:: Foundation/Major Donor Watch
We will monitor media releases announcing key initiatives and new research from a growing number of global foundations and donors engaged in the human rights, humanitarian response and development spheres of action. This Watch section is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative.
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Kellogg Foundation
http://www.wkkf.org/news-and-media#pp=10&p=1&f1=news
Nov. 24, 2014
Statement on Ferguson: Our nation must reject violence, strive toward racial equity, and embrace the common good in all
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MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/
Publication
Evaluation of the Digital Media & Learning Competition
Published November 26, 2014

Increasing availability and accessibility of digital media have changed the ways in which young people learn, socialize, play, and engage in civic life. Seeking to understand how learning environments and institutions should transform to respond to these changes, the MacArthur Foundation (the Foundation) launched the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Initiative in 2005. The DML Competition (the Competition), one component of the DML Initiative, identifies innovators and invests in prototypes of games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, social networks, digital badge platforms, and more in support of connected learning. The Competition completed four cycles between 2007 and 2014, awarding over $10 million to individuals, universities, for-profit organizations, and nonprofit organizations within and outside the United States.

In 2013, the Foundation engaged Informing Change to evaluate the DML Competition, assessing the Competition’s goals, processes, and impacts on awardees, awarded projects, the DML landscape, and the Foundation. Along with site visits and a review of relevant Competition and grantee documents, the mixed-methods evaluation incorporated interview and survey data collected from Foundation staff, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) staff who implement the Competition, Competition awardees and finalists, and key field leaders…