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This brief offers lessons and best practices from foundations across the country on grantmaking to school districts. It offers advice to foundations that are considering school district investments for the first time. It also offers a useful "check" to more experienced foundations that want to examine their thinking and approaches against the lessons and practices of other foundations.

Read this report to find:

  • Common approaches to structuring grants to school districts
  • Contextual variables that can impact the success or failure of reform efforts
  • Key advice and questions to consider when planning district investments

Click here to read Grantmaking to School Districts: Lessons for Foundations.

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