Verizon Gives $31-Million for Education Web Site

May 3, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute

Over the next three years, the Verizon Foundation, in Washington, will put $31-million toward its Thinkfinity.org educational and literacy program.

The site provides more than 50,000 free lesson plans for elementary- and secondary-school students developed by leading educational institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Center for Family Literacy, and the National Geographic Society.

The new money from the foundation will allow the organizations to increase the number of resources available on the site.

Thinkfinity.org also provides training materials to help teachers learn how to integrate online resources into their lessons and information for literacy volunteers.

To get there: Go to http://www.thinkfinity.org.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.