Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children

“Report Highlights Stark Racial Disparities Among U.S. Children”

House Passes Farm Bill Cutting SNAP $8.6 Billion Over 10 Years

  The House of Representatives Wednesday passed a new farm bill, which includes cuts the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), often referred...

Nearly $60M in Federal Funding Restored for OST Programs

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have restored nearly $60 million in federal funding for out-of-school-time (OST) programs serving U.S. schoolchildren. Congress’s decision to restore...

Computing and Engineering in Afterschool

Before Student Debt: The Story of a Student’s Struggle to Pay for College

Rakhi Agrawal, photo by Gwen McClure. NEW YORK — During her senior year at William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn.,...

Since Sandy Hook, Tracking Mental Health Changes Nationwide

NEWTOWN, Conn., — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity...

Grants Awarded: October – November 2013

Stuart Foundation stuartfoundation.org/ 415-393-1551 San Francisco, CA American Institutes for Research – to support the California Collaborative on District Reform (Collaborative), which...

Grants Awarded: August – September 2013

The Atlantic Philanthropies atlanticphilanthropies.org/ 212-916-7300 New York, NY and Washington, D.C. Georgetown University – to provide policy analysis, strategic planning and technical...

Storyteller Network Gives Faces, Voices to Poverty

                  Screenshot of Barbara of Lancaster, Pa., sharing her experience with SNAP in a video On...

Federal Outlays for Children Plummet from FY ’11 to FY ’12

WASHINGTON – Federal outlays for children declined $28 billion, or about 7 percent, from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal 2012, the biggest...

Proposed Food Stamp Cuts Put Most Vulnerable At Risk

  Markita Barrett, 35, using her WIC vouchers, places two gallon jugs of milk into her cart as she shops for juice...

Mississippi State University Gets $2 Million to Study Juvenile Substance Abuse Programming

Mississippi State University received a $2 million grant last week to research substance abuse prevention and treatment options for the state’s juvenile...

Grants Awarded: June – July 2013

  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Grants awarded to: Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) –...

House Bill Would Cut After School Program Funding, Create Block Grant

Late last week, the House of Representatives passed the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education...

Indian School in Wyoming Cuts Jobs and Salaries During Sequester

This story is republished from Wyofile    Two things were in short supply at St. Stephens Indian School on Wyoming’s Wind River...

Higher Interest Rates Leave Some Students Uneasy about Taking on More College Debt

Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars in outstanding student loans, according to a 2012 announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of New...