Past Grantees
2017 PM Knowledgeable Youth Grantees
100Kin10/National Center for Civic Innovation
Designing a Response to Teachers’ Project-Management Needs
US $41,769
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.
Asia Society
Bridging the STEM Skills Gap through Globally Competent CTE and Project Management
US $400,000
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.
Fondazione Enrica Amiotti
Jun€co: Education and Project Management for Sustainability
US $50,000
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.
Junior Achievement Brazil
JA Brazil Project Management Skills for Life
US $30,000
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.
Junior Achievement of Chicago
PMIEF – JA of Chicago Initiative for Youth and Capacity Building
US $30,000
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.
Junior Achievement Ireland
PMIEF – JA Ireland Project Management Skills for Life for Students and Teachers
US $147,960
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.
Partners for Education at Berea College
The PMIEF – PFE Promising Appalachian Leaders In Service Initiative
US $147,792
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.
World Federation of United Nations Associations
Mission Possible: Empowering Global Citizens: Phase 2
US $271,835
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.
2016 PM Knowledgeable Youth Grantees
Association for Career and Technical Education
CORE-101 Administrator
US $147,620
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.
Buck Institute for Education
Guidelines and Indicators for High-Quality Project-Based Learning
US $450,000
To define exemplary project-based learning through guidelines and indicators into which BIE will deeply integrate project management for global adoption, adaptation and application.
Destination Imagination, Inc.
Evaluation of PMIEF-DI Initiative for PM-Rich Student Competitions
US $47,000
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.
INJAZ
PMIEF – INJAZ Enterprise Business Challenge Partnership
US $90,262
To integrate project management into INJAZ’s Enterprise Business Challenge to support young people’s development and implementation of entrepreneurial projects.
Junior Achievement Ireland
PMIEF – JA Ireland Project Management Skills for Life: Year 2
US $78,788
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.
Space Foundation
Out of this World Project Management!
US $192,195
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.
2015 PM Knowledgeable Youth Grantees
Asia Society
PMIEF – Asia Society Initiative for Integrating Global Perspectives into CTE
US $350,000
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.
Center for Digital Inclusion
PM for Social Good through Mobile Apps
US $50,000
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.
Junior Achievement Ireland
PMIEF – JA Ireland Project Management Skills for Life
US $40,000
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).
Junior Achievement of Chicago
PMIEF – JA of Chicago Project Management Skills for Life
US $32,500
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).
MBA Research and Curriculum Center
PMIEF – MBA Research Initiative for Career & Technical Education
US $309,750
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.
NapaLearns
PMIEF – NapaLearns Initiative for Career Pathways
US $10,265
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.
2014 PM Knowledgeable Youth Grantees
Destination Imagination, Inc.
PMIEF-DI Initiative for PM-Rich Student Competitions
US $99,790
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.
Education Service Center Region 10
Introduction to Project Management for Educators
US $13,520
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.
Integrated Community Development Initiative (ICODI)
Project Management Skills for Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Administrators
US $50,000
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.
Junior Achievement USA
JA Online Project Management Module on Demand
US $122,000
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.
Ladies of Virtue
LOV CARES
US $6,900
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).
Partnership for 21st Century Learning
Creating PM-Rich Curricula for Reimagined High Schools
US $475,000
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.
Teen S Team Plus
Un-Bully-Able We
US $13,000
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.
World Federation of United Nation Associations
Mission Possible: Creating Global Change Agents
US $195,000
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.
Veterinary Association for Cooperation with Developing Countries
Kubunina: A Sustainability Model for Schools in the Congo, Part II
US $80,458
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).
2013 PM Knowledgeable Youth Grantees
Center for Digital Inclusion
Teaching Project Management in Four Schools in Four Brazilian States
US $99,912
To increase the employability/entrepreneurial skills of low-income Brazilian youth through project management training at CDI community centers.
DiscoverE
Integrating Project Management into Student Competitions
US $428,900
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.
Junior Achievement of Chicago
Work Readiness Initiative with PMI Volunteers and Support
US $30,000
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.
Teen S Team Plus
Concordia Leadership
US $12,500
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.
2012 PM Knowledgeable Youth Grantees
Center for Digital Inclusion
Teaching Project Management in Schools
US $32,800
To increase the employability/entrepreneurial skills of low-income Brazilian youth through project management training at CDI community centers.
EDUCA
Active Leadership
US $23,622
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.
Integrated Community Development Initiative (ICODI)
Project Management Skills for All
US $35,532
To introduce project management to secondary school students and young adults to support microentrepreneurship in Mbarara, Uganda.
Shirenewton Primary and Chepstow Comprehensive School
Project Management in Welsh Schools
US $30,000
To integrate project management into primary and middle school curricula (in partnership with the PMI UK Chapter).
Veterinary Association for Cooperation with Developing Countries
Kubunina
US $100,060
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).