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Number of Grants:
99
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$175,000 to launch initial projects of the New York City Learning Network, one of two demonstration sites for a new approach to supporting learning in the 21st Century. (2010)
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Stanford, California)
$400,000 in support of meetings to build the field of digital media and learning (over two years). (2009)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$780,000 to develop a multimedia approach to sharing best practices in learning (over three years). (2011)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$500,000 to design and build the physical and virtual site for a pilot digital media youth program in the Chicago Public Library that will serve to launch a Chicago learning network. (2009)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$485,000 to develop a multimedia approach to sharing best practices in learning. (2009)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$500,000 to adapt and modify learning applications for widespread use in schools and libraries, museums, and after-school programs. (2009)
Causecast Foundation (Los Angeles, California)
$300,000 to develop public/private partnerships that advance new systems for learning (over two years). (2011)
Causecast Foundation (Los Angeles, California)
$150,000 to develop public/private partnerships that advance new systems for learning. (2010)
Chicago Community Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,500,000 in support of the Smart Chicago Trust Fund for activities of the Chicago Learning Network. (2011)
Chicago Community Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,300,000 in support of the Smart Chicago Trust Fund for activities of the Chicago Learning Network. (2010)
Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support digital media and learning programs in the 2011 Chicago Humanities Festival. (2011)
Chicago International Charter School (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to support start-up costs for ChicagoQuest and adoption of digital media in the curriculum of six other Chicago International Charter School locations. (2011)
Chicago International Charter School (Chicago, Illinois)
$3,000,000 to renovate the new ChicagoQuest school. (2011)
Chicago International Charter School (Chicago, Illinois)
$700,000 to support the creation of a school management organization to replicate Quest to Learn Schools in Chicago. (2010)
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$450,000 in support of the national replication of YouMedia and application of the design principles to institutional change in the Chicago Public Library. (2011)
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to expand the YOUmedia program to three Chicago Public Library branch locations. (2010)
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,050,000 in support of YouMedia@CPL (over three years). (2010)
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$70,000 in support of the YouMedia learning center's involvement in the official ceremony marking 2009 World Habitat Day in Washington, D.C. (2009)
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$495,000 to plan and implement a pilot digital media youth program in the Chicago Public Library that will serve to launch a Chicago learning network. (2009)
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$200,000 to support MakeShop, a new space dedicated to integrating digital technology with project-based activities in a hands-on, workshop environment. (2011)
Common Sense Media (San Francisco, California)
$800,000 to build the field of digital media and learning through engagement with parents and teachers (over two years). (2011)
Common Sense Media (San Francisco, California)
$980,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning through engagement with parents and teachers (over two years). (2009)
Community Funds (New York, New York)
$1,500,000 in support of a fund for the New York City Learning Network. (2011)
Community Funds (New York, New York)
$1,500,000 in support of a fund for the New Youth City Learning Network. (2011)
Consortium for School Networking (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to provide technical assistance to school districts that are incorporating digital media and learning into the school environment (over two years). (2011)
Consortium for School Networking (Washington, D.C.)
