Request for Proposals: Girls' Equity Grant Opportunity

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Deadline: May 2, 2011
The Schott Foundation for Public Education seeks Massachusetts and New York proposals for grants in the following area: Messaging, Media, Organizing and Policy recommendations for providing girls of color an opportunity to learn. Read more

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Alliance for Quality Education
Boston-Area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP)
Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON)
Campaign for Fiscal Equity
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the Harvard Law School
Communities for Public Education Reform/Public Interest Projects
Critical Exposure
Education Voters Institute: Massachusetts Education Voters Initiative
Hampshire Educational Collaborative / Wheelock College: Early Childhood Policy Coalition – Engaging Diverse Voices
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
New York State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P. Branches (NAACP)
ONE Massachusetts
Young Elected Officials Network (YEO), a project of People For the American Way Foundation

Alliance for Quality Education

Address: 23 Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207
Contact: Bill Easton, Executive Director, (518) 432-5315, eastonbilly@aol.com
Website: http://www.aqeny.org/

Boston-Area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP)

Address: 565 Boylston Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02116
Contact: Najma Nazy’at, Executive Director, (617) 262-1895, najma@byop.org
Website: http://www.byop.org/

BYOP is a youth led initiative where youth and adults are united by a common purpose to increase youth power and create positive social change.  BYOP’s goals are to improve the lives of young people in their communities and increase the ability of young people to participate in the political processes that affect their lives. This grant provides support for youth leadership development and community organizing to strengthen student engagement and problem solving in Boston public high schools.

Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON)

Address: 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Contact: Myriam Ortiz, Acting Executive Director, (617) 522-2766, mortiz@bpon.org
Website: http://www.bpon.org/

BPON seeks to organize a diverse constituency of parents, students, family and other community members to support and advocate for the improvement of Boston Public Schools (BPS). This grant provides support to increase parent leadership and engagement for increased state-level investment in public education at the state, district, and school levels.

Campaign for Fiscal Equity

Address: 110 Williams St., Suite 2602, New York, NY 10038
Contact: Geri Palast, Executive Director, (212) 867-8455, gpalast@cfequity.org
Website: http://www.cfequity.org

CFE seeks to reform New York State’s school finance system to ensure adequate resources and the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students in New York City. This grant provides general support to CFE.

Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the Harvard Law School

Address: 125 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: Johanna Wald, Director of Strategic Planning, (617) 495-8087, jwald@law.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Home.aspx

CHHIRJ seeks to address the structural and systemic racism that continue to plague the nation’s law, policies, institutions and interactions by bringing together students, faculty, practitioners, civil rights and business leaders, community advocates, litigators, and policymakers in a variety of forums, conferences and meetings. This grant provides support for research under the initiative entitled “Redirecting the School to Prison Pipeline.” The goal of the initiative is to address the issues of drop-out/ push out that is directly related to the suspension and/ or expulsion of minority students in MA public schools.

Communities for Public Education Reform/Public Interest Projects

Address: c/o Public Interest Projects (PIP), 80 Broad St., Suite 1600, New York, NY 10004
Contact: Michele Lord, (212) 764-1508
Website: http://www.publicinterestprojects.org

CPER/PIP is a donor collaborative that seeks to have education organizing – including research, policy and model program development – be viewed by funders and the public as one of many essential strategies for creating a public education system of high quality, equitable schools. This grant provides national support for the collaborative.

Critical Exposure

Address: 1816 12th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Contact: Adam Levener, Co-Director, (202) 258-6626, alevner@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.criticalexposure.org

Critical Exposure seeks to teach youth how to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change. This grant provides support for Critical Exposure to begin expansion of their current work with middle and high school students, documenting through photographs the current state of the cities’ public schools, the cities’ current dropout crisis, and the impact of school under funding, into New York and Massachusetts.

Education Voters Institute: Massachusetts Education Voters Initiative

Address: 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 201, Washington, DC 20036
Contact: Beth Sullivan, President, (202) 232-3371, bsullivan@edvoters.org
Website: http://www.edvotersinstitute.org/

Education Voters Institute seeks to identify, inform, and motivate people who are about education to advocate for excellent public education systems. This grant provides support for the MA Education Voters campaign to organize voters around public education issues.

Hampshire Educational Collaborative / Wheelock College: Early Childhood Policy Coalition – Engaging Diverse Voices

Address: 97 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Contact: Barbara Finlayson, EC Director, (413) 586-4998, bfinlayson@collaborative.org
Website: http://www.collaborative.org/

The collaboration between these three institutions is focused on supporting the building of a statewide Early Childhood Policy Coalition beginning in selected rural and communities of color.  The Policy Coalition is designed to strengthen leadership capacity in selected communities to tackle issues such as early childhood and K-12 school committee decision making, local and state budget processes, tax policy, and public information campaigns.  This grant is a planning grant and launches this work by providing resources to conduct research, planning activities, and full proposal development.

Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center

Address: 15 Court Square, Suite 700, Boston, MA 02108
Contact: Noah Berger, Executive Director, (617) 426-1228, nberger@massbudget.org
Website: http://www.massbudget.org

MA Budget and Policy Center seeks to conduct and disseminate independent research and analyses of state budget and tax policies, as well as economic issues that affect low- and moderate-income people in Massachusetts. This grant provides general support to MA Budget and Policy Center enabling them to provide trainings, speaking sessions, presentations and other related forms of technical assistance and support in the areas of basic budget and tax policy, in-depth budget policy, in-depth tax policy, budget trends and public education finance.

The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy

Address: University of Massachusetts, Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125
Contact: Maria Idali Torres, Executive Director, (617) 287-5790, mariaidali.torres@umb.edu
Website: http://www.gaston.umb.edu/

The Gaston Institute seeks to inform policy makers about issues vital to the Commonwealth’s growing Latino community and to provide this community with information and analysis necessary for effective participation in public policy development. This grant provides support for a research project on English Language Learners in the Boston Public Schools. The 5-year longitudinal analysis will look specifically at the effects of the 2002 Referendum Question 2 which abolished transitional bilingual education as the primary program available for children requiring language support and substituted Sheltered English Emersion Programs in its place.

ONE Massachusetts

Address: 30 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108
Contact: Judy Meredith, Executive Director, (617) 275-2923, judy@realclout.org
Website: http://www.realclout.org

ONE Massachusetts is dedicated to civic education and civic participation, and making education and training available to the general public, non-profit organizations, and other relating to federal, state, and local tax and budget policy. This grant provides support for education and training to community-based organizations in communities of color in Massachusetts on tax and budget policy issues.

Young Elected Officials Network (YEO), a project of People For the American Way Foundation

Address: 1550 Melvin Street Tallahassee, FL 32301
Contact: Andrew Gillum, Executive Director, (850) 877-0307, agillum@pfaw.org
Website: http://www.YEONetwork.org

The Young Elected Officials (YEO) Network seeks to unite and support progressive elected leaders who share a passion for building communities that reflect values of freedom, fairness and opportunity. This grant provides support for the Education Justice Policy academy aimed at informing young elected officials across the country on relevant education policy issues.