Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
For Promotion Of K-12 And Postsecondary Alignment In Twelve States
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Amount$53,663
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term28.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This project would encourage the K-12 and postsecondary sectors to share ownership of college-readiness standards and promote their use in decisions about students’ readiness for college-level work. We initiated this effort with the Lumina and Gates foundations and the Carnegie Corporation to promote use of the Common Core standards. The student-centered goals are to reduce the need for remedial college classes and increase students’ success in attaining credentials; the larger policy goal is to increase higher education’s use of the assessments in placing students. The latter would help to legitimize the "college readiness" of the assessments and incent state K-12 systems to adopt and implement them with fidelity.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rockpa.org
Address
120 Broadway
Suite 3475, New York, NY, 10271, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for Foresight and Futures Philanthropy Initiative
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) is a global nonprofit that accelerates philanthropy in pursuit of a just world. Founded in 2002, RPA has facilitated more than $4 billion in grantmaking to more than 70 countries and currently advises on and manages more than $500 million in annual giving by individuals, families, foundations, and corporations. RPA also serves as a fiscal sponsor for more than 100 projects, providing governance, management, and operational infrastructure to support their charitable purposes. In 2023, RPA launched the Foresight and Futures Initiative to help philanthropy institutionalize practices offered by the disciplines of foresight and futurism. This grant is for project support of the Foresight and Futures Initiative.