$350,000 to provide technical assistance to school district administrators interested in using social media to create participatory learning opportunities in school (over two years). (2009)
DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,800,000 to implement a Chicago Learning Network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home (over three years). (2010)
DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois)
$475,000 to implement a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in Chicago. (2009)
Digital Innovations Group (New York, New York)
$75,000 to convene scholars and practitioners to improve the models and tools for assessing how games may influence young people's participation in public life. (2009)
DreamYard Project (Bronx, New York)
$300,000 to create a YOUmedia Center in the Bronx in New York City. (2011)
Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida)
$320,000 to develop new assessments for 21st Century skills (over 18 months). (2009)
Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida)
$400,000 to develop new assessments for traditional and 21st century skills (over two years). (2011)
FrameWorks Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$490,000 to support theme and messaging research for the emerging field of digital media and learning (over two years). (2010)
Global Kids (New York, New York)
$400,000 to support new mechanisms to use virtual worlds for youth development, and to provide technical assistance to civic and cultural institutions interested in using immersive online spaces for educational programming (over two years). (2009)
Global Kids (New York, New York)
$360,000 support to explore the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. (2009)
Govcom.org Foundation (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
$75,000 in support of network analysis to map the field of digital media and learning (over 15 months). (2010)
Grantmakers for Education (Portland, Oregon)
$35,000 to support programming and communications activities (over three years). (2010)
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$500,000 to research, evaluate, develop curriculum, and conduct youth outreach to address online meanness and bullying. (2011)
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$450,000 to develop a youth media policy working group. (2009)
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$170,000 in support of research and analysis on the framework for a National Broadband Plan. (2009)
Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$350,000 to research and develop curricula related to the effect of digital media on young people's ethical development and to develop curricula for parents and teachers. (2011)
Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$650,000 to study the effect of digital media on young people's ethical development and to develop curricula for parents and teachers (over two years). (2009)
iCivics (Washington, D.C.)
$280,000 to design and develop the Our Courts project, an innovative learning environment to teach social studies, civic engagement, and 21st century skills. (2010)
Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to develop a plan for a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in Chicago. (2009)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
$500,000 to conduct a business planning effort concerning the future of Quest Atlantis, an immersive online learning environment (over 18 months). (2010)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
$727,000 to develop a school-based curriculum based on Foundation-supported learning environments (over three years). (2009)
Institute of Museum and Library Services (Washington, D.C.)
$1,250,000 to scale-up YOUMedia (over three years). (2011)
Institute of Play (New York, New York)
$1,800,000 to develop the Quest to Learn schools in New York City and Chicago (over three years). (2011)
Institute of Play (New York, New York)
$150,000 to extend the Gamestar Mechanic game to include new activities for parents and teachers, and a badge system for game design. (2011)
Institute of Play (New York, New York)
$400,000 to develop new assessments for learning (over two years). (2011)
Institute of Play (New York, New York)
$1,000,000 to develop the Quest to Learn School public school in New York City (over two years). (2009)
Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop (New York, New York)
$100,000 in support of the Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age forum. (2009)
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 to work with the Chicago Public Library to implement YouMedia in schools and to participate in a Chicago Learning Network. (2010)
Mainspring Consulting (Scarsdale, New York)
$400,000 to establish financial models for learning networks of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, and online communities. (2010)
Mills College (Oakland, California)
$4,500,000 to support the research network on youth, new media, and public participation (over three years). (2010)
Mills College (Oakland, California)
$600,000 to fund the first phase of a research network on youth, new media, and public participation. (2009)
Morgridge Institute for Research (Madison, Wisconsin)
$350,000 to explore whether and how playing online games improves learning (18 months). (2011)
Mozilla Foundation (Mountain View, California)
$1,000,000 to develop and design a digital badge system for accreditation of learning and skills. (2011)
Mozilla Foundation (Mountain View, California)
$175,000 to design and develop an online award badge system to acknowledge youth accomplishment. (2010)
Mozilla Foundation (Mountain View, California)
$150,000 in support of a design challenge to identify innovative learning tools that can be used with an Internet browser. (2009)
National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
$180,000 to study 21st Century Skills and conduct a workshop to examine existing and new methods of teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (over 18 months). (2010)
National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, Colorado)
$300,000 to foster a favorable policy environment for digital media and learning. (2011)
National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, Colorado)
$60,000 to support studies that assess state and federal policies related to educational technology and the use of digital media to promote learning. (2010)
National Summer Learning Association (Baltimore, Maryland)
