News and Events: Links to what we’re reading this week
Announcement
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy joins 100Kin10: The Center is delighted to announce that we have been selected as a partner in the 100Kin10 coalition. 100Kin10 is a multi-sector,non-partisan mobilization that responds to the national imperative to prepare, deploy, and support 100,000 excellent STEM teachers over the coming 10 years. The mission of 100Kin10 is to reverse our country’s decades-long decline in STEM subjects, to ensure that all children have the basic STEM literacy to be full participants in our economy and democracy, and to enable our country’s students to address the most pressing national and global challenges.
Partners, including but not limited to corporations, school districts, museums, institutes of higher education, foundations, federal agencies, professional associations, states, and nonprofit organizations, apply their particular assets to creatively and strategically address the challenges of increasing the supply of excellent STEM teachers, developing and retaining excellent STEM teachers, and building the 100Kin10 movement.
At the Center, we see this partnership as a natural extension of our work on teaching quality and indeed several current partners are NGOs that have been profiled in the Center’s “models in practice.” A unique feature of the partnership is the sharing of promising ideas and experience of what works among the participants, and we are excited to be able to pass this learning and related philanthropic opportunities on to donors over the next three years. Stay tuned for more!
Education News
- Canada Musters Resources to Serve Diverse Student Needs: Part of the Quality Counts report released by Edweek last week and is particularly interesting given Canada’s proximity, mix of similarities and differences in population, as well as structure and approach to education provision and financing, and dramatically different results (Canada performs much better on international tests than does the US).
- Inching Closer to Agreement on Evaluations for Teachers: We thought it would be interesting to see if/how all these developments are influencing the grantmaking of the Helmsley Trust, since they have a city-wide and place-based (S. Bronx) education strategy.
Health News
- In the Fight Against Poverty, It’s Time for a Revolution: Article in the NY Times Fixes Column deals with LIFT, an anti-poverty NGO, which has an office in Philadelphia, PA. Interesting, although no hard evaluation to date.
- Philabundance: Spread the Love with PB&J, Valentine’s Day Campaign: Did you know that the food industry rarely donates peanut butter or jelly?
Other News
- Self interest, without morals, leads to capitalism’s self destruction: A Financial Times article by Noble-prize winning economist and founder of the nonprofit Earth Institute, Jeffrey Sachs, that reminded our team of the critical role that the philanthropic and nonprofit sector play in addressing the market failures and externalities he discusses.
- An Alternative to .org? Say Hello to .ngo: Interesting article on the Chronicle of Philanthropy reporting the push to link internet regulation and nonprofit accountability. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and Public Interest Registry are trying to crack down on fraud but at a hefty cost to nonprofits with application fees starting at $185,000.
