This book explores the complex questions facing funding agencies and foundations as they grapple to understand and define gender equity in education. It covers different approaches funders use to define gender equity, target limited resources, and create collaborative relationships that will ultimately make schools equitable and engaging for all.

Foreword; A.Walton Introduction; A.E.Ginsberg & M.Gasman PART I: DEFINITIONS OF GENDER BIAS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN EDUCATION: WHY TARGET GENDER FOR FUNDING? Talking about Gender Equity and Education: A FrameWorks Message Memo; J.Grady & A.Auburn Gender Matters: Funding Effective Programs for Women and Girls; M.Mead Grantmaking with a Gender Lens - GrantCraft, Project of the Ford Foundation PART II: AND WHAT ABOUT THE BOYS?: MOVING BEYOND GENDER AS A DICHOTOMY Funding Urban Education Reform: Looking at Relationships Among Gender, Race, and Class in School-based Equity Programs; J.Ward Stereotypes, Challenges, and Pathways to Funding Boys Programs in the Inner City: C.Soto Saving Black Boys; R.Smith PART III: YOUTH AT THE CENTER: CULTIVATING FUTURE PHILANTHROPISTS AND INVOLVING GIRLS IN FUNDING DECISIONS Power and Possibilities: Collaborative Fund for Youth-Led Social Change; A.Nagle, M.Wignaraja, P.C.Fullwood & M.Hempel Sisters Empowering Sisters - Girl's Best Friend Foundation Young Women for Change - The Michigan Women's Foundation PART IV: FUNDING COLLABORATIONS: BRINGING FUNDERS AND PROGRAMMERS TOGETHER FOR SYSTEMATIC CHANGE Collaborations for Gender Equity in the Context of Policy and System-wide Change; S.Mark The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking; J.Peterson Bringing Funders Together To Talk about Girls: A Roundtable Discussion; D.Brown & A.Fraiser PART V: NEW MODELS OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: HOW TO LOOK AT GENDER AND ACHEIVEMENT BEYOND HIGH STAKES TESTING? Improving Philanthropy for Girls - The Three Guineas Fund Gender Equity in Urban Education: New Relationships between Funding and Evaluation; A.E.Ginsberg Conclusion; A.E.Ginsberg & M.Gasman