[{"Name":"Achieving the Dream, Inc.", "Amount":"$999,550", "Description":"To support capacity building efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Advancement Through Opportunity and Knowledge Incorporated", "Amount":"$729,916", "Description":"To fund a district-wide expansion, evaluation, and preparation for state-wide scale up of EPP, a promising service model designed to improve the academic outcomes and college enrollment of foster youth", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Albuquerque Public Schools", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To develop an implementation plan for the Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Education", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support the establishment of Philanthropic Partnership for Public Education Fund III", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Education", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support strategic communications assistance, expert analysis, and community engagement activities related to the issue of teacher quality in Seattle Public Schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Education", "Amount":"$6,000", "Description":"To support a delegation of Seattle Public School district officials to meet with the administration in Denver for 'best practices'", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Education", "Amount":"$110,610", "Description":"To support essential organizational functions and programs for which there is no dedicated funding source, including Teacher Effectiveness, College Access and Success, Community Schools Planning, and Grants Management and Project Oversight", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance For Education, Inc.", "Amount":"$300,013", "Description":"To create stakeholder buy-in at the teacher and principal level on the teacher effectiveness elements of Louisiana's Race to the Top application", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Excellent Education Inc.", "Amount":"$3,200,004", "Description":"To support an advocacy, communications, and policy development initiative promoting federal high school policy reform and participation as a member of the Campaign for High School Equity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Amarillo Area Foundation Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support a coordinated community partnership to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Federation Of Teachers Educational Foundation", "Amount":"$3,867,298", "Description":"To support the American Federation of Teachers Innovation Fund and the union's teacher development and evaluation programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Federation Of Teachers Educational Foundation", "Amount":"$217,200", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$168,755", "Description":"To commission papers and convene a working conference to document the educational reforms in NYC to inform future educational improvement efforts in the city", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To explore the effects of state student aid programs on completion", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Americas Promise-The Alliance For Youth", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To drive a state-level K-12 advocacy agenda, specifically incorporating clear, consistent standards as key to graduating high school ready for college and careers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Arkansas Department of Higher Education", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"For technical assistance for states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Community College Trustees", "Amount":"$51,535", "Description":"To embark on a major educational and engagement summit designed to strengthen the awareness and resolve of key stakeholders and decision makers regarding the urgent need for evidence-based college-level interventions fostering student completion", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Athabasca University", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Atlanta Public Schools", "Amount":"$9,642,436", "Description":"To build the necessary capacity, processes, and tools that will lay a strong foundation to accelerate the district's human capital reform work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Battelle For Kids", "Amount":"$124,757", "Description":"To improve understanding around the use of value-added analysis for educational improvement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Battelle Memorial Institute", "Amount":"$5,226,127", "Description":"To finalize designs and implement STEM network in NC, NY, CA, and WA; fortify the STEM network in TX; implement an interstate network comprising them; and provide support for implementation of an effective teaching initiative in NM", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bellwether Education Partners, Inc.", "Amount":"$809,467", "Description":"To support a national teacher leaders fellowship program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boston Public Schools", "Amount":"$497,684", "Description":"To support district-wide CCSS adoption planning and implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Brown University", "Amount":"$3,243,431", "Description":"To identify the most promising early warning systems in the country, support this development from a focus on high school graduation to college-readiness, and test their effectiveness through empirical research", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"California Charter Schools Association", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching", "Amount":"$4,409,433", "Description":"To develop two alternative pathways, Quantway and Statway, through pre-college and college mathematics that will decrease time in developmental mathematics and will support student success in academic and career pursuits", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CAST, Inc.", "Amount":"$499,783", "Description":"To develop and implement whole school universal design learning model using technology enabled tools to improve literacy skills for secondary students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CELT Corporation", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To convene district and school-level educators to determine local user requirements and develop a framework of recommended minimum features and functionality for instructional improvement data systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Education Reform", "Amount":"$275,000", "Description":"To support development of a new awareness tool, 'The Bullpen,' that will offer and analyze real time education news", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Energy Workforce Development", "Amount":"$1,370,000", "Description":"To synch education-career pathways between employers and community colleges (in concurrent postsecondary credential attainment and career attachment), creating additional learn and earn opportunities for students in several states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Inspired Teaching", "Amount":"$1,293,000", "Description":"To support implementation of the Literacy Design Collaborative tools with DC teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Teaching Quality, Inc.", "Amount":"$395,836", "Description":"To support the Implementing Common Core Standards (ICCS) pilot project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Teaching Quality, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,577,857", "Description":"To support the development of a high-functioning well-informed, online community of young teacher leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for the Study of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support a research project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Change the Equation Inc", "Amount":"$900,000", "Description":"To design, develop, and