Black Foundation Involvement in Education in the United States
Bruce Fuller, Professor
Education
Applications for Spring 2024 are closed for this project.
This project examines the role of Black Foundations in K-12 public education in the United States. We seek to track how Black foundations are directing grant dollars to education initiatives and analyze grantmaking practices by building an original dataset of grant awards.
The research apprentice will play a key role in shaping this important data set, as a major part of the larger project. The apprentice will receive weekly mentoring and guidance as the project proceeds.
Role: Four primary duties for the URAP apprentice: (1) data entry, (2) data cleaning and sorting, (3) quantitative analysis using statistical software. Data include examining federal tax filings for foundations and focusing on their grant awards (name of grantee, location of grantee, amount of grant, and purpose of the grant) and examining foundation websites to construct a profile of foundation type. URAP students will also (4) examine grantee websites and tax filings to build a profile of the grantee’s target population and key programs.
Qualifications: Required skills: familiarity with Microsoft Excel and comfortability with using or learning statistical software packages (e.g., STATA) for basic descriptive statistics; detail oriented and able to work independently; and ability to synthesize key findings for broad audiences.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Jeremy Martin
Hours: 3-5 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: Students will meet with the researcher on campus (at Berkeley Way West), but the dataset will be available digitally, so students can conduct their work off-campus if they prefer.
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology