Grantees

DC Public Education Fund

Our grant provides funding for one DC Reading Clinic coach and teacher training stipends during the 2025-2026 academic year, helping ensure that every kindergarten student in District of Columbia Public Schools receives high-quality literacy instruction.

Educate Maine advances education policies and practices that prepare Maine students to be the next generation of productive, engaged citizens. This one-year grant supports its work to develop and publish an early literacy landscape report of Maine’s elementary schools. Having a clearer understanding of how our youngest readers are being taught will inform work to improve early literacy proficiency in Maine.

ExcelinEd supports state leaders in transforming education to equip all students for success. This grant supports ExcelinEd’s work to train state leaders of literacy coaching programs from 32 states in its Early Literacy Coaching Modules at an in-person, Train the Trainer convening. State leaders will then use the modules to train literacy coaches in their states. This grant also supports ExcelinEd’s work to survey Train the Trainer participants to qualitatively assess impact of the convening, to build an online Literacy Coaching Community comprised of past Train the Trainer participants, and to build a costing model for states to use to determine literacy coaching costs.

Relay Graduate School of Education provides comprehensive professional development designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills needed to lead all children to outstanding experiences and outcomes in school.

A one-year grant supports Relay’s coaching, training, and support of teachers at New York City’s District 18 elementary schools in their implementation of the Wit and Wisdom language comprehension curriculum. The Wit and Wisdom curriculum builds students’ knowledge, vocabulary, and written and oral language skills.

A second one-year grant supports Relay’s coaching, training, and support of teachers at Friendship Public Charter Schools’ Southeast elementary schools in their implementation of a phonics and phonemic awareness curriculum. The coaching Relay will provide teachers and leaders will help ensure that children at Friendship receive the highest quality reading instruction possible.

The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is an open-access assessment platform grounded in ongoing research by the Stanford Reading and Dyslexia Research Program. This grant supports ROAR’s expanded capacity across states, its development of morphology assessment components, and its continued alignment of assessment resources across early elementary school, upper elementary school, and secondary school grades.

The Education Trust is committed to ensuring that every student has the right to access a high-quality education that will allow them to live the life of their choosing, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, or identity.

This two-year (2025 and 2026) grant supports the New York Campaign for Early Literacy. This initiative promotes science-driven professional development for educators, enhanced transparency in district reading curricula, increased state funding for curricula and high-impact tutoring based on the science of reading, and a public awareness campaign focused on early literacy.

The Reading League advances awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-aligned reading instruction.

A two-year (2024 and 2025) grant supports The Reading League’s work to evaluate and report on widely used school curricula as well as to provide a reliable tool for educators and decision-makers to choose evidence-aligned curricula, ultimately improving education nationwide.

A second two-year grant (2025 and 2026) provides general operating funds to continue the organization’s professional learning opportunities and strategic support to state education leaders, superintendents, principals, teachers, and researchers.