Global Kids
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Grants
9
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Total Awarded
$3,293,000
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Years
2005 - 2011
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Categories
Grants
2011 (1 year)
$200,000
Global Kids is a New York City-based non-profit that provides civic learning opportunities for youth and helps young people of diverse backgrounds develop the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to become successful citizens, including a wide range of programs using badge systems to support middle and high school students’ learning in school, and in other venues. It will use this grant to develop a comprehensive badge system for young people based on Global Kids’ programs and activities of the Hive Learning Networks in Chicago and New York that can serve as a model for building other badge systems elsewhere.
2009 (2 years)
$400,000
To support new mechanisms to use virtual worlds for youth development, and to provide technical assistance to civic and cultural institutions interested in using immersive online spaces for educational programming (over two years).
2009 (2 years)
$400,000
To support new mechanisms to use virtual worlds for youth development, and to provide technical assistance to civic and cultural institutions interested in using immersive online spaces for educational programming (over two years).
2009 (1 year)
$360,000
Support to explore the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds.
2009 (1 year)
$360,000
Support to explore the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds.
2007 (1 year)
$103,000
To build the field of digital media and learning by engaging an international youth community in online and multimedia activities that explores everyday use of digital media and advances media literacy skills.
2007 (1 year)
$400,000
To explore the role of philanthropy in teen-oriented virtual worlds.
2006 (3 years)
$900,000
In support of building the field of digital media and learning by engaging young people in online and multimedia activities that explore their everyday use of digital media (over three years).
2005 (1 year)
$170,000
In support of building the field of digital media and learning by engaging young people in online discussions and written essays about their use of digital media.
