The MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with The MasterCard Foundation, Wellspring Advisors and Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Family Foundation has announced the 2012 Call for Proposals: Strengthening Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education. These funders have allocated up to $5 million for the Call for Proposals subject to the quality of proposals received, and will consider funding levels between $50,000 and $500,000 over a period of one to three years for projects.
Types of Projects
Applications are invited for the following types of projects.
Research – including descriptive studies of the nature of problems and rigorous evaluations of promising programs that help build an evidence base that informs programming, experimentation and policy planning, as well as building research capacity.
Pilot projects testing innovations – testing approaches to particular problems such as tailoring courses of study/curriculum to varied and changing labor market needs for “21st Century skills”, exploring the use of technology to deliver and to enrich instruction and learning, reducing barriers and facilitating transition and completion of secondary education for vulnerable groups, achieving and sustaining gender equity, and ensuring improved and relevant learning outcomes.
Scale-up of successful models – scoping activities to examine models of public-private partnership; explore the cost-effectiveness, relevance, strategic fit and scalability of different service delivery models; and build relationships among government, industry and private actors to develop collaborative strategies to implement first phase efforts to expand proven interventions.
Applicants may propose work in the following geographic areas.
- East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda)
- Nigeria (particularly the states of Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa, Lagos and Rivers)
- India (particularly the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra)
The application process will involve two successive review stages: Letters of Inquiry (LOI) and Proposals. Successful applications will be invited to advance to the second, Proposal, phase of the review process.
Deadline for all Letters of Inquiry submissions is July 5, 2012 at 12:00pm CDT. For more information, visit this link.
My name is Nansamba Mutaawe Milly the strategic planning and resource mobilisation officer Child Aid Uganda. Child Aid Uganda is currently running an education program that is benefiting orphans and other vulnerable children in Lyantonde district. This education scholarship program is currently benefiting 521 children of whom 301 are at primary level, 183 at secondary and 37 at tertiary. 60% of these beneficiaries are female and 40% are male. The organisation is experiencing great challenge due to the limited funds available therefore there is a great possibility of these children not completing their education which is contrary to our goal.Our aim is to see these vulnerable children going through from primary level till tertiary so that they are in position to get employment and live better lives.There is still great need to help these vulnerable children attain education as it transforms their lives and improves the well being and standard of living in their respective homes.This has been evidenced by those who have finished, started working and are now in position to look after their young ones and relatives.The need is still very great but if given more funding, we hope to expand our scope of coverage because there are so many vulnerable children in the area whom we can include on the program and also ensure that those on the program are in position to study and complete their education so as to have a brighter future ahead of them.
I am contacting you in order to establish communication for future possibilities of collaboration. If this project seems to be of interest to you, I would be more than happy to send an official proposal.I do look forward to hearing from you and hope this message finds you with happiness. Thank you for your time.
Kind regards,
Nansamba Mutaawe Milly
Strategic Planning and Resource Mobilisation Officer
Child Aid Uganda (CHAU)
P.O BOX 5, Lyantonde – Uganda
Are you also accepting proposals against this call for secondary education qualtiy enhancement from other states of India like Jharkhand?
I work with a charity organization(Non Profit ) called “Humanity First Uganda ” . we are working for the development of community in Uganda . We work in three basic needs of human being
1. Water
2. Education
3. Health
this is a voluntarily organization , that is why our 97% funds directly reach to the poor community .
Usually ignored by people, who keep allowing their jobs to get in the way.
I am very grateful for your offer, but i will be grateful if you may add Ghana to the geographic areas. I am the administrative manager for a foundation in Ghana registered under the name “FOUNDATION FOR RURAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT”(FORUSUD). We are working hard in providing basic education for especially children in the northern part of Ghana.the people of the northern part of Ghana needs help from benevolent organizations such as MacArthur Foundation. please consider Ghana and consider basic education as well.
counting on your cooperation.
best regards
Welbeck Nii Ayi
am highly humbled for the opportunity the McAthur foundation has brought forward. I am the former vice president of The National Student Leaders’ council in Kenya and am working hard to register an NGO majoring in knowledge$ education, Research, innovation and on cultural aspects that can expand into modern scientific applications. my group has come up with a number of projects in with coincidentally innovation at secondary education is prioritized.
The major hiccup to us is a financial base for both the setup and to launch the projects. we already have quite a number of teenagers who have innovative ideas with commercial viability but have been locked out due to lack of proper systems.
my major objective is to see that innovations at secondary education level can serve to better the Kenyan education system, contribute to knowledge creation,enable creation of knowledge based industries and assist in bettering research and innovation schemes at tertiary level.
With your assistance we will be able to put up an innovation hub in Kenya and assist in job creation and economic development.
I hereby ask for assistance to complete setting up the NGO and work towards achieving our goals.
Honourable Sir,
With great honour and respect it is stated that we are a n NGO working
with the name of Vision (Voice for internal & social issues ongoing
network). We have undertaken many projects regarding medicinal
requirements, Sanitation, shelter, distribution of NFI and FI &
education for the people who are destroyed in the floods.. As for as
agriculture is concerned we have worked in the fields of increasing
land yield, use of proper seeds and variety along with the dairy farms
and poultry farms. As a result of severe flood there is a greater
damage to these infrastructure. We are committed to rebuilding the
efforts. For this we need tremendous help from the organizations like
yours.
Now it is requested in your good honour that if our organization can
contribute or feasible according to your standards let us know so that
we can expedite the forthcoming avenues. We are really waiting
anxiously for any type of work what so ever you feel we can do.
Thanks.
Best Regards.
Muhammad Rizwan,
President,
Vision NGO
This project comes really on due time for Rwanda,because the Ministry of education has adopted the English as a used language in schools by reploacing french.Itself it was a good idea with entrance of Rwanda within the East African Community,but teachers were not prepared in advance,which has weakened the Secondary School.We’d like to launch a project of training teachers and making a continuous assessment of the progress made through this training.
MUHOZA Caleb
Project Manager of USADEC
Strengthening Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education
This project would bw very suitable not only in(particularly the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra), I would like to suggest North East India where the colony of tribal indegenious community live in, it backwardness and slow developed by the India.Please include North East India for this project.
Khaihao Haokip
Social Worker.
My names are Rev.Adonijah Luvisha Mulanda .Im an ordained pastor,serving as a parish pastor incharge of seven congregations.My church`s mission is to reach man both physically and mentally.I believe that this project can be of good benefit to my society and the church for from it the community can manage how to solve problems related to the social economic which are ahindrence to development.A developing country Kenya needs such projects to meet the demands of its peopple.