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July 2015 |
Jondou Chen, Ann Ishimaru and Joe Lott, University of Washington | Research consistently finds that strong parent–family–school relations is critical to student success. Traditional parent involvement efforts assume that schools are neutral places that treat everyone equally, but that ignores cultural context, and leads to a focus on changing the parents in order to match a preconceived notion of what a good parent should be. For parents who are struggling to make ends meet, who did not have positive experiences in school when they were students, or who are new Americans unfamiliar with how the system works, traditional efforts to engage them in their children's education may instead highlight barriers between the culture of the community and the culture of the school.
July 2015 |
To support their Pacific Northwest communities, Bank of America is giving $1,066,000 to 40 local nonprofits focused on providing access to workforce development and education opportunities in 2015. These grants are part of the bank’s broader philanthropic investment in helping individuals and families improve their economic stability.
July 2015 |
A great piece on locally-focused impact investing in the New York Times, featuring our friends at The Russell Family Foundation, who have pioneered place-based impact investing here in the Northwest...
July 2015 |
Following up on its 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, Starbucks has announced two supplementary efforts "to support economic development and social change in diverse, urban communities by helping young people connect with meaningful employment and pathways to success." The first is to open stores with training centers in 15 low-income urban communities, beginning with Ferguson, Mo. and Chicago's South Side. The second is $1.5 million in Opportunity for Youth grants to 72 nonprofits in 15 U.S. cities next year, "to help young people become job-ready."
July 2015 |
"Nationally — and particularly in Washington state — the failure to fund our schools is our political system’s greatest failure. Reversing this trend is the key to addressing persistent inequality," write Bill Clapp and Mauricio Vivero, of the Seattle International Foundation.
July 2015 |
Two Seattle celebrities will compete for the title of 2015 Plane Pull Champion while raising money for pediatric cancer research: Russell Wilson, quarterback of the Seattle Seawhawks, and Joel McHale,...
July 2015 |
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is awarding $7 million to five teams of Alzheimer's disease researchers over the next three years.
