Public Agenda
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In one of its first grants, the Foundation is awarding $500,000 to Public Agenda to support the expansion of its initiative titled "Students Face up to the Nation's Finances," a package of learning materials designed to raise college students' awareness of our national fiscal challenges and engage them in a discussion of the solutions. The materials, which will be provided to at least 500 colleges and universities, can be adopted as mini-courses within existing classes. Intensive work with four colleges, to be identified during the first year of the project, will yield even more innovative uses of the materials.
The expectation is that a significant number of the 20,000 to 30,000 educators involved will continue to use these tools for years, and that professors and colleges not directly recruited by Public Agenda will begin adopting the materials, as well. Other long-term goals include the establishment of federal finances and fiscal responsibility as a part of more colleges' curricula, and seeding and inspiring student organizations to speak out as informed, active citizens.
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