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Select the link below or text HRED20 to 71777 to make one-time or recurring gift to support our work.
Make a GiftWhy Your Gift Matters
Join us in supporting teachers and students who are shaping the future of thoughtful, empathetic, and engaged communities. Your support helps us to empower the next generation of thinkers, listeners, and changemakers—by starting with the educators who guide them every day.
The Initiatives provide research-based professional development that helps teachers build classrooms rooted in empathy, critical thinking, and civic discourse. Through our yearlong programs, workshops, and growing student-focused efforts, we equip educators to help young people engage respectfully with complex issues, consider multiple perspectives, and act with understanding and compassion.
Every gift, no matter the size, directly supports teachers and students in creating spaces for dialogue, reflection, hope—and the need is immediate. As classrooms navigate increasingly complex social and civic issues, teachers need tools, resources, and professional support now more than ever to guide students in developing critical thinking, empathy, and constructive dialogue. Every dollar helps us expand programming and reach more educators and students this year.
Ways to Support Our Work
Your generosity makes meaningful, lasting professional learning possible for educators and the students they serve. Each gift level below reflects the real-world impact of your investment in high-quality, inquiry-based professional development.
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$50,000 – Sponsor a full year of professional development for an entire school district
Support sustained, robust learning experiences that empower educators and strengthen instruction across a full academic year.
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$30,000 – Sponsor a semester of professional development for an entire school district
Fund a semester of collaborative, inquiry-driven professional learning that builds educator capacity and student-centered practice.
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$5,000 – Sponsor a professional development workshop for PreK–12 educators
Provide an immersive learning experience that equips teachers with practical strategies and tools for their classrooms.
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$4,000 – Sponsor the presentation of Initiative research at an academic conference
Help share evidence-based practices and expand the impact of our work within the broader educational community.
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$1,500 – Sponsor a teacher participating in a yearlong professional development program
Invest directly in a teacher’s growth through sustained coaching, collaboration, and inquiry.
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$1,000 – Sponsor a teacher participating in a semester-long professional development program
Support a teacher’s professional learning journey through focused, cohort-based development.
How to Make a Gift to the Initiatives
You can make a one-time or recurring gift in the following ways:
- Give online: Make a donation through Penn State's secure fundraising portal.
- Give by text: Text HRED20 to 71777
If you would like to learn more about supporting the Initiatives please contact: