Education Funding Grants

Foundacion EDUCA

December 02, 2008 1 min read
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The New York Life Foundation awarded a three-year $300,000 grant to Fundacion EDUCA, a nonprofit that focuses on strengthening community schools and improving K-12 education in Mexico.

Money from the grant will go towards training teachers and directors; establishing creative libraries in underperforming schools; improving EDUCA’s data gathering, financial tracking, and reporting; and helping schools with their organizational structure, financial stability, training programs, and educational quality.

For more information about the New York Life Foundation, including recent grant activity, click here.

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