Family and Community Engagement

… results in Family and Community Engagement.

Manos Unidas
An interactive corpus of sign language words, a smartphone app, and a literacy outreach program for deaf children and their families
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Creative Associates International
Mobilizing community members to submit favorite local stories and folktales and distributing the stories, along with comprehension questions, to early grade students and their families via SMS.
Competition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Oeuvre Malienne d’aide à l’Enfance du Sahel
Providing families in Mali with immediate access to community developed print and digital reading resources through mobile technology and local libraries
Competition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo A.C.
Fostering parental engagement through use of “Mundo de Libros,” a technology-based tool that matches students with grade level-appropriate Spanish reading materials that align with their abilities
Competition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Sesame Workshop India Trust
Providing families with a smartphone based mobile app, based on the Marathi dubbed version of Sesame Street, (Galli Galli Sim Sim), to promote mother-tongue literacy skills
Competition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Dost Education
A mobile service that empowers mothers to be an integral part of their child's development—including learning to read
Competition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
Amount Awarded
$10,000
Winner Status
Winner
The Asia Foundation
Improving parent-school and parent-child relationships through the development of relevant reading materials for students and teaching aids for parents and educators
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
ECo-Development
Increasing the availability of culturally-responsive and context-relevant multilingual education materials in mother tongue languages for primary schools in Bandarban District, Bangladesh
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
FHI 360
Developing instruction and learning materials in mother tongue languages and engaging family and community support in reading.
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Georgia State University
Increasing the reading achievement levels of young learners through implementation of research-based, context-relevant literacy curricula and materials
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Pragya
Building a system to monitor and generate education data for marginalized schools in the Himalayan region of India
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Pratham Education Foundation
A learning camp that combines doing, speaking, reading, and writing around each learning activity
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Save the Children Malawi
Accelerating children’s reading by training teachers and non-literate parents on activities to do at home to improve their children’s language skills
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Save the Children Sri Lanka
Improving reading skills of children with special needs using by providing teaching and learning materials and assessment tools to teachers and resources and training for families
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Urban Planet Mobile
Delivering daily SMS reading lessons to adult caregivers through mobile devices to help develop their child’s literacy
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
World Education, Inc.
Developing reading benchmarks for new reading curriculum and a rapid reading response system (including the first literacy app in Khmer), to address reading difficulties for children in Cambodia
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
YMCA Senegal
Generating a passion to read, through Read Right Now!, an after-school weekly reading session to improve students reading skills
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner