Deadline: 04-Jun-21
The NewSchools Venture Fund is inviting proposals for Racial Equity Grant Program to help you bring powerful, imaginative ideas to life that reach toward a racially equitable education system.
This grant program is exclusively focused on supporting leaders of color with bold new ideas. Additionally, given the prevalence of anti-Black racism in the society, and its impact on outcomes for Black students, they plan to allocate at least 50% of this fund to Black leaders.
Through this new effort, they will invest up to $1.5 million in innovators of color with bold ideas to advance racial equity in education. They believe that the freedom to thrive is every person’s fundamental right, and that access to a great education, regardless of race or ethnicity, is essential to that freedom. And yet, despite important areas of progress, the promise of an equitable educational opportunity remains unfulfilled.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity, if you:
- Identify as a person of color. Given the prevalence of anti-Black racism in the country, they plan to allocate at least 50% of this fund to Black leaders.
- Have an idea focused on advancing racial equity in PreK-12 education and your idea does not fall into one of the three existing investment areas (Innovative Schools, Learning Solutions and Diverse Leaders).
- Lead an organization that is in the early stage of development. This might mean that you have an idea and need to create your strategy or implementation plan, have been operating an organization for less than two years or that you’ve founded an organization more than two years ago but you haven’t been able to launch your programs, hire staff or access the necessary funding to get started. Note that they do not fund policy efforts or university-based programs.
For more information, visit NewSchools Venture Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.newschools.org/racial-equity-application/