America Achieves
For A Meeting To Help Districts Apply Personalized Learning To Achieve Deeper Learning Goals
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Amount$25,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/26/2013
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Term3.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
America Achieves, a nationally-focused nonprofit, helps communities and states leverage policy, practice, and leadership to build high- quality educational systems and prepare each young person for success in careers, college, and citizenship. With partners, it will convene eight districts that have won federal Race to the Top-District grants (along with six non-winning districts) to help translate their applications into high-quality implementation plans and scopes of work.
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.
