Our Supporters
The Institute is supported in its work by foundations both large and small. Because we are funded by a variety of philanthropies, we have the freedom to follow stories wherever they lead and produce journalism about all aspects of education.
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Lumina Foundation for Education
Current funding from Lumina Foundation supports The Hechinger Report generally, and its coverage of critical higher-education issues like the cost, quality, and accessibility of both two-year and four-year institutions. A Lumina grant also funds a multi-year analysis of higher-education attainment rates in multiple countries.
Support from Lumina Foundation made possible the Institute’s “Covering America, Covering Community Colleges” fellowship, which ran from 2007-2010. Lumina has provided financial assistance to the Institute since 2005 and was one of the first foundations to support The Hechinger Report’s ongoing journalism.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A grant from the Gates Foundation supports ongoing coverage by The Hechinger Report of critical education issues like the training of teachers, the creation and adoption of common standards and the use of federal money at state and local levels through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). More generally, the grant supports the Institute’s efforts to become a must-read source of the nation’s best education journalism.
Previous funding from the Gates Foundation allowed the Hechinger Institute to organize a seminar and produce a 28-page primer on academic rigor in U.S. high schools.
The Joyce Foundation supports The Report’s coverage of education in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin generally, and its coverage of teacher quality, school leadership and stimulus funds in these states more specifically. The Report is collaborating with outlets in these states to produce ambitious journalism on local education issues with national insight.
A past grant from The Joyce Foundation allowed the Hechinger Institute to organize a seminar and produce a primer on covering teachers and the unions that represent them. That grant also supported the Institute’s fellowship for journalists to cover teaching.
A grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports a series of seminars on how children interact with and learn from the technology in their lives. In the tradition of the Hechinger Institute’s seminars for journalists, these events will bring scholars and experts together with working journalists for genuine give-and-take on complicated, critical issues. Participation at these seminars will be by invitation only, and the first will be held in Spring 2011.