implement a 'scorecard' on state STEM education programs, to include information on input, process and output leverage points in STEM education that lead to college-ready outcomes for students across a state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charlotte Chamber of Commerce", "Amount":"$200,000", "Description":"To engage the education stakeholder community in support of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools strategic plan", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools", "Amount":"$214,808", "Description":"To develop Literacy Design Collaborative expert teachers and develop courses and models in middle school grades", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools", "Amount":"$150,834", "Description":"To develop teaching measures to complement value-added data while helping teachers understand the new measures", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charter Fund Inc dba Charter School Growth Fund", "Amount":"$12,500,000", "Description":"To support an investment pool to fund emerging hybrid learning models and ongoing research in select districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"City and County of San Francisco", "Amount":"$3,022,965", "Description":"To support implementation of a coordinated community partnership project to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"City of Mesa", "Amount":"$2,415,053", "Description":"To support implementation of a coordinated community partnership project to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Cleveland Metropolitan School District", "Amount":"$497,752", "Description":"To support an Action Plan to implement a year of planning in preparation for new Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"College Entrance Examination Board", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support a research project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Education Initiative", "Amount":"$1,747,441", "Description":"To support Colorado reform agenda with a focus on building systems to identify, support, place, and retain effective teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Commission on Hispanic Affairs", "Amount":"$213,000", "Description":"To support the increase of the Hispanic voice in education reform", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Committee for Economic Development", "Amount":"$1,532,181", "Description":"To improve understanding of postsecondary education challenges and advance policy reforms", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas", "Amount":"$1,579,999", "Description":"To scale college ready reforms in Texas through large urban district, regional, and charter networks", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas", "Amount":"$1,997,426", "Description":"To support a college-ready and post-secondary completion agenda in Texas", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Corporate Voices for Working Families Inc", "Amount":"$1,586,744", "Description":"To support partnership of employers and community colleges in order to expand current, and adopt new, Learn and Earn models that allow working students to pursue postsecondary credentials in accelerated, competency-based, flexible pathway programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Corporation for Public Broadcasting", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To identify and amplify 'teacher voice' to help ensure teachers are in the center of the dialogue on teacher accountability", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of Chief State School Officers", "Amount":"$64,628", "Description":"To assist with the design of the digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of State Governments", "Amount":"$399,953", "Description":"To support a series of conferences that will educate policymakers and leaders on the topic of common core standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council Of The Great City Schools", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support the development of a cross-sector proposal to pilot test the new common core standards in a set of selected cities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council on Postsecondary Education", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support state efforts to significantly increase college completion and close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Cristo Rey Network", "Amount":"$556,006", "Description":"To support Cristo Rey's implementation of the Common Core standards across its network of schools, and to provide bridge financing at the Cristo Rey Network Center Office in implementing the next phase of the Education Enrichment Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Cristo Rey Network", "Amount":"$139,438", "Description":"To support next stage of joint planning work resulting from DC meeting to share ideas and resources around student supports for college completion", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Dallas Independent School District", "Amount":"$951,293", "Description":"To participate in the Measures of Effective Teaching project, research related to the support of effective teaching practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Delta Project on Postsecondary Cost Productivity and Accountability", "Amount":"$399,970", "Description":"To support a series of white papers and meetings with state policymakers on key drivers in higher education costs now and proposals for how to better align cost structures and funding with degree completion", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools", "Amount":"$10,000,000", "Description":"To accelerate the district's human capital reform by implementing an aligned teacher performance management system based on research findings from the measures of effective teaching project with student achievement and growth at its core", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver School of Science and Technology Inc", "Amount":"$42,186", "Description":"To support development of a proposal to bring proven practices from the charter or nonprofit sector into the traditional education sector and to enable more cross-sector collaboration between charters and districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DePaul University", "Amount":"$2,641,217", "Description":"To support the continued development of the Digital Youth Network - digitalyouthnetwork.org, and the Affinity Learning Model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Downtown Community Television Center", "Amount":"$130,000", "Description":"To elevate the profile of community college students through video shorts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"E Line Ventures LLC", "Amount":"$1,544,748", "Description":"To help build the emerging field of game-based learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Commission of the States", "Amount":"$799,221", "Description":"To support awareness building among key stakeholders around postsecondary goals and objectives and P-20 rationale for the Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$8,300,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$1,060,000", "Description":"To support a group of major university and community college system heads to build better data systems, financial aid policies, and student support services", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$16,743,022", "Description":"To launch a multi-year, multi-wave 'open challenge' program intended to accelerate the testing and early scale of breakthrough technology-enabled learning solutions to persistent barriers to low-income learners' college readiness and completion", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$437,451", "Description":"To assist with the design of the digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educurious Partners", "Amount":"$1,989,360", "Description":"To design, produce, test, and disseminate fully developed