[{"Name":"4Point0 Schools", "Amount":"$331,518", "Description":"To create inclusive programming environments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"A+ Schools: Pittsburgh's Community Alliance For Public Education", "Amount":"$501,320", "Description":"To sustain community support and public will to accelerate teaching effectiveness", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achieve Inc", "Amount":"$837,500", "Description":"To continue providing general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achievement First Inc.", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support the piloting, building, evolving based on evidence, and codifying Achievement First Greenfield school model and to explore opportunities to spread personalized learning systems change across all Achievement First schools and beyond", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achievement School District", "Amount":"$282,800", "Description":"To develop and support schools and school systems that implement high quality and highly aligned systems to improve instruction (CCSS implementation; Feedback and Evaluation; Teacher Development)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achieving the Dream, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,243,916", "Description":"To support the redesign of student advising services at higher education institutions and an evaluation assessing the impact of the approach on student and institutional outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achieving the Dream, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,050,000", "Description":"To support the adoption of Completion by Design principles and processes by amplifying lessons learned", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Architectural Foundation", "Amount":"$618,076", "Description":"To engage collaboratively with educators and administers in the six Next Generation System Initiative districts to create new models for learning environments in support of better outcomes through personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$8,564,902", "Description":"To design and implement a series of pathway design institutes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of School Administrators, Inc.", "Amount":"$748,976", "Description":"To support dissemination of information associated with communities of practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of State Colleges and Universities", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support the American Association of State Colleges and Universities to work with a cohort of institutions that can engage in first-year program redesign as a critical first step towards defining pathways for regional comprehensive universities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of State Colleges and Universities", "Amount":"$90,000", "Description":"To provide American Association of State Colleges and Universities the resources necessary to design and launch an initiative to redesign first year programs among its member institutions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research", "Amount":"$159,335", "Description":"To empower teachers to become dynamic leaders in their schools and districts by employing available levers to transform schools and systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$657,848", "Description":"To expand knowledge of teacher networks - in particular, network approaches and structures and ways that teachers engage with networks that are associated with improved teacher practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$149,682", "Description":"To fund planning for school district participation in a community of practice that uses information to improve instruction", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$1,199,894", "Description":"To support a partnership with teacher preparation providers to assess the benefits of a model of pre-service clinical preparation that combines high-quality placements with structured evaluation and feedback", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$267,749", "Description":"To support local educators as they seek to improve instruction and reconcile multiple and concurrent policy demands in support of the Common Core Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$308,213", "Description":"To advance the understanding of the efficacy of competency-based education (CBE) in postsecondary settings", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To support the 2015 APIASF Higher Education Summit focusing on Creating Meaningful Change for API students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Aspire Public Schools", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support common core implementation, professional development or personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Aspire Public Schools", "Amount":"$385,100", "Description":"To create a culture of improvement and measurement and build local and systemic capacity to support high quality teaching and learning in an era of college and career ready standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$5,727,201", "Description":"To deepen awareness and improve on the ground implementations of personalized learning at postsecondary institutions thereby improving student mastery, course completion, student advising, degree planning, and student retention", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$4,796,540", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting increasing and sharing new knowledge about the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$150,123", "Description":"To highlight and make visible innovative and effective practices that advance student success for non-traditional, low-income, and underrepresented students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bank Street College of Education", "Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To help make quality teacher preparation financially sustainable by securing dedicated public funding to support it", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bank Street College of Education", "Amount":"$2,204,571", "Description":"To support Implementation Network Planning for New York Big Districts - Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Yonkers and Utica", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc", "Amount":"$596,203", "Description":"To support the development of a consumer information impact plan for students seeking postsecondary education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bellwether Education Partners, Inc.", "Amount":"$778,188", "Description":"To inform the public and education leaders on education policy opportunities related to teaching effectiveness, personalized learning, and new accountability models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boston Public Schools", "Amount":"$438,459", "Description":"To improve teaching and learning practice and ultimately student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boston Public Schools", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support Boston Public Schools Listening Campaign and Development of a 100 Day Plan", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"California Charter Schools Association", "Amount":"$800,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Camber Collective LLC", "Amount":"$211,034", "Description":"To establish a portal for school districts, based on a common data set, where successful student performance initiatives can be evaluated and disseminated", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Camelback Ventures, Inc.", "Amount":"$463,114", "Description":"To support education technology entrepreneurs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching", "Amount":"$1,017,078", "Description":"To support the use of improvement science to strengthen the outcomes of educational networks", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CELT Corporation", "Amount":"$1,533,308", "Description":"To develop and implement personalized learning models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CELT Corporation", "Amount":"$526,860", "Description":"To support a community of practice for school district and network staff so they are better able to use information and technology to improve professional development and classroom instruction", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for American Progress", "Amount":"$850,000", "Description":"To increase education and awareness of practices and systems most likely to improve the quality of teaching and elevate the profession overall", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for American Progress", "Amount":"$850,000", "Description":"To