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This firm, based in the UK, provides branding, design, and creative communications expertise to the Foundation.
What is Wondersphere?
Spencer said of his hopes for the Foundation: "All" of this "was earned improbably from education. It makes sense, therefore, that most of this [redacted] should be returned eventually to investigating ways in which education can be improved, around the world. Broadly conceived, wherever learning occurs."
What is Spencer dough?
This staff member is known for bringing their sweet potato pie to the office during the holiday season.
Who is Andreason Brown?
This board member is a Canadian-American developmental psychologist with expertise in early childhood and literacy.
Who is Nonie Lesaux?
The Spencer Foundation has had this many presidents since it was founded.
What is six?
This tongue-in-cheek phrase refers to the potential impact new staff are jokingly warned about thanks to the Foundation's legendary food culture.
What is the Spencer 15?
The following statement serves as this for the Foundation: We believe education research is integral to improving education, making education systems more equitable, and increasing opportunities to learn across the lifespan.
What is Spencer's motivation?
This staff member holds the distinction of having the longest tenure in the Foundation.
Who is Doris Fischer?
This board member's research is multidisciplinary and uses a variety of asset-based conceptual frameworks—funds of knowledge, community cultural wealth and the forms of capital—and of statistical approaches—econometric models, multilevel models, spatial analyses and GIS, and social network analysis—to study the educational and occupational trajectories of marginalized students.
Who is Cecilia Rios-Aguilar?
The Spencer Foundation was incorporated in this year. Other notable events that took place in this year include: 1) the first black student, James Meredith, registered at the University of Mississippi; 2) the Cuban Missile Crisis started in this year; 3) the animated sitcom the Jetsons premiered on ABC; and 4) Bob Dylan released his debut album.
What is 1962?
Spencer currently has this many staff members across programs, finance, IT, communications, and the executive team (the whole org).
What is 24?
The following statements are two examples of this:
What are Spencer's goals?
This staff member is currently writing a non-fiction novel about a murder that took place in their hometown.
Who is Luciana (Lucy) Van Dort?
This board member is an accomplished executive leader in both the global financial marketplace and intercollegiate athletics.
Who is Mike Williams?
Since the Spencer Foundation started making grants in the early 1970s, how many millions in grants has the Foundation awarded?
What is $500 million?
The Spencer Foundation used to be headquartered here, home of the now closed Signature Room.
What is the former John Hancock Center?
Supporting education research that is rigorous, relevant, equitable, collaborative, and transformative are these type of commitments for the Foundation.
What are Spencer's core commitments?
This staff member was classmates with their mother during their undergraduate years.
Who is Na'ilah Nasir?
This board member is the recipient of over fifteen honorary doctorates and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2016.
Who is Eduardo Padron?
Across grants (research, training, field-building) and awards (mentorship), the Foundation currently provides funding across this many programs.
What is 8 or 9?
Early Spencer funding helped support research involving this famous primate known for learning more than 1,000 words in American Sign Language.
Who is Koko the Gorilla?
Quoting Spencer, Charles Dollard, friend and former director of the Foundation, recounted that "he liked to say that it was quite as important where one went to" for this "as where one went to" for this.
What are kindergarten and college?
This staff member received an undergraduate and graduate degree in industrial engineering.
Who is Laura Glick?
This board member was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas before attending graduate school.
Who is Rob Reich?
This corporation purchased Science Research Associates (the educational publishing firm that provided the basis of Lyle Spencer's wealth) in 1964 for $55 million.
Who/What is IBM?