Rebus Foundation
For Business Planning, Fundraising And Communications
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded5/20/2020
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Rebus Foundation is an advocate and champion for new publishing models and technologies. The Rebus Community engages faculty, librarians, program administrators, and others in the creation and publication of OER. This grant supports the organization in strategic planning, including validating sustainable funding models and related fundraising plans, convening with partners to inform future directions, developing a communications strategy, and creating new internal systems to support a growing client base.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
reb.us
Address
407 McGill Street, Suite 501, Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2G3, Canada
Grants to this Grantee
for strategic planning to strengthen diverse viewpoints and improve equitable outcomes
The Rebus Community, the open education and professional development arm of the Rebus Foundation, supports institutions’ OER efforts through a year-long, cohort-based program called the Textbook Success Program, as well as other OER-focused professional development. With this organizational effectiveness grant, the Rebus Community will develop a strategic plan to examine how to increase their reach and impact, while staying centered around equitable approaches to support their programming and internal workflows. The strategic planning also will help the team reassess how Rebus fits into the current education landscape and ways in which they can structure their plans to increase the impact of the open education movement. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
for general operating support
The Rebus Foundation is a global nonprofit working to make knowledge freely available in the pursuit of equity, understanding, and the common good. Through the Rebus Community, their open education and professional development arm, the organization seeks to build a movement of leaders leveraging OER to transform higher education. Rebus’ focus on collaboration and equity within the higher education community will help develop an inclusive field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for strategic planning to strengthen diverse viewpoints and improve equitable outcomes
The Rebus Community, the open education and professional development arm of the Rebus Foundation, supports institutions’ OER efforts through a year-long, cohort-based program called the Textbook Success Program, as well as other OER-focused professional development. With this organizational effectiveness grant, the Rebus Community will develop a strategic plan to examine how to increase their reach and impact, while staying centered around equitable approaches to support their programming and internal workflows. The strategic planning also will help the team reassess how Rebus fits into the current education landscape and ways in which they can structure their plans to increase the impact of the open education movement. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
