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Wallace's Report '09: Appraising a Decade
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Wallace's Report '09: Appraising a Decade
Our vision is that children, particularly those living in distressed urban areas, have access to good schools and a variety of enrichment programs in and outside of school that prepare them to be contributing members of their communities. Our mission is to improve learning and enrichment for children.
To achieve this, we are focusing on efforts to:
- Improve the quality of schools, primarily through investments in developing and placing effective principals in high-needs schools.
- Improve the quality of and access to high quality out-of-school time programs, primarily through the creation of coordinated city systems that, among other things, use data and ongoing assessment; and to strengthen the financial management skills of the non-profits that deliver out-of-school time programs to children.
- Integrate in- and out-of-school learning by: supporting efforts to re-imagine and expand learning time during the traditional school day and year as well as during the summer months; helping develop ways to expand access to arts learning in and out of school; and using technology in new ways as a teaching tool and to promote creativity and imagination.
In all of our work, our approach is to select and invest in organizations willing to test promising new approaches, while commissioning and sharing independent research that could benefit the work in those “innovation sites” as well as many others places that are interested in pursuing similar changes but may never receive our direct funding. The strategies we are using in each of the areas are described elsewhere in this report.
In most cases, we identify and evaluate prospective grantees through the issuance of requests for proposals or other careful screening processes. While we believe this approach strengthens the effectiveness of our investments, it also means that unsolicited proposals are rarely funded. Nevertheless, you may submit an inquiry by e-mail briefly describing the project, your organization, the estimated total for the project and the portion requiring funding to: The Wallace Foundation grantrequest@wallacefoundation.org.
The Foundation does not award grants for religious or fraternal organizations, international programs, conferences, historical restoration, health, medical or social service programs, environmental/conservation programs, capital campaigns, emergency funds or deficit financing, private foundations or individuals.
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