raise expectations for all students no matter their neighborhood, background, or family income level to ensure high school graduates are indeed college and career ready", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Law and Social Policy", "Amount":"$400,001", "Description":"To generate policy proposals on state and federal financial aid and grant programs to meet the needs of low-income adult learners while driving adoption of these proposals through the building of critical coalitions of support and action", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Reform of School Systems Inc.", "Amount":"$2,568,947", "Description":"To seat the 'Finding Time' work in 3 networks to develop a replicable approach and deliver training while making the connection between finance (Smarter School Spending) and productivity/instruction (School by Design)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Reform of School Systems Inc.", "Amount":"$700,000", "Description":"To support a library of robust school model designs demonstrating increased collaborative learning time for teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Teaching Quality, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,497,686", "Description":"To support the Center for Teaching Quality to refine, test, and study its Virtual Community Organizer model, which utilizes teacher leaders to grow virtual communities of practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charter Board Partners", "Amount":"$442,136", "Description":"To support the expansion of Charter Board Partners' work in Washington State", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Fund", "Amount":"$185,100", "Description":"To support research of local education data to inform the public of the current education landscape in Chattanooga, Tennessee", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Children Now", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To provide support to parents in California to understand the transition to new Common Core aligned assessments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Children Now", "Amount":"$700,000", "Description":"To provide for general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Citizen Schools, Inc.", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Claflin University", "Amount":"$1,200,187", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting and sharing learnings from the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Collaborative for Teaching and Learning", "Amount":"$120,577", "Description":"To create opportunities and support for teachers to lead from their classrooms in order to impact their schools by building teachers' leadership confidence and skills and also demonstrating the effectiveness of teachers in non-traditional leadership roles built to boost students' success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Children's Campaign", "Amount":"$85,000", "Description":"To equip and empower parents and caregivers to advocate for continued implementation of rigorous standards and aligned high quality assessments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Children's Campaign", "Amount":"$205,617", "Description":"To sustain knowledge, information and support for career and college ready standards and assessments across the state of Colorado", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Education Initiative", "Amount":"$2,200", "Description":"To leverage technology to help grantees and program officers interact while reducing costs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Succeeds", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support communications and outreach efforts supporting higher academic standards and aligned assessments for career and college readiness in Colorado", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Columbia University", "Amount":"$281,050", "Description":"To develop systematic tools for assessing personalized learning intermediary organizations' immediate and evolving capacity to achieve transformative change", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Columbia University", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To provide an initial grant to support the establishment of an on-campus learning center that will provide intensive, high quality and innovative tutoring to ~1000 local high school students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Common Sense Media", "Amount":"$750,635", "Description":"To support the development of short, actionable education technology-focused lessons designed to help teachers build knowledge, skills and confidence in teaching with technology", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,200", "Description":"To leverage technology to help grantees and program officers interact while reducing costs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.", "Amount":"$200,002", "Description":"To develop advocacy (state) partnerships in each of the states (focus and non-focus), where institutional partnership investments land; to create and sustain early and ongoing awareness among policymakers and critical stakeholders, through evidence and best practices, of the aspirations and efforts of the IP institutions, thereby creating enabling conditions and a supportive environment for the success of each of the institutional 'capacities'", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Conexion Americas", "Amount":"$850,053", "Description":"To increase advance educational equity and accountability for students of color across Tennessee through convening and collaborating with a network of minority serving organizations and developing a common education policy agenda and action plan", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium for School Networking", "Amount":"$75,076", "Description":"To enable schools to access resources to improve teaching and learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium for School Networking", "Amount":"$149,505", "Description":"To support the professional development of education technology leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc", "Amount":"$505,898", "Description":"To increase the capacity of local education foundations in Florida in becoming aligned to college-ready funding priorities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CORE Districts", "Amount":"$300,008", "Description":"To provide planning support for strengthening and sustaining the CORE district network in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CoreSpring Inc.", "Amount":"$1,999,431", "Description":"To support growth of the CoreSpring platform and the development of a sustainable business model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of State Governments", "Amount":"$94,967", "Description":"To raise policymaker awareness of key issues and trends in postsecondary policy, particularly in the areas of finance/financial aid, data/information, college readiness, and innovative delivery models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council Of The Great City Schools", "Amount":"$1,600,017", "Description":"To advance district capacity to implement college- and career-readiness standards, ensuring that all urban students - particularly historically-underserved student groups such as males of color and English language learners - have access to high quality instruction, materials, interventions, and programming", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Craft3", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To support public charter school facility development for the benefit of low income children", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation", "Amount":"$1,257,526", "Description":"To convene California teachers statewide at a one-day conference to generate momentum around teacher impact on college and career readiness and provide teacher exposure to resources and strategies for Common Core implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Dallas Independent School District", "Amount":"$1,804,234", "Description":"To support school design and district implementation for districts participating in the Next Generation Systems Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Deans for Impact", "Amount":"$260,906", "Description":"To promote best practices in improving initial teacher education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Delaware State University Foundation Inc.", "Amount":"$1,200,000", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting and sharing learnings from the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools", "Amount":"$2,200", "Description":"To leverage technology to help grantees and program officers interact while reducing