next-generation high school courses, a fully operational technology delivery platform, and a completely developed mentor social network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Executive Office of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts", "Amount":"$650,000", "Description":"To support the establishment of Innovation Schools in two types of districts in Massachusetts, those that include both higher- and lower-performing schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Association of District School Superintendents", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To influence the development and implementation of the best possible education practices in the school districts of Florida", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Virtual School", "Amount":"$626,327", "Description":"To develop Common Core Standards-based courses in literacy and math that are contextualized within disciplines, such as engineering or the natural sciences", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Forsyth County Schools", "Amount":"$151,200", "Description":"To develop 'Plug and Play' writing modules for grades 6-12 - English, Science, and Social Studies aligned to the Common Core State Standards/Georgia Performance Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc.", "Amount":"$501,485", "Description":"To launch the Digital Learning Council in an effort to bring digital learning to every school, every classroom, and every child", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation for the Carolinas", "Amount":"$77,625", "Description":"To support a coordinated community partnership to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation of the Academic Senate for California Community College", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support state efforts to significantly increase college completion and close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$293,344", "Description":"To support operational planning for New York City's Department of Education's Innovation Zone", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support the School of One team in further developing the technology to drive its student and learning management system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"GameDesk Inc.", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To develop and launch a pilot school model focused on using games and digital authorship in education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Guaranteach", "Amount":"$475,077", "Description":"To enrich teaching and to determine whether the use of short-form instructional videos will increase engagement and student achievement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To create an endowed fellowship for the Doctorate of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$224,030", "Description":"To provide project support for Education Next's Charter Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hillsborough County Public Schools", "Amount":"$140,000", "Description":"To convene a consortium of district and union leaders to discuss effective teaching strategies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hillsborough County Public Schools", "Amount":"$354,993", "Description":"To develop Literacy Design Collaborative expert teachers and develop middle school courses", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Houston Independent School District", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support the implementation of the district's human capital transformation strategies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Idea Public Schools", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To create an end-to-end human capital pipeline, which will develop a permanent and sustainable capacity to recruit, select, onboard, evaluate, reward, support, train, and retain teachers and school leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Illinois Institute of Technology", "Amount":"$1,144,856", "Description":"To support the development of an interest network platform", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Indiana Commission for Higher Education", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support state efforts to significantly increase college completion and close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute For Higher Education Policy", "Amount":"$550,000", "Description":"To support a broad based coalition including labor, business, entertainment, and education leaders that will highlight the urgency of increasing college completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support the annual Big Ideas Fest event", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education", "Amount":"$650,000", "Description":"To plan a community of practice and knowledge management system to connect our grantees to us, one another, and resources that are critical to the strategy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for Women's Policy Research", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support a single parents policy, research, and practitioner network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Internationals Network For Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$74,900", "Description":"To support the development of a cross-sector plan that represents a new level of collaboration between the Internationals School Network, National Council of La Raza, and one or more districts, including NYCDOE", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$292,594", "Description":"To educate North Carolina policymakers about the low rates of postsecondary completion in the state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"To support the uptake of a proficiency-based pathways policy set by focusing on Instate, National, and Federal work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$10,933,499", "Description":"To create effective pathways to college and careers for adult learners using evidence-based instructional and organizational models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"To support the uptake of a proficiency-based pathways policy set by focusing on Instate, National, and Federal work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Khan Academy Inc.", "Amount":"$1,464,667", "Description":"To provide general operating support, expanding Khan Academy's leadership and staff capacity to map Khan Academy content to the Common Core high school standards, improve assessments, and enhance the user interface", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13", "Amount":"$505,533", "Description":"To develop and pilot science and social studies Literacy Design Collaborative modules", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Leading Educators Inc", "Amount":"$1,370,000", "Description":"To train and retain teacher leaders in high needs schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$362,128", "Description":"To support a digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$140,014", "Description":"To assist with the design of the digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Louisiana Department of Education", "Amount":"$286,600", "Description":"To support Louisiana's Non-Tested Grades and Subjects Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Louisiana Department of Education", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To enable the Louisiana Department of Education to build expertise in teacher recruitment, selection, placement and performance management in the broader population of SEA staff regional offices, district leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Inc.", "Amount":"$151,431", "Description":"To undertake an objective analysis of the Common Core State Standards and the MA State Standards in literacy and math", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mastery Charter High School", "Amount":"$1,798,818", "Description":"To develop a scalable innovative