Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced 10 grants totaling $1 million in support of nonprofit organizations focused on family engagement that helps improve student learning.

Grants of $100,000 each will help recipients design, implement, and strengthen school-based family engagement strategies to provide equitable learning for all students. Selected from among 350 applicants, the grantees will have an opportunity to renew their grant for a second year.

Preference was given to nonprofits in communities that have not traditionally benefited from national funding and have not previously receive funding from Carnegie. Six of the recipients were founded or are currently led by Latinx or Black individuals; four are based in states that are typically underfunded by philanthropy; and one serves Native Americans while another focuses on Alaska Natives.

In addition, Carnegie awarded $400,000 to the Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) to provide workshops and one-on-one support to the grantees and to build a community of practice that enables the organizations to learn from each other.

“At a time of searing crisis and immense opportunity for public schools and other public systems in the U.S., there is no more important task than to learn from families—and to learn how to learn from families—about the best ways for those systems to serve students,” said CPRL executive director Elizabeth Chu. “And there is no source of knowledge more important than the families our public systems have for so long underserved.”

For a complete list of recipients, see the Carnegie Corporation website. 

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