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collaboratively support the distribution, implementation and refinement of institution change models that increase completions and equity through regional pathways workshops", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of State Colleges and Universities", "Amount":"$1,286,778", "Description":"To build the capacity of national intermediaries to support the distribution, implementation and refinement of comprehensive institution change models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Indian Graduate Center Inc", "Amount":"$949,514", "Description":"To enable financial independence for sustainable future growth", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$1,499,648", "Description":"To provide a set of high performing and high potential postsecondary education institutions with improved reporting capabilities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$247,994", "Description":"To advance understanding and practice of the role of state system offices in supporting higher education institutions to close attainment gaps for low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University", "Amount":"$1,999,986", "Description":"To increase persistence and graduation rates for low income students who would otherwise be prevented from continuing their education due to unpaid balances resulting in financial holds on their student account", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund", "Amount":"$1,197,131", "Description":"To accelerate and diversify funding sources for long term financial stability in order to support a greater number of underserved minority students nationwide", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Governing Boards", "Amount":"$225,056", "Description":"To measure and increase trustee awareness of key higher education challenges and options for addressing them", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$1,199,313", "Description":"To build the capacity of national intermediaries to support the distribution, implementation and refinement of comprehensive institution change models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Bank Street College of Education", "Amount":"$4,000,000", "Description":"To improve outcomes for students by building professional learning communities, within and across urban schools districts, to improve teaching and learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"BetterWeekdays, Inc", "Amount":"$775,000", "Description":"To connect students, universities and employers via technology that develops personalized career pathways and helps universities improve and measure job placement outcomes of grads", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Brown University", "Amount":"$66,440", "Description":"To support a national conference on higher education and upward mobility in America", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Campaign for College Opportunity", "Amount":"$3,000,000", "Description":"To support the Campaign for College Opportunity in advancing postsecondary education success and attainment in California", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To provide transition funding to the Quantway and Statway math pathways model for its long-term sustainability", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching", "Amount":"$12,000", "Description":"To provide conference support for the Carnegie Foundation's annual summit", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Teaching Quality, Inc.", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To support the Center for Teaching Quality to continue to evolve its service offerings and develop sustainable operations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Fund", "Amount":"$498,914", "Description":"To accelerate college and career readiness rates in 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"Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"For general operating purposes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium for School Networking", "Amount":"$297,117", "Description":"To expand the scope and depth of the Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) program, which builds and supports school systems' commitment to protecting student data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"CORE Districts", "Amount":"$464,750", "Description":"Supplemental support for CORE to enable them to extend their index to build predictors of college success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of Chief State School Officers", "Amount":"$200,000", "Description":"To support a learning community of state chief academic officers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"D2D", "Amount":"$900,000", "Description":"To support resource development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdBuild, Inc.", "Amount":"$20,000", "Description":"To support an analysis of changes to school district boundaries over the past 30 years to understand the impact of boundary changes on racial segregation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Commission of the States", "Amount":"$6,400,000", "Description":"To support a national developmental education transformation effort to engage and support a network, create resources for the field, and scale work in states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Development Center, Inc.", "Amount":"$650,000", "Description":"To support and identify the range of technological tools and products available for supporting young Dual Language Learners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education First Consulting LLC", "Amount":"$396,475", "Description":"To facilitate learning in teacher preparation among the five Transformation Centers and within the field more broadly", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Trust Inc", "Amount":"$1,731,490", "Description":"To support capacity building and the creation of the Ed Trust-West's Higher Education Department", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Writers Association", "Amount":"$550,000", "Description":"To support multiple programs and 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involvement in helping to protect equitable policy solutions in Florida's plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida College System Foundation Inc.", "Amount":"$7,000", "Description":"To assemble national leaders and higher education innovators from the state of Florida to discuss and explore postsecondary best practices that are strategically focused upon access, affordability, achievement, and educational attainment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation for California Community Colleges", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To support