Building & Applying Strong Evidence About Postsecondary Success & Economic Mobility
Other
This grant supports MDRC in engaging in a continuous cycle of rigorous research, active dissemination and hands-on technical assistance that builds the capacity of colleges and workforce training providers to improve outcomes for learners from low-income backgrounds.
Building the Data Capacity of Rural Postsecondary Institutions
Exploration
This grant supports WestEd in providing customized support to rural community colleges to help them improve institutional research and data use capabilities, and in the application of those capabilities for federal grant applications and institutional planning efforts. The grant will support up to 20 rural-located/serving institutions—including tribal colleges—and provide an additional 20 colleges with customized coaching.
Supporting Work Shift and The Job's National Reporting on Workforce Training Pathways
Other
This grant supports Work Shift News, a project of Open Campus Media, in continuing and expanding its reporting focused on trends, opportunities, and challenges in postsecondary education and workforce training.
Supporting National Reporting on Postsecondary Education in Prison and Rural Postsecondary Education and Workforce Training
Other
This grant supports Open Campus Media in continuing and expanding its reporting focused on postsecondary education and workforce training issues impacting learner populations at the core of Ascendium’s philanthropic mission including incarcerated learners and rural learners from low-income backgrounds.
Learner and Employment Record Demonstration Project
Exploration
This grant supports Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in launching a pooled funding initiative that will seed up to eight pilot projects to demonstrate the use of digital Learning and Employment Records (LERs). Funded projects will explore how LERs can support upward mobility by giving learners tools to collect, validate, and communicate their learning and work experiences.
Increasing Opportunities for Justice-Impacted Learners
Exploration
This grant supports The Education Trust in delivering a fellowship program focused on building a cohort of formerly incarcerated college graduates who can serve as field leaders and are equipped to inform and strengthen policy and research regarding postsecondary education in prison.
Transformation of the Postsecondary Landscape
Scaling
This grant supports Education Design Lab in strengthening the ability of colleges and states to better meet the needs of learners from low-income backgrounds — especially adult, parent, and working learners — through high-quality, workforce aligned training pathways. Grant-funded projects will specifically focus on strengthening capacity in rural community colleges to design and implement new pathways.
Supporting the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison’s Field Leadership
Exploration
This grant supports the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison in conducting coordination, technical assistance, and an annual convening for the field of Postsecondary Education in Prison.
Scaling CDL Training and Career Pathways for Formerly Incarcerated Learners
Exploration
This grant supports Join FreeWorld in creating more opportunities for formerly incarcerated learners to enter living wage careers by expanding its delivery of CDL truck driver training in partnership with American Job Centers and other local and state workforce training organizations.
Scaling Math Pathways in Alabama
Exploration
This grant supports the Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin in working with state and system-level leaders in Alabama to plan for scaled implementation of redesigned math pathways across the state's colleges and universities.