National Public Education Support Fund

The mission of the National Public Education Support Fund (NPESF) is to promote equitable opportunity for all children to obtain a high-quality education from birth through college and career. We support our mission in three ways: 1. We provide leadership support to the Alliance for Excellent Education, the nation’s premiere advocacy organization for promoting high school transformation. AEE wants to make it possible for every child to graduate from high school well prepared for postsecondary learning and success in life. 2. We sponsor the Education Funder Strategy Group (EFSG), a membership forum for leading state, regional, and national foundations focused on U.S. education policy. EFSG's goal is to help foundations work together to around education reform, learn from high-performing countries and systems, and ultimately improve student outcomes. Since its founding in 2009, EFSG has grown into a learning community of 30 leading foundations focused on education policy across the learning continuum from early childhood to K-12 to higher education. 3. We also make grants to other public charities that share our vision. We like to support organizations whose work advances what we see as some of the key drivers of effective education reform, such as learning from other education systems around the world, developing new ways to teach and learn for the 21st century, and keeping a constant focus on equity to make sure all kids receive the same opportunities to learn.