the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office in a strategic planning process, and assist the Chancellor's office in driving integration and effective implementation of various student success initiatives statewide", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc.", "Amount":"$2,600,000", "Description":"For general operating purposes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"FSG, Inc.", "Amount":"$220,834", "Description":"To design and launch a learning and evaluation process for a statewide network of community philanthropists focused on collective action toward equity, especially in education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Future of Privacy Forum Education and Innovation Foundation", "Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To support FPF's work in creating and supporting both effective use of student data and privacy protections.", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgetown University", "Amount":"$949,810", "Description":"To support districts and states implement ESSA's financial transparency reporting requirements", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgia State University Foundation Inc", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To further Georgia State University's efforts to document and share their learnings and story about transforming to successfully serve more first-generation, low income, and students of color", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Grantmakers for Education", "Amount":"$71,000", "Description":"To be a sponsor for the Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference \"Equity in Education: Empowering Community Voice\" to be held in Washington DC on October 15-18, 2017", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To enhance understanding among the American public about education policies needed to drive improvement in student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"HCM Strategists, LLC", "Amount":"$850,021", "Description":"To build a state advocacy organization network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"HCM Strategists, LLC", "Amount":"$2,234,339", "Description":"To build national thought-leader networks, build awareness and help advance broader policy adoption to advance student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Higher Learning Advocates Inc", "Amount":"$500,616", "Description":"To support strategic planning while assessing and responding to field gaps on higher education quality issues", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Illustrative Mathematics", "Amount":"$881,657", "Description":"To support math curriculum", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Independent Colleges of Washington", "Amount":"$234,465", "Description":"To create a unified student voice that engages and educates policymakers about the importance of supporting higher education for all Washingtonians", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"InsideTrack", "Amount":"$1,903,288", "Description":"To implement coaching and proactive advising programs with community colleges that serve large populations of low income, minority and first-generation students to improve retention and graduation rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Instruction Partners", "Amount":"$900,000", "Description":"To support resource development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"International Documentary Association", "Amount":"$345,500", "Description":"To support the production of a feature-length film on higher education challenges and promising efforts to address them", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ithaka Harbors Inc.", "Amount":"$2,455,227", "Description":"To accelerate the development of developmental mathematics courseware that is aligned to the next generation courseware taxonomy (Courseware in Context - CwiC)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jacksonville Public Education Fund Inc.", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support district superintendent transition research and support activities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kapor Center for Social Impact", "Amount":"$1,388,730", "Description":"To encourage innovation and discover promising new technologies and entrepreneurs in career advising in K12-Postsecondary spectrum to increase student efficiency, enable more informed academic decisions--ultimately improving student success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kent School District #415", "Amount":"$125", "Description":"To ensure the K-12 team's work in equity is grounded in the real experiences of teachers, we must engage them directly in our learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kent School District #415", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To fund Tableau training for research/analytic staff in Road Map school districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kentucky Department of Education", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support the Kentucky Department of Education's (KDE) research and analytic capacity through an Agency Fellowship with the Strategy Data Project (SDP)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lasell College", "Amount":"$88,000", "Description":"To further the work of the Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium through support of several virtual meetings and one in person meeting", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Leading Educators Inc", "Amount":"$1,618,063", "Description":"To strengthen Leading Educators' human capital and organizational capacity to support school districts in their efforts to leverage the power of teacher leaders to develop systems of distributed leadership and professional learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"LEAP Innovations", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning Forward", "Amount":"$149,899", "Description":"To support annual conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Literacy Design Collaborative, Inc", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"To fund research and development of online tools and resources to build effective standards-driven educators in the classroom to improve student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc", "Amount":"$599,631", "Description":"To support the development and amplification of higher education solutions from beyond traditional policy circles which improve economic mobility", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mary Walker School District #207", "Amount":"$1,040,610", "Description":"To support the capacity of the Rural Alliance to ensure college and career success through its P-16 network of rural school districts and