PROGRAM ON HUMAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Grants Authorized 2005

The primary focus of the Foundation’s education grantmaking is a new effort to explore the hypothesis that increasing digital media use is affecting how young people see themselves, interact with others, express their independence and creativity, as well as how they think, learn, and exercise judgment. These differences need to be understood fully because they are likely to have profound educational implications.

National education policy also is a focus for the Foundation, which is interested in how the current approach to assessment and accountability is affecting students and their ability to acquire the skills needed for a global society and knowledge-based economy. Education grantmaking continues in Chicago, with a goal of improving schools in neighborhoods that are the focus of the Foundation’s investment in community and economic development.

DIGITAL MEDIA, LEARNING, AND EDUCATION

Blueprint Research and Design, San Francisco, California
$80,000 in support of field building, strategic planning, and analysis of trends in innovation, the development of expertise, and in distribution in digital media and learning (over six months).

Global Kids, New York, New York
$170,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning by engaging young people in online discussions and written essays describing their everyday use of digital media.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$500,000 to develop a conceptual framework, website, and approach with models for achieving a new kind of digital media literacy among young people.

Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, Monterey, California
$575,000 to build the field of digital media and learning through papers, online discussions, and edited volumes on a variety of topics in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning (over 18 months).

New Media Consortium, Austin, Texas
$17,500 to complete a literature review, monograph, and communication activities exploring visual and digital literacy in higher education.

$575,000 to build the field of digital media and learning through papers, online discussions, and edited volumes on a variety of topics in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning (over 18 months).

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
$145,420 in support of planning for a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media.

University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley, California
$1,954,000 in support of a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media (over three years).

University of Southern California, Annenberg Center for Communication, Los Angeles, California
$80,580 in support of planning for a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media (over three months).

$1,346,000 in support of a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media (over three years).

NATIONAL POLICY

Aspen Institute, International and Policy Programs, Washington, D.C.
$250,000 in support of a National Commission on the No Child Left Behind Act.

Brown University Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Providence, Rhode Island
$700,000 to develop diagnostic tools for school districts that draw on the experience of The Learning Partnership (over two years).

Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program, Washington, D.C.
$100,000 to develop a program to increase substantially the number of students who study abroad from U.S. colleges and universities.

Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, D.C.
$40,000 in support of activities at the National Forum of the Coalition for Community Schools that investigate the relationship between housing, schools, and community (over 6 months).

MEM Associates, New York, New York
$50,000 in support of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program.

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
$40,000 in support of completion of the book, Schools, E = mc2, and the Failures of Educational Reform.

Stanford University, School of Education, Stanford, California
$2,570,228 in support of the Research Network on Teaching and Learning (over three years).

CHICAGO

Chicago Foundation for Education, Chicago, Illinois
$25,000 in support of general operations.

Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center, Chicago, Illinois
$250,000 in support of the Fresh Start Program.

W.K. Sullivan School, Chicago, Illinois
$10,000 in support of professional development programs for teachers, and to provide curriculum materials for The Stock Market Game and books to augment classroom libraries.

University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement, Chicago, Illinois
$5,000,000 in support of an endowment (over two years).

$250,000 to support a pilot after school media literacy program.

$202,000 in support of professional development and principal leadership training in nine existing schools within New Communities Program neighborhoods (over two years).

University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research, Chicago, Illinois
$400,000 in support of studies on the effects of student mobility on student academic performance (over two years).

Global Kids helps young people of diverse backgrounds develop the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed in the workplace and to participate in the shaping of public policy. A new program engages more than 400 youngsters in online discussions and written essays about how they use digital media in their everyday lives.

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