Tweet.edu: List of Education Foundations, Associations, and Thinktanks on Twitter (updated)
Below is a list of education foundations, thinktanks and associations on twitter. Initially, I planned to focus on foundations, but as the lines are blurry between organizations that fund, advocate, or operate innovative projects, the scope grew as I went on.
Update (9/01/09): I added about 20 new groups, based on additional searching and recommendations — new groups are marked with *.
**If you’re interested in education reporters on twitter, check out this post on Meranda Writes.
The list is broad, coming from a search of more than 300 potential organizations, but it is by no means comprehensive — yet.I would appreciate any suggestions or recommendations of groups and organizations to add; you can leave them in the comments, or send them to me on twitter (jarsenault).
The List
[groups are listed with number of followers as of 8/21/09]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gatesfoundation, 11413
Cato Institute, catoinstitute, 12071
Manhattan Institute, ManhattanInst, 2134
National Education Assocation (NEA), NatEdAssoc, 1933
Foundation Center, fdncenter, 1376
Milken Foundation, Milken, 1296
Annie E. Casey Fund, AnnieECaseyFndn, 1240
Cleveland Foundation, clevefoundation, 1222
*Priest Holmes Foundation, priestholmes, 1208
Columbus Foundation, colsfoundation, 1126
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KauffmanFDN, 875
Hewlett Foundation, Hewlett_Found, 852
Pittsburgh Foundation, PittsburghFDN, 797
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, charteralliance, 763
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, CarnegieFdn, 747
Education Sector, EdSector, 711
EdEquality Project, edequality, 702
*Kokua Hawaii Foundation, kokua, 589
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, mottfoundation, 563
Grand Rapids Community Foundation, GRCommFound, 557
Siemens Foundation, sfoundation, 549
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, gkccf, 547
Broad Foundation, broadfoundation, 506
*Center for Education Reform, edreform, 539
Baltimore Community Foundation, baltcommfdn, 487
The Atlantic Philanthropies, atlantic, 432
New America Foundation, EdPolicyatNAF, 425
Fordham Institute, educationgadfly, 338
*Mark Victor Hansen Foundation, mvhfoundation, 323
SeaChange Capital Partners, jenngoldstone, 318
*Schott Foundation, opp2learn, 312
Bourne Education, boerneeducation, 280
LENA Foundation, LENAFoundation, 253
*Edustat University, edustat, 243
*Coalition of Essential Schools, CESNational, 219
Jacksonville Public Education Fund, jaxPEF, 210
*Eastlake Educational Foundation, EEFkids, 189
*Motorola Foundation, innov8gen, 187
*JWS Foundation, JWSfoundation, 182
Burroughs Wellcome Fund, razoobe, 172
Apple FCU Education Foundation, applefcu, 155
Democrats for Education Reform, Dems4EdReform, 134
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, grdodge, 113
Community Foundation in Jacksonville , cfjacksonville, 101
Chicago Community Trust, ChiTrust, 95
*Alliance for School Choice, 4SchoolChoice
The Skillman Foundation, skillmanfound, 84
Children and Youth Funding Report, ChldYthFunding, 78
Carnegie Corporation of New York, CarnegieCorp, 72
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation, TheKSTF, 70
*WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH_Nancy, 69
*Savage Foundation, savagefound, 59
George Lucas Educational Foundation, edutopia, 53
Alliance for Excellent Education, Jason_Amos, 42
*Longfellow Legacy Foundation, LongfellowLegacyFdn, 38
*Pearson Foundation, pfoundation, 33
*Palmetto Horizon Foundation, PalmettoHorizon, 32
*Tiny Wish Foundation, tinywishfndtn, 28
*Chemical Educational Foundation, chem_ed, 27
Nellie Mae Education Foundation, NellieMaeEdFdn, 19
*David Fox Foundation, DFoxFoundation, 16
Surdna Foundation, surdna_fndn, 16
Greater Texas Foundation, Gr8rTXFdtn, 15
Bush Foundation, BushFoundation, 10
The Wallace Foundation, WallaceFdn, 10
McCormick Foundation, McCormick_Fdn, 8
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, DBFoundation, 8
Marin Education Fund, marineducationf, 8
Lilly Endowment , lillyendowment, 0
Also, let me know if you have ideas/requests for new directions for this list. I intend to continue updating, but also to add sub-lists for some of the specific foundations/programs not included here (e.g., I didn’t include the many foundations specifically for music education, health education, or environmental education, and I also plan to do another version for international/global foundations and NGO’s).
Any requests or suggestions?
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