service Center Region I of Texas", "Amount":"$671,361", "Description":"To build capacity at the regional, district and school site level through professional development and onsite coaching in high schools along the Texas/Mexico border", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educational Testing Service", "Amount":"$8,698,280", "Description":"To help build capacity of a national school developer and to support the creation of new small schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Envision Education Inc", "Amount":"$800,000", "Description":"To support Envision's capacity to successfully open and operate a small high school in the Bay Area cluster", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Every Child Can Learn Foundation", "Amount":"$625,000", "Description":"To support the Secondary Redesign Initiative in secondary schools through the creation of small learning communities and small schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundations for a Better Oregon", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support a quality education system for Oregon students in K-12 public education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fresno County Office of Education", "Amount":"$425,000", "Description":"To support the work of the Governor's non-partisan committee, charged with making policy recommendations on education funding, governance, teacher recruitment & training, and the preparation and retention of quality school administrators", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Educational Excellence", "Amount":"$187,000", "Description":"To support a strategic planning process to implement a high school reform effort and an integrated set of process and policy expectations involved in the Baltimore City Public School System", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Gateway to College National Network", "Amount":"$9,997,047", "Description":"To support College Bound sites for at-risk youth", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Good Shepherd Services", "Amount":"$575,000", "Description":"To support capacity building and planning for the replication of one high school, based on the South Brooklyn Community High School model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Grantmakers for Education", "Amount":"$365,000", "Description":"To advance more effective education philanthropy to create tools to help high-wealth donors navigate grantmaking options and to develop capacity for foundations to improve their impact by pooling resources", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Greater Kansas City Community Foundation", "Amount":"$900,000", "Description":"To provide continual support for the improvement of Kansas City's urban high schools through First Things First and Achievement First", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"High Tech High Foundation", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"To create new middle and high schools within the High Tech High charter management organization", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Highline Public Schools", "Amount":"$5,620,200", "Description":"To build a system whereby Highline students graduate on time and are prepared for college, work and citizenship", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Highline Schools Fund for Excellence", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To begin the work of transforming all Highline high schools by creating a diverse, engaged group of community stakeholders at each school", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Indianapolis Public Schools", "Amount":"$369,000", "Description":"To support the district in building its internal capacity to ensure the success of its high school transformation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for Research and Reform in Education Inc.", "Amount":"$993,317", "Description":"To support development and field test tools and processes that allow school districts to measure and examine student outcomes data and effective school practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for Student Achievement, Inc", "Amount":"$886,381", "Description":"To support planning to transform large comprehensive New York City high schools into small learning communities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Internationals Network For Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$1,572,810", "Description":"To support the expansion of the international high school model and the documentation of practices at existing and new schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$7,913,604", "Description":"To support a portfolio of excellent high schools in Boston", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Johns Hopkins University", "Amount":"$464,000", "Description":"To support planning for Talent Development High Schools in partnership with the New York City Department of Education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Johns Hopkins University", "Amount":"$3,051,524", "Description":"To support improvements in student achievement and graduation in low performing Los Angeles high schools through implementation of the Talent Development High Schools comprehensive reform model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kennewick School District", "Amount":"$3,079,800", "Description":"To support a K-12 systems approach to prepare graduates ready for college, work and citizenship", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Keys to Improving Dayton Schools, Inc.", "Amount":"$971,421", "Description":"To support Ohio charter schools by helping k.i.d.s. develop academic expertise and the capability to be a charter management organization", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KnowledgeWorks Foundation", "Amount":"$798,160", "Description":"To support knowledge sharing and use among school-based and district-level practitioners in OHSTI and ECHS schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KnowledgeWorks Foundation", "Amount":"$979,000", "Description":"To support advocacy activities in Ohio aimed toward making systemic change around high school redesign, improved college access and success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mabton School District #120", "Amount":"$386,560", "Description":"To continue redesign of a coherent K-12 system so that all students achieve high standards and graduate college ready", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc", "Amount":"$92,575", "Description":"To support a report that analyzes the 2003 high school graduation rates overall, by race and for the 100 largest school districts in the U.S.", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mapleton Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,683,400", "Description":"To support the reinvention of the district high school as small schools of choice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Marquette University", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To provide educational, governance, and back-office support to public and private schools in Milwaukee", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mass Insight Education And Research Institute Inc", "Amount":"$572,533", "Description":"To design and produce recommendations for states and school districts seeking a flexible, systemic approach for improvement in underperforming high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Middle College High School National Consortium Inc", "Amount":"$9,602,735", "Description":"To support the expansion of new early college high schools for at-risk youth", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Milwaukee Public Schools", "Amount":"$1,179,770", "Description":"To expand and support Milwaukee's portfolio of high school options by converting comprehensive high schools into small learning communities and initial planning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Secondary School Principals", "Amount":"$125,000", "Description":"To produce and disseminate a Leader's Guide to Adolescent Literacy that will outline what middle and high school principals can do to implement a schoolwide literacy program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center For Educational Achievement", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To support a national campaign to increase the quality, completeness, and accessibility of state educational data systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center on Education & the Economy", "Amount":"$800,000", "Description":"To benchmark international education and workforce systems in high performing economies and to establish a non-partisan commission on education, employment and training policies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund", "Amount":"$3,577,879", "Description":"To build Communities of Practice (share lessons, convene practitioners, and develop a web-based technology platform) and capture, codify, and share important intellectual capital to influence the broader ecosystem", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund", "Amount":"$2,210,946", "Description":"To support the annual NewSchools' Summit and pre-Summit Community of Practice Events", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Technology Foundation", "Amount":"$125,000", "Description":"To web-enable the NTH Learning System to reduce costs and increase capacity to support the use of performance based, collaborative learning environments in high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Visions for Public Schools, Inc", "Amount":"$1,255,420", "Description":"To support the planning process to transform large New York City high schools into small learning communities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Visions for Public Schools, Inc", "Amount":"$831,997", "Description":"To extend the Evaluation of the New Century High Schools Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York City Department of Education", "Amount":"$1,975,157", "Description":"To build the capacity of the New York City Department of Education to launch its overall Small Learning Communities (SLC) Project and to develop the SLC strategic and operating plan", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York City Department of Education", "Amount":"$5,339,692", "Description":"To build internal capacity for the development of alternative schools and programs through the department's Multiple Pathways to Graduation initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York City Department of Education", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To transform NYC Department of Education Human Resources from a personnel unit to a highly strategic, efficient, and effective organization", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Noble Network of Charter Schools", "Amount":"$1,425,000", "Description":"To fund two new, small schools in Chicago and share successful practices with other educators", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Nooksack Valley School District #506", "Amount":"$726,000", "Description":"To engage the local community in education issues, implement a high school redesign, focus on K-12 math and science programs, and develop a culture and practice for adult learning, preparing students for college, work, and citizenship", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North Carolina Department of Public Instruction", "Amount":"$911,500", "Description":"To coordinate an implementation plan for high school reform, develop new standards and assessments, develop a principals training institute, and construct affinity networks for theme schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Northwest Educational Service District 189", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To establish a professional learning community, consisting of practicing superintendents and leaders within the NWESD 189 region", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Oakland Unified School District", "Amount":"$10,119,000", "Description":"To launch a model urban school district comprising of a lean central office, a school support services organization, and networks of increasingly high achieving and equitable schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To improve education outcomes for students in high schools and school districts through the implementation of a continuous improvement assistance model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Department of Education", "Amount":"$298,000", "Description":"To support and advise superintendents in the implementation of district-wide changes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Department of Education", "Amount":"$2,749,429", "Description":"To promote systemic education reform so that every Ohio student can gain the skills and knowledge necessary for success in postsecondary education and the workforce", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Oregon Department of Education", "Amount":"$1,715,073", "Description":"To support the creation of a system that supports each of the state's school districts in helping high school students succeed in high school, prepared to enter the workforce or a post-secondary institution without needing remediation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pacific Charter School Development Inc.", "Amount":"$6,900,000", "Description":"To expand the quality of charter schools in Los Angeles and model a needed approach to providing facilities for public schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pacific Institute for Community Organizations", "Amount":"$850,000", "Description":"To unite parents, educators and community members to decrease the dropout rate and increase the