professional development model based on Mastery Charter School's effective teaching measures and teacher evaluation, using technology to provide real time feedback, coaching and teacher supports", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MDC, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,566,299", "Description":"To support technical assistance work with communities in the South to form sustainable local partnerships aimed at increasing postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MDRC", "Amount":"$168,691", "Description":"To support a research project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MDRC", "Amount":"$1,279,577", "Description":"To support a financial aid delivery project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MetaMetrics, Inc.", "Amount":"$3,468,005", "Description":"To further develop an interactive, online tool that focuses on literacy in the Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation", "Amount":"$330,000", "Description":"To build on success of initial 'action analytics' - using data to improve college and university performance - to enable the leaders of this movement to continue meeting, draw in interested institutions, and define an agenda for their growth", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mobilizing America's Youth Inc", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To convene summits that bring together young people to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face individually and as a community, to increasing college completion, and to create solutions to the problems identified", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Nashville Public Education Foundation", "Amount":"$52,328", "Description":"To formalize a network of the big urban districts in Tennessee for implementation of Math Assessment for Learning, Literacy by Design, and National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Alliance For Public Charter Schools", "Amount":"$4,000,000", "Description":"To support the Alliance's strategic direction for 2010-2012 to address quality, growth and sustainability in the charter sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center for Higher Education Management Systems", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center on Education & the Economy", "Amount":"$3,200,000", "Description":"To support a project to expand board examination systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Writing Project", "Amount":"$549,489", "Description":"To develop literacy instructional tools for middle and high school students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"NBCUniversal Media, LLC", "Amount":"$2,033,500", "Description":"To support the National Education Summit", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"NCB Capital Impact", "Amount":"$959,373", "Description":"To oversee and administer a program related investment to help Aspire Public Schools and potentially other charter management organizations access affordable tax-exempt bond financing", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,750,000", "Description":"To identify and fund local education agencies and networks to advance acceleration tools in proficiency-based pathways environments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Mexico Business Roundtable for Educational Excellence", "Amount":"$5,000", "Description":"To sponsor the Land of Enchantment State Business Roundtable Executives Conference in New Mexico", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Center", "Amount":"$198,704", "Description":"To provide technical assistance and professional development regarding the teacher working conditions survey", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Technology Network, LLC", "Amount":"$2,112,080", "Description":"To build and develop pilots for professional development supports and tools in a hybrid, blended or online school environment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Visions for Public Schools, Inc", "Amount":"$8,149,935", "Description":"To support the Common Core/Career and College initiative (C4) effort designed to improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness through key strategies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York Charter Schools Association Inc", "Amount":"$204,988", "Description":"To engage classroom teachers directly in public discussions about education policy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York City Charter School Center", "Amount":"$950,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York City Outward Bound Center Inc", "Amount":"$200,000", "Description":"To support a series of structured and professionally-facilitated sessions for educators that promote the exchange of ideas and cross-organizational learning, focused on organizational sustainability and sharing of successful practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York University", "Amount":"$40,282", "Description":"To convene leaders in education and commercial gaming, develop game standards for developers, and improve games as learning vehicles by aligning Common Core Standards, design principles, and assessment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North American Council for Online Learning", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support a national Proficiency-Based Pathways Learning Convening", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North American Council for Online Learning", "Amount":"$64,628", "Description":"To assist with the design of the digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North Carolina State University", "Amount":"$99,983", "Description":"To support a coordinated community partnership to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Board of Regents", "Amount":"$667,404", "Description":"To increase the educational attainment and earnings potential of lower-income working young adults", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Business Alliance for Higher Education and the Economy", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support education reform efforts that amplify higher education success and completion for all Ohio students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pennsylvania Business Council Education Foundation", "Amount":"$5,000", "Description":"To support the Job Readiness 'Summit', a one-day gathering devoted to strengthening and improving Pennsylvania education and job training through discussion and consensus building among Pennsylvania governmental, business, and NGO leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pennsylvania Department of Education", "Amount":"$526,960", "Description":"To implement the Common Core State Standards in Pennsylvania districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pennsylvania Department of Education", "Amount":"$768,794", "Description":"To support Pennsylvania Teacher Evaluation Model Development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pollinate Ventures", "Amount":"$19,490", "Description":"To seed the start-up and work of a new social venture fund committed to transforming U.S. education through investments in tools, technologies and the development of a limited number of hybrid or blended learning laboratories", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence", "Amount":"$125,962", "Description":"To fund several showcases of math and literacy tools across Kentucky districts and key constituents", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence", "Amount":"$47,902", "Description":"To support the continued involvement of the Prichard Committee in the Mathematics Assessment for Learning district collaborative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence", "Amount":"$291,070", "Description":"To develop Literacy Design Collaborative expert teachers, develop courses in Kenton County, and build Literacy Design Collaborative understanding in other districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support an outreach campaign", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prince George's County Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,204,629", "Description":"To support further refinement and implementation of a new teacher evaluation system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Public Broadcasting Service", "Amount":"$499,997", "Description":"To create Digital Learning Objects (DLOs) that enhance middle school mathematics achievement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Public Education Network", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"To implement a strategic plan focused on increasing minority and low-income student graduation rates and college and career readiness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Purdue University", "Amount":"$1,432,263", "Description":"To further develop the Purdue Online Writing Lab and align its resources to the Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research Foundation of State University of New York", "Amount":"$19,000", "Description":"To convene partner institutions in the Smart Scholars Early College High School Network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research Foundation of the City University of New York", "Amount":"$3,016,874", "Description":"To support implementation of a coordinated community partnership project to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research Foundation of the City University of New York", "Amount":"$2,102,230", "Description":"To find evidence for effective interventions to support the strategic goal of building early momentum by testing if students maintain a steady, progressive pace through the first year of college they are more likely to complete a credential", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Riverside Community College District", "Amount":"$3,029,582", "Description":"To support implementation of a coordinated community partnership project to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.", "Amount":"$255,150", "Description":"To support planning to improve California postsecondary attainment rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rodel Charitable Foundation DE", "Amount":"$27,945", "Description":"To produce and disseminate a report that describes the work of Delaware and Tennessee to carry out their Race to the Top plans and what can be learned to help states that win second-round grants", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Saint Paul Public Schools", "Amount":"$499,989", "Description":"To translate a common set of content standards into meaningful classroom practices that improve student performance and college readiness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"School District of Philadelphia", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"SchoolSeed Foundation", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To disseminate Memphis City Schools' progress and lessons learned regarding current teacher effectiveness work and to access other practitioners' insights about their work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Southeastern Council of Foundations, Inc.", "Amount":"$7,500", "Description":"To support a pre-conference session at the Southeastern Council of Foundations' Annual Meeting for secondary and post-secondary education funders to share learnings", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Southern Regional Education Board", "Amount":"$244,924", "Description":"To support a planning process that identifies potential work to support states and districts in the development and use of teacher support tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stand for Children Leadership Center", "Amount":"$3,476,300", "Description":"To support education reforms, training, technical assistance, and tools designed to increase teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$1,432,966", "Description":"To support a project to bring together a diverse group of postsecondary researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine the public policies that shape incentives for postsecondary institutions. Stanford University will develop a series of white papers on institutional practices and promote and distribute findings. 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an online, multi-player, game-based learning environment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tulsa Public Schools", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support the development of a fair and reliable evaluation tool to identify effective teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"U.S. Education Delivery Institute, Inc.", "Amount":"$3,249,835", "Description":"To support the launch of the United States Education Delivery Institute, a new organization dedicated to building public education capacity to implement plans to increase college readiness and post secondary completion rates nationally", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"United Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation Inc.", "Amount":"$30,250", "Description":"To fund a teacher professional development project that will utilize video to create a portfolio of professional practice, enhance practice and align professional development with the needs of educators", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"United Way of Southern Cameron County", "Amount":"$99,935", "Description":"To  support a coordinated community partnership to increase postsecondary completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Georgia", "Amount":"$370,938", "Description":"To support NSC curriculum build-out for Georgia district trainings", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Puget Sound", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support the 2010 National Race & Pedagogy Conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To support ongoing research on the most prominent portfolio districts, which include New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, and DC, and a national network of districts that are adopting all or key parts of the portfolio strategy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University System of Georgia Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To provide the Alliance of Education Agency Heads in Georgia with capacity building and strategy support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Uplift Education", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To support the development of a cross-sector plan that represents new levels of collaboration between Uplift, a high-performing CMO, and Dallas ISD, along with other partners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Washington Regional Association Of Grantmakers", "Amount":"$10,500", "Description":"To support Washington Regional Association Of Grantmakers through annual membership dues", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support state efforts to significantly increase college completion and close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"WestEd", "Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To expand the Reading Apprenticeship model of academic literacy instruction with English Language Learners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Western Governors University", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To charter a new postsecondary education institution", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support state efforts in establishing and using longitudinal data systems and to prepare projections of high school graduates for key stakeholders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Worcester Public Schools", "Amount":"$312,266", "Description":"To participate in Literacy Design Collaborative and support related module development, teacher professional development, project coordination, and research and validation work", "Notes":""}]