costs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools Foundation", "Amount":"$1,807,534", "Description":"To support school design and district implementation for districts participating in the Next Generation Systems Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DigiLearn Digital Learning Institute", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To implement the Virtual Innovation Studio which is designed to accelerate personalized learning opportunities that will close student achievement gaps", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DonorsChoose.org", "Amount":"$1,250,000", "Description":"To support a campaign that will kickoff the back-to-school season on DonorsChoose.org, ensuring that teachers begin the year with the resources they need", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DreamBox Learning, Inc.", "Amount":"$748,100", "Description":"To support the development of a prototype professional development module for teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Drexel University", "Amount":"$60,000", "Description":"To bring together three mission-driven, visionary university presidents focused on improving undergraduate completion rates and advancing the quality of life for neighboring schools and communities through innovation, entrepreneurship, and resource and infrastructure development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"East Bay Community Foundation", "Amount":"$70,000", "Description":"To explore new models that support student success at urban liberal arts colleges and comprehensive independent universities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdFuel", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support the development of central office leadership talent in school districts and charter management organizations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Editorial Projects in Education Inc", "Amount":"$1,998,240", "Description":"To broaden education digital media capacity in the U.S. to share analysis, best practice, and current innovation in public education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSurge Inc.", "Amount":"$682,518", "Description":"To  improve market information regarding edtech products in order to help teachers and school districts select the most effective of these", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSurge Inc.", "Amount":"$3,128,881", "Description":"To create accessible knowledge bases and online communities of practice around the topic of personalized learning for postsecondary education, especially for digital courseware", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education First Consulting LLC", "Amount":"$335,030", "Description":"To support the establishment of a Massachusetts-based teacher engagement coalition that takes responsibility for developing a collective teacher engagement strategy and deeper analysis of existing organizations working in this space", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Resource Strategies, Inc.", "Amount":"$170,000", "Description":"To build out and pilot through 2-3 cohorts, a training course for district budget staff to better help them support strategic resource allocation in schools and across the district", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To demonstrate how high standards improve the education of K-12 students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Writers Association", "Amount":"$17,500", "Description":"To sponsor a reception of 100 higher education attendees of the 68th Education Writers Association National Seminar", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educational Results Partnership", "Amount":"$187,015", "Description":"To improve outcomes for all students in college, career, and life by helping schools and school systems across the country learn and apply what works from high performing systems and schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EducationSuperHighway", "Amount":"$5,000,000", "Description":"To support broader access to reliable, high capacity Internet access in U.S. K-12 public schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$305,367", "Description":"To further socialize and validate the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment with learning and technology community experts, strategic partners in the corporate community and senior academic leadership", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$7,322,384", "Description":"To support the redesign of student advising services at higher education institutions and an evaluation assessing the impact of the approach on student and institutional outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$2,187,289", "Description":"To advance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of postsecondary education by catalyzing innovation with technology and collaborating with a range of organizations and initiatives to bring them to the field", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Empower Schools Co.", "Amount":"$1,817,042", "Description":"To support Empower Schools' growth and work with Massachusetts school districts dedicated to implementing higher standards and providing teachers with meaningful feedback and aligned professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EnLearn", "Amount":"$3,044,596", "Description":"To support and enable the development of adaptive digital courseware that can contribute to a more personalized teaching and learning experience", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Entertainment Industry Foundation", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"To support education campaign that ignites a sense of excitement for learning and establishes education as the pathway to opportunity and success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fayetteville State University", "Amount":"$1,199,999", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting and sharing learnings from the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Association of District School Superintendents", "Amount":"$3,199,994", "Description":"To increase capacity as an implementation hub, serve member districts and rural district consortia like NEFEC and Heartland, and organize new convenings, including ECET2 convenings in priority districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation", "Amount":"$283,600", "Description":"To equip Florida's business community to produce and disseminate analyses on expected human capital needs in the state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Department of Education", "Amount":"$2,078,713", "Description":"To facilitate and coordinate teacher leaders through a High Impact Teacher Corps develop culture/mindset in the Florida Department of Education (FL DOE) and redesign professional development policy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Philanthropic Network Inc.", "Amount":"$173,880", "Description":"To raise awareness about college access, success, and attainment issues in Florida, focusing on the state's philanthropic community", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation Center", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To provide outreach and administer the Foundation Registry i3 on behalf of the education field", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc.", "Amount":"$1,300,000", "Description":"To support the Foundation for Excellence in Education's policy, advocacy and communications work in states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"FPF Education and Innovation Foundation", "Amount":"$402,514", "Description":"To advance the responsible use of data in education", "Notes":"Money is for the Future of Privacy Forum"}, {"Name":"Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada", "Amount":"$365,562", "Description":"To improve the user experience of the Smarter School Spending website and tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Grantmakers for Education", "Amount":"$5,000", "Description":"To support the Conference Reception for the Post Secondary Access and Achievement council at the annual Grant Makers for Education conference in San Francisco", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Great Oakland Public Schools Leadership Center", "Amount":"$749,195", "Description":"To support efforts in Oakland to increase educational opportunity and support stronger outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Great Oakland Public Schools Leadership Center", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support for a network of diverse community members to engage around issues of educational opportunities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"GreatSchools, Inc.", "Amount":"$800,439", "Description":"To