General Purposes
International Centre of Excellence for Community Schools
- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Special Initiatives
- Grant Amount $150,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2016–December 31, 2017
- Location London, United Kingdom
- Geographic Focus World
About this grant
The program goal is to promote the development of community schools around the world. The International Centre of Excellence for Community Schools will raise the profile of community schools among educational authorities, peer organizations and networks, and funders internationally. It will continue to develop and deliver a range of capacity building services and resources to community school support organizations, with a growing focus on partners in Africa. In 2014-2015, the grantee helped introduce quality standards to a network of over 500 community schools in Southern Africa while also helping launch a community schools development program in Bulgaria. It also created a specialized training program on entrepreneurship for community schools. Formally registered in 2013, the International Centre of Excellence for Community Schools began as a project of the British educational charity ContinYou.