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2018 Education Initiative Policy Briefs

Publication date: 
11/2018

Philanthropy Ohio’s Education Initiative coalition has developed a series of targeted briefing papers aimed at helping the state’s early childhood, K-12 and post-secondary education leaders, elected officials and other key stakeholders plot a clear direction for the future of education and improved student success. It is our hope that these briefing papers will help guide Ohio leaders during upcoming policy discussions, including Ohio’s next budget.

 

Resource Type: 
Best Practice

Inclusive Competitiveness and Ohio’s Innovation Economy

... innovation ecosystems, emerging industry clusters and other areas critical to the state’s overall economic competitiveness. ...

Transformative Philanthropy: Supporting Institution-Based Community Organizing

What we found through our State of the Field project demonstrates the value of funding multi-issue, multi-constituency community organizing, as well as the merits of general operating support and multi-year funding. Below are observations from our Building Bridges, Building Power: Developments in Institution-Based Community Organizing report about the structure and approach of institution-based community organizing, how it has expanded over the past decade, the current funding of the field, and some recommendations for philanthropy.

Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Program Staff
Topic: 
Community Organizing

The Power of Urgency--The Eckerd Family Foundation’s Limited Life Approach

Publication date: 
10/2013

To view report, click PDF below.This Passages Issue Brief chronicles the experiences of the Eckerd Family Foundation, which operated in Tampa, Florida from 1998 to 2012. Organized from its inception as a limited life foundation, the Eckerd Family Foundation took a bold and strategic approach to using its assets to create significant change on issues affecting young people, including juvenile justice, foster care, and education.

Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Family Foundation
Topic: 
Succession Planning

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Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment

This paper seeks to identify ways to better connect two disparate realities that can be found side by side in America today: the growing needs of struggling communities and the vast but detached institutional wealth to which they are home. While communities across the United States continue to suffer in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, huge pools of investment capital are often to be found sitting right next door.

Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Community Foundation
Topic: 
Program Related Investments
Funding Area: 
Education

PolicyWorks-Forging a Partnership

Publication date: 
12/2010

For more than two decades, Illinois grantmakers expressed a desire for open and ongoing dialogue between a succession of attorney generals and their staffs through a structured advisory council. The purpose of such a council would be to help educate state officials about the roles, missions, needs and successes of Illinois’ philanthropic sector.

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