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Philanthropic Organizations
- The Omidyar Network
- Operation Family Fund
- The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- The Robin Hood Foundation
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Ronald McDonald House Charities
- The Ross Institute
- The Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation
- The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund
- The Saban Family Foundation
- The Larry and Jane Scheinfeld Foundation
- The Skoll Foundation
- The Smith Richardson Foundation
- The Soros Foundation Network
- Tomorrow's Hope Foundation
- United Nations Foundation
- The Waitt Family Foundation
Ross Institute
Founder: Courtney Sale Ross
Area of interest: Education
Notable projects/programs:
The Ross Model - From East Hampton, New York, The Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education desires to improve education and commitment to learning around the world.
Developed at the Ross School of East Hampton, New York, the Ross Model is a globally focused, interdisciplinary mode of instruction created to harmonize disparities in students' ways of learning, expose them to technology as they emerge, and encourage inter-cultural unity. The Ross Institute has also explored the link between nutrition and well-being in optimal learning. The Ross Institute preps students for globalization and its possible implications. Tensta Gymnasium, a Swedish public school, was one of the first to adopt the model from the Ross Institute. Since doing so, its enrollment rates have increased.
More about Ross Institute:
In 2006, Courtney Ross and the Ross Institute built the Ross Global Academy, a public charter school in the Lower East Side of New York City. Having partnered with the Steinhart School of Education of New York University and the NY Board of Education, the Ross Global Academy is a one-of-a-kind "laboratory school" featuring the innovative Ross Model of interdisciplinary instruction. The Academy admits students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, including students with disabilities and English Language Learners (ELLs). Like any other charter school, lotteries determine enrollment.
There is also the Ross Institute Inter-University Consortium, which is made up of schools that utilize the Ross School in East Hampton as a laboratory school. On top of the Ross Global Academy, the Ross Institute and the Morriss Center School consolidated in 2006 to become an educational complex leveraging the best features of both.
The Ross Model is the brainchild of Ross Institute founder Courtney Ross. She survives her husband, the late Steve Ross, who merged Warner Communications with Time Inc. in 1988. Courtney Ross is an avid contributor to nonprofits targeting poverty, globalization, and US-China relations. Courtney Ross has one daughter, Nicole Ross.