Celebrating the success of our first fund

In June 2011, 100Kin10 launched its first fund at the Clinton Global Initiative. By the end of the three-year window, the 15 inaugural members of the Funders’ Collaborative had invested $32M in 100Kin10 partners for their STEM teaching work.

Inaugural members of the 100Kin10 Funders’ Collaborative invested $32,221,020 to help advance the commitments of 32 partner organizations.

26%
more than originally pledged

Fund I Funders

Participants in the inaugural 100Kin10 fund went above-and-beyond their pledges.

Initially pledged
Additional spent
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
$3,000,000
$5,150,000
$8,150,000
The Boston Foundation
$500,000
Carnegie Corporation of New York
$5,400,000
$500,100
$5,900,100
CA Technologies
$1,500,000
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
$1,000,000
$712,500
$4,430,000
Dow Industries
$500,000
$500,000
$1,000,000
Freeport McMoRan
$1,500,000
Google
$4,000,000
The Greater Texas Foundation
$500,000
The Heising-Simons Foundation
$500,000
JPMorgan Chase
$1,000,000
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
$500,000
NewSchools Venture Fund
$500,000
S. D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
$3,000,000
$1,430,000
$4,430,000
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$600,000
$800,000
$1,400,000

Grant Highlights

The Dow Chemical Company joined forces with the American Chemical Society to launch the American Association for Chemistry Teachers (AACT), a first-of-its-kind platform dedicated to providing resources that foster top-notch chemistry instruction grounded in everyday life. Dow and AACT are working together to convene a series of teacher summits and create more than 750 lesson plans, multimedia resources, demonstrations and other high-quality chemistry teaching materials for use in K–12 classrooms.

CA Technologies and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit arm behind Sesame Street, partnered to develop an online STEM hub with educational resources to help preschool children, educators, parents and caregivers explore STEM concepts in fun and engaging ways. The Little Discoverers: Big Fun with Science, Math and More site launched in 2013.

Fund I Funders

Participants in the inaugural 100Kin10 fund went above-and-beyond their pledges.

Initially pledged
Additional spent
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
$3,000,000
$5,150,000
$8,150,000
The Boston Foundation
$500,000
Carnegie Corporation of New York
$5,400,000
$500,100
$5,900,100
CA Technologies
$1,500,000
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
$1,000,000
$712,500
$4,430,000
Dow Industries
$500,000
$500,000
$1,000,000
Freeport McMoRan
$1,500,000
Google
$4,000,000
The Greater Texas Foundation
$500,000
The Heising-Simons Foundation
$500,000
JPMorgan Chase
$1,000,000
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
$500,000
NewSchools Venture Fund
$500,000
S. D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
$3,000,000
$1,430,000
$4,430,000
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$600,000
$800,000
$1,400,000

Grant Highlights

The Dow Chemical Company joined forces with the American Chemical Society to launch the American Association for Chemistry Teachers (AACT), a first-of-its-kind platform dedicated to providing resources that foster top-notch chemistry instruction grounded in everyday life. Dow and AACT are working together to convene a series of teacher summits and create more than 750 lesson plans, multimedia resources, demonstrations and other high-quality chemistry teaching materials for use in K–12 classrooms.

CA Technologies and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit arm behind Sesame Street, partnered to develop an online STEM hub with educational resources to help preschool children, educators, parents and caregivers explore STEM concepts in fun and engaging ways. The Little Discoverers: Big Fun with Science, Math and More site launched in 2013.

Fund I Grant Recipients

The following 100Kin10 partners received investments in support of their commitments

Academy for Urban School Leadership

Pledged to increase the supply by preparing and supporting 100 new, high-quality STEM teachers by 2016 who will be trained to work and succeed in turn-around schools in Chicago.

Pledged to retain excellence by providing ongoing professional development, induction supports, and incentives to retain 85% of residents for at least four years in Chicago Public Schools.

Achievement Network

Pledged to retain excellence by building the capacity of 5,000 additional science and mathematics teachers over the next five years to make better data-driven instructional decisions that lead to increased student mastery of rigorous content standards.

American Chemical Society

Pledged to build the movement by producing an additional 100 qualified high-school chemistry teachers by 2018 through the creation of the Chemistry Teacher Education Coalition, which will actively engage chemistry departments in the preparation of future chemistry teachers.

Pledged to retain excellence by forming, through the creation of the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT), the first professional membership association focused on Chemistry teachers and initiate by 2016 a mentorship program that pairs 100 new teachers with experienced teachers.

American Modeling Teachers Association

Pledged to retain excellence by providing research-based professional development workshops and instructional materials to 3,000 science teachers over five years, connecting them to a thriving community of experienced STEM educators and researchers.

Pledged to retain excellence by identifying and training 125 new teacher leaders over five years who will become self-sustaining Modeling Workshop providers in schools or universities.

Boston Teacher Residency

Pledged to increase the supply by preparing 200 new, excellent STEM teachers through the Boston Teacher Residency program by 2020.

Pledged to retain excellence by supporting 50 STEM teachers each year to improve instruction through data-driven inquiry, instructional coaching, and teacher leadership training.

Pledged to retain excellence by ensuring 75% of graduates placed in math and science teaching positions will teach in Boston Public Schools for at least three years; 60% will teach for at least five years.

Breakthrough Collaborative

Pledged to increase the supply by doubling the number of STEM majors recruited; preparing 1,200 aspiring STEM teachers; and placing 375 of them into the field of education as STEM teachers of record by 2018.

Pledged to retain exllence by increasing the effectiveness, supply, and pipeline of 1,200 aspiring STEM teachers. This will be achieved by refining the training curriculum, expanding the internship program to new cities, and doubling the number of university partnerships by 2018.

California State University

Pledged to increse the supply by preparing 1,500 new secondary math and science teachers annually through 2021, 50% of whom will teach in high-need schools. Will also produce new STEM-certified K-6 teachers each year, starting with 600 in 2015 and increasing to 3,000 by 2019.

Retain excellence by developing clinical partnerships with school districts that foster retention of new, excellent STEM teachers through the new California Alliance for Teacher Preparation, and will initiate district induction partnerships that provide support for excellent novice STEM teachers and help retain math and science teachers affected by lay-offs.

Citizen Schools

Pledged to retain excellence by bringing 5,000 additional STEM professionals into classrooms to teach part-time over the next 5 years to increase STEM capacity and help expose stu-dents to a range of STEM careers.

DC Public Schools

Pledged to retain excellence by engaging students, staff, and community to expand and improve STEM education through increasing student exposure and access to STEM content and programming in and outside of the classroom.

Pledged to retain excellence by working to make STEM a pervasive part of school culture, while recruiting, retaining, and developing excellent STEM teachers to decrease high-need STEM shortage areas and improve teacher quality and effectiveness over the next 5-10 years.

DonorsChoose.org

Pledged to build the movement by inspiring 50,000 everyday citizens to invest in STEM teacher innovation at public middle- and high-schools by Spring 2014, delivering $15 million in critical STEM classroom resources to 600,000 students nationwide.

DSST Public Schools

Pledged to retain excellence by documenting and sharing best practices around STEM teacher support and professional development through regular onsite observation days, video content on the DSST website, and public speaking opportunities reaching 1,000 school administrators, educators, and STEM stakeholders over the next five years.

ElevatED

Pledged to build the movement by partnering with 20 universities to run systematic recruitment campaigns that double the number of STEM majors entering the teaching profession, reaching at least 3,600 STEM undergrads and expanding the teacher pool by 360 STEM teachers by 2018.

Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Pledged to build the movement by leading a systems design process to reimagine Maine’s science learning environment, rallying the state’s thought leaders to ensure that all Maine students achieve science literacy, and assisting other states to adapt this model to address STEM needs.

Pledged to retain excellence by working directly with at least 700 middle school science teachers each year to provide them with rich professional development and curricular resources so they are confident, competent, and enthusiastic about teaching science.

Pledged to build the movement by providing leadership to engage the 16 statewide organizations in the Maine STEM Collaborative in recruiting, preparing, and retaining more excellent STEM teachers

Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education

Pledged to retain excellence by revitalizing and enhancing the content knowledge and practices of more than 500 California STEM teachers through a program that provides STEM teachers with paid, eight-week summer fellowships in companies, universities, and research laboratories.

Museum of Science and Industry

Pledged to retain excellence by preparing 600 middle-school science teachers in high-need Chicago-area schools by 2016, moving them toward a middle-school science endorsement from the Illinois State Board of Education and/or a Masters of Science Education.

Pledged to build the movement by developing teacher and administrator leadership tools and supports and will award and recognize schools demonstrating success to help move Chicago's 482 public K-8 schools toward a culture of Excellence in science education.

National Commission on Teaching and America's Future

PLedged to retain excellence by providing intensive learning opportunities to 3,700 additional STEM teachers in partnership with 1,000 STEM experts in 425 innovative, cross-curricular, collaborative "Design Studio" teams over five years.

PLedged to build the movement by leveraging its deployment capacity to place 100,000 STEM professionals and retirees as adjunct STEM educators in STEM Studio teams by 2016.

Pledged to increase the bupply by parnering with universities and residencies to provide 2,200 prospective teachers with clinical experience in student-centered, competency-based, inquiry learning projects by 2016.

National Math and Science Initiative

Pledged to build the movement by expanding the current network of 44 universities implementing the UTeach secondary STEM teacher preparation program to 55 by 2020 through NMSI’s UTeach Expansion Program.

Pledged to retain excellence by providing research-based professional development to increase content and pedagogical content knowledge of 15,000 teachers by 2020 through NMSI’s Laying the Foundation and College Readiness Programs.

New Teacher Center

Pledged to retain excellence providing online and offline support and mentorship to 15,000 new STEM teachers over the next two years with the goal of accelerating teacher development and student learning and interest in STEM fields.

New York Hall of Science

PLedged to retain excellence by building a center for design-based STEM learning by 2014 that will serve over 10,000 teachers annually and will develop a model program that illustrates how science centers can support teachers in integrating design-based approaches to teaching STEM at the school level.

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Pledged to retain excellence by providing content-rich and hands-on professional development programs for 200 K-12 STEM teachers in fields like mechatronics, computer science, and engineering.

Pledged to build the movement by partnering with NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to create a new five-year teacher training program leveraging NYU's Polytechnic Institute faculty's STEM, research and applied science expertise to significantly enhance content knowledge among program graduates.

PhET

Pledged to retain excellence by supporting over 50,000 STEM teachers by developing a new “Teach” side of the PhET website - improving access to and pedagogically-effective use of PhET simulations for STEM learning - and by creating 30 new innovative math simulations by 2017.

Sesame Workshop

Pledged to retain excellence by developing, testing, and implementing a digital STEM professional development program for early childhood educators to build young children's foundational mathematic skills and foster their engagement in learning, with a focus on underserved communities.

Teach For America

Pledged to increase the supply by recruiting 11,000 STEM corps members by 2015.

PLedged to build the movement by developing and foster relationships to connect high potential applicants who have a STEM background but do not meet Teach For America’s selection criteria with other opportunities to be involved in STEM education.

PLedged to retain excellence enhancing the effectiveness of TFA STEM teachers so that they perform on average at the level of 75th percentile teachers nationwide.

The Achievement Network

Pledged to retain excellence by building the capacity of 5,000 additional science and mathematics teachers over the next five years to make better data-driven instructional decisions that lead to increased student mastery of rigorous content standards.

The UTeach Institute

Pledged to build the movement by developing and sustain 50 replication sites nationwide, doubling the number of STEM majors enrolled to 10,000 by 2017

Pledged to increase the supply by preparing 3500 new STEM teachers through UTeach programs nationwide by 2017.

Pledged to retain excellence by preparing 300 teachers to offer AP Computer Science Principles curriculum to more than 6000 high school students by 2018.

TNTP

Pledged to build the movement by only certifying STEM teachers who have a demonstrated positive impact on student outcomes by implementing an Assessment of Classroom Effectiveness screen for all TNTP Academy participants by spring of 2013.

Pledged to retain excellence by sharing data collected with partner districts and other stakeholders on the impact of certification screens on student outcomes and hiring.

Pledged to increase supply by preparing 2,100 excellent STEM teachers by 2015 through its Teaching Fellows program and TNTP Academy to work in in high-needs classrooms across the country.

University of Arizona STEM Learning Center

Pledged to retain excellence by expanding its Teachers in Industry network throughout Arizona to recruit 30 or more effective early career secondary STEM teachers per-year over the next five years, who will receive master's degrees from the University of Arizona College of Education with substantial course work in math and science, real-world internships, and preparation on the Common Core so that they will remain in the classroom.

Pledged to increase the supply by growing the number of excellent secondary mathematics and science teachers it prepares in its secondary teacher preparation programs from 50 to 70 per-year by 2013, then increasing to 75 per-year for the next three years.

Pledged to build the movement by creating the University of Arizona STEM Learning Center, a regional STEM learning environment that will aim to increasing quality of STEM education from pre-K through university levels. The Center will serve STEM teachers first in Tucson and then expand, serving all STEM teachers in southern Arizona by 2016.

University of California, Berkeley

Pledged to increase the supply by recruiting and prepare 150 STEM majors by 2016 to become STEM teachers in urban schools through the Cal Teach program that integrates content knowledge, pedagogy, and extensive K-12 classroom experiences.

Pledged to retain excellence by creating a corps of 75 Master STEM Teachers by 2016 through incentives and a five-year professional and leadership development program offered by Math for America in Berkeley. These teacher-leaders will promote high-quality STEM instruction within their schools and districts.

Pledged to retain excellence by creating and supporting a community of new, mentor, and master STEM teachers by 2016, including 400 teachers in San Francisco Bay Area public schools, with the goal of strengthening secondary STEM education and teacher retention by allowing teachers to share best practices and support each others' classroom practice.

University of Chicago

Pledged to increase the supply by creating a rigorous training model to train and support 500 new K-12 STEM teachers for Chicago Public Schools over five years.

Pledged to build the movement by appointing and staffing a National Commission to recommend and review STEM programs for 100Kin10.

University of Washington

Pledged to retain excellence by developing video-based and online learning tools designed to foster the early career success of K-12 math and science teachers, and will work with teachers, mentors, administrators, and instructional specialists in seven schools districts in the Seattle area over the next five years to measure and assess their efficacy.

Pledged to increase the supply by preparing 300 new K-12 math and science teachers by 2015 and will develop and leverage new partnerships to prepare STEM teachers over five years.

Pledged to build the movement by partnering with teacher education organizations across the country to disseminate video-based and online learning tools designed to foster the early career success and support ambitious STEM teaching practices of K-12 math and science teachers over the next five years.

Urban Teachers

Pledged to increase the supply by recruiting, preparing, and retaining 750 highly effective and accountable STEM teachers who make a four-year commitment to work in high-need urban districts by 2016.

Pledged to retain excellence by partnering with four high-need urban districts to place 200 small cohorts of highly effective and accountable STEM teachers and foster professional learning communities among them to improve student mathematics and science performance year over year by 2016.

WNET

Pledged to build the movement by using its signature educational conference, Celebration of Teaching & Learning, as a gathering place and learning hub for the 100Kin10 partners and produce a series of interstitials or PSAs to bring awareness to the movement for four years.

“People throw around a lot of goals that sound really hard and then no one does anything about them. It was exciting to see some galvanized effort around a very specific goal. And an achievable goal at that.”
"100Kin10 is about finding the maximum benefit from money that is already being spent in a particular area by bringing those people to the table and creating a framework around which they can work, learn, and collaborate."
"I really feel that it is a level playing field. It's not the funders on one level and the programmatic partners on the other. Everyone is part of this collaborative effort to meet the goal together. I think that's one of the main values...bringing everyone to the table together to share learnings.”
“100Kin10 has been such an exemplar of the power a collective group of funders, practitioners, researchers can have when energy is focused on solving and collaborating on a clearly defined problem.”