PMIEF's support of education worldwide strengthens young people's 21st century skills and enhances teachers' instruction. These innovative initiatives showcase the foundation's sustained commitment to build a better prepared society for future success.
Organization: Center for Digital Inclusion ("CDI")
Initiative: Teaching Project Management in Four Schools in Four Brazilian States
Grant: US$ 99,912
Permits approximately 240 low-income youth ages 14 to 18 and their teachers to access PMIEF's Project Management Skills for LifeSM and Project Management Toolkit for YouthSM as well as supplemental curricula that the PMI Sao Paulo Chapter created to increase young people's employability and entrepreneurial skills.
Organization: Junior Achievement of Chicago ("JA Chicago")
Initiative: Work Readiness Initiative with PMI Volunteers and Support
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JA Chicago supports young people's poject management training.
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Grant: US$ 30,000
Integrates project management into 60 Chicago, Illinois, USA K-12 classrooms and reaches approximately 1,200 students through JA Chicago's "Ask the Expert," "High School Heroes" and "University Model" programs in collaboration with the PMI Chicagoland Chapter.
Organization: National Engineers Week Foundation
("NEWF")
Initiative: Integrating Project Management into Student Competitions
Grant: US$ 428,900
Pilots the integration of project management into NEWF's Future City, the only U.S. engineering and project-based competition for middle school students, and will directly impact 40,000 students and 2,000 adults - including educators and mentors - who participate in the program.
Organization: Partnership for 21st Century Skills ("P21")
Initiative: Creating PM-Rich Curricula for Reimagined High Schools
Grant: US$ 475,000
Convenes communities of business leaders, educators, parents and students to discuss, to strategize and to implement stakeholder plans that integrate project management into the curricula so that their secondary schools graduate college- and career-ready young people.
Organization: Teen S Team Plus, Inc. ("Teen S")
Initiative: Concordia Leadership
Grant: US$ 12,500
Pairs U.S. high school seniors and at-risk high school freshmen to research, to develop, to implement and to monitor an anti-bullying middle school program using project management knowledge as well as delivers PMP-facilitated project management training to teachers to prepare them to monitor program implementation.