partners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MDC, Inc.", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To fund the strategic dissemination of MDC's Philanthropy as the South's Passing Gear report", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MDRC", "Amount":"$469,750", "Description":"To determine - through an independent random assignment study - the impact of a low-cost, scalable growth mindset intervention on the academic outcomes of 9th grade students in a national sample of U.S. high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Military Child Education Coalition", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support a landscape analysis of aligned funders for programmatic work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MindWires Consulting", "Amount":"$376,000", "Description":"To increase knowledge in the postsecondary and higher education community around research-validated innovations in personalized learning (high quality digital courseware) to increase broad awareness of these innovations as well as to encourage greater usage of more appropriate terminology to describe these efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Monterey Institute For Technology and Education", "Amount":"$1,125,474", "Description":"To improve the effectiveness and adoption of courseware that is demonstrating real potential for improving college success for new majority students who begin their college careers not fully prepared for academic success in math", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Mossyrock School District", "Amount":"$139", "Description":"To ensure the K-12 team's work in equity is grounded in the real experiences of teachers, we must engage them directly in our learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Alliance For Public Charter Schools", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association Of Charter School Authorizers", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators", "Amount":"$524,606", "Description":"To elevate the voices of innovative institutional leaders in service of improving policies to improve college access, success, data transparency, and accountability", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Personnel Administrators", "Amount":"$70,917", "Description":"To develop and validate programs and products to support institutions in conducting formative and summative assessment of the quality and scale of their implementation of emergency aid", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Personnel Administrators", "Amount":"$8,942,761", "Description":"To establish a key backbone and coordinating role for an emerging collective impact network focused on improving student success and outcomes for minority, low-income undergraduates via scaled and impactful implementation of high quality advising", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Personnel Administrators", "Amount":"$396,568", "Description":"To develop the taxonomy and identify effective practices and programs for administering, communicating, and sustaining on-campus work opportunities provided by colleges to students, including federal work study, internships, co-ops, and other opportunities", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Inc", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards to continue their work in improving teacher effectiveness through Board Certification for teachers and support the organization's path forward to fiscal stability by the end of 2018", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Louis University", "Amount":"$1,103,434", "Description":"To enable National Louis University to further strengthen and grow their Harrison Professional Pathways Program, so that thousands more first-generation, minority students succeed, graduate, and find meaningful and sustainable employment upon completion of this low-cost bachelor's degree pathway", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Skills Coalition", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To support the collection and use of data that will inform the connection between postsecondary education and the workforce", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Skills Coalition", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To situate the needs of working students within the federal higher education debate and align advocacy and communications efforts towards their improvement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Student Clearinghouse Research Center", "Amount":"$2,569,224", "Description":"To enhance the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center's data collective to support the transparency and improvement efforts of post-secondary education initiatives and institutions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Writing Project", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To assist the National Writing Project's work in scale-up and evaluation of the program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New America", "Amount":"$3,600,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Classrooms Innovation Partners, Inc.", "Amount":"$9,000,000", "Description":"To unlock the ability to demonstrate a step increase in student outcomes and leverage New Classrooms' unique data set and R&D efforts to help to support the dawn of a new era in K-12 education research", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Leaders Inc", "Amount":"$3,000,001", "Description":"To identify, explore, and vet the optimal opportunities for online and blended professional development in school leadership", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Leaders Inc", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support the implementation of New Leaders' model to develop transformational school leaders and their efforts to advance policies and practices that allow great leaders to succeed", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Meridian Corporation", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To expand the availability of high-quality assessments that track students' progress toward college and career readiness using assessments and assessment content from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Profit Inc.", "Amount":"$45,000", "Description":"To support annual conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Profit Inc.", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To build demand and show value for postsecondary enrollment data, highlight schools/districts that are \"beating the odds\" for targeted students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund", "Amount":"$125,496", "Description":"To support NSVF 2017 Summit to provide participant scholarships for leaders of color and build communities of practice among