Gender and Educational Philanthropy

Foreword; A.Walton Introduction; A.E.Ginsberg & M.Gasman PART I: DEFINITIONS OF GENDER BIAS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN EDUCATION: WHY TARGET GENDER FOR FUNDING? Talking about Gender Equity and Education: A FrameWorks Message Memo; J.Grady & A.Auburn Gender Matters: Funding Effective Programs for Women and Girls; M.Mead Grantmaking with a Gender Lens - GrantCraft, Project of the Ford Foundation PART II: AND WHAT ABOUT THE BOYS?: MOVING BEYOND GENDER AS A DICHOTOMY Funding Urban Education Reform: Looking at Relationships Among Gender, Race, and Class in School-based Equity Programs; J.Ward Stereotypes, Challenges, and Pathways to Funding Boys Programs in the Inner City: C.Soto Saving Black Boys; R.Smith PART III: YOUTH AT THE CENTER: CULTIVATING FUTURE PHILANTHROPISTS AND INVOLVING GIRLS IN FUNDING DECISIONS Power and Possibilities: Collaborative Fund for Youth-Led Social Change; A.Nagle, M.Wignaraja, P.C.Fullwood & M.Hempel Sisters Empowering Sisters - Girl's Best Friend Foundation Young Women for Change - The Michigan Women's Foundation PART IV: FUNDING COLLABORATIONS: BRINGING FUNDERS AND PROGRAMMERS TOGETHER FOR SYSTEMATIC CHANGE Collaborations for Gender Equity in the Context of Policy and System-wide Change; S.Mark The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking; J.Peterson Bringing Funders Together To Talk about Girls: A Roundtable Discussion; D.Brown & A.Fraiser PART V: NEW MODELS OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: HOW TO LOOK AT GENDER AND ACHEIVEMENT BEYOND HIGH STAKES TESTING? Improving Philanthropy for Girls - The Three Guineas Fund Gender Equity in Urban Education: New Relationships between Funding and Evaluation; A.E.Ginsberg Conclusion; A.E.Ginsberg & M.Gasman