Grants | Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

422 Grants

Edufundi	Instructional Leadership Program Pilot	South Africa	Quality Schools	R 8 000 000
Increasing the skills and capacity of school leaders and teachers to improve the quality of teaching and learning in no-fee public schools.
University of Cape Town	Dell Young Leaders wrap around support	South Africa	University Success	R 6 070 000
Providing students selected for the Dell Young Leaders program with holistic support to ensure university completion and graduate job placement.
University of Pretoria	Dell Young Leaders wrap around support	South Africa	University Success	R 5 700 000
Providing students selected for the Dell Young Leaders program with holistic support to encourage university completion and graduate job placement.
Stellenbosch University Trust	Dell Young Leaders wrap around support	South Africa	University Success	R 7 500 000
Providing students selected for the Dell Young Leaders program with holistic support to ensure university completion and graduate job placement.
School Board Partners	Expansion of Fellowship Program for School Boards	United States	Quality Schools	$1,000,000
Connecting, inspiring, and supporting reform-minded school board members to be bold leaders for change in their communities.
TNTP, Inc.	Support Campaign to Diversify the Educator Workforce	United States	Quality Schools	$750,000
Building a coalition for increased educator diversity in support of student achievement and success.
Khanyisa Inanda Seminary Community Projects NPC	Testing effectiveness and scalability of an alternative Initial Teacher Education model	South Africa	Quality Schools	R 12 350 000
Developing a robust and scalable alternative Initial Teacher Education model that combines distance learning and a full-time school-based internship in a no-fee school.
Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)	Expand the Interoperability Maturity Assessment	United States	Classroom Supports	$389,968
Enabling more local education agencies and state education agencies to assess their maturity level for interoperability and student privacy and create action plans to advance to the next level.
Center for Child Protection	Trauma-Informed Crisis Intervention Services	United States	Pathways to Prosperity	$280,000
Supporting forensic interviews, advocacy, and therapy to child victims and their protective caregivers, as well as parent coaching services for those in unsafe environments.
Into Space NPC	Planning for school-based deployment of online schooling	South Africa	Quality Schools	R 1 500 000
Developing a school blueprint and business plan for a network of affordable, high-quality schools that provide online schooling for learners from low-income backgrounds in supervised physical classrooms.
National Association of Charter School Authorizers	Expansion of Communities at the Center to Support Students	United States	Quality Schools	$700,000
Centering Communities to Create High-Quality Schools.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Public Health	Informing Texas Health Policy	United States	Health and Wellness	$699,572
Leveraging University of Texas faculty and staff to support Texas policymakers with requested, relevant, and clear data to inform Texas health policy decision making.
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	Increased Student Retention via Social Interventions	United States	University Success	$1,001,375
Developing and testing a variety of behaviorally-informed social interventions in a large, diverse student population, using analytics to identify which interventions effectively increase college student retention overall and which work best for whom.
Data Quality Campaign	Enhance Policy and Advocacy Support	United States	Classroom Supports	$500,000
Supporting the need for high-quality, real-time, secure data systems in education.
Mission Capital	Support for Central Texas Nonprofit Community	United States	Pathways to Prosperity	$700,000
Leveraging Mission Capital’s role as a critical partner in the Central Texas nonprofit sector to improve the child welfare ecosystem, advance nonprofit data practices, and assist the nonprofit community in adapting to new contexts and sustaining their work for decades to come.
Arizou	Pilot of University Career Preparedness Model	United States	University Success	$1,399,157
Scaling Powered by Basta (PBB) to five university partners to deliver career readiness content and training to better support 16,000 first-generation and low-income college students.
Deans for Impact	Improve US Teacher Preparation	United States	Quality Schools	$1,000,000
Supporting innovative teacher preparation programs in redesigning their training programs to produce better prepared teachers on day one.
The Community Chest of the Western Cape	Support to Enable the Expansion of a Youth Service Program	South Africa	Jobs and Livelihoods	R 24 122 420
Supporting youth completing a 10-month service programme with access to wraparound services and support into their next opportunity.
Austin Partners in Education	Preparation for College and High-Demand Jobs	United States	Pathways to Prosperity	$200,000
Providing college readiness, math coaching, and mentorship services as well as support for P-TECH so that Central Texas students graduate from high school prepared for secondary education and jobs in high-demand fields.
National Association of System Heads	Solutions to Increase Flexibility of Required Course Offerings	United States	University Success	$1,339,493
Designing and testing solutions to increase flexibility of required course offerings at 41 college campuses within four higher education systems, aiming to help students avoid unnecessary college transfers or major changes.