education innovation leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Teacher Center", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To support the launch of NTC's School Leadership program in 4-8 field test sites across California (and selected additional locations) to establish proof points and learning for the field regarding effective school leadership development through networks of practice focused on teacher development, distributed leadership, and overall school and system transformation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$200,000", "Description":"To support the work of Learning Heroes to inform and equip parents to be 'learning heroes' so that their child, and every child, can succeed", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$247,252", "Description":"To support research that utilizes recently collected, large-scale datasets to examine how learning environments in K-12 and higher education can foster greater motivation for learning and expand educational opportunity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To fund the development of the organizational structure along with the piloting and evaluation, of a professional development model based on a new pedagogical framework designed to maximize the impact of Black teacher on the academic and socio-emotional growth of Black students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New Venture Fund", "Amount":"$40,000", "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":"$7,900,000", "Description":"To monitor and protect high standards and launch effective communications and political strategies in support of successful ESSA implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York City Charter School Center", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support general operations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"New York University", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To explore higher education applications of artificial intelligence/machine learning and virtual reality/mixed reality/augmented reality to solve challenges in HigherEd for first generation, low income and underrepresented minority students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"North American Council for Online Learning", "Amount":"$850,000", "Description":"To educate school leaders and policy makers on how personalized, competency-based education models can help all students, especially under-served students, to be college and career-ready", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Northwestern University", "Amount":"$649,946", "Description":"To study if student long term success attributable to socio-emotional skills", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Odell Education, LLC", "Amount":"$3,344,595", "Description":"To support multi-platform distribution", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Office of Financial Management", "Amount":"$490,000", "Description":"To expand capacity of Education Research and Data Center ability to increase access to state-level P-20 education data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction", "Amount":"$299,400", "Description":"To support the Washington Teachers Advisory Council at the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pahara Institute, Inc", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To support the Pahara Institute's Fellows and Next Gen leaders programming to ensure the development of diverse leadership across the education sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Partnership for Learning", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To examine barriers to postsecondary attainment with the aim of raising Washington's attainment rate to 70 percent by the year 2023", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Philanthropy Ohio", "Amount":"$200,000", "Description":"To bring together a core network of partners to advocate for increased postsecondary attainment and equity in student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Pivot Learning Partners", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To support district and school level innovation through strategic use of resources", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Policy Innovators In Education Network, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support to Policy Innovators In Education Network, Inc", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Postsecondary National Policy Institute", "Amount":"$1,300,150", "Description":"To support continuing education and independent policy formation for congressional staff working on postsecondary issues", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Public Advocates Inc.", "Amount":"$1,032,927", "Description":"To support capacity building of Public Advocates' Education Equity Team", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Public Agenda", "Amount":"$175,000", "Description":"To strengthen Public Agenda's capacity to facilitate conversations about changing institutional policies and practices to increase student success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Puget Sound Educational Service District", "Amount":"$160,000", "Description":"To provide support and build capacity to provide Special Education technical services to Washington State public charter schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Puget Sound Educational Service District", "Amount":"$240,000", "Description":"To provide funding for a year of system repair and maintenance that will enable the on-boarding of additional CBOs providing services to SPS students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Puget Sound Educational Service District", "Amount":"$3,750,000", "Description":"To enable the Road Map Region to benefit from previous early math systems change work and create networks of regional math and early learning leaders to build on and sustain P-2 math efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"RAND Corporation", "Amount":"$1,156,670", "Description":"To study further understanding of the school level resources necessary to lead to better outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Raza Development Fund", "Amount":"$6,000,000", "Description":"To be used to provide facilities support and solutions for charter public schools in Washington State", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Relay Graduate School of Education", "Amount":"$1,470,167", "Description":"To ensure that Relay GSE stakeholders have access to actionable and timely data for the purpose of continuous improvement and will serve as a model for implementing a data standard and integrated data system that can be shared with other teacher preparation programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research