support Great Schools' development of online tools that help parents understand their children's scores on Common Core aligned assessments and engage further with their children's education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Green Dot Public Schools California", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support common core implementation, professional development or personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Growth Philanthropy Network Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support the Social Impact Exchange, a collaborative designed to bring philanthropic funders together to share knowledge and increase investment in scaling effective social programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"GSV Event Media, LLC", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support conference focused on improving market information platforms", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$582,554", "Description":"To inform the public and educators about key areas in K-12 education improvement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$20,000", "Description":"To support the Education Innovation Pitch Competition, which is designed to generate new entrepreneurial concepts in the education sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$3,500,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support to the third phase of the Strategic Data Project, based at Harvard University", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"HCM Strategists, LLC", "Amount":"$44,562", "Description":"To create postsecondary institutional policy capacity rubrics and assessment tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"HCM Strategists, LLC", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support timely, rapid, and short-run communications, research, and policy analysis efforts associated with federal financial aid", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"HCM Strategists, LLC", "Amount":"$149,986", "Description":"To enhance field knowledge about outcome-based funding for postsecondary education, and support application of that knowledge in states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Henry County Schools", "Amount":"$3,929,400", "Description":"To support school design and district implementation for districts participating in the Next Generation Systems Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hispanic Scholarship Fund", "Amount":"$417,215,300", "Description":"To support outstanding minority students from low income backgrounds by providing them financial support through a scholarship program and ensuring they have access to the resources and support services needed to complete their degree", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hope Street Group", "Amount":"$1,512,142", "Description":"To support teacher engagement in Tennessee", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"iCivics, Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support classroom technology", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Idaho Business for Education", "Amount":"$6,000", "Description":"To support the collaboration between the Idaho Business for Education, the JA and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, and the Helmsley Foundation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Idea Public Schools", "Amount":"$49,840", "Description":"To support common core implementation, professional development or personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"IlliniCloud", "Amount":"$344,000", "Description":"To support planning activities of a collection of K-12 organizations collaborating on a common set of open-source components", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Innosight Institute Inc", "Amount":"$900,000", "Description":"To support the Clayton Christensen Institute's education program's mission of transforming today's monolithic, factory-model education system that serves only a minority of students well into a student-centered system that personalizes for every child and therefore educates every student successfully so that each can realize his or her fullest human potential", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute For Higher Education Policy", "Amount":"$1,499,866", "Description":"To convene an expert working group to strengthen our nation's ability to collect and use high-quality information about our postsecondary system by developing technical and policy options to improve the postsecondary data infrastructure", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute For Higher Education Policy", "Amount":"$1,799,567", "Description":"To develop a set of common postsecondary metrics providing postsecondary stakeholders with critical information on inputs, outputs, and outcomes; strengthen the higher education data community's ability to drive clarity and convergence through the Postsecondary Data Collaborative; and support IHEP's continued organizational health and growth by developing and implementing informed changes to its business model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Intentional Futures", "Amount":"$1,932,631", "Description":"To provide technical assistance for Next Generation Courseware Challenge grantees and to build a vibrant grantee community", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jackson State University", "Amount":"$1,200,000", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting and sharing learnings from the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$900,000", "Description":"To support outreach and engagement with policymakers and stakeholders on the issues of high quality, aligned standards, assessments and supports for effective teaching", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$229,187", "Description":"To develop advocacy (state) partnerships in each of the states (focus and non-focus), where institutional partnership investments land; to create and sustain early and ongoing awareness among policymaker and critical stakeholders, through evidence and best practices, of the aspirations and efforts of the IP institutions, thereby creating enabling conditions and a supportive environment for the success of each of the institutional 'capacities'", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$1,750,000", "Description":"To launch Student Success Centers in three states in the Fall of 2015", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$1,051,380", "Description":"To provide capacity to systematically aggregate demand from community colleges within a state, pull down key interventions from a coalition of national partners, and provide a channel to deliver those interventions with ongoing technical assistance to institutions. In addition, this investment will build capacity to serve a network management role for an expanded postsecondary state policy network that includes all of the Foundation's focus states and an expanded number of student success centers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Johns Hopkins University", "Amount":"$275,000", "Description":"To plan for the development of a network amongst school systems and their partners working to help students stay on-track for high school graduation and postsecondary success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Johnson C Smith University Incorporated", "Amount":"$1,199,980", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting and sharing learnings from the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Johnson County Community College", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To better understand instruction resources and to build a model to share with other nniversities, community colleges and educational institutions by implementing an Academic Cost Structure and Performance Management system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kentucky Chamber Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$171,758", "Description":"To support the KY Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, to deliver a targeted communications campaign in support of Kentucky's higher academic standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kentucky Community and Technical College System Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$95,000", "Description":"To support the development of a multi-year strategic plan for the 16-campus system, with a particular focus on engaging local and regional economic needs and innovative policies and practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kitamba Management, Inc.", "Amount":"$337,500", "Description":"To support innovative ways to collect data on education initiatives underway and to efficiently and effectively