Awarded Grants

Education

• Case Western Reserve University

  Cleveland, Ohio

  DARPA 2007 Grand Challenge.

  $10,000

• Center for Teaching Quality, Inc.

  Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  Teacher Solutions for Teacher Compensation conference.

  $10,000

• Chess for Success Inc.

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Cleveland Metropolitan School District chess program.

  $10,000

• Cleveland Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Northeast Ohio Education Works Initiative.

  $125,000

• Cleveland Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Planning support for Cleveland Municipal School District’s Opportunity Schools.

  $300,000

• Cleveland Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Planning support for Cleveland Municipal School District Opportunity Schools.

  $325,000

• Cleveland Scholarship Programs, Inc.

  Cleveland, Ohio

  College advisory services and last dollar scholarships for Cleveland and first-ring suburban high school students and the “Six to Success” program.

  $100,000

• Cleveland SCORES

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $43,000

• Cleveland State University Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Cleveland Schools Book Fund.

  $248,400

• Community Renewal Society

  Chicago, Illinois

  CATALYST: Cleveland newsmagazine.

  $350,000 over 2 years

• Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Cuyahoga County Office of Early Childhood.

  $22,500

• The English-Speaking Union

  New York, New York

  Shakespeare competition.

  $5,000

• Esperanza Incorporated

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Programming for Hispanic youth.

  $50,000

• Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation Inc.

  Brookline, Massachusetts

  Operating support for the Cleveland program.

  $25,000

• GLSEN, Inc.

  New York, New York

  Student organizing initiatives.

  $100,000 over 2 years

• Grantmakers for Education

  Portland, Oregon

  Operating support.

  $10,000 over 2 years

• John Carroll University

  University Heights, Ohio

  Institute for Educational Renewal’s school improvement work in first-ring suburbs.

  $150,000 over 2 years

• KnowledgeWorks Foundation

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Ohio 8 Coalition.

  $25,000

• Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Executive director search and transition.

  $10,000

• Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair.

  $2,500

• Ohio Grantmakers Forum

  Columbus, Ohio

  Dissemination and implementation of “Education for Ohio’s Future” report.

  $35,000

• Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation

  Columbus, Ohio

  Governor’s Conference on Increasing the Graduation Rate of African-American Males.

  $3,808

• Positive Education Program

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Intervention-Based Bibliotherapy Pilot Project.

  $44,870

• Public Education Network

  Washington, DC

  Work on reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.

  $100,000

• Temple University

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education Project.

  $120,000 over 2 years

• United Labor Agency, Inc.

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support for Ohio Youth Voices.

  $50,000

• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

  Princeton, New Jersey

  STEM Teacher Education in Ohio.

  $500,000 over 2 years

• Youth Opportunities Unlimited

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $75,000