for Action Inc", "Amount":"$700,000", "Description":"To better understand and improve equity of access and attainment as an element of outcome-based funding policies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research for Action Inc", "Amount":"$1,050,000", "Description":"To evaluate the efficacy of free community colleges programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Research Foundation of the City University of New York", "Amount":"$477,584", "Description":"To determine a set of standardized leading indicators of student success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"ReUp Education", "Amount":"$738,243", "Description":"To improve student success outcomes by funding the evaluation of low cost, more accessible business models and their efficacy, and validation of student success factors, to assist students with some college but no degree to reenroll and graduate", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rice University", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To enable more affordable access to ever improving assessment items in a repository managed by OpenStax and a network of core partners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Riverside County Office of Education", "Amount":"$75,000", "Description":"To to increase BA attainment rates in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties by focusing on math achievement and alignment with postsecondary expectations. The focus will be on the development and implementation of a fourth year high school math course designed in partnership with regional postsecondary institutions and aligned with the Common Core Standards. They seek to (1) increase mathematics achievement rates (one of the most significant barriers to college completion faced by Inland Empire); (2) decrease remediation rates in mathematics; and (3) increase college completion rates", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support activities that support high quality college and career ready standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.", "Amount":"$103,090", "Description":"To support the design and execution of a Family Math Fluency Convening", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"School's Out Washington", "Amount":"$1,861,375", "Description":"To Schools Out Washington will the work of the Youth Executive Directors of King County efforts to build a deeper understanding of the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) landscape in South King County, build relationships between key players in Road Map school districts and amplify and accelerate progress around Social Emotional Learning (SEL) supports during the school day and in expanded learning environments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Schoolzilla", "Amount":"$1,999,568", "Description":"To support implementation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Seattle Public Schools", "Amount":"$225", "Description":"To ensure the K-12 team's work in equity is grounded in the real experiences of teachers, we must engage them directly in our learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Seattle Public Schools", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To leverage school and community partnerships with a shared interest in improving outcomes for Seattle's youth and invest in efforts aimed at eliminating opportunity gaps for all students but with a specific focus on young African-American males and other students of color", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Social Finance, Inc.", "Amount":"$444,720", "Description":"To conduct a feasibility study exploring the potential of sustainable financing models for scaling the ASAP program at Lorain County Community College, and to understand broader opportunities for capital aggregation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Sound Discipline", "Amount":"$737,963", "Description":"To support South King County elementary schools in implementing social-emotional learning models", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"South Seattle Community College Foundation", "Amount":"$15,000", "Description":"To support cross-discipline collaboration and engagement of faculty, advisors, counselors, and students in the student success initiative known as Guided Pathways", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Southern Education Foundation Inc Institutional Department", "Amount":"$550,000", "Description":"To support and manage a postsecondary success place-based CREO innovation fund", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$1,013,137", "Description":"To construct and disseminate comparable data on educational outcomes to help scholars, policymakers, educators, and parents improve educational opportunity for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To provide support in developing resources for content and development", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$598,543", "Description":"To understand student and school data in the Washington State charter public school sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Stanford University", "Amount":"$996,578", "Description":"To generate an evidence base that stakeholders throughout California can use to guide decision-making", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"State Higher Education Executive Officers Association", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To ponsor the 2017 SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"State Higher Education Executive Officers Association", "Amount":"$1,496,022", "Description":"To support communities of practice to assist states working to improve common issues with their postsecondary data systems; implementing improvements to an annual survey of state data systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"State Higher Education Executive Officers Association", "Amount":"$750,009", "Description":"To build the capacity of a multi state postsecondary organization", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"StriveTogether, INC.", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To provide support for the October 2017 convening hosted by StriveTogether Inc focused on supporting the success of every child from the cradle to career", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Summit Public Schools", "Amount":"$10,000,000", "Description":"To support implementation of the Summit Learning program in targeted geographies, with the goal to increase the number of low-income and minority students achieving college ready outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tavis Smiley Foundation", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To promote a national dialogue on addressing equity gaps in higher