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Flores, Kim; Fierle-Hedrick, Kai – Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2021
In 2014, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation began funding three projects that together comprise the Grassroots Portfolio: Civic and Family Engagement, Community Organizing, and Amplifying Student Voice and Leadership. This work was part of the Public Understanding and Demand component of NMEF's grantmaking strategy. Following a Foundation-wide…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Social Action, Advocacy, Philanthropic Foundations
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Sukarieh, Mayssoun; Tannock, Stuart – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Currently dominant human capital and knowledge economy rhetoric holds that education can raise wages, empower workers and enhance working conditions. Education, however, can also have the opposite impact in the workplace and labour market, an impact that has received only limited attention. In this article we draw together a broad range of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Empowerment, Work Environment, Labor Market