The mission of the Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Family Foundation is to support education and research on all levels. This includes, on the one hand, supporting cutting edge research at universities, laboratories, and other such institutions. It also includes the support of basic education, especially in areas of literacy, numeracy, and science. Since education and research are impossible without food, shelter, clothing, or medicine, it is within the bounds of the Foundation’s mission to provide these when necessary.
The mission of the Douglas B. Marshall Jr. Family Foundation is to support education and research on all levels. We are especially interested in funding projects that are:
We also fund projects that contribute to developing the evidence base on what works to improve educational outcomes, including: applied research; development of new monitoring and evaluation methodologies; and measurement of educational outcomes at a large (national or state-wide) scale. Note, however, that we do not normally support individual research projects unless they have also received funding through a competitive process which includes review by experts in their field.
We expect the vast majority of our grants to support projects focused in developing countries.
When evaluating applicants, we prioritize organizations with a committed and effective leadership that our foundation could eventually support on multi-year projects (although an initial grant will normally be for a single year).
Our foundation funds both specific projects as well as core support for an organization or division within an organization.
These criteria serve as general guidelines, and we may make exceptions. All our funding decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.