Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grants: How to Win Funding
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most well-endowed philanthropic institutions globally, managing over $76 billion to $78 billion in foundation assets.
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Gates Foundation: centering teacher effectiveness and measurable student outcomes
The Gates Foundation funds education work that demonstrably improves teacher effectiveness and student outcomes. Proposals that describe activities without connecting them to measured student achievement are consistently declined.
Gates Foundation's education funding has narrowed to interventions with rigorous evidence of improving student outcomes, particularly for Black, Latino, and low-income students. If your proposal describes what you will DO without showing how it changes what students KNOW and CAN DO, it will not be competitive. The evidence bar: Gates wants randomized controlled trial evidence or quasi-experimental evidence for the intervention model. If you are piloting a new approach, frame…
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