The Bush Foundation is seeking four to six organizations to support schools and stakeholders in their region to implement more student-centered learning practices in schools.
Donor Name: Bush Foundation
State: Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/30/2022
Details:
For this opportunity, the Foundation is seeking organizations that work in a variety of ways to enable more student-centered learning in schools. In most cases, they believe this will continue to be
organizations working directly with schools; however, they are also open to proposals that may focus their work at a different level of change, such as working with individual educators, or other innovative and proven approaches, so long as they result in more students receiving relevant education that honors who they are, how they learn, and where they want to go.
Scope of Work
A variety of models and approaches may fit into this opportunity. They have generally thought of this change happening at the school level. However, they are open to the idea of interventions at other organizational levels — like districts or directly with groups of teachers. To be flexible, they are using the term “partner” to refer to the schools or other groups the organizations would be supporting.”
The list below provides the Foundation’s expectations for the work these organizations will provide.
- Work towards overall objective – Deliver capacity-building support models to partners so that they can be effective in providing more relevant education to students in terms or who they are, how they learn, and where they want to go. The models should incorporate aspects that lead to greater education equity in the schools that ultimately benefit from the support.
- Establish partners – Spend up to four months establishing and formalizing relationships and share the list of partners with the Foundation. Each organization must conduct work that will impact at least four school communities.
- Develop work plans – Develop and execute detailed work plans for each partner which includes providing overall leadership, coordination, oversight, and communication to ensure progress is made toward project outcomes and overall implementation of more student-centered learning practices. Plans should consider how the partners will be prepared for long-term sustainability of practices, even after the direct support from the organization has concluded.
- Deliver ongoing support – Provide regular and timely technical assistance to partners. Ensure the perspectives, ideas, and needs of each unique partner are being considered, rather than employing a one-size-fits-all approach.
- Monitor and share results – Document progress, impact, and learning from the work with partners. Meet with the Foundation for at least three check-in meetings each year. Also, complete interim grantee reports each year and a final report at the conclusion of the grant term. The Foundation may convene all the organizations for meetings together as well.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) public charities or government entities (including schools). Coalitions or collaboratives are eligible to apply, but only one organization may receive the grant.
- They will accept applications from fiscal sponsors. The fiscal sponsor organization must submit the grant application and, if the grant is approved, it becomes the grantee and receives the funds. Their fiscal sponsor overview provides additional information.
- While it’s not required, special consideration will be given to organizations located in the Bush Foundation region – Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota or one of the 23 Native nations that share the same geography
For more information, visit Bush Foundation.
