Who We Are
We’re a diverse network of education and social justice field leaders from 300+ organizations and 20 foundations.
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In 2012, at a meeting of the Education Funders Strategy Group an inquiry was made:
Were other funders thinking about how a different set of guiding values might lead to a different set of educational policies that would help grow and support “New Models” of learning? How can funders show up in different education spaces, wanting to honoring different contexts and communities. How can we be real about the ways the system needs to update and change?
Conversation led to clarity: The dominant narrative about education was flawed and we needed a better way to articulate a powerful vision for the future of learning. We needed more power in the field to overcome the siloed nature of 1,000 different efforts. We needed an affirmative vision to bring people together.
Movement Strategy Center supported development of a long-term strategy to build field alignment among organizations and like-minded efforts with shared values and a common agenda. The core proposition was that field and funders need to pivot and partner shoulder-to-shoulder, informed by the RE-AMP network model to fundamentally change how people relate to and strategize with each other through the practice of partnership. How we move together is as critical to who we are as what we’re moving towards.
The Partnership for the Future of Learning (the Partnership) is now composed of 18 foundations and ~100 networks, organizations, districts, and institutions. Our network exists exists to protect and strengthen public education for more meaningful and equitable future of learning. For all of us.
The National Public Education Support Fund (NPESF) is the organizational and fiduciary home to the Partnership for the Future of Learning. NPESF is a hub for convening and connecting influential leaders in education philanthropy, advocacy, research, policy, and practice.
Education Ambassadors
The following partners are spokespeople, scholars, influencers, and storytellers who you can request for public-facing opportunities such as media inquiries, interviews, speeches, panels, and written pieces.
Marshé Eunique Doss
Recent graduate from Dorsey High School, Los Angeles Organizer, Students Deserve BIO
Cyrus Driver
Senior Director of Strategy and Program NPESF and the Partnership for the Future of Learning BIO
Richard Gray
Deputy Director of Community Organizing and Engagement and School Transformation Programs NYU Metro Center BIO
Jennifer Kotting, PhD
Communications Strategist & Consultant Partnership for the Future of Learning BIO
Jillian McRae
English Teacher (specializing in Sociology, race, class, & gender) / Instructional Coach Ossining High School BIO
Chris Saldaña
Doctoral Student Researcher University of Colorado - Boulder School of Education & National Education Policy Center BIO
Miles Sandler
Director of Engagement-Education in Public Affairs Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation BIO
Kevin Welner
Professor of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder School of Education Director, National Education Policy Center BIO
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt On appointment to Biden / Sanders Unity Task Force on education policy BIO
Media Inquiries
Please tell us more about your request, including which ambassador/s that best fit the inquiry.
Funders
- Bay & Paul Foundations
- S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Foundations for a Better Oregon
- Grable Foundation
- Walter & Elise Haas Fund
- Edward W. Hazen Foundation
- The Heinz Endowments
- William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- National Education Association
- NEA Foundation
- National Public Education Support Fund
- Nellie Mae Education Foundation
- Sandler Foundation
- Schott Foundation
- Southern Education Foundation
- Stuart Foundation
- Voqal
2020 Steering Committee Members
- Shaun Adamec, Adamec Communications
- Evelyn Aissa, Reaching Higher New Hampshire
- Saa’un Bell, Californians for Justice
- Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, NEA
- Renee Blahuta, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Keron Blair, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
- Vivian Chang, Sandler Foundation
- Linda Darling-Hammond, Learning Policy Institute
- Nick Donohue, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
- Cyrus Driver, National Public Education Support Fund
- Roberta Furger, Learning Policy Institute
- Frank Gettridge, National Public Education Support Fund
- Jaime Koppel, Communities for Just Schools Fund
- David Rattray, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
- Kwesi Rollins, Institute for Educational Leadership
- Kyle Serrette, National Education Association
- Warren Simmons, National Education Policy Center
- Gloria Totten, Public Leadership Institute
- Khalif Williams, Bay and Paul Foundations
A Snapshot of the Partnership
Below are partners who opted in to being listed on our website. We’re growing and gathering even as you read this.
- Albert Sykes and Dana Bennis, IDEA: Institute for Democratic Education in America
- Deborah J. Menkart and Rosalie Reyes, Teaching for Change
- Shruti Sehra, New Profit
- Nicholas C. Donohue, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
- Charlie Toulmin, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
- Monica Snellings and Kelly Young, Education Reimagined
- Pam Moran, Virginia School Consortium for Learning
- Sunanna Chand, Remake Learning
- Renee Blahuta, Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Gloria Totten, Public Leadership Institute
- Evelyn Aissa, Reaching Higher NH
- Janet Kishbaugh and Carolyn Wood, Georgia Coalition for Public Education; Public Education Matters Georgia
- Roberta Furger, Amber Hu, Barbara McKenna, and Sara Robertson, Learning Policy Institute
- David Rattray, LA Chamber / UNITE-LA
- Gene Wilhoit, Center for Innovation in Education
- Deborah S. Delisle, Alliance for Excellent Education
- Keith Catone, Center for Youth & Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE)
- Dr. Paul Rogers, Ashoka
- Eric Braxton, Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
- Scott Hartl, EL Education
- Karen DeMoss, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College
- Jonas Barriere , UnifiEd
- Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Brightbeam
- Marla Ucelli-Kashyap, AFT
- Susan Zeig, Producer, Community Concern Films//Chair, Dept of Communications and Film, LIU Post
- Shelly Masur, CDE Foundation
- John Affeldt, Angelica Jongco, Isabel Alegria, and Duc Luu, Public Advocates
- Jitu Brown, Journey for Justice Alliance
- Warren Simmons, Kevin Welner, Michelle Renée Valladares, Matthew Garcia, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Jeff Bryant, Freelance Writer and Advocacy Journalist
- Jo Anderson, Jr., Co-Executive Director, Consortium for Educational Change (CEC)
- RE Katz, Consultant
- Jon Snyder, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
- Ellen Hume-Howard, New Hampshire Learning Initiative
- Keron Blair, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
- Chris Jackson, Big Picture Learning
- S. Kwesi Rollins, Institute for Educational Leadership
- José Muñoz, Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership
- Kyle Serrette and Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, National Education Association
- Southern Education Foundation
- Richard Gray and Paloma Garcia, NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
- Dr. Robin D. Cooper, Just S’UNO, LLC
- Saa’un Bell, Californians for Justice
- Nick Johnson, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Danny Carlson, National Association of Elementary School Principals
- Roberto Rodriguez, Teach Plus
Support Team & Consulting Partners
- Cyrus Driver, Director for Strategy, NPESF
- Mary González, Associate Director, NPESF
- Jenni Kotting, Communications Director, NPESF
- Taylor Moore, Network Support Coordinator, NPESF
- Lauren Jacobs, Senior Consultant
- Kathryn Wiley
- Digital Promise
- FrameWorks Institute
- MediaSutra
- Leadership + Design
- Learning Policy Institute
- Root + All
- National Education Policy Center