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Achievement First's Teacher Career Pathway system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achievement First Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To deepen integration of personalized blended learning pilot at Amistad High in New Haven, CT ensuring 145 scholars in 10-12th grades have access to high-impact internet-based curriculum, assessments & tools outside of school in '12-'13", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achieving the Dream, Inc.", "Amount":"$645,917", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Excellent Education Inc.", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for Excellent Education Inc.", "Amount":"$116,914", "Description":"To employ its network of education stakeholders to make the case that the nation's federal student aid system is in urgent need of reform and to propose viable reform options", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"America Achieves, Inc", "Amount":"$1,413,427", "Description":"To support the America Achieves Fellowship for Teachers and Principals, which selects outstanding educators from across the United States; trains and supports them to amplify their voices in national conversations on education policy and practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To support the development and deployment of the VFA Data Tool and empower colleges by garnering wide-spread use of the VFA metrics and data tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Council on Education", "Amount":"$724,390", "Description":"To support building the bridge between informal Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) learning and college credit by testing the viability of MOOCs as a direct-to-student use case", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Council on Education", "Amount":"$249,924", "Description":"To support College Application Week, a voluntary college access program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Federation Of Teachers Educational Foundation", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To provide AFT conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To assist state education agencies in integrating college- and career-readiness initiatives with educator effectiveness initiatives", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Americas Promise-The Alliance For Youth", "Amount":"$125,005", "Description":"To amplify voices calling for financial aid reform and to help prime the national dialogue by widely disseminating information on the need to reimagine financial aid to improve student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Arizona State University", "Amount":"$5,767,457", "Description":"To develop a tool that combines formative assessment & technology called 'Formative Assessment with Computational Technologies (FACT)' designed to provide information about students' performance during learning activities & help improve learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Asia Society", "Amount":"$132,425", "Description":"To support the Asia Society's Global Cities Education Network and the participation of Denver in that network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Aspire Public Schools", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To convert Aspire ERES Academy in Oakland, CA to a school in which all classrooms use personalized blended learning and thereby ensure that all 220+ ERES students experience the powerful differentiation facilitated by blended learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$289,620", "Description":"To launch a planning effort to create a not-for-profit higher education consortium that jointly evaluates, implements, and promotes the acquisition and adoption of high quality interactive online learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$109,390", "Description":"To support an awareness campaign among APLU member leaders regarding federal student aid programs and to publish a white paper presenting policy options with supporting analysis and background data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Athabasca University", "Amount":"$15,000", "Description":"To provide conference support to Massive Open Online Courseware event", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Baton Rouge Area Foundation", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To provide organizational support to the Louisiana Department of Education related to implementation of the Common Core State Standards & teacher development and evaluation systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bellwether Education Partners, Inc.", "Amount":"$53,763", "Description":"To support the 'Aspen Teacher Leaders' 2012 conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bellwether Education Partners, Inc.", "Amount":"$751,872", "Description":"To support the development of a Shared Formative Assessment Item Bank for broader public use", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"BetterLesson, Inc.", "Amount":"$3,527,240", "Description":"To support the development of courses, aligned to the 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{"Name":"Change the Equation Inc", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charter Fund Inc dba Charter School Growth Fund", "Amount":"$12,000", "Description":"To create a 'Future of Schooling' exhibit at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"College Entrance Examination Board", "Amount":"$260,000", "Description":"To provide i3 matching funds to improve the STEM College Readiness of high-need students by providing their teachers professional development that enhances their ability to differentiate instruction", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Education Initiative", "Amount":"$1,748,337", "Description":"To examine the use of high-quality curriculum to accelerate common core state standards implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Education Initiative", "Amount":"$5,992,250", "Description":"To support Colorado school districts in implementing new educator evaluation systems and instructional strategies, with an emphasis on the central role of teachers leading in the design and use of these resources and tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Committee for Economic Development", "Amount":"$96,100", "Description":"To support a four month, two-pronged initiative to refocus the national higher education conversation on student financial aid", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium for Educational Change", "Amount":"$411,722", "Description":"To support a training and certification program for Illinois teacher and principal evaluators", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of Chief State School Officers", "Amount":"$1,277,648", "Description":"To support the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in helping States' to build their data inoperability capability and IT leadership capacity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of Chief State School Officers", "Amount":"$1,100,000", "Description":"To support strategic planning for the sustainability of the Common Core State Standards and the two multi-state assessment consortia tasked with designing assessments aligned with those standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Cuyahoga Community College Foundation", "Amount":"$49,747", "Description":"To develop and implement a high quality Massive Open Online Course that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Data Quality Campaign, Inc.", "Amount":"$20,000", "Description":"To support a multi-state conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Data Quality Campaign, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,250,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Davidson County Community College Foundation