America Achieves
For General Operating Support
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Amount$650,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/16/2015
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
America Achieves is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing excellence and equity in U.S. education and preparing young people for success in college, careers, and citizenship. America Achieves would work to imbue deeper learning practices across its individual programs, including a global network of schools and districts using the OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA) for benchmarking and improvement purposes; a teacher and principal fellows program aimed at creating educator leaders; and an initiative to promote parental engagement in education, among others. This work fosters bottom-up activities that support and spread deeper learning practices in schools.
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 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.
