America Achieves
For A Consciousness-raising Campaign To Increase America's Awareness Of Education Needs
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/12/2012
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Term3.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
America Achieves has partnered with Oprah Winfrey, IDEO, Creative Artists Agency and the Gates Foundation to design a national call to action campaign focused on raising the bar in American education. It will be grounded in a clear theory of change and action to lead to educational impact ”“ as well as in compelling and accessible tools, messages and modes of communication for parents and other audiences in the longer-term. Engaging the wildly popular Ms. Winfrey in a public conversation about education could have a significant impact.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.americaachieves.org
Address
100 West 33rd Street Suite 917-Box 900, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
America Achieves advances fair access to educational and economic opportunity by serving as a scale-oriented program incubator/accelerator — as well as an advisor and convener of key leaders. Since the organization was founded, it has supported projects advancing deeper learning and incubated, scaled, and launched educational policy and systems change initiatives, while advising dozens of top foundations and leaders across sectors. The grant will assist in the spin-off of remaining initiatives, conducting an effective transition, and wind-up for the organization.
for organizational capacity building
America Achieves is a nonprofit organization focused on improving excellence in US education and driving investment in evidence based practices. This Organizational Effectiveness grant will support a financial controls audit by an independent accounting firm. Three separate programs at Hewlett are supporting different activities at America Achieves. This grant will strengthen the organization, ensure strong financial management systems are in place thereby supporting America Achieve's ability to carry out a set of programs ranging from education fellowships to evidence based government decision-making.
for the Results for America project to improve use of evidence in federal budget allocations
Today less than 1 percent of federal spending explicitly considers evidence of impact as a criterion for funding. Launched in 2012, Results for America seeks to create a new norm for allocating public dollars through "investing in what works," helping to drive public resources toward results-oriented solutions.