Inc", "Amount":"$196,000", "Description":"To provide a professional development program for key leaders, focusing on current research findings and promising practices that inform successful college completion efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools", "Amount":"$4,001,999", "Description":"To advance collaboration between 'traditional' district schools and public charter schools to pilot and spread College Ready strategies, focused on teacher effectiveness, college ready tools and supports, and personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools", "Amount":"$1,725", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work related to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DePaul University", "Amount":"$57,455", "Description":"To fund a conference around the build-out of the Literacy Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Design Concepts DMC, LLC", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To provide conference support for the HigherEdTech conference to advance education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Duke University", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To develop and implement a high quality Massive Open Online Course that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSurge Inc.", "Amount":"$410,929", "Description":"To support product reviews of innovative professional development tools in an effort to strengthen public education in the United States", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSurge Inc.", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To develop product review pages focusing on math and literacy courseware and to reorient the EdSurge site from a reporting-intensive model to one to that engages users in dialog around education technology", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSurge Inc.", "Amount":"$100,025", "Description":"To conduct a detailed analysis of prominent 9-12 literacy and math content vendors for use in blended learning models and to disseminate findings broadly via an online database", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Development Center, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,947,181", "Description":"To create, test, and scale 'Zoom-In,' a suite of digital tools in middle school social studies and history", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$2,101,177", "Description":"To inform state and local policies on teacher evaluation as a significant and valuable tool", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$800,000", "Description":"To support the Access to Success program in helping to provide data, evidence, best practices, and training to campuses in support of continuous improvement in providing equal opportunity for access and success to underrepresented minorities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$304,971", "Description":"To begin pressure testing possible education finance reform solutions - both substantively and politically", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educational Policy Improvement Center", "Amount":"$752,332", "Description":"To create an instructional task bank offering an alternative pathway for students to demonstrate proficiency and college readiness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educational Testing Service", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support development of an edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educational Testing Service", "Amount":"$45,000", "Description":"To support development of an edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educational Testing Service", "Amount":"$24,500", "Description":"To support an invitational research symposium on technology enhanced assessments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EduInnovation", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support OpenBlend, a day-long event in Tacoma, WA, which will bring together hundreds of educators to learn about blended learning from leading organizations such as Khan Academy, DreamBox, MIND Research (ST Math) and i-Ready", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EnLearn", "Amount":"$1,800,925", "Description":"To support the development of an adaptive platform for data-driven optimization of digital learning environments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Entrepreneurial Ventures in Education Inc.", "Amount":"$101,965", "Description":"To pilot personalized blended learning summer school programs for K-8 students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Envision Education Inc", "Amount":"$100,013", "Description":"To expand personalized blended learning program to City Arts & Technology and Metropolitan Arts & Technology School in San Francisco, and Impact Academy of Arts & Technology School in Hayward", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Excelencia in Education", "Amount":"$85,550", "Description":"To develop and publicize a fact base about challenges to low-income Latino student postsecondary success caused by the current financial aid system, and engage decision makers in discussion of concrete financial aid reform efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"FirstLine Schools, Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To implement a school-wide, deeply integrated, personalized blended learning model at Langston Hughes Academy and Clark Prep High School in New Orleans serving approximately 1,040 students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Association of District School Superintendents", "Amount":"$2,975,000", "Description":"To further support the implementation of teacher evaluation systems in Florida", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$1,815,810", "Description":"To support the New York City Department of Education's integration of Common Core implementation strategies with new forms of teacher professional development to align with emerging functionalities and capacity of Shared Learning Infrastructure", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Future is Now", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support and organize public school teachers in the pursuit of educator-led actions that improve their schools, districts, and unions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Future is Now", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"To support and organize public school teachers in the pursuit of educator-led actions that improve their schools, districts, and unions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgetown University", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To continue work on skill supply and demand; new focus on competency definition, measurement, linking to curricula; particular interest to Incentives and Next Generation Models work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgetown University", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgia Association of Educational Leaders", "Amount":"$179,015", "Description":"To engage instructional coaches, curriculum directors and other school- and district-level education leaders in Georgia in support of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and Math Design Collaborative (MDC) tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgia Tech Research Corporation", "Amount":"$149,856", "Description":"To develop and implement three high quality Massive Open Online Courses that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"GlassLab, Inc.", "Amount":"$6,850,000", "Description":"To establish the Games and Assessment Innovation Lab", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Grantmakers for Education", "Amount":"$200,650", "Description":"To support Grantmakers for Education to conduct research with their member foundations and develop a toolkit on strategies for engaging teachers in grant-funded reform