Our Charitable Cause

Whatever their background, all young people should have access to a high-quality education. Yet all too often, programs and interventions designed to improve a child’s learning and education provide one-size-fits-all instruction and are not rooted in evidence. Founded in 1989, the Jacobs Foundation’s vision is a world in which every child is given the evidence-based learning opportunities they need to thrive.

To move closer to this vision, their Strategy 2030 seeks to improve children’s learning and education by promoting the generation and translation of evidence into policy and practice. They invest globally and locally in a systemic approach that works across the entire education ecosystem to connect evidence to action, and action to systems. In practice, this involves funding research to understand how children learn, promoting the use of evidence in school practice and EdTech, and supporting countries to integrate evidence into education policy and implementation.