COVID-19 Response: Closing the Digital Learning Divide in California May 1, 2020 Share As the COVID-19 pandemic shines light on existing inequities in California, the Heising-Simons Foundation has announced a $200,000 grant to Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation (CDE Foundation) to support the California Bridging the Digital Divide Fund (The CA BDD Fund).
COVID-19 Response: Grant to Research Impact of Crisis on Families With Young Children in the U.S. April 30, 2020 Share The Heising-Simons Foundation announced support to researchers at the University of Oregon’s Center for Translational Neuroscience with a $300,004 grant to help identify the most critical challenges facing families with young children in the United States during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis.
2019 State of Preschool Yearbook: Action Needed to Prevent Long-term Damage to Pre-K Amid COVID-19 Crisis April 29, 2020 Share The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) has released the 2019 State of Preschool Yearbook, a survey on state-funded preschool programs that tracks student enrollment, resource allocation (including staffing and funding levels), and policies that support quality learning. In the midst of the COVID-19 health and economic crisis, the Yearbook also provides information on where children are served, operating schedules, and other program features relevant to planning for the 2020-2021 school year and beyond.
Creating “Math Time” for Kids at Home During COVID-19: Kimberly Brenneman Op-Ed for The 74 April 13, 2020 Share Kimberly Brenneman, Education program officer at the Heising-Simons Foundation, has co-authored an opinion piece for early childhood educators and organizations on how to best support children’s families in fostering math learning opportunities amid COVID-19-related school closures. The piece is published in The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America.
COVID-19 Response: Heising-Simons Foundation Supports Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund April 8, 2020 Share The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Education program has made a $500,000 grant to support Home Grown’s Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund, a relief program to address the needs of home-based child care caregivers and providers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Response: $1.1 Million Grant to Keep Families Virtually Connected to Parenting Services April 7, 2020 Share The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Education program is pleased to support the Parents as Teachers National Center (PATNC) with a $1.13 million grant to lead the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting (HV-RRC) collaborative, an effort to create and disseminate free online resources for home visitors on virtual family interactions, amid the COVID-19 public health crisis.
Liz Simons: “Early Childhood Education is About Racial and Social Justice, Children’s Rights, and Women’s Rights” March 5, 2020 Share “If you’re an education funder, the earlier [you step in] the better,” writes Liz Simons, Heising-Simons Foundation’s Chair of the Board, in this opinion piece for the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). “The ‘good’ news is that early childhood philanthropy is so underfunded that opportunities abound.”
“Reframing Early Math Learning” — Sharing New FrameWorks Institute Report February 12, 2020 Share With support from the Heising-Simons Foundation, FrameWorks Institute has developed a new report, “Reframing Early Math Learning,” offers effective strategies for shifting public understanding about early math.
Developing Requests: Barbara Chow’s NonProfit Quarterly Article for Grantseekers January 30, 2020 Share “Of all the challenges grantseekers face, one of the most consequential is figuring out the right amount to request of a foundation,” Barbara Chow, director of the Foundation’s Education program, writes in a new article published in NonProfit Quarterly in January 2020.