Aspen Institute
For A Forum On The Feasibility And Use Of Opportunity-to-Learn Indicators
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/13/2021
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Aspen Institute, founded in 1949, is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program works to improve public education by informing and influencing education leaders to take action on matters of education policy and practice. The pandemic has revealed deep inequities in our education system, underscoring the need for much better data on learning opportunities for students. This grant empanels a group of experts to review existing Opportunity-to-Learn data and develop recommendations for how these data can be incorporated in state and federal education policy. (Strategies: K-12 Teaching and Learning and Open Education)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.aspeninstitute.org/programs
Address
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Grants to this Grantee
for the Energy and Environment Program
The Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program works with people, organizations, and governments to take greater action on solving climate change. This grant will enable the institute to cover costs for expert staff that is seconded to the federal government. Staff will report directly to the federal government and support its climate finance priorities. (Substrategy: Finance)
for India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change
The Aspen Institute, in partnership with Ananta Aspen Centre in India, manages the India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change. This sponsorship grant helped the institute assemble a group of experts from government, NGOs, academia, and the business community to help define a constructive bilateral agenda on critical energy and climate concerns. The Track II Dialogue aims to foster trust and cooperation, and uses targeted analyses to suggest concrete pathways for collaboration between the governments and relevant subnational and nonstate actors. (Substrategy: Multilateral)
for membership support of the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation
Hewlett Foundation membership.
