American Youth Policy Forum
For A National Scan Of NGOs Regarding Their Alignment With And Importance To Deeper Learning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/4/2011
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Term3.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels. With the assistance of independent philanthropic advisor, Jane Polin, AYPF will conduct a national environmental scan of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have the potential to inform and influence policy discussions, recommendations, and actions impacting the advancement of deeper learning. The scan will be focused especially on ensuring that the deeper learning agenda is developed to be nonpartisan, centrist, and viable and that the concerns and constituencies of the following sectors are understood: businesses/employers, education advocacy organizations, and a broad spectrum of politically-oriented reform advocates. The goals of the grant are to develop a greater knowledge base on the education policy organizations that will be influential in advancing deeper learning, to inform and provide greater definition to the role that AYPF can play--and improve the allocation of its resources--to advance deeper learning, and enhance AYPF's ability to collaborate with, educate, inform, and address the concerns of other education policy organizations and opinion leaders.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.aypf.org
Address
1200 18th St. NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The American Youth Policy Forum is a nonpartisan organization that provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on education, youth, and workforce policy at the national, state, and local levels. It has deep, broad expertise in the myriad issues impacting youth and will continue working to improve policies and practices that impact underserved youth aged 14 through 25.
for support of an evaluation of deeper learning study tours
The nonpartisan American Youth Policy Forum gathers policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to frame issues, inform policy, and cultivate conversations about improving education and young people’s lives. The forum will engage an independent research firm to evaluate a longstanding program in which it provides tours of deeper learning-oriented schools for policymakers, staff, and other influential reformers. Engaging leaders through firsthand, "in-action" experiences of deeper learning is vital to increasing their attention, capacity, and commitment to expanding the scale of the movement.
for legislative tours of deeper learning schools
The nonpartisan American Youth Policy Forum brings policymakers, practitioners, and researchers together to frame issues, inform policy, and cultivate conversations about improving education and young people’s lives. The forum will organize and conduct three study tours of schools to educate state and national policymakers about how deeper learning better prepares high school students for success in college, careers, and civic life. These tours, and their associated preparatory analysis and follow-up, help build awareness of the policy and practice reforms necessary to deliver deeper learning and create champions for the movement.
