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Item A Case Study of a School-University Partnership Focused on Literacy and Educational Equity: Responding to COVID-19 in the Early Grades(Emerald Publishing, 2021) Galindo, Claudia L.; Sonnenschein, Susan; Sanders, Mavis G.School-university partnerships have emerged over the past three decades to increase educational opportunities for underserved students. One example is the Literacy Fellows Program (LFP), a recently created partnership between the Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and two Baltimore City public schools. The LFP recruits and coordinates undergraduate volunteers to support literacy teaching and learning in first and second grade classrooms. This paper draws on interviews with 11 teachers and 20 volunteers, and 32 classroom observations conducted before and during COVID-19. Classroom teachers and undergraduate volunteers recognized multiple benefits of the program for all participants. COVID-19 has imposed challenges for teaching and the implementation of the LFP that have temporarily reduced the program’s effectiveness. However, these challenges also provide important lessons for improving implementation in the future. Implications of these findings for future research and partnership practice are discussed.Item Fifteen Years of Philanthropic Leadership: A Summative Evaluation of the Marguerite Casey Foundation(IssueLab, 2016-07) Sanders, Mavis G.; Galindo, Claudia L.Established in October 2001, the Marguerite Casey Foundation (Foundation) has been in the forefront of movement building to transform the lives of poor families and children. Its evolution has occurred in two overlapping and interconnected phases described here as organizational development and movement building. Regarding organizational development, the Foundation has: Established its mission, vision, and an overall strategy–Equal Voice; Developed innovative grantmaking guidelines that include general, long-term funding to support cornerstone organizations working across issues, races and ethnicities, regions and egos to bring about change that improves the social and economic well-being of families; Evolved its theory of change, highlighting the importance of the overlapping strategies of communications and grantmaking to achieve the Foundation’s goals; and Identified five indicators of movement building progress within the Equal Voice framework to guide its evaluations. Additional progress has focused on movement building. Specifically, the Foundation has: Developed the Equal Voice National Family platform, a comprehensive agenda for policy change, with the guidance and input of tens of thousands of low-income families; Built 13 regional Equal Voice networks and one national Equal Voice network by providing support for network weavers; Developed a communications strategy and infrastructure that is synthesized with grantmaking to advance the Foundation’s mission; and Launched an independent, family-led membership organization, Equal Voice Action, to further advance its efforts. Now, embarking on its 15th year, the Foundation is entering a new phase of possibilities at a time when the prevalence of poverty and the risks associated with economic insecurity are increasing. This summative evaluation was commissioned by the Foundation to mark this milestone, facilitate reflection on lessons learned, and provide recommendations for future work. Drawing on secondary sources, interview and survey data gathered from Marguerite Casey Foundation leaders and staff, network weavers, and current and former grantees, the report describes the Foundation’s practices and impact as well as key areas of consideration for its continued and future work.