get that data and information into the hands of practitioners to ensure teachers and students receive the support they need to succeed", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kitamba Management, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,591,950", "Description":"To improve teaching and learning by bringing teachers together to measure their practices and adopt promising ones, assess which practices lead to improvement, and share learnings with colleagues in their schools and districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lake County Schools", "Amount":"$2,534,056", "Description":"To support school design and district implementation for districts participating in the Next Generation Systems Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lea(R)n, Inc.", "Amount":"$351,959", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Leadership Conference Education Fund, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,128,338", "Description":"To make the national education policy conversation more reflective and inclusive of a civil rights framework of equity and access by including more diverse voices and perspectives", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Leadership for Educational Achievement Foundation Inc.", "Amount":"$700,036", "Description":"To support planning and capacity building for LEAF to launch and support a Knowledge Network for NY school districts through BOCES", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Leading Educators Inc", "Amount":"$850,000", "Description":"To support the development innovative, rigorous, and meaningful school-based, district and regional teacher leader models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"LEAP Innovations", "Amount":"$5,117,738", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning First Alliance", "Amount":"$686,682", "Description":"To broaden the existing showcase of innovations that can improve U.S. K-12 public education through continued support for effective implementation of Common Cores State Standards (CCSS) by developing a robust, collaborative communications plan to share successful implementation strategies - and the educators who lead them - more broadly", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning Forward", "Amount":"$3,638,062", "Description":"To support a network intermediary to facilitate a community of practice with professional development partners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"LearnLaunch Institute", "Amount":"$325,000", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"LearnZillion, Inc.", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support conferences to deepen teacher understanding of the Common Core standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lindsay Unified School District", "Amount":"$499,860", "Description":"To build the foundation for the California Consortium for Development and Dissemination of Personalized Education (C2D2) by identifying the key questions they plan to address together, build specific deliverables and a strategic plan for future work, and develop a strong operating model for an effective long-term partnership", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lipscomb University", "Amount":"$749,894", "Description":"To support the leadership development and civic engagement programs of Leadership Tennessee participants around key secondary and post secondary activities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Literacy Design Collaborative, Inc", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To provide organizational capacity support to the Literacy Design Collaborative to assist their ability to reach a larger number of teachers across the US", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Loyola Marymount University", "Amount":"$1,195,581", "Description":"To convene California teachers statewide for one day to generate momentum around the impact of teachers on college and career readiness and provide teacher exposure to materials, resources and strategies for Common Core implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mary Walker School District #207", "Amount":"$2,100,000", "Description":"To support innovative portfolio options and collaborative partnerships in Washington State", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Inc.", "Amount":"$425,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education", "Amount":"$390,000", "Description":"To support the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to launch, execute, and utilize implementation data collection at the state-level", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education", "Amount":"$3,928,656", "Description":"To support the establishment of teacher preparation transformation centers that will provide technical assistance, serve as a data center, and serve as a disseminator of practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MassChallenge, Inc", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support initial launch activities for a MA-based teacher practice network dedicated to Common Core aligned professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MDRC", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support New 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"Notes":""}, {"Name":"Military Child Education Coalition", "Amount":"$498,027", "Description":"To develop and support an advocacy campaign in support of the implementation of Common Core, and on behalf of the interest of military-connected students by leveraging the voices and actions of its military-connected network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Monterey Institute For Technology and Education", "Amount":"$3,535,675", "Description":"To continue the nationwide scaling of the EdReady college readiness system", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Morehouse College", "Amount":"$1,199,296", "Description":"To accelerate the production of credentials of value, especially for low-income, first generation students, while documenting and sharing learnings from the institutional change process", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Muzzy Lane Software, Inc.", "Amount":"$260,500", "Description":"To explore the potential and viability of a game-based approach for postsecondary courseware to improve performance of low income and disadvantaged students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Nashville Public Education Foundation", "Amount":"$85,000", "Description":"To support research of local education data to inform the public of the current education landscape in Nashville, Tennessee", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of College and University Business Officers", "Amount":"$76,507", "Description":"To increase the understanding of the Strategic Finance institutional capacity by reviewing relevant information available in the field, synthesizing the most salient, forward-thinking practices, developing a select set of tools based on those practices. These tools will be tested with some of the most forward-thinking professionals in the field and then shared for additional feedback with institutional partners in September. This refined early version (including the aforementioned practitioner feedback) will serve as an initial frame for future efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials NALEO Educational Fund", "Amount":"$1,400,000", "Description":"To support continuation of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials' (NALEO) work to increase policymakers' understanding of education issues affecting Hispanic students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of State Boards of Education", "Amount":"$125,000", "Description":"To provide support, education, and expertise to equip state boards of education to better safeguard student data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of State Boards of Education", "Amount":"$627,848", "Description":"To support state boards of education to implement policies fostering high standards and expectations for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Financial Aid 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"Description":"To support a professional development conference designed and delivered by the National Board, Teaching and Learning 2016", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Inc", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To provide support for the Common Core Teaching and Learning conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center for Learning Disabilities", "Amount":"$745,555", "Description":"To support the National Center for Learning Disabilities to deepen understanding of the importance of sound policy and practice