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The AI and Education Program is offered by Renaissance Philanthropy, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, to discover and fund breakthrough ideas that harness artificial intelligence to drive student success, particularly for underserved students.
The program addresses critical gaps in education AI including the shortage of bilingual technical and education experts, insufficient education-specific training data, limited government R&D funding, and profit-driven investor priorities. The program seeks organizations focused on education innovation that can demonstrate how AI can meaningfully improve learning outcomes at scale.
Eligible applicants are organizations working at the intersection of AI and education, especially those serving underserved student populations.
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AI and Education — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation The AI and Education program, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, seeks to discover and support breakthrough ideas that can drive student success. Despite major advances in LLMs and other AI technologies, educators and schools are not capitalizing on these new technologies.
This is because: It is rare to find technical experts who are “bilingual” in both AI and education.
The available education-specific training data, benchmarks, and platforms are insufficient to build and test meaningful applications of AI in education Government funding for R&D in education is severely limited Investors prefer to fund tools and ideas with the potential for rapid profitability or scalability, not necessarily student achievement or learning outcomes Philanthropy can play an important role, but many funders aren’t yet fully on board Philanthropy can advance education innovation, yet many funders want clear guidance and more evidence.
Renaissance Philanthropy bridges this gap with the strategic support needed to create measurable impact. The rise of AI offers a powerful moment for education funders to create large-scale impact. Breakthroughs in science and technology can transform how people learn, where learning happens, and who guides the process, opening new opportunities to improve learning for all.
AI has the potential to make proven approaches like tutoring more accessible, help reduce teacher workload, and improve key components like assessment. In short, AI has massive potential to drive significant improvements in learning, particularly for underserved students.
Renaissance Philanthropy is equipped with the expertise and playbooks to capitalize on this moment and channel funding to the programs, ideas, and networks where it can make the biggest impact. The AI and Education program, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, reflects the three key pillars of Renaissance Philanthropy’s model: Advising Philanthropists and Building Ecosystems .
Renaissance Philanthropy believes that a thriving ecosystem at the intersection of AI and education is paramount. That’s why we nurture efforts to link talent, funding, and ideas. Discovering Breakthrough Ideas .
Big, ambitious ideas have the power to transform learning, address persistent achievement gaps, and spark systemic change. By identifying and supporting big thinkers and bold innovations early, Renaissance Philanthropy can help launch and amplify their impact through partnerships and additional investment. This approach ensures that funding drives ambitious solutions that improve education at scale.
Incubating Ambitious Initiatives . Innovations need the time, resources, and guidance to grow from vision to reality. Through both strategic collaboration and direct technical support via our Engineering Hub , we help organizations refine their innovative approaches, build stronger teams and partnerships, and ensure that their work not only succeeds but also scales and attracts the investment needed for lasting, system-wide impact.
Learning Engineering Virtual Institute The Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI) seeks to spur deep collaboration across institutions and disciplines to drastically improve education outcomes by leveraging AI. The first LEVI focused on math learning established a model that can be grown and adapted to accelerate bold improvement efforts in education.
LEVI Math supports seven teams aiming to double the rate of middle school math progress for low income students by 2027. LEVI Literacy supports the development, scaling, and implementation of solutions designed to reduce the number of struggling readers by half in the early grades. Individuals interested in learning more about opportunities to get involved can reach out to LEVI@renphil.
org for more information. The Tools Competition is a global multi-million dollar annual challenge to identify outstanding organizations working on innovative technology, data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of learners. It is one of the world’s largest ed tech challenges, and has helped identify and fund 150 innovative learning tools and platforms since it began in 2020.
The Learning Engineering Foundry is designed to rapidly advance ed tech innovations, ensuring they are effective and scalable before integration into the K-12 education system. The program focuses on prototyping promising innovations, tools, and datasets, taking concepts from ideation through testing, incubation, and preparation for further development outside of the Foundry.
CareerNet is an initiative to train AI systems to deliver more accurate, personalized, and equitable career guidance to young people. Using CareerVillage’s 65,000-question repository, the project produced curated datasets in healthcare, computer science, and reskilling.
These datasets – composed of the highest-quality and relevant questions and answers – are publicly available for AI developers and commercial platforms to use in new or existing career exploration.
Strengthening Teacher Effectiveness and Practice with AI Strengthening Teacher Effectiveness and Practice with AI (STEP-AI) is an initiative to transform teacher coaching in sub‑Saharan Africa by empowering organizations to design and deploy AI‑enabled tools that deliver real‑time, personalized feedback within structured pedagogy programs.
Over two years, it will build technical capacity, develop shared frameworks, and release public goods to strengthen the broader field. AI-powered advances in education depend on datasets that algorithms can train on. Our team identifies missing datasets in education, sources and builds them, and then runs data science competitions on KaggleLearn to turn the data into valuable algorithms for developers.
For instance, the Feedback Prize competition series yielded AI models that can support assistive writing feedback technology, and Google’s Gemini team is using this data to refine a writing assistant tool. AI in Education Co-Investment Collaborative The AI in Education Co-Investment Collaborative convenes 30+ education funders to learn about the latest AI advances and education-related funding initiatives.
The goal is to help funders stay up to date and to identify opportunities for them to leverage AI within their portfolios. Learning Engineering Community The Learning Engineering listserv brings together more than 3,000 members, from researchers to practitioners, to share ideas and resources that advance learning science and improve education outcomes.
Our team consists of education and technical experts working toward improving education outcomes.
President, Renaissance Philanthropy Director, Engineering Hub Senior Program Advisor, Education, Renaissance Philanthropy Senior Program Advisor, Education, Renaissance Philanthropy The Learning Agency is an operating partner of Renaissance Philanthropy, managing the implementation of key programs like the Tools Competition and Learning Engineering Virtual Institute
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Organizations focused on education innovation, particularly those leveraging AI to improve learning outcomes for underserved students. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.