Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Through the Urban Education initiative, The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is focused on helping underserved students to improve academic performance and increase access to education.
Average award: $200,000–$500,000
Total awarded: $109,853,228
Deadline: Rolling
Award Project Period: One year
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The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has four primary grantmaking programs: Education, College Success, Family Economic Stability, and Health. The Education program has a history of supporting charter school growth and is detailed further below.
The Education program seeks to close the achievement gap among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, improve student performance, and increase graduation rates among these students through growing programs that focus on enabling data-driven education and access to high-quality public schools.
The program’s Quality School Options initiative aims to increase access to quality education in the U.S. by fostering great schools and helping them grow. This includes partnering with organizations to grow great schools and helping local education agency leaders empower schools to meet the needs of low-income students.
Cities, school districts, local government agencies, state government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that provide growth capital to charter schools. (Individual charter schools are likely not competitive for capital funding by themselves.)
- $4,750,000 to Uplift Education (Dallas, TX), an organization that operates college preparatory public charter schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. The grant will support the opening of two new Uplift schools in the Dallas area, the expansion of Uplift’s central office staff to support this growth, and performance management diagnostic resources to ensure that Uplift grows in quality as it grows in size.
- $1,750,000 to the Charter School Growth Fund (Broomfield, CO), an organization that supports educational leaders and entrepreneurs who want to grow their high-performing public charter schools.
- $500,000 to New Schools for Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge, LA) to support continued growth of this organization that is a community partnership bringing together resources that deliver excellent schools to students and families in Baton Rouge.
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