• $400,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — The National Writing Project is a professional development network that helps teachers at all grade levels, nationwide, develop their skills in the teaching of writing. With past support, the Project developed an array of resources and products that are available to educators through the Digital Is initiative and website. It will use this grant to engage educators, in schools and elsewhere, with new ways to design learning environments across in-and out-of-school settings, and to expand awareness and understanding of the promise of digital media and learning and the research that underlies its principles and practices.

• $1,300,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 3 years)

  BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — The National Writing Project, a professional development network that serves writing teachers of writing at all grade levels and subjects, will use this grant to create professional development opportunities for additional YOUmedia sites nationwide, including new YOUmedia sites slated to launch by end of 2011: the Smithsonian Institute's Hirshhorn Museum; Hartford Public Library; Miami-Dade Public Library; three Chicago branch libraries ; and Dreamyard, a community-based project in the Bronx. The Project will partner with Urban Libraries Council to provide technical assistance to the 25 sites jointly funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Foundation.

• $75,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — To support a summer institute for leadership development in learning networks in Chicago and New York City.

• $800,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — To disseminate and ensure widespread use of new learning environments and research findings among more than 100,000 teachers across the United States (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded National Writing Project $2,575,000 between 2009 and 2012.