education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Teach for America, Inc.", "Amount":"$1,500,562", "Description":"To build capacity to recruit and train more high-quality teachers in Oakland to meet the demand created by expanding high quality seats", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Teach Plus, Incorporated", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Teachers College, Columbia University", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To grow the critical knowledge base for the maturing and rapidly growing guided pathways movement, which provides an organizing framework for the institutional change models that increase completions and equity", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Teachers College, Columbia University", "Amount":"$151,258", "Description":"To identify the resources required to implement three successful teacher residency programs and the way those resources are financed by various entities in order to better understand how to build sustainable and efficient residency programs, and as a first step in understanding program implementation, efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"TeamChild", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To build grassroots capacity for both advocacy and solution building to address disproportionate exclusionary discipline in the Road Map region", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Technology for Education Consortium", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support digital content and education technology", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tennessee Association of Business Foundation", "Amount":"$400,001", "Description":"To grow the business community's support of and involvement in Tennessee's credential attainment efforts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Community College Education Initiative", "Amount":"$901,888", "Description":"To scale Texas' Board of Trustees Institute training to all community college trustees in the state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Texas Tech University", "Amount":"$1,464,882", "Description":"To put actionable and timely data into the hands of US PREP program stakeholders for the purpose of continuous improvement and serve as a model for implementing a data standard and integrated data system that can be shared with other prep programs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Aspen Institute Inc", "Amount":"$2,600,000", "Description":"To improve and promote equity within K-12 education via convenings, tools and publications, and partnerships with education leaders across policy and practice", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Atlantic", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To raise awareness of innovative efforts to bridge postsecondary attainment gaps among key stakeholder audiences", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Edcamp Foundation", "Amount":"$1,850,000", "Description":"To support EdCamp's Urban Initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Fellowship-BMEC, Inc.", "Amount":"$30,000", "Description":"To support a national gathering of Black male educators with the goal of encouraging building infrastructure, connections and support for the ongoing recruitment and retention of African American males in school districts across the country", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Institute for College Access and Success", "Amount":"$1,400,000", "Description":"To support increased capacity for TICAS's California policy advocacy efforts, including increasing their role as a technical assistance provider to advocates and policy makers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The New Teacher Project, Inc.", "Amount":"$399,835", "Description":"To support instructional material adoption", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Oregon Community Foundation", "Amount":"$150,000", "Description":"To support the development of a pipeline of culturally-specific, culturally relevant and rural-based trainers to provide all levels of training for early childhood care and education providers for underserved families", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"The Seattle Foundation", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support stakeholder engagement to disseminate the research findings and policy recommendations to legislative decision makers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Third Way Institute", "Amount":"$4,005,324", "Description":"To facilitate advocacy efforts to improve existing higher education policies, support development of advocacy capacity across key partners, and increase demand for better outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Thomas B. Fordham Institute", "Amount":"$1,100,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Tides Center", "Amount":"$529,960", "Description":"To support efforts in Stockton to increase educational opportunity and support stronger outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation", "Amount":"$4,862,703", "Description":"To elevate and leverage the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's voice and mobilize their federation of more than 2,500 state and local business chambers in support of education advocacy", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Unbounded Learning, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,996,473", "Description":"To build a new program model that aims to develop a diverse cadre of middle school math and ELA coaches who can provide high quality, standards-focused professional development to the teachers they serve in Florida and Massachusetts and will serve as a long-term model to accelerate instructional improvement and better student outcomes in other states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"United Way of New York City", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To support the United Way New York City in its role as an intermediary technical assistance provider supporting NYC schools in improving student outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of California, Los Angeles", "Amount":"$1,500,000", "Description":"To support student engagement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Michigan", "Amount":"$26,622", "Description":"To explore changes in instruction resulting from Common Core State Standards, and their relationship to student learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of North Carolina", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support the development of North Carolina's statewide educational attainment goal", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of South Florida", "Amount":"$110,000", "Description":"To create and sustain early and ongoing