• $1,250,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — The non-profit Mozilla Foundation seeks to use technology and open source software to support an open, active, and participatory approach to learning and to encourage such learning and validate it for external parties. Digital badges are a way to recognize experiences, skills, and capacities gained in formal and informal settings that will be useful for college entrance, workforce participation, and civic engagement. Mozilla will use this grant to build, expand, and support the online infrastructure and tools needed to issue and display badges, and to provide assistance to winners of the fourth Digital Media and Learning Competition, and others, in the development of badges.

• $450,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — The Mozilla Foundation is using technology and open source software to support open, active, and participatory learning, and finding ways to encourage such learning and validate it broadly. Mozilla, which oversees the activities of the Hive Learning Network in New York City, will use this grant to work with institutional members of the Hive Learning Networks in Chicago and New York and the fashion industry to develop a set of activities that allow young people to explore their interests in fashion while developing skills and abilities in a variety of areas including graphic design, writing, mathematics, business, technology, creativity, and collaboration.

• $1,000,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — To develop and design a digital badge system for accreditation of learning and skills.

• $175,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — To design and develop an online award badge system to acknowledge youth accomplishment.

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — In support of a design challenge to identify innovative learning tools that can be used with an Internet browser.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Mozilla Foundation $3,025,000 between 2009 and 2012.