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McDougle, Lindsey M.; Li, Huafang; Rossi, Gabrielle – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022
Globally, public affairs programs are designed to meet dual educational purposes. On the one hand, these professional degree programs are intended to educate students for careers in service to the public. On the other hand, these programs are also intended to educate students about our common responsibility to contribute to the betterment of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Public Affairs Education, Private Financial Support, Philanthropic Foundations
Global Partnership for Education, 2021
Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the largest global fund dedicated to transforming education, now offers the GPE Match. Through the GPE Match, GPE will double qualifying philanthropic investments made in education in GPE partner countries by the business community or private foundations. That doubles the impact on getting more girls and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Investment, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Kathleen Smithers; Kasey Hillyar – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024
In Zimbabwe, a range of actors are involved in education due to ongoing challenges of resourcing and funding schools. There are complex socio-political arrangements that result from private-public partnerships in the education system. Some schools are created and funded by individuals, and little is known about the tensions these funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Schools, Advantaged
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Craft, William M.; Guy, Kathleen E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
Community college leadership, including governing and foundation board members, must have an ethical framework while using philanthropic fundraising to increase revenues available for community colleges to realize their heroic mission.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Governing Boards, Philanthropic Foundations, Ethics
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Sands, Sara R. – Educational Policy, 2023
The research on education philanthropy typically characterizes foundations as practicing either "traditional" or "strategic" philanthropy. These labels are used to indicate divergent ways of thinking about the impact of grants and approaches to grantmaking between the two models. Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Grants, Sociology
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Jones, Jacqueline – Future of Children, 2021
Funders are primarily concerned with the impact of the work they support. Yet traditional research activities may take years to be complete, and it may take even longer to determine whether the research had any impact on policy or practice. In a place-based research-practice partnership, collaborative construction of research questions ensures…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Educational Finance, Educational Research
Boone, Katrina; Beach, Paul; Squire, Juliet – Bellwether Education Partners, 2022
Whether in the western region of the state or the plains of the northeast corner, the ground has continued to shift under the feet of Colorado's rural charter school and district leaders. Efforts to understand the needs of Colorado's school communities early in the COVID-19 pandemic surfaced challenges with providing internet access, digital…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Private Financial Support
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Kim, Juli; Hassel, Bryan C.; Gilliam, Paola – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
What supports were needed to enable the small learning communities, or pods, that emerged in 2020 and 2021? While learning pods may have emerged as a temporary response to a crisis, some persisted in fall 2021, either because of continued uncertainty over the pandemic's trajectory or because of their potential value as part of new structure for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Communities of Practice, Ecology
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Amy Lang – International Journal of the Whole Child, 2024
Concerned with the ongoing youth mental crisis in the United States, researchers intentionally planned for positive youth development (PYD) practices in nature. Educators, appreciating the critical importance of youth developing relationships and a sense of belonging, may regard this model as a powerful tool to enhance existing programs. Both…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Youth Programs, Adults, Caregivers
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Wenzel, Thomas J. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has a number of programs that support undergraduate research and other kinds of research at primarily undergraduate institutions. Two of the most important are the Research in Undergraduate Institutions program and Major Research Instrumentation program. The aims of the programs and types of activities funded…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Philanthropic Foundations, Public Agencies
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Barkauskas, Nikolaus J. – American Journal of Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) What purposes for grant recipients are shared among private foundation that supported the movement to adopt the Common Core State Standards? (2) How do such shared purposes influence the strategic giving practiced by foundations that supported that movement? and (3) How are grants…
Descriptors: Grants, Private Financial Support, Philanthropic Foundations, Donors
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Hernández, Laura E. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: The business and philanthropic sectors have been a persistent force in shaping U.S. schools. Recently, they have used their resources to advance policies that embody newer principles of industry--reforms that suggest that competition, choice, and deregulation can spur improvement and effectiveness. This has most notably…
Descriptors: Racism, Charter Schools, Politics of Education, Educational Finance
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Haddad, Nabih – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
(IOs) are influential policy actors in higher education. Yet, little is known regarding the role of philanthropic foundations in sponsoring IOs for policy promotion. By relying on longitudinal analysis of grants, semi-structured interviews, and social network analysis, this study examined the most central IOs within foundation-sponsored networks,…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Higher Education, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Brent Edwards, D., Jr.; Caravaca, Alejandro; Moschetti, Mauro C. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This paper draws on the literature on network governance and new philanthropy to characterize and explain the increased involvement of non-State actors in education policymaking in the Dominican Republic. The study reveals, first, how network governance has intensified since 2010 through hybrid public-private spaces of agenda setting, second, how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Networks, Governance, Private Financial Support
Hadley, Colette; Newman, Liz – National College Attainment Network, 2021
Do donor-driven scholarship funds meet the needs of students? Do they advance equity in college attainment? In numerous instances, the answer to both questions is "no." Scholarship funds housed at community foundations often have complex, merit-based selection criteria and use evaluation methods that are exclusionary or do not recognize…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Scholarships, First Generation College Students
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