awareness among policymakers, and critical stakeholders, through evidence and best practices, of critical higher education policies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Southern California", "Amount":"$450,000", "Description":"To support The Equity in Excellence project's Equity Scorecard - designed by the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the Rossier School of Education, USC, which helps campuses address the structural problems that impede the success of underserved population", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support a professional development conference for K-12 educators in Washington state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$41,880", "Description":"To support a convening to define the barriers that need to be reduced and the supports that need to be in place in order to accelerate faculty adoption of our digital learning solutions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$250,004", "Description":"To analyze and explain data about postsecondary credentials to practitioners and policymakers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$162,131", "Description":"To provide research, technical assistance, and support for district-charter collaboration in Washington State", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$754,601", "Description":"To improve the ability of key Pacific Northwest Team grantees to make data-driven decisions using advanced data science techniques", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$466,351", "Description":"To investigate and support inter-institutional learning processes and related outcomes among teacher education programs participating in a \"networked improvement community\" supported by the Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$224,847", "Description":"To measure elementary school students' math attitudes in the Renton School District", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Washington Foundation", "Amount":"$159,731", "Description":"To support research project to examine the role of the elementary school principal in improving classroom instruction in two Road Map school districts", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"UPD Consulting", "Amount":"$572,849", "Description":"To work collaboratively with teacher prep programs to develop a dashboard and reporting tool that integrates data from the Ed-Fi Teacher Preparation Data Model, producing a cost-effective, open-source solution for teacher prep programs to provide their stakeholders access to data that they can utilize for continuous improvement decisions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Upswing", "Amount":"$540,134", "Description":"To improve student success outcomes through retention and advising technology which scales on-campus resources by bringing them online, facilitating advising and academic coaching for nontraditional students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Urban Institute", "Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To provide timely, rigorous, and independent analysis on higher education policy issues", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"VentureWell", "Amount":"$4,986,444", "Description":"To operate a network of thirty diverse high-performing, high-potential postsecondary institutions and organizational partners from across higher education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Viridis Learning", "Amount":"$620,400", "Description":"To improve student success by developing outcome tracking and reporting through enhanced connections to a machine learning & predictive analytics platform that facilitates career pathway exploration for community college students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Washington Charter School Development, Inc", "Amount":"$3,300,000", "Description":"To fund the development and construction for Washington State charter schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Washington Charter School Development, Inc", "Amount":"$2,846,860", "Description":"To support operating costs of Washington Charter School Development as well as facilities solutions for charter public schools in Washington State", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Washington State Charter Schools Association", "Amount":"$3,500,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support to Washington State Charter Schools Association", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Washington Student Achievement Council", "Amount":"$180,000", "Description":"To advance postsecondary success opportunities in Washington's regional economic centers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"WestEd", "Amount":"$477,078", "Description":"To support the efforts of the California State Board of Education and California Department of Education to continue to learn about the statewide implementation of the California Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education", "Amount":"$4,519,078", "Description":"To establish a key backbone and coordinating role for an emerging collective impact network focused on improving student success and outcomes for minority, low-income undergraduates via scaled and impactful implementation of high quality digital learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Yes We Must Coalition", "Amount":"$990,545", "Description":"To support and strengthen a mission-aligned coalition of private independent higher education institutions seeking to improve the retention and completion of its members", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Young Invincibles", "Amount":"$2,500,000", "Description":"To support the elevation and inclusion of student voices in improving state and federal postsecondary policies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Young Invincibles", "Amount":"$357,647", "Description":"To develop knowledge which better quantifies institutional commitment to and investment in student engagement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"University of Texas Austin", "Amount":"$85,000", "Description":"To provide an honorarium as part of an ROI analysis for better decision making to scale solution efforts in a shared services model, especially those that are most beneficial to outcomes for low-income and minority students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Achieving the Dream", "Amount":"$1,345,258", "Description":"To build the capacity of national intermediaries to collaboratively support the distribution, implementation and refinement of institution change models that increase completions and equity through coach training", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hope Street Group", "Amount":"$972,000", "Description":"For general operating purposes", "Notes":""}]