Foundation for California Community Colleges

LearningWorks (LW), which the Hewlett Foundation helped to launch in 2010 under the auspices of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, is a partnership between three organizations with a common mission to improve outcomes for academically at-risk community college students. With Hewlett’s grant coming to an end, LearningWorks now proposes to engage a consultant to help the organization design a plan for its ongoing sustainability.

Foundation for California Community Colleges (Sacramento, CA) – Project; Tie-off; $1,944,000 over 3 years; 85% of project budget For the LearningWorks project With Hewlett support, the Foundation for California Community Colleges would launch a new center to promote student success and degree completion in all of California’s community colleges through a professional network of faculty and administrators. The result of a multi-year planning process, the LearningWorks will leverage the core capacities of three partner organizations to help faculty use evidence to improve practice; support the incubation and dissemination of new, effective, and innovative approaches to instruction and course design; and create practitioner-centered learning networks regionally and statewide. LearningWorks will also work with faculty and campuses to use campus-level student outcome data to gauge the effect of adopting these approaches and methods.