Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
For Improving College Readiness Through Alignment Of K-12 And Higher Education Systems
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2013
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Term8 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The goal of this overall effort—called Core to College—is to encourage the K-12 and postsecondary sectors to share ownership of college-readiness standards and promote their use in decisions about students’ readiness for college-level work. This initiative, a collaboration with the Lumina and Gates foundations and the Carnegie Corporation, promotes use of the Common Core standards to reduce students’ need for remedial classes in college and increase their success in attaining credentials. This supplemental grant would help Core to College institutions of higher education reform their academic catch-up courses for low-skilled students by aligning with the Common Core.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rockpa.org
Address
6 West 48th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY, 10036-1802, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of Dignity.us
Dignity.us is a bipartisan citizens’ initiative to address hate-fueled violence in America, starting by listening across all states, territories, and tribal lands for insights and ideas about the challenge and path forward. They seek input from Americans of every region, race, faith, ethnicity, and ideology – spanning those who have suffered the effects of this violence; researchers and experts who have studied the problem; social innovators and advocates leading the way with bold and tested ideas; philanthropists committed to allocating resources to the implementation and scaling of those ideas; and those who have left groups affiliated with hatred and violence and become a part of the solution. They will turn their findings into a countrywide response that greatly expands the scale of effective community-based innovations — and helps to mobilize and sustain a united front that transcends differences.
for Just Transition Fund’s Federal Access Center
The Just Transition Fund supports coal communities as they build a vibrant economic future. The fund’s Federal Access Center helps communities unlock federal funding for community economic diversification, workforce development, and infrastructure projects, and provides recommendations to federal agencies to increase resource flows to disadvantaged communities. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
