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Public Interest Projects Grant
Organization - Public Interest Projects
Grant Amount - $200,000
Foundation - Mott Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant will provide support to Public Interest Projects for Communities for Public Education Reform, a project designed to attract additional funding to the field of education organizing, as well as to help strengthen the effectiveness and visibility of education organizing strategies. The project is currently partnering with four local sites to regrant matching dollars for city, county, regional, or statewide community-driven reform projects.
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Harvard University - $100,000 from the Mott Foundation - Community organizing has emerged as a powerful force for the reform of public education in low-income communities. Over the past two decades, hundreds of organizing groups have worked to address the improvement of local schools, making significant...
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York - $250,000 from the Mott Foundation - The Alliance for Quality Education: Statewide Education Financing Reform Project was organized in late 1999 to build a coalition of community organizations and other education stakeholders who were interested in working on school finance reform and...
Illinois Center for Violence Prevention - $225,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant will continue to support the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention in its coordination of the Illinois Statewide Afterschool Network, which has been developing a public/private network of stakeholders to build a statewide afterschool...
Siberian Civic Initiatives Support Center - $175,000 from the Mott Foundation - The program goal is to improve the quality of life in Russian communities by strengthening partnerships between government and citizens, improving public involvement in community development strategies and targets, and increasing local- and...
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - $225,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant to the Marshfield Clinic will support the development of the Wisconsin Statewide Afterschool Network to connect key decisionmakers and resources to establish a statewide structure that fosters policies supporting high-quality afterschool...
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