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 a
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 a
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