initiatives", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Grantmakers for Education", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support a convening aimed at exploring the creative potential of digital media in shaping education investments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Green Dot Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,800", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work related to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Guilford Technical Community College", "Amount":"$9,040,000", "Description":"To fund the implementation phase of Completion by Design for the North Carolina cadre", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hartford Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,885,120", "Description":"To support district-charter collaboration to support effective teaching, college ready tools and supports, and personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support development of a chapter about the relationship of classroom observations to student to survey responses for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support development of a chapter about the relationship of student to teacher survey responses for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To provide prize money and administrative costs for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's 2012 Education Innovation Pitch Competition, which is designed to generate new entrepreneurial concepts in the education sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$121,000", "Description":"To provide conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"HCM Strategists, LLC", "Amount":"$800,462", "Description":"To lead an effort designed to assess the empirical and political feasibility of ways federal student aid investments could incent higher completion and attainment of high-value credentials", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"High Tech High Foundation", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of ST Math, a software package aiming to develop students' understanding of math ideas, to an additional 400 elementary, 1650 middle and 500 high school students across High Tech High's 10-school network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hispanics in Philanthropy", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support matching local funders and sub-grantees to identify pathways for academic success and increase organizational capacity to build academic support systems that motivate and engage Latino students through the educational pipeline", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Idea Public Schools", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support to IDEA Public Schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"inBloom, Inc.", "Amount":"$18,694,189", "Description":"To support the completion of the wind down of operations in furtherance of the charitable objectives of the project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Independent School District No. 1 of Tulsa County, Oklahoma", "Amount":"$2,000", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work as it pertains to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for a Competitive Workforce", "Amount":"$143,296", "Description":"To engage the business community to develop a set of core principles that reflect their needs regarding financial aid reform; then to use these as a platform to engage the business community more broadly and build a larger constituency for reform", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute For Higher Education Policy", "Amount":"$791,366", "Description":"To determine costs of program completion strategies in community colleges and deepen understanding how community colleges are allocating instructional-related resources", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute For Higher Education Policy", "Amount":"$641,228", "Description":"To build a coalition of voices calling for broader student aid reform, develop reform options, and document and disseminate these options in a manner to facilitate wide-scale adoption", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ithaka Harbors Inc.", "Amount":"$1,787,166", "Description":"To assist in the implementation, measurement, and analysis of learning outcomes and potential system-wide cost savings via multiple massive open online course-based (MOOC) blended learning pilots within the University of Maryland System", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jefferson Parish Public School System", "Amount":"$299,384", "Description":"To support the implementation of rater certification in Jefferson Parish Public Schools in Louisiana for the purposes of ensuring reliable observations to provide teachers with feedback and evaluation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc", "Amount":"$1,466,983", "Description":"To support and establish exemplar work in the digital games and learning sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To  provide general operating support for Jobs for the Future's College Ready strategy and its focus on supporting low-income students through early college schools and next-generation pathways", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$1,987,246", "Description":"To identify new policies and incentive structures needed to facilitate early entry into well-defined programs of study, as well as document the policy barriers that need to be removed to facilitate their implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jumoke Academy Inc", "Amount":"$942,092", "Description":"To advance collaboration between 'traditional' district schools and public charter schools to pilot and spread College Ready strategies, focused on teacher effectiveness, college ready tools and supports, and personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"JUMP Math", "Amount":"$698,587", "Description":"To support aligning its K-12 mathematics curriculum to the Common Core State Standards and expanding its school partnerships to the United States", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kentucky Department of Education", "Amount":"$8,000", "Description":"To provide support to the Kentucky Department of Education for the Global Education Leaders Program (GELP) conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Bay Area Schools", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To expand personalized blended learning pilots in five KIPP middle schools and two KIPP high schools in the Bay Area serving 10-12 classes impacting 300-350 students; exploring new blended learning solution while still leveraging Khan Academy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Chicago Schools", "Amount":"$99,651", "Description":"To expand personalized blended learning models in literacy and math in two of KIPP Chicago's schools - KIPP Ascend Primary and KIPP Ascend Middle", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Foundation", "Amount":"$1,130,000", "Description":"To support KIPP Foundation's technology innovation strategy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP LA Schools", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To integrate and expand personalized blended learning initiatives at KIPP Empower Academy (230 students, K-1), KIPP Comienza Comm. Prep (105 students, 1st), KIPP LA Prep (2445 students; 5-6th) to enhance math and literacy small-group instruction", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP LA Schools", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To implement a third party technology infrastructure that will facilitate a classroom rotation-based blended learning program in KIPP Empower Academy during the 2012-13 school year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KnowledgeWorks Foundation", "Amount":"$280,000", "Description":"To provide i3 matching funds for an online professional