“So, this really pushed and elevated funders into new ways that they could lead community leadership work. And we're seeing it paid huge dividends both in the campaign’s success and other bodies of work.” In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, Kari McCann-Boutell of the Iowa Council of Foundations (ICoF) shares the results of ICoF’s recently released Co-Funding […]
Through panel conversations with three philanthropic leaders and three providers, this Funder-to-Funder Conversation explores the role that research-based professional development plays in promoting positive learning environments to support children’s kindergarten readiness.
In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, a panel of funders introduce Remake Learning as a vehicle for building demand among parents, families and caregivers for a new approach to learning that is grounded in the preexisting local learning landscape, the learning sciences, and innovation and justice.
The fourth funder workshop in a series hosted by The Patterson Foundation in partnership with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading focuses on digital access and telehealth.
In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, funders from the Mott Foundation, the Wallace Foundation and United Way of Central Iowa share how their foundations have been supporting summer and out-of-school time (OST) learning for decades, the research base they have amassed and how they have adapted their investments in response to the pandemic.
“My longtime mentor, Dr. Ruby Takanishi, the founder of the PreK–3 movement said, ‘We have to do a better job of reducing the chaos at the schoolhouse door.’ By this she meant that we need to build a more aligned system, a system that requires a ‘sturdy bridge’ between the early years and the early […]
“Not only do we invest in collaboratives to get books in front of children, but we’re also thinking about funding streams that can support access. We’re thinking about library systems. We’re thinking about publishers. We’re thinking about the ways in which we can break down and dismantle the barriers that do not allow for families […]
Swati really called out two key transitions — the transition into kindergarten and then transition from kindergarten into first grade. When those transitions and those systems are so misaligned or disjointed, it puts an extra burden on families because they’re not just trying to align to one system. They’re trying to align to different systems […]