around personalized learning for all students with disabilities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies", "Amount":"$349,856", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To communicate research in a way that is relevant and useful to education technology developers and practitioners seeking to improve learning outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Center For Teacher Residencies Inc", "Amount":"$6,847,720", "Description":"To support the establishment of teacher preparation transformation centers that will provide technical assistance, serve as a data center, and serve as a disseminator of practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National College Access Network", "Amount":"$225,192", "Description":"To raise awareness among and mobilize college access and success providers on FAFSA Simplification and create spaces to leverage their technical expertise to improve the development and implementation of policy solutions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Conference of State Legislatures", "Amount":"$1,208,624", "Description":"To support education of state policymakers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Congress of Parents and Teachers", "Amount":"$1,299,276", "Description":"To support the 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students in low-income neighborhoods to the National Geographic Live! 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to scale and spread tools and training; measure the spread and impact of the work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Nevada Succeeds", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To support the implementation of an innovative professional development approach in Clark County Nevada", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New America Foundation", "Amount":"$2,400,000", "Description":"To provide for general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Leaders Inc", "Amount":"$315,000", "Description":"To support internal program redesign and provide support to the broader field around how principals enable teachers and students to excel in the Common Core era", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Paradigm for Education Inc.", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support common core implementation, professional development or personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Profit Inc.", "Amount":"$15,040,246", "Description":"To provide capacity building support and capital aggregation for foundation non-profit investees", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Center", "Amount":"$528,893", "Description":"To support the New Teacher Center's work in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Center", "Amount":"$1,066,403", "Description":"To convene large numbers of teachers on a single day in regions across the state of California to generate momentum around the singular impact of teachers on college and career readiness and directly impact teacher exposure to materials, resources and strategies for Common Core implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$4,131,543", "Description":"To support networks of Massachusetts school districts dedicated to quality implementation of higher standards and providing teachers with meaningful feedback and aligned professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support the establishment of hard-to-measure competencies as an integral part of educational policy and practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$527,359", "Description":"To build and sustain a network between local funders across the state of Tennessee engaged in work supporting high standards, effective teaching, and personalized learning opportunities for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$1,350,000", "Description":"To provide parents and guardians with trusted, actionable information and high quality tools and resources about education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$10,800,000", "Description":"To support the implementation of the Common Core Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To enable the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) to improve student learning across the nation by defining, sharing and advocating for effective teaching practices and policies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To fund the Early Learning Design 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{"Name":"Northwest Evaluation Association", "Amount":"$602,521", "Description":"To support MAP testing in the 29 schools launching in Fall 2015 across the six Next Generation System Initiative districts for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years in order to enable impact analysis of these schools in a manner similar to the RAND personalized learning study", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Association of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$2,200", "Description":"To leverage technology to help grantees and program officers interact while reducing costs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ohio Association of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$600,337", "Description":"To continue Ohio's Completion by Design state policy and scaling work led by the Ohio Association of Community Colleges", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Online Learning Consortium", "Amount":"$2,758,059", "Description":"To support building awareness, assessing readiness, and providing guidance on using next generation digital courseware to improve student 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interventions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Puget Sound Educational Service District", "Amount":"$248,997", "Description":"To provide Special Education program support, consultation and technical assistance and services to Washington State public charter schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"RAND Corporation", "Amount":"$2,036,319", "Description":"To collect, analyze, and consolidate key data from IPS sites for the production of dashboards to be used for assessing progress and informing stock-take discussions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"RAND Corporation", "Amount":"$162,634", "Description":"To support procurement effectiveness by helping to build smarter demand so that districts can leverage their collective buying power of instructional content and tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"RAND Corporation", "Amount":"$1,350,000", "Description":"To support the Next Generation Learning Challenge Study", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Reach Capital", "Amount":"$2,000,872", "Description":"To collaborate on education technology with members of the early stage, education technology ecosystem", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Relay Graduate School of Education", "Amount":"$6,872,650", "Description":"To support the establishment of teacher preparation transformation centers that will provide technical assistance, serve as a data center, and serve as a disseminator of practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy Inc", "Amount":"$224,914", "Description":"To support strategy development and planning activity for a 'hub' organization that will coach, support and facilitate collaboration between and among networks of districts in Massachusetts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research for Action Inc", "Amount":"$272,000", "Description":"To create and sustain early and ongoing awareness through evidence and best practices of the aspirations and efforts of institutions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research for Action Inc", "Amount":"$585,000", "Description":"To enable Research for Action to become a coordinating partner for multi-state research on Multiple Measures", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research Foundation of State University of New York", "Amount":"$1,800,000", "Description":"To support the implementation of Quantway/Statway across 30 campuses reaching 50% of developmental education students on each campus", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rio Salado College", "Amount":"$575,000", "Description":"To support the planning of a completion and student success initiative that can be scaled and replicated", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Riverside County Office of Education", "Amount":"$1,751,047", "Description":"To support networks of LEAs in California focused on implementing CCSS with an emphasis on teacher professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Riverside Unified School District", "Amount":"$2,909,196", "Description":"To