Annual Report 2004 - Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Improving Community Education
SUCCESS IN SCHOOL
Academy for Educational Development
Washington, DC
To examine the concept of communitybased
organizations assuming the
responsibility of educating at-risk and outof-school
youth.
Advancement Project
Washington, DC
Grant increase to document and address
the inappropriate use of zero tolerance
disciplinary policies in public schools.
American Youth Work Center
Washington, DC
Grant increase to support the
dissemination of best practices on child
and youth development.
Austin Interfaith Sponsoring Committee
Austin, TX
To improve educational opportunities for
low-income and minority students in
Austin, Texas.
Center for Law and Social Policy
Washington, DC
To help disconnected youth gain education,
employment and stable family
relationships.
$350,000
24 mos.
$50,000
$25,000
$200,000
24 mos.
$150,000
24 mos.
Coalition of Community Foundations
for Youth
Basehor, KS
To improve the educational options and
outcomes for out-of-school and
underserved youth.
Community Training and Assistance
Center
Boston, MA
To support efforts to replicate Denver’s
pay-for-performance system.
Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project
Philadelphia, PA
To improve educational opportunities for
low-income and minority students in
eastern Pennsylvania.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
To provide research and policy and legal
analyses related to the civil rights
dimensions of major education policy
challenges.
Interfaith Education Fund
Austin, TX
To support a fund created to help
organizations affiliated with the
Industrialized Areas Foundation gain
influence over conditions affecting their
communities.
$500,000
18 mos.
$300,000
24 mos.
$200,000
24 mos.
$200,000
24 mos.
$440,000
24 mos.
GRANT ACTIVITY POVERTY
Total: $38,884,835 / 163 Grants
Expanding
Economic
Opportunity
$13.638
62 Grants
Special Initiatives
$3.878
16 Grants
Building Organized
Communities
$5.106
29 Grants
GRANT
DOLLARS NUMBER
GRANT ALLOCATION (in millions) OF GRANTS
Improving Success in School $ 5.068 21
Community Learning Beyond the Classroom 11.147 34
Education Special Projects .048 1
Expanding Income Security $ 3.982 24
Economic Workforce Development 9.656 38
Opportunity
Building Organized Building Infrastructure $ 5.106 29
Communities
(in millions)
Improving
Community
Education
$16.263
56 Grants
Special Initiatives Transitions $ 2.958 10
Exploratory & Special Projects .920 6
TOTALS: $38.885 163
60 CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION