The Future Forward Innovation Grant supports education and the design, launch, and scale of innovative education pathway programs.
Donor Name: State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE)
State: Tennessee
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Grounded in the mission, the Future Forward Innovation Grant connects education and opportunity by supporting the design, launch, and scale of innovative education pathway programs. SCORE believes that advancing clearer, more impactful pathways from education to work requires partnerships between education, community, and industry. More innovation is needed in the education-to-work space to accelerate students from education to a career that enables economic independence and success.
The Future Forward Innovation Grant will help stand up the design, launch, or scale of innovative education-to-work models that support students on pathways to high-demand, high-wage careers.
This grant will help stand up the design and/or implementation of innovative education-to-work models that support students on pathways to high-demand, high-wage careers. These models must be:
- Student-centered: The pathway must create an accelerated opportunity for students to earn an “impact credential,” that is, a credential that data show offers a clearer pathway toward a high-wage, high-demand career
- Market-driven: The pathway must be developed with an employer or industry partner to meet a specific workforce need
- Education and employer partnership: The pathway must be created through collaboration among K-12, postsecondary education, workforce training, and/or community partners working alongside an employer or industry partner.
Funding Information
Recipients of the Future Forward Innovation Grant will receive up to $75,000; get one year of strategic consulting from SCORE to design, implement, and evaluate their pathway program; and participate in a cohort-style learning fellowship.
Grant period
1 year.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants can be individuals or organizations from education (K-12 or postsecondary), industry, and nonprofit organizations. Grants can only be awarded to the partner that is a not-for-profit entity. If you are a for-profit entity, they encourage you to identify a not-for-profit partner.
For more information, visit SCORE.
