Giving Compass' Take:

• Nick Donohue explains how the Nellie Mae Education Foundation is promoting racial equity and fighting racism to advance their education goals. 

• How can other funders learn for this model? Could work like this advance your education mission? 

• Learn how race shapes your future in America. 

Nick Donohue took over the Nellie Mae Education Foundation where he developed a strategy focused on student-centered learning. The team’s focus on personalized learning, student agency, progress on mastery, and anywhere-anytime learning was about 10 years ahead of the sector. And now, the foundation is leading again. In January they announced a new strategy that recognizes that racism in many forms — personal, institutional, and structural — is a big part of the education problem.

Read the full article about promoting racial equity at Getting Smart.