number of students who graduate college ready", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Progress Analytics Institute", "Amount":"$158,400", "Description":"To compare per-pupil funding received by charter vs. traditional schools in 30 cities and explain funding disparities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Public School Forum of North Carolina, Inc.", "Amount":"$59,018", "Description":"To fund a three year initiative to engage state, district, and local stakeholders and create a more supportive policy environment for high school redesign in North Carolina", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rochester City School District", "Amount":"$5,000,000", "Description":"To assist in the District's transition to a high-performing school program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Sacramento Area Congregations Together", "Amount":"$296,000", "Description":"To support Sacramento's high school reform efforts to impact high school graduation rates and college attendance", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"San Francisco Organizing Project", "Amount":"$200,360", "Description":"To increase achievement and success in San Francisco public schools through organizing and training parent leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$1,021,000", "Description":"To aid California in developing a school finance system that better fits the needs of the State and its students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"State of California: Office of the Secretary for Education", "Amount":"$78,200", "Description":"To support California's efforts to turn around failing schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"State of Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction", "Amount":"$1,200,000", "Description":"To support automated realtime collection of student data from local district data systems to a state data warehouse", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Successful Practices Network Inc", "Amount":"$5,603,000", "Description":"To develop comprehensive selection criteria and identify characteristics to analyze schools, and provide professional development to and conduct a five-year longitudinal study of high schools from the Foundation's focus states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Technology Access Foundation", "Amount":"$104,000", "Description":"To support planning for a network of Science, Technology, Engineering & Math theme-based schools to be implemented in partnership with school districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Education Agency", "Amount":"$1,864,060", "Description":"To support improved high school math achievement and capacity and build public support for high school redesign", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Public Policy Foundation", "Amount":"$170,000", "Description":"To research and identify the K-12 reforms needed to expand the math-science pipeline and its impact on college and work readiness in Texas", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Big Picture Company", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To support the development of an alternative course approval model for the University of California system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bridgespan Group, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,950,000", "Description":"To develop business plans for eight school developers to inform their strategy to create new high schools, replicate schools, and convert high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Lyceum Association, Inc.", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To support a conference to provide solutions and best practices to improve high school education throughout Texas", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Thomas B. Fordham Institute", "Amount":"$497,639", "Description":"To inform public debate and advance academic achievement in Ohio charter schools by convening charter school leaders, producing research, and disseminating information on charter school issues", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Thomas B. Fordham Institute", "Amount":"$1,849,173", "Description":"To support the Fordham Foundation in its role as a community school sponsor in Ohio to recruit other high school developers and to share best practices across the field", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania", "Amount":"$65,000", "Description":"To create a set of design principles and a plan for intermediaries to support the creation of university-assisted small high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"United Ways of Texas Inc", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To support community engagement across Texas on the economic and social implications of students not graduating ready for college, work and citizenship", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of California", "Amount":"$154,347", "Description":"To better understand the effects of state strategies for improving low-performing schools and to develop effective strategies for sustainable, long-term capacity building in low-performing schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of California at San Diego", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To evaluate the San Diego City Schools' Blueprint for Student Success in its fifth year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of California, Los Angeles", "Amount":"$1,257,615", "Description":"To promote education policy reform that helps all California students receive a high quality and equitable education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Chicago - Urban Education Institute", "Amount":"$6,000,576", "Description":"To fund new schools and assist other organizations in the design and incubation of new schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Indianapolis", "Amount":"$497,613", "Description":"To support a comprehensive leadership institute and technical assistance in year one of the redesign of the comprehensive high schools into autonomous small schools in Indianapolis", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$638,172", "Description":"To extend the School Finance Redesign Project- a cost simulation study to accommodate technical assistance requests in OH and NC", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Uplift Education", "Amount":"$2,506,116", "Description":"To support the permanent establishment of an International Baccalaureate (\"IB\") lab to build instructional tools and training models to facilitate IB implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Young Women's Leadership Network, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,520,000", "Description":"To partner with the NYC Department of Education to develop and support new small Young Women's Leadership Schools", "Notes":""}]