support school design and district implementation for districts participating in the Next Generation Systems Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rockefeller Philanthropy 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{"Name":"San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools", "Amount":"$1,181,900", "Description":"To support networks of LEAs in California focused on implementing CCSS with an emphasis on teacher professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Santa Cruz County Office of Education", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support network implementation of teacher professional development in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"School Board of Pinellas County, Florida", "Amount":"$2,770,108", "Description":"To support school design and district implementation for districts participating in the Next Generation Systems Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Schoolzilla", "Amount":"$45,036", "Description":"To explore the feasibility of enhancing the sketschaschool.org site to serve the needs of small systems engaged in time redesign", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Seneca Family of Agencies", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To provide special education services and technical assistance support for public charter schools in Washington state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Shasta County Office of Education", "Amount":"$149,981", "Description":"To support networks of LEAs in California focused on implementing CCSS with an emphasis on teacher professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Silicon Valley Education Foundation", "Amount":"$1,616,641", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Southern Education Foundation", "Amount":"$199,681", "Description":"To develop advocacy (state) partnerships in each of the states (focus and non focus), where IP investments land, to create and sustain early and ongoing awareness among policymakers, and critical stakeholders, through evidence and best practices, of the aspirations and efforts of the IP institutions; thereby creating enabling conditions and a supportive environment for the success of each of the institutional 'capacities'", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Southern Regional Education Board", "Amount":"$6,545,000", "Description":"To support implementation of college- and career-ready standards and systems of teacher effectiveness in SREB states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stand for Children Leadership Center", "Amount":"$4,311,641", "Description":"To support capacity building and increased public will around Common Core standards and aligned assessments in four states, as well as positive teacher effectiveness policy changes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"To connect teachers to each other and support their professional development, providing them with unique opportunities to implement best practices and emerge as leaders in education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Student Achievement Partners Inc", "Amount":"$4,000,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support to grow the organization's Core Advocates work in over 20 states and reach over one million teachers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Student Achievement Partners Inc", 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"Amount":"$2,310,000", "Description":"To provide for general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Tech University", "Amount":"$6,962,397", "Description":"To support the establishment of teacher preparation transformation centers that will provide technical assistance, serve as a data center, and serve as a disseminator of practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Atlantic", "Amount":"$307,505", "Description":"To raise policymaker awareness of emerging postsecondary policy issues and trends, especially those affecting college access and completion", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boston Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support a strategic planning and restructuring effort by the Massachusetts Department of Education that will lead to sustained Common Core and Educator Effectiveness implementation and impact post-Race to the Top", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"California Education Partners", "Amount":"$209,400", "Description":"To support a planning period to develop an 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{"Name":"George Washington University", "Amount":"$899,785", "Description":"To elevate the voice of teachers and district leaders within the national discourse on education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Get Schooled Foundation", "Amount":"$1,625,601", "Description":"To support a public information campaign on changes in US K-12 education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Great Schools Partnership Charitable Trust", "Amount":"$85,000", "Description":"To support a 'teacherpreneur' program, a teacher engagement strategy that promotes the inclusion of teacher voice and ideas in innovation in classroom redesign", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Highlander Institute", "Amount":"$349,185", "Description":"To develop a statewide system for sharing, implementing, evaluating and scaling blended learning and instructional personalization across the state of Rhode Island", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Highlander Institute", "Amount":"$338,652", "Description":"To help facilitate digital courseware product efficacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning Accelerator", "Amount":"$2,750,000", "Description":"To support the K-12 Open Educational Resources (OER) Collaborative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning First Group", "Amount":"$1,582,740", "Description":"To build the evidence base on best practices and implementation of initial teacher education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Match Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support common core implementation, professional development or personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Project, Inc.", "Amount":"$445,531", "Description":"To assess the implementation and fidelity of the Common Core State Standards and education effectiveness system through a diagnostic analysis to ensure that students meet college ready standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Project, Inc.", "Amount":"$3,525,883", "Description":"To establish an implementation hub for six Florida districts to support quality and aligned implementation of standards, teacher evaluation and professional development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Project, Inc.", "Amount":"$12,000,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support for The New Teacher Project, enabling it to strengthen its core priority programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The New York Immigration Coalition, Inc.", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To support the National Immigrant Integration Conference held on December 13-15, 2015 in New York City", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Texas at Austin", "Amount":"$2,268,505", "Description":"To expand the New Mathways Project into five additional states and create compelling evidence for the field writ large to advance the multiple pathways approach nationally to improve student success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of the State of New York", "Amount":"$569,000", "Description":"To support the New York Department of Education's strategic planning and research and data capacity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Thomas B. Fordham Institute", "Amount":"$1,100,000", "Description":"To provide for general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tides Center", "Amount":"$487,405", "Description":"To connect teachers interested in the maker movement to one another to share best practices, cocreate, and lead", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tides Center", "Amount":"$125,000", "Description":"To support education technology entrepreneurs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tides Center", "Amount":"$633,031", "Description":"To support efforts in Stockton to increase educational opportunity and support stronger outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tides Center", "Amount":"$2,308,071", "Description":"To design and test approaches to networking Institutional Partnership (IP) sites in ways that leverage peer-to-peer and collective learning in order to accelerate and increase the