Grantees

Currently, CPER is invested in six sites across the country - California, Chicago, Denver, Mississippi, New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania - helping to build groups' organizing capacity and to advance specific policy reforms on issues such as teacher quality, parental involvement, high school reform, extended learning, adequate and equitable public school funding, autonomous schools, access to higher education, and ending the school to prison pipeline.

In 2010, CPER awarded its first national grant to the Communities for Excellent Public Schools coalition.

In 2007, with the support of the Ford Foundation, CPER and the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) awarded grants to support community-based organizations working to improve educational opportunities for immigrant children. These special opportunity grants were designed to support work at the intersection of immigration and education reform and supported organizations working in sites already funded by both FFF and CPER: Chicago, Denver, New Jersey and Philadelphia. The grantees and their work are described in the CPER Directory and below.

As of May 2010, CPER grantees include: