ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are excited to announce several Core Strategy grants we have made over the past several months. Each of these grants is structured to reinforce one another in advancing our mission of championing efforts that prioritize community goals, challenge racial inequities and advance excellent, student-centered public education for all New…

Please join us in welcoming Jessica Spohn, Michael Carey, and Dr. Simmons to their new roles. We look forward to their leadership and how they will expand the philanthropic role of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation in New England.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation Announces Leadership Transition: With major accomplishments in racial equity and justice, Dr. Gislaine N. Ngounou will step down as Interim President and CEO   After more than a year as Interim President and CEO, and a tenure that included serving as Vice President of Strategy and…

Posted by Caroline Rodriguez   Our hearts are heavy with the news of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. We at the Nellie Mae Education Foundation cannot imagine the immeasurable grief facing the students, parents, educators, and community members who are mourning the loss of nineteen children and two…

Posted by Caroline Rodriguez   Today, and every day, we at the Nellie Mae Education Foundation hold space in our hearts for the victims of white supremacist violence. We mourn the lives of the victims of the anti-Black mass shooting at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo. We mourn the life…

We are excited to announce the appointment of Mishone Donelson, Senior Vice President and Senior Managing Director at Horizon Technology Finance, to the Nellie Mae Education Foundation Board of Directors.

Announcing New Grant Commitments Photo by Alexander Suhorucov from Pexels Today, on the heels of the start of the first in-person school year for many in over 18 months, we are thrilled to announce grant commitments to organizations that continue the work of advancing racial equity in our public education system. We are…

Welcoming Our New Community Advisors - 2021 Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   In 2019, we launched our first Community Advisory Group — a group of individuals with deep relationships and networks in the communities they serve — to provide perspective and insight on our grantmaking strategy and implementation. Since that…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   For the past several years, Nellie Mae Education Foundation has welcomed a new cohort of education leaders into our Speakers Bureau. After a year and a half characterized by the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, and where our schools were forced…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   Dudley Williams at the Foundation’s Lawrence W. O’Toole Awards Ceremony in 2012 Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the passing of Dudley Williams, former Board Chair of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. In his 12 years of service at the organization, Dudley…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   DR. NGOUNOU TO BRING NEARLY TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN THE EDUCATION AND NONPROFIT SPACE TO THE ROLE   Quincy, MA — May 20, 2021: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation Board of Directors, in consultation with outgoing President and CEO Nick Donohue, has appointed…

Photo by Guillaume Issaly on Unsplash, Written by Alexis Harewood and Ellen Wang   Central to the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s focus on advancing racial equity in public education is our commitment to ensuring all young people and families feel safe in schools and communities across New England as school buildings continue to…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   The Nellie Mae Education Foundation Welcomes United We Dream Co-Founder Cristina Jiménez Moreta to Board of Directors   Today, we are thrilled to announce the appointment of Cristina Jiménez Moreta, co-founder and former executive director of United We Dream, the country’s largest immigrant-youth-led…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   Will support search for a new leader after more than a decade of leadership   QUINCY, MA - February 5, 2021 - The Nellie Mae Education Foundation today announced that Nick Donohue will be stepping down as the organization’s President and CEO at the end of 2021…

  Photo by Tim Dennell, Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   In October, we announced $20 million in funds on top of our planned grantmaking for this year to support work addressing anti-Black racism and COVID relief — especially as both relate to our public education system. Today we are pleased to share…

  Photo by Tim Dennell, Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   Over the past year, Nellie Mae has grown our work in several ways, from the implementation of our new grant strategy focused on advancing racial equity in public education, to continuing to learn how to best serve as an engaged…

  Photo by Tim Dennell, Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   Prioritizing Mental Wellness Amidst Virtual Learning As the two pandemics of COVID-19 and anti-Black racism rage on, young people across our region are faced with compounding burdens that are putting strains on their personal lives, well-being and educational experience. As…

  Photo by Tim Dennell, Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   Over the course of this year, we’ve witnessed the deep inequities in our society laid bare by the two pandemics of COVID and systemic racism. We’ve seen how these forces have disproportionately negatively affected Black, Brown and Indigenous communities.…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   Allison Shelley for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action The Nellie Mae Education Foundation condemns any efforts by the federal government to silence curriculum and frameworks that explicitly address the centrality of enslavement in the historical narrative of our country. As…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   As New England communities grapple with what learning will look like in the fall, we’ve sponsored a series of conversations across the region that have invited families, educators, young people, health professionals, and others to discuss what equitable reopening will look like. We…

Photo by Allison Shelley for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action, Posted by Aharewood   I vividly recall the first time I led a conversation on race in my classroom. The conversation happened on Monday, February 27th, the day after Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. At…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn.   In January, we announced our new strategy to make advancing racial equity in public education the central focus of our grantmaking. Today, we are excited to share another important development — the onboarding of our new Community Advisory. We are tremendously grateful to our inaugural Community…

Posted by Nellie Mae Ed. Fdn. Dear Grantee Partners, Friends, and Community: We know that many of you are providing direct support to educators, community members, young people and their families as they navigate this pandemic and the inequities that only become exacerbated in such a situation. As a philanthropic…

Posted by Chiara Wegener   We all know that teachers are amazing people — after all, they are the ones shaping the minds of our future world leaders! At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, we’ve had the chance to see the impact of many individual educators, but have also seen…

Posted by Nina Culbertson   At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, we support schools and communities that are working to reshape education to be more student-centered — where learning is personalized, competency-based, happens anytime, anywhere, and where students take ownership over their own learning. But what does high-quality, rigorous student-centered learning…