The Overdeck Family Foundation has announced third-quarter grants totaling $13.5 million.

Six new grants and twenty-seven renewal grants were awarded in support of cost-effective programs with the potential to accelerate improvement in key academic and socioemotional outcomes for all children. Recipients include Future City, a four-month-long afterschool STEM program for grades six through eight, which was awarded $200,000 to increase the number of under-resourced students served, diversify revenue streams, and refine data tracking and reporting practices; Teaching Lab, which will receive $200,000 to pilot a virtual, adaptive, and competency-based delivery model; and Public Impact, which was awarded $700,000 in support of efforts to restructure Pre-K–12 schools to extend the reach of excellent teachers, principals, and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring school budgets.

Additional grants include $6 million over three years to Saga Education, which the foundation has supported since 2017, to continue the organization’s blended-learning validation study, optimize its low-cost, tutoring model, and share best practices to rapidly scale tutoring nationwide; $1.5 million in general operating support to fulfill the second year of a two-year pledge to ParentCorps, an enhancement to traditional Pre-K that supports social-emotional learning by strengthening educators’ capacity to engage with families in historically disinvested neighborhoods; $1 million in general operating support to Centering Healthcare Institute, which trains, accredits, and supports medical practices in using patented group-based prenatal and pediatric care practices; and $250,000 to Pediatrics Supporting Parents to spread and enable practices that improve children’s social and emotional development through pediatric well-child visits.

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