Past Grantees

To undertake the planning phase of an initiative that will leverage 100Kin10’s network impact model to identify the project management needs of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (“STEM”) teachers and teacher-serving organizations to determine how best its network can together ideate, co-invest in, and innovate effective ways to support them to acquire and to apply that knowledge.

To build on the success of the PMIEF-funded “Global Competence through Career and Technical Education” initiative by 1) piloting it with Asia Pacific career and technical education (CTE) teachers to ascertain its usability with global audiences and 2) creating and piloting a new video course and an accompanying toolkit for U.S. secondary school CTE teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related pathways to help bridge the pervasive STEM skills gap.

To support Jun€co, a new financial literacy program that will reach primary school students and schoolteachers in Italy by delivering instruction in economics and project management so students can design and implement thoughtful service projects that benefit their local community.

To deliver project management training to secondary school students in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil so they can apply their knowledge either to ideate, to design, and to execute a project of their choice or to facilitate Junior Achievement Brazil programming for primary school students.

To 1) deliver project management training and career presentations to secondary school students so they can facilitate JA of Chicago programming for primary school students through the organization’s “High School Heroes” program and 2) deliver project management training to JA of Chicago operations managers to build their capacity to facilitate volunteer training and volunteer-led events.

To deliver project management fundamentals training to secondary school students and teachers as well as to provide teachers a project-based learning-oriented study abroad experience to prepare them to integrate project management into their curricula.

To design, to implement, and to pilot project management-rich leadership development curricula with secondary school students (and AmeriCorps members) in Appalachia, USA in three states – Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia – so they recognize the importance of community service, make a meaningful difference in their community through thoughtful projects, and identify the intrinsic connection between leadership skills and effective project management.

To expand Mission Possible (which PMIEF funded the creation of through a 2014 grant) nationally in India and to launch it in Singapore to empower youth to become global change agents by educating and training them on United Nations perspectives, Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”), and global 21st century and project management skills so they ideate and implement SDG-inspired projects that effect positive change in their local community.

To develop an online course and accompanying handbook that enable career and technical education administrators to build their instructional leadership capacity to strengthen teachers’ project-based learning instruction through project management.

To define exemplary project-based learning through guidelines and indicators into which BIE will deeply integrate project management for global adoption, adaptation and application.

To assess the depth of DI students’ project management knowledge as a result of participating in the organization’s 2015-16 challenges and to use the data to inform how best to strengthen project management integration into DI’s curricula and challenge activities.

To integrate project management into INJAZ’s Enterprise Business Challenge to support young people’s development and implementation of entrepreneurial projects.

To take JA Ireland’s previously PMIEF-funded initiative to scale to deliver project management training to secondary school students nationwide so they can apply this knowledge to design and to execute projects, including instruction of JA Ireland programming for primary school students.

To create a new, project management-rich Mars Robotics Laboratory field trip that enables teachers and students in the U.S. and India to learn project management through a hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics experience.

To integrate global competence and project management into career and technical education career exploration and classroom projects through the creation of a customizable, online course and toolkit for U.S. secondary school teachers.

To deliver project management training and ongoing mentoring to educators at 12 CDI community centers in Brazil to prepare them to successfully integrate project management into the organization’s 15-hour coding and mobile application design course for less advantaged youth. 

To deliver project management-rich programming in 20 Dublin and Limerick, Ireland primary and secondary school classrooms through career presentations and training programs with the support of JA Ireland volunteers (in partnership with Junior Achievement of Chicago).

To deliver project management-rich programming in 55 primary and secondary school classrooms through career presentations, training and programming with the support of the PMI Chicagoland Chapter (in partnership with JA Ireland).

To deliver in-person professional development as well as ongoing technical assistance to U.S. secondary school career and technical education teachers so they can integrate project management-rich curricula into 70 business management, finance and marketing secondary school classes nationwide.

To deliver in-depth project management training to U.S. secondary school teachers in six schools to prepare them to develop project management-rich curricula for secondary school students enrolled in Napa County’s (California) Career Pathways Program as well as to help ensure these students’ college and career readiness.

To integrate project management into DI’s competition so secondary school students, teachers and volunteers acquire and strengthen skills that can be applied to these competitions, educational and occupational pursuits, and everyday life.

To adopt and to adapt “Introduction to Project Management for Educators,” an online course that PMIEF developed in partnership with Boise State University, to support Texas, USA secondary school teachers’ instruction.

To deliver project management training to primary and secondary school teachers and administrators in Mbarara, Uganda so they can successfully transfer this knowledge to students and community stakeholders.

To develop and to pilot a Web-based project management module so the organization can integrate project management into its signature initiative, the JA Company Program, and a myriad of other JA USA programs to support secondary school students’ learning.

To engage youth in a service learning program in Chicago, Illinois, USA that delivers project management training to develop young people’s leadership skills with special attention paid to the 2014 LOV CARES theme, Healthy Lifestyle (in partnership with the PMI Chicagoland Chapter).

To convene communities of U.S. business leaders, educators, parents and students to discuss, to strategize and to implement stakeholder plans that integrate project management into secondary school curricula to graduate college- and career-ready young people.

To replicate PMIEF’s 2013 grant-funded initiative to train high school seniors and at-risk freshmen in Sacramento, California, USA to research, to develop, to implement and to monitor an anti-bullying middle school program using project management knowledge.

To empower youth in India to apply project management knowledge and concepts to become change agents who implement societal projects that address local and global challenges.

To further support the 2013 PMIEF-funded initiative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through intensive project monitoring, necessary technical assistance and required equipment purchase to yield stated outcomes and impact (in partnership with the PMI Northern Italy Chapter).

To increase the employability/entrepreneurial skills of low-income Brazilian youth through project management training at CDI community centers.

To integrate project management into DiscoverE’s Future City, a U.S. competition with an emphasis on engineering that helps young people acquire skills necessary for college, career and future success.

To deliver project management-rich programming to elementary and secondary school classrooms through career presentations, training and programming with the support of the PMI Chicagoland Chapter.

To train high school seniors and at-risk freshmen  in Sacramento, California, USA to research, to develop, to implement and to monitor an anti-bullying middle school program using project management knowledge.  

To increase the employability/entrepreneurial skills of low-income Brazilian youth through project management training at CDI community centers.

To train elementary and secondary school teachers and students as well as EDUCA personnel in project management and to support a youth project management competition.

To introduce project management to secondary school students and young adults to support microentrepreneurship in Mbarara, Uganda.

To integrate project management into primary and middle school curricula (in partnership with the PMI UK Chapter).

To introduce project management in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support microentrepreneurship and to launch cultural exchange between Italian and Congolese schools (in partnership with the PMI Northern Italy Chapter).