sites' effectiveness and that of the field", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"tnAchieves", "Amount":"$405,541", "Description":"To support the development of an organization that advocates for the continuing improvement of postsecondary opportunity and success in Tennessee", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Transcend Inc.", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To support initial work to source, select, and prime the next group of visionary school operator partners to develop new models of education to improve students outcomes of low income students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tulare County Superintendent of Schools", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To provide planning support for a network approach to strengthening instructional practice in rural school systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tyton Partners", "Amount":"$3,418,527", "Description":"To improve educational outcomes for students by sharing market research, decision-making tools, and taxonomies for digital courseware and Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation", "Amount":"$4,101,837", "Description":"To support Common Core implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"U.S. Department of Education", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support the US Department of Education's 2015 National HBCU Week Conference September 21-22, 2015", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Unbounded Learning, Inc.", "Amount":"$926,667", "Description":"To promote capacity-building focused on Common Core supports for teachers, schools, and districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"United Way of New York City", "Amount":"$1,200,000", "Description":"To build United Way New York City's capacity as an advocate, school-based technical assistance provider and community-based organization trainer in support of Common Core in NYC and NY state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University Enterprises, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,523,052", "Description":"To draw lessons from innovative regional efforts and develop and propose recommendations to improve postsecondary success in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of California at San Diego", "Amount":"$1,993,497", "Description":"To strengthen mathematics instruction in San Diego County", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of California, Riverside", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To adopt and implement an Academic Cost Structure and Performance Management system to better understand the resources currently used around instruction and to build a model to share with other educational institutions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Chicago", "Amount":"$249,997", "Description":"To support the Consortium on Chicago School Research to plan for how to spread their on-track work, and further analyses focused on supporting struggling students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Florida", "Amount":"$824,553", "Description":"To support the identification of teacher leader fellows and coordinator teacher leader fellowship network and building virtual teacher experiences for fellows and teachers in Florida", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Kentucky Research Foundation", "Amount":"$4,500,000", "Description":"To support the Assessment for Learning Project that will support educational assessment in the U.S. around systems of assessment to support assessment for learning and the attainment of college and career readiness by all students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Michigan", "Amount":"$6,858,099", "Description":"To facilitate collaboration among teacher preparation transformation centers for the purpose of creating classroom-ready teachers and advancing learning and innovation in teacher preparation through technical support, design-based research and transparent use of data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of South Florida", "Amount":"$202,751", "Description":"To develop advocacy (state) partnerships in each of the states (focus and non focus), where IP investments land, to create and sustain early and ongoing awareness among policymakers, and critical stakeholders, through evidence and best practices, of the aspirations and efforts of the IP institutions; 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competency-based education; adult-friendly policies and practices; and student financial aid", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Uplift Education", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support common core implementation, professional development or personalized learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Urban Institute", "Amount":"$191,234", "Description":"To model the costs and distributional effects of various FAFSA simplification proposals", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Urban Institute", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To evaluate recent trends in public financing of postsecondary education and identify critical questions to be addressed by policymakers and practitioners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Urban League of Middle Tennessee", "Amount":"$250,153", "Description":"To provide access to postsecondary training and certification, and ultimately careers in high-demand areas that also provide higher than average earnings in order to lift families out of poverty", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Urban Schools Human Capital Academy, Inc", "Amount":"$825,000", "Description":"To support efforts of the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy to codify and share its knowledge and learning about district talent management", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Urban Teacher Center", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To provide for general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Vanderbilt University", "Amount":"$1,799,710", "Description":"To support collaboration between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education in the area of education research and improvement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Washington State Charter Schools Association", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support for the Washington State Charter Schools Association", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"WestEd", "Amount":"$663,000", "Description":"To support WestEd to serve as 'Data Sponsor' in support of the California State Board of Education's effort to learn more about the statewide implementation of the California Standards, related shifts in teacher development and supports, and related improvements in teachers' ELA and Math instructional practices to align with the California Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"WestEd", "Amount":"$1,327,347", "Description":"To support high-quality mathematics instruction in southern California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"WestEd", "Amount":"$2,050,959", "Description":"To organize a community of practice of districts and TA provider working to align resources with instructional priorities in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"WestEd", "Amount":"$4,095,000", "Description":"To deepen the implementation of the Common Core by leveraging effective tools and strategies; teacher leaders capable of scaling them to teachers in national and local networks; and network/system partnerships", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Women in Government Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To give women state legislators access to balanced information and safe spaces to exchange their opportunities and challenges related to higher education, so that they can make positive changes in their states and improve attainment rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Year Up, Inc.", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Yes We Must Coalition", "Amount":"$202,681", "Description":"To provide funding to the Yes We Must Coalition towards its 2015 Members Institute, a conference for private independent colleges serving significant proportions of Pell-eligible students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Young Invincibles", "Amount":"$925,000", "Description":"To strengthen student voices in conversations about innovation and change in postsecondary education through digital storytelling", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Code.org", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support Gender Equality in Tech: Focus on Classroom Teachers", "Notes":""}]