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NewSchools Venture Fund Grants: How to Win Funding

NewSchools Venture Fund is one of the premier venture philanthropy organizations in U.S. K-12 education, operating at the intersection of startup innovation, structural school reform, and systemic equity.

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NewSchools Venture Fund: the innovation and scale framing for education entrepreneurs

NewSchools Venture Fund funds education entrepreneurs building innovative schools, tools, and models. Frame your proposal as a disruptive innovation with a path to scale, not as an incremental program improvement.

NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is a venture philanthropy fund — they fund education entrepreneurs who are building new schools, new tools, or new models that have the potential to scale. If your proposal is 'we will improve our existing program by 10%,' that is incremental, not innovative, and NSVF will decline it. The innovation test: what is fundamentally new about your model? Examples of funded innovations: (1) a new school…

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