development program designed to improve student outcomes in rural school districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Leading Educators Inc", "Amount":"$513,750", "Description":"To support a training program for teacher leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$494,141", "Description":"To develop a national consortium of leading online 2- and 4-year colleges, facilitated by the League, to develop a student value proposition superior to that of any one institution, and in particular the for-profits", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$8,000", "Description":"To provide conference support dollars for the development of a national consortium of leading online 2- and 4-year colleges", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning Matters, Inc.", "Amount":"$20,000", "Description":"To fund the completion of a film about the revitalization and recovery of New Orleans, including the public education system, after Hurricane Katrina", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"LEV Foundation", "Amount":"$3,000", "Description":"To support a research internship for the League of Education Voters", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Los Angeles Parents Union", "Amount":"$900,488", "Description":"To help execute upon the mission to transform public education by empowering parents to transform their children's underperforming schools through community organizing", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools", "Amount":"$200,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc.", "Amount":"$125,000", "Description":"To support of the second annual convening, The FAFSA Completion Project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "Amount":"$1,120,153", "Description":"To develop and offer a new, free prototype introductory computer science Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) via the edX platform and partner with a less selective postsecondary institution that serves large numbers of low-income young adults", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Memphis City Schools", "Amount":"$2,304", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work as it pertains to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Miami Dade College", "Amount":"$9,000,000", "Description":"To fund the implementation phase of Completion by Design for the Florida cadre", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Michigan State University", "Amount":"$49,939", "Description":"To develop and implement a high quality Massive Open Online Course that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Monterey Institute For Technology and Education", "Amount":"$6,122,835", "Description":"To develop EdReady, a direct-to-student, free, online college readiness diagnostic and customized remediation tool utilizing NROC developmental math; and research, planning, design, and creation of two online developmental English courses", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mt. San Jacinto College", "Amount":"$49,999", "Description":"To develop and implement a high quality Massive Open Online Course that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association Of Charter School Authorizers", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators", "Amount":"$93,409", "Description":"To support research and dissemination regarding federal financial aid programs and the development of innovative policy options leading to a system better aligned towards increasing the attainment of credentials with labor market value", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To initiate a strategic planning process in order to develop an operating plan for the organization and its work with the League of Innovation Schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies", "Amount":"$2,048,121", "Description":"To support districts in sharing knowledge and building demand for digital content and tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National College Access Network", "Amount":"$128,685", "Description":"To engage NCAN membership and other strategic partners to increase support for broader federal financial aid reform and financial aid programs focused on improving student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Geographic Society", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To provide access for students that reside in low-income Washington state neighborhoods to the National Geographic Live! Speaker Series - Student Matinees, a monthly, free event that showcases presenters from National Geographic", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support the National Institute for Staffing and Organizational Development's 34th annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National League of Cities Institute", "Amount":"$40,000", "Description":"To support planning around reworking Community Partnerships to align with refreshed strategy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Urban League Inc", "Amount":"$98,471", "Description":"To contribute important stakeholder information to guide and shape the larger Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New America Foundation", "Amount":"$1,450,000", "Description":"To conduct a series of policy projects aimed at promoting innovative, cost-effective methods of helping large numbers of traditionally underserved students earn college degrees", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New America Foundation", "Amount":"$110,000", "Description":"To make the case to key audiences that federal financial aid reform is necessary now and that aid programs must go beyond simply funding access to a higher education and to develop a coherent package of broad-based financial aid reform options", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Schools for Chicago", "Amount":"$221,250", "Description":"To support the development of a business plan to 'drive innovation in next generation learning in Chicago' through an initiative called eXponential Learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund", "Amount":"$35,000", "Description":"To provide convening support for the Crosswalks II Convening", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$1,486,321", "Description":"To coordinate Literacy Design Collaborative activities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$1,116,519", "Description":"To support the continued efforts of the National State Teacher of the Year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Visions for Public Schools, Inc", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To provide i3 match funding in order to support teacher-led inquiry and ongoing targeted professional development for mathematics teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"NMC", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To provide conference support for the Horizon Project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North American Council for Online Learning", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To develop a performance-based state funding model for online K-12 courses that equally treats traditional and online courses, provides equal access to at-risk students, and rewards student growth and attainment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North American Council for Online Learning", "Amount":"$24,000", "Description":"To support the second meeting: 'Blended Learning Community of Practice' in New Orleans, Louisiana", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North American Council for Online Learning", "Amount":"$289,937", "Description":"To develop a set of performance metrics for full-time online K-12 schools and for supplemental online courses", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"NYSUT Education and Learning Trust", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support a consortium of districts