2010 News Archives
KnowledgeWorks helps spearhead strategy to help education funders leverage impact
KnowledgeWorks, Grantmakers for Education (GFE) a national network of 260 public and private philanthropies, and Collective Invention, a social innovation firm, have developed an approach for grant funders and philanthropies to explore how to help transform the education system toward innovation and next-generation learning.
Two new briefs housed on the website of GFE offer insight into these efforts.
KnowledgeWorks CEO Chad Wick to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Ohio College Access Network
KnowledgeWorks Chief Executive Officer Chad Wick will receive the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ohio College Access Network, or OCAN, on Monday as part of a joint conference with the Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
Illinois Institute of Technology to Provide More Than $2 Million in Scholarships to New Tech Network Students
The Illinois Institute of Technology, or IIT, will offer up to 25 scholarships annually worth more than $17,000 a year to graduates of New Tech Network high schools, the Chicago-based university announced today.
New project profiles Ohio students after graduation from innovative Early College High Schools
Adairia Kelly of Dayton, a member of Ohio’s first Early College High School graduating class at Dayton Early College Academy, is now nearing graduation at Miami University with a degree in social work. Kelly has achieved success with odds heavily against her – having overcome disruption in her early life as the child of teenage parents and the death of a brother due to street violence.
Veteran telecommunications executive Brian Ross named president of KnowledgeWorks
KnowledgeWorks today announced that veteran telecommunications executive Brian Ross has been named president of the Cincinnati-based national education reform organization.
Ross, 52 and a KnowledgeWorks board member since 2007, assumes the title of president from founding chief executive officer Chad P. Wick, who remains CEO. Ross will manage the day-to-day operations of KnowledgeWorks and help the non-profit organization rapidly expand its portfolio of innovative high school approaches nationwide.
