2012 Educational Leadership Grants
Flintridge Preparatory School
La Cañada Flintridge, CA
To develop a new organizational model to develop initiatives in cosmopolitan and civic engagement, the Idealab, and to spark the entrepreneurial and collaborative creativity of students and teachers, while providing an administrative design for other schools, and to address specific needs of the region and the world.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1
Metairie Park Country Day School
Metairie, LA
To develop the New Orleans Scholars Program, which focuses on study in the following areas: 1.) economic development, 2) the environment, 3) politics, and 4) New Orleans culture.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1
Riverdale Country School
New York City, NY
To create an opportunity for a team of educators from several different school settings to work on a common set of projects together, make their schools better places by applying design thinking, develop case studies of the design thinking process in action, and offer the possibility of replication for the broader educational community.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1
The Thacher School
Ojai, CA
To improve the quality of senior year independent academic research projects, the capstone, and to improve the quality and efficacy of such programs in other schools that employ them, via a summer colloquium in which best practice will be shared and exploited using online resources and message boards for current and future program leaders.
Grant Amount: $250,000
Match: 1:1