Grant Category: Education
The Rockhouse Foundation
Jamaica and New York, NY
Amount granted: $35,500
Grant year: 2026
Grant categories: Education, Informal Education
$35,500 to support the development of a Multi-Purpose Experiential Learning & Family Support Hub at Sav Inclusive Academy in Jamaica.
For 20 years, the Rockhouse Foundation has been at the forefront of educational transformation in western Jamaica and has invested more than $10 million (US) to help improve schools there by building and renovating school buildings and providing educational programming. The Foundation’s work extends beyond building or renovating a school and includes providing free breakfast and lunch for all students, wage subsidy for instructional personnel to achieve beneficial student/teacher rations, provide continued assistance for utility costs, and facility maintenance and repair.
The Calculus Project
Braintree, MA
Amount granted: $25,380
Grant year: 2026
Grant category: Education
$25,380 to partially support the Certified Peer Teacher program.
The mission of the Calculus Project is to use research-supported strategies to increase the representation and success of low-income students, as well as Black, Hispanic, and other students of color, in advanced mathematics.
Magnolia Tree Earth Center
Brooklyn, NY
Amount granted: $30,000
Grant year: 2026
Grant category: Education
$30,000 to support the Elementary School Workshop Series for the 2025-2026 school year as well as assistance with capital expenses to preserve the original building headquarters.
Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Hattie Carthan, a visionary environmentalist who sought to protect a rare Magnolia Grandiflora tree and three brownstones on Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn from demolition. Ms. Carthan mobilized her community to save and preserve the site, ultimately achieving landmark status for both the buildings and the tree — now recognized as New York State’s only living landmark. Her leadership inspired urban greening efforts long before environmentalism was mainstream, planting over 1,500 trees in the neighborhood and establishing the Tree Corps to care for local greenery.
The City Bar Fund
New York, NY
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2026
Grant category: Education
$20,000 to help fund the creation of a rule of law educational campaign.
The City Bar Fund was created in 1946 to support its sister organization, the New York City Bar Association, and to be used for "educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes," including the improvement of the administration of justice and the cultivation and diffusion of knowledge and understanding of the law.
New Bedford Research and Robotics
New Bedford, MA
Amount granted: $44,500
Grant year: 2024
Grant category: Education
$44,500 to support the Women Artists and Technologists in Residence Program (WATiR).
New Bedford Research & Robotics (NBRR) is an inclusive innovation, education, and entrepreneurship laboratory located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2021 to empower creatives and entrepreneurs by granting them access to extraordinary tools and to foster a community where diverse interests thrive and contribute. The pilot Women Artists and Technologists in Residence Program (WATiR) program aims to provide a supportive environment for artists who want access to industrial robotics and digital manufacturing technology, fostering critical dialog, creativity and collaboration.
Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA)
Haiti
Amount granted: $35,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant categories: Education, Human Services
$35,000 grant to support the Coaching Institute’s inaugural cohort.
Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA) was launched in 2014 to build a movement of local civic leaders to create a Haitian education system fueled by collective leadership and community development. Through its fellowship programming, APA is equipping civic leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary for transformational teaching and local leadership. Program activities include immersion training, professional development workshops, individualized coaching, and community activities. Teacher leaders learn student-centered, context-specific teaching techniques and ways to amplify student success beyond classroom instruction.
Community Boat Building
Boston, MA
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant categories: Education, Human Services
$20,000 to cover the videographer’s services, video production, and the creation of educational resources for teacher training.
Community Boat Building’s (CBB) mission is to bring real world experience and academic skills together to stimulate excitement for learning among low-income students in public schools in Boston and the surrounding areas through boat building and coastal experiences. CBB introduces approximately 160 5th graders each year to the accessibility and wonders of Boston Harbor, its islands, rivers, and history, while developing spatial thinking skills and reinforcing core academic subjects–math, geometry, science, social studies, and literacy. For most of its students, The core concept of the program revolves around wooden rowboats, which are built with teams of 5-6 students each. The process uses high-quality materials, limited student group size, and a cadre of volunteers to ensure each boat, and student, reaches its potential.
Deerfield Academy
Deerfield, MA
Amount granted: $15,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant category: Education
$15,000 to provide supplemental financial aid to qualifying Deerfield students through the Katy Textor Farmer Fund.
Deerfield Academy is an independent, co-educational academic institution founded in 1797, and recognized today as a leader, both nationally and internationally, in secondary school education.
Boston Collegiate Charter School
Boston, MA
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant category: Education
$20,000 to allow the school to purchase the LLI reading systems for all grades.
Founded in 1998, BCCS serves 700 students from Boston in grades five through 12. Its mission is to prepare each student for college by providing high quality differentiated instruction to all students.
Mesa Global Academy
Washington, DC
Amount granted: $37,500
Grant year: 2022
Grant category: Education
$37,500 to support the research and travel expenses of 5 new scholars participating in the Global Academy.
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) represents the largest network of Middle Eastern, European, and North American scholars – across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences – specialized in the study of this region. MESA promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications, and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom. MESA has launched the MESA Global Academy, in conjunction with the SUNY Graduate Center in New York to harness the strengths of its network of institutional and individual members to sustain research collaborations and knowledge production between scholars from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and their counterparts outside the region.