Eastside College Preparatory School serves students from East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park, California, who want to finish high school and attend four-year universities. Most are the first in their families to attend college. The Foundation’s grant supports Eastside’s multimedia lab.
Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) is a nonprofit organization that works to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic and just world. ESR is working with the Foundation on a creative collaboration initiative, including:
- Team Works Guide: A series of teacher-led classroom activities to develop collaboration skills, multicultural understanding and conflict resolution
- Team Ready: A teacher and student guide to creating successful teams
- Team Support: Specialists providing online support to resolve team challenges (coming soon)
Envision Schools (ES) is a nonprofit charter-school organization with five schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. ES believes that all students, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or economic background, are entitled to attend high schools that prepare them for college success and democratic citizenship in the 21st century. Five schools serve as test beds for the integration of Think Programs into project-learning. Additionally, ES is sharing best practices in teacher professional development, project-learning, and 21st century skills instruction with the Foundation.
Gateway High School is a model college preparatory charter school committed to academic excellence through personalized, student-centered learning and is located in San Francisco, California. With the Foundation’s support, Gateway intends to strengthen its 21st century project learning practice by investing in teacher professional development and new curriculum development, and by integrating the Think programs into curricula and projects. The Gateway testbed will contribute to the Foundation’s understanding of how the Think programs and project learning support the success of a broad range of learners. Gateway will also produce a “Guide to Project Learning for Diverse Learners” and disseminate its results and best practices to a larger network of schools.
WebPlay is an arts education organization that uses Think to connect primary school children from contrasting communities in the US and UK, and engage them in collaborative learning projects about the dramatic arts. With the Foundation’s support, WebPlay will recommend improvements to the Think Project Space to better serve the project learning needs of students globally, assess 21st century learning outcomes in WebPlay programs, and recommend enhancements to ThinkQuest and how it can incorporate more dynamic content.
The Foundation also makes grants to non-profit organizations for special projects that support its mission.
Grant proposals are accepted by invitation only. No unsolicited proposals will be considered.
