Educator Diversity (Teachers of Color) Funding Opportunity

Educator Diversity Funding Opportunity

Funder: NewSchools Venture Fund (with financial support from Alice L. Walton and the Walton Family Foundation)
Status: Closed - Funding round announced March 24, 2022
Total Available: $2.5 million (2022 cohort)

Overview

NewSchools announced a cohort of organizations receiving investments to diversify the PreK-12 teaching profession. This was the second year of investments in organizations seeking to advance educator diversity, with financial support from Alice L. Walton and the Walton Family Foundation.

Focus Areas

Organizations taking a variety of approaches to diversify teaching, including:
• Providing support to schools to identify and rectify practices that create barriers to growing a diverse workforce
• Building culturally responsive teacher preparation and residency programs
• Providing targeted training and wellness support for teachers of color

Context

The Problem:
• Teachers of color make up just 20% of the workforce nationally
• More than 50% of students are students of color
• Research shows having teachers of color in schools enhances performance of all students and helps students of color feel safer and more engaged in school

Award Details

• Grant Amount: $150,000 to $200,000 per organization based on stage of development (one-year grants)
• Support: Management assistance including access to NewSchools' network of internal experts and external partners to strengthen organizational capacity and impact

2022 Grantees (15 organizations)

1. Another Lens Staffing and HR Consulting Firm, LLC (Foxboro, MA) 2. Black Men Teach (Minnesota, MN) 3. Charlotte Bilingual School (Charlotte, NC) 4. Community Build Ventures (Atlanta, GA) 5. Fletcher Education Solutions, LLC (Pine Bluff, AR) 6. Healing Schools Project (Newark, NJ) 7. Jacksonville Public Education Fund (Jacksonville, FL) 8. Passion Drive Leadership (Shreveport, LA) 9. Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium (Philadelphia, PA) 10. Portland Public Schools (Portland, ME) 11. Renton School District (Renton, WA) 12. The Center for Black Educator Development (Philadelphia, PA) 13. The Language Preservation Project (Houston, TX) 14. The Teachers' Lounge (Boston, MA) 15. Watts of Power Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)

Contact Information

Address: 2648 International Blvd Ste 301, Oakland, CA 94601 Email: info@newschools.org Website: newschools.org

Related Information

Walton Family Foundation:
• Website: waltonfamilyfoundation.org
• Focus areas: K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans, Northwest Arkansas and Arkansas-Mississippi Delta region