Deadline: 8-Oct-21
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is offering Family Engagement to Improve Student Learning to strengthen the home-school connection to support educational excellence for all students.
Carnegie Corporation of New York is committed to supporting effective partnerships between educators and families and to fostering innovation in the family engagement field.
Through this call for proposals, they will select up to ten nonprofit organizations to participate in a grantee cohort that will design, implement, and improve upon school-based family engagement strategies with a specific focus on advancing student learning.
Goals
Through this Call for Proposals, they hope to achieve:
- increased trust between participating educators and parents
- refined theories of action, family engagement models, and aligned metrics to assess impact
- improved grantee and educator capacity to engage diverse families, including multilingual families, with a focus on improving student learning
- improved school and/or district conditions to support family engagement beyond this initiative
- sustainable family engagement models to carry this work forward beyond the scope of the grant period
- improved knowledge about family engagement practices that effectively support student learning
Funding Information
- Each grantee will receive an award ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 over 12 months, with the opportunity to renew the grant for a second year.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to apply, your organization must:
- be a nonprofit organization based in the United States
- do work aligned with the goals of this Call for Proposals
- have experience developing or be currently implementing family engagement projects linked to student learning
- have existing relationships with school districts to support student learning
- have the organizational capacity to administer this grant and the proposed project
- have at least two part-time employees or one full-time equivalent employee to lead project coordination and professional learning in connection with this project
- have a staff that reflects the school and family populations with whom your organization works.
For more information, visit https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/call-proposals-family-engagement-improve-student-learning/