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Education & Economic Mobility Program Grants is a grant from The Joyce Foundation that funds evidence-based education and workforce policies that close race and income disparities in post-secondary attainment and career success in the Great Lakes region. The program invests in local, state, and federal policies to ensure historically underserved young people have access to high-quality K-12 and post-secondary education.
Eligible applicants are organizations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin working on education and economic mobility for underserved populations. The deadline for the current cycle is August 3, 2026. Grant amounts vary.
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Education & Economic Mobility | The Joyce Foundation Education & Economic Mobility Closing income and race disparities in college and career success through equitable access to high-quality education. Data continue to show that a post-secondary credential is the best way to ensure economic mobility, yet not enough young people earn them.
Joyce is committed to evidence-based policies that help close race and income disparities in post-secondary attainment. To that end, we invest in local, state, and federal policies that aim to ensure historically underserved young people have effective and diverse K-12 teachers and principals; graduate high school with academic and career momentum; and attain affordable college credentials with economic value.
In the short term, we will invest in research, policy development, and advocacy to help young people recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shutter in early 2020. The move to remote/hybrid learning left schools, educators and families scrambling to build rich learning environments.
School closures also forced policymakers to waive many K–12 policies. Joyce will seek opportunities to help students regain lost ground, and to help policymakers rebuild more equity-focused policies. Evidence is clear that teachers and principals are the main in-school driver of student success.
Yet, young people of color and those from underserved communities often have inexperienced, unqualified, or ineffective educators.
To ensure historically marginalized students have top-notch and diverse educators, the Foundation invests in research, policy development, advocacy, and technical assistance to: 1) use data to better align educator supply and demand; 2) diversify the educator pipeline; 3) build strong pathways from high school into teaching; and 4) spread innovative school staffing models that attract educators, boost retention, and improve student outcomes.
Our investments focus on Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and national efforts. Learn More About Effective Educators College & Career Readiness There is overwhelming evidence that a college degree significantly improves life outcomes. Yet not enough high school students—especially young people of color and those from underserved communities—are prepared to succeed in post-secondary.
To help students get on the right path, the Foundation supports federal and state policies to: 1) align K-12, higher education, and workforce systems; 2) increase access and success in rigorous courses; and 3) increase access to high-quality work-based learning activities connected to careers with family-sustaining wages.
Learn More About College & Career Readiness A post-secondary degree remains the surest path to social and economic mobility. Yet colleges fail to enroll and graduate students of color and students from low-income households at the same rate as White and wealthier students. This contributes to racial and socioeconomic disparities in education and career outcomes.
To address these disparities, the Joyce Foundation supports federal and state policies that: 1) scale proven student support models to improve community college outcomes; 2) preserve access for students of color and rural students to affordable, high- quality public college options and labor markets that require college degrees; 3) seek racial and family income representativeness at selective public universities; and 4) narrow gaps in post-graduate financial outcomes for students of color and low-income students.
Learn More About Post-secondary Success View Grantmaking Guidelines Opinion: Bold action needed to reform school districts Public education in the U.S. is at a crossroads, and with federal influence waning, states must lead bold, evidence-based reforms to close achievement gaps, strengthen fundamentals, and prepare all students for a fast-changing economy.
In Remembrance of Melissa Hortman: Transformational Policy Leader In mourning the tragic loss of Rep. Melissa Hortman, we honor her leadership on climate and gun violence prevention work. A longtime partner of Joyce and our grantees, she championed evidence-based policy to advance equity and safety for all Minnesotans.
Education & Economic Mobility Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Progress & Promise: Chicago’s Post-Pandemic Educational Achievements According to recent data, CPS elementary school students are recovering faster than many districts in the country in reading and math. Joyce hosted an event with civic, business, philanthropic, non-profit and policy leaders to discuss the research.
Education & Economic Mobility The Dual Enrollment Fund: Catalyzing the Next Chapter of Dual Enrollment Research A new Dual Enrollment Research Fund launched to usher in a new wave of scholarship focused on equitable dual enrollment policies and practices.
Education & Economic Mobility Joyce Statement in Response to SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision The Supreme Court’s ruling could unravel the years of progress towards diversifying college campuses. The decisions will hinder colleges/universities from considering race in admission decisions, reversing decades of legal precedent. Education & Economic Mobility Get the latest in Education & Economic Mobility and other programs.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Organizations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin working on education and economic mobility for historically underserved young people. Covers K-12 through post-secondary education policy. 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.