Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
For The California Education Policy Fund
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Amount$3,500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/14/2011
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This grant would continue the Foundation's commitment to California education reform by funding a new project at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) that will make grants to nonprofits with a strong track record of state policy work to improve student achievement, especially among underserved students. RPA, which provides philanthropic program, administrative, and management services for 160 donors in seventy countries, will hire consultants with deep knowledge of California education policy to manage a competitive grant application process. RPA will award grants to support a diverse mix of high-performing organizations working to make state education policy more effective. The majority of awards will be multiyear, general operating support grants to best-in-class organizations, rather than project grants. In line with the Program's past budgets, roughly two-thirds of this funding will be allocated to organizations working on K-12 issues and one-third to those working on California community college issues.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rockpa.org
Address
90 Church Street, Floor 1 #7082, New York, NY, 10036-1802, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for Frontline Justice, an initiative of the Office of American Possibilities fund
Americans experience between 100 and 150 million new civil justice problems every year, but fewer than 10% of low-income Americans who need support with civil legal issues will even come close to being able to access a lawyer. Frontline Justice, an initiative of the Office of American Possibilities fund (a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) is a forthcoming national effort to solve this problem by supercharging the movement to reimagine who can provide legal advice in the first place. Specifically, Frontline Justice will serve as the national hub for Justice Navigators, a new category of legal helpers specifically trained to help people resolve legal challenges — and thereby revolutionize the way that Americans, especially those with low incomes, get legal support. The goal is to ensure that everyday Americans can regularly and reliably resolve their legal issues, including safe and secure housing, access to health care and education, the ability to care for loved ones, and the capacity to pursue dignified work — ideally before they ever set foot inside a courtroom. This grant supports the launch of the Frontline Justice initiative.
for the More Perfect initiative
More Perfect, a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is a historic alliance of all 14 presidential centers, the National Archives Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, and many other partner organizations — to align our country around a nonpartisan vision for a more effective and enduring democracy as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and beyond.