$500,000 to support summer learning programs in Chicago and New York City (over two years). (2011)
National Writing Project (Berkeley, California)
$1,300,000 to support professional development of staff in YOUmedia sites across the country (over three years). (2011)
National Writing Project (Berkeley, California)
$75,000 to support a summer institute for leadership development in learning networks in Chicago and New York City. (2010)
National Writing Project (Berkeley, California)
$800,000 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). (2009)
New School University Parsons the New School for Design (New York, New York)
$75,000 to support Mobility Shifts, a year-long project to study the potential of mobile applications for learning. (2010)
New York Hall of Science (Queens, New York)
$175,000 to launch initial projects of the New York City Learning Network, one of two demonstration sites for a new approach to supporting learning in the 21st Century. (2010)
New York Law School (New York, New York)
$150,000 to support research and planning for a possible research network on digital media and 21st century democratic institutions. (2010)
New York University (New York, New York)
$300,000 to document and evaluate the Quest schools in Chicago and New York City. (2011)
News Literacy Project (Bethesda, Maryland)
$500,000 to develop programs for Chicago youth and to make its content and resources available online (2011)
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
$500,000 to create a YOUmedia Center at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (2010)
Smithsonian Institution Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum (New York, New York)
$175,000 to launch initial projects of the New York City Learning Network, one of two demonstration sites for a new approach to supporting learning in the 21st Century. (2010)
Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, New York)
$1,500,000 to implement a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in New York City (over three years). (2010)
Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, New York)
$1,000,000 to establish StartL, a public/private fund for new digital media applications for learning (over two years). (2009)
Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, New York)
$490,000 to pilot test a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in New York City. (2009)
Stanford University (Stanford, California)
$600,000 to develop a digital assessment system for learning (over two years). (2010)
Teachers College, Columbia University Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media (New York, New York)
$250,000 to support seminars for journalists to help build the field of digital media and learning (over eighteen months). (2010)
Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$200,000 to disseminate news and resources from the digital media and learning field to a broader audience. (2011)
Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$600,000 to support a national advisory committee, two public forums, and cross-network sharing among the Chicago and New York learning networks and other digital media and learning grantees (over two years). (2011)
Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$350,000 to support communications activities to help build the field of digital media and learning. (2010)
Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$275,000 in support of National Lab Day and an online exchange system to ensure national collaborations and participation. (2009)
Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
$250,000 in support of a documentary program designed to deepen the understanding between young people and their parents on how digital media can enable greater learning and civic and cultural participation. (2011)
Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
$195,000 to support a documentary program that explores how digital technology is changing the way young people learn. (2010)
United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Virginia)
$100,000 to engage students and faculty in historically black colleges and universities in the public dialogue concerning digital media and learning (over 18 months). (2009)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$4,500,000 in support of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub (over three years). (2011)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$4,500,000 to support the Research Network on Connected Learning (over three years). (2010)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$371,543 to document and evaluate learning networks in Chicago and New York City (over 18 months). (2010)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$490,000 to support the publication of new monographs in the "MacArthur Reports on Digital Media and Learning" series (over two years). (2010)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$2,970,000 to establish a Research Hub for the field of digital media and learning (over two years). (2009)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$650,000 to plan a new research network investigating how young people's development, learning, and achievement are changing as a result of digital media. (2009)
University of California, Irvine Office of Grants and Contracts (Irvine, California)
$5,450,000 in support of the annual Digital Media and Learning Competition (over three years). (2011)
University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (Chicago, Illinois)
$800,000 to support studies of digital media use by Chicago public school students (over three years). (2009)
University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)
$60,000 in support of the 2011 WebWise conference. (2011)
University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)
$60,000 in support of a pre-conference at the 2010 WebWise conference. (2009)
University of Wisconsin - Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)
$350,000 to research whether or not playing online games improves reading (over two years). (2010)
Urban Libraries Council (Chicago, Illinois)
$750,000 to scale-up YOUMedia (over three years). (2011)
Yale University School of Law (New Haven, Connecticut)
$120,000 in support of two studies on youth media policy (over 18 months). (2009)
Number of Grants:
1
Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 in support of the Fresh Start Program and other core programs (over three years). (2009)
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