in New York and Rhode Island to work with labor-management teams to design and pilot more differentiated teacher development and evaluation systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Oakland Schools Foundation", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support the conversion of four Oakland Unified Schools to personalized blended learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools", "Amount":"$31,715", "Description":"To support the 2012 National Best Cooperative Conference in Denver, CO", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Association of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$428,996", "Description":"To support the development of the OACC Driving Success Initiative (DSI)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio State University", "Amount":"$49,837", "Description":"To develop and implement a high quality Massive Open Online Course that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Oregon Department of Education", "Amount":"$105,193", "Description":"To support the Oregon Department of Education to engage in a strategic planning process to explore viable business models for the Oregon Direct Access to Achievement (DATA) Project to maintain its presence in Oregon and scale across state lines", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pahara Institute, Inc", "Amount":"$1,966,408", "Description":"To support the Pahara Institute and its two leadership programs, the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Program and a new emerging leaders program designed to accelerate the development of high potential emerging leaders of color", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Partnerships to Uplift Communities Lakeview Terrace", "Amount":"$2,884", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work as it pertains to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pennsylvania Business Council Education Foundation", "Amount":"$257,391", "Description":"To educate Pennsylvanians about the Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Perspectives Charter School", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To expand blended learning models at Perspectives Leadership Academy and Perspectives Middle Academy campuses in the South Side of Chicago serving approximately 900 students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Philanthropy Ohio", "Amount":"$199,488", "Description":"To re-focus its stable of education policy advocates on college completion issues that are important to Ohio's students, families and that are closely aligned with the post-secondary work of the foundation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pittsburgh Public Schools", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To support Pittsburgh Public Schools teachers share their teacher effectiveness work with each other and key community members by engaging in workshops & other learning opportunities that will elevate and celebrate effective teaching in Pittsburgh", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pittsburgh Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,348", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work as it pertains to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Policy Innovators In Education Network, Inc.", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prince George's County Public Schools", "Amount":"$3,147", "Description":"To support professional development opportunities for teachers to share their perspectives and present their work as it pertains to teacher effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"RAND Corporation", "Amount":"$999,406", "Description":"To 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"Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To support the Transition Planning Commission", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Sinclair Community College", "Amount":"$9,044,063", "Description":"To fund the implementation phase of Completion by Design for the Ohio cadre", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Southern Regional Education Board", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support the first launch of an annual LDC/MDC open-invitation conference as part of the larger effort to move LDC and MDC into a broader community of users", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Spring Branch Independent School District", "Amount":"$2,192,636", "Description":"To advance collaboration between 'traditional' district schools and public charter schools to pilot and spread College Ready strategies, focused on teacher effectiveness, college ready tools and supports, and personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stand for Children Leadership Center", "Amount":"$600,759", "Description":"To establish educator panels composed of individuals 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"Description":"To support a research partnership with Mathematica that will inform the Pennsylvania Department of Education's work on a new teacher evaluation system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tennessee Department of Education", "Amount":"$3,700,737", "Description":"To support multiple measures of effective teaching including the use of student surveys and video recordings of best practices of teaching", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Charter Schools Association", "Amount":"$700,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achievement Network", "Amount":"$3,002,252", "Description":"To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards by building the capacity of school leaders and teachers to address the instructional shifts through interim assessments, coaching, network collaboration, and access to resources", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands", "Amount":"$141,752", "Description":"To provide conference support for Sunnylands 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"Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support building institutional and system data analytic capacity in a select number of 2- and 4-year higher ed institutions in CO that will allow college completion goals to result in sustained changes in practice with a focus on equity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Southern California - Department of Contracts and Grants", "Amount":"$31,000", "Description":"To support the development of a chapter regarding the sensitivity of state tests to instructional content and quality for the edited volume of the MET project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Texas at Austin", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support development of a chapter about the UTeach Observation Protocol for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of the People", "Amount":"$613,282", "Description":"To support a start-up university with a low-cost model to earn national accreditation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Toronto", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To develop and implement high quality Massive Open Online Courses that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their general and developmental education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Virginia", "Amount":"$49,864", "Description":"To support development of a chapter about classroom observation protocols for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$560,000", "Description":"To collaborate with Teach for America on the redesign of its pre-service program, including its Summer Institute, to better prepare novice teachers to enact a core set of teaching practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To develop and implement a high quality Massive Open Online Course that will engage a broad range of students in successfully advancing their 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