Alliances
The Great Books Foundation is proud to have the generous support of numerous organizations and corporations.
Academy of American Poets
The Great Books Foundation is pleased to partner with the Academy of American Poets to create poetry resources on our site and at poets.org.
The AVI CHAI Foundation
In 1998, the Great Books Foundation received a grant from the AVI CHAI Foundation to develop a Great Books Jewish literature program. The resulting anthology, The Soul of the Text, captures the rich diversity of Jewish literature and invites readers to join the ongoing conversation that is an integral part of the Jewish literary tradition. Today, the Great Books Foundation and the AVI CHAI Foundation continue to collaborate to bring The Soul of the Text to a wide audience of young and adult readers.
Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor, the widely respected, Pulitzer Prize-winning international daily newspaper, hosts a special Web site supporting the Foundation's newest history and social studies anthology, The Will of the People.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trust
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Trust has awarded the Great Books Foundation $470,000 for a three-year project to implement Junior Great Books programs in five Chicago Public Schools. The grant was announced December 12, 2006, and is one of the first grants awarded by the Trust.
Connections Academy
Thanks to a partnership with Connections Academy®, a leading national provider of virtual public school programs for students in grades K-12, students can participate in Junior Great Books online. In providing the program, Connections Academy operates in partnership with charter schools, school districts, and state departments of education.
Early Advantage
Early Advantage, distributors of Muzzy, the BBC-producted early language learning program, and other educational products for families, supports the Great Books at Amherst Summer Reading Program.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Great Books teachers receive a free six-month subscription to Britannica Online, and teachers and students using our Perfection Learning titles for middle and high school will find links to related Encyclopaedia Britannica articles on our website. Britannica also supports the Great Books Chicago annual conference.
Hansol Gyoyook
Hansol Gyoyook, a leading provider of supplementary educational programs in South Korea, is working with the Foundation to develop a program based on Junior Great Books for home use with Korean children ages 5–11.
Harrison Middleton University
Harrison Middleton University College of the Humanities and Sciences, a Great Books distance-learning college established in 1997, supports new Foundation publications and co-sponsors the annual Great Books Chicago conference. The college offers undergraduate and graduate education in the humanities with concentrations in imaginative literature, natural science, philosophy and religion, and social science.
K12.com
Junior Great Books is now available for homeschoolers at K12.com, a new online curriculum that provides parents of homeschoolers with lesson plans, assessments, planning and progress tools, materials, and a variety of other educational support. K12's curriculum also includes courses in math, science, history, art, and music.
Marratech
Marratech, providing cross-platform audio and video-conferencing software for the Internet, is helping the Great Books Foundation develop online support for Great Books teachers.
Novell, Inc.
The donation of Net Services software from Novell, Inc. to the Great Books Foundation will enhance the Foundation's network and intranet capacities and will improve the Foundation's ability to provide Web-based support for Great Books discussion leaders and educators. The generous donation was made as part of Novell's community relations program that focuses on the areas of education, community needs, and development.
Penguin Books
The Great Books Foundation is collaborating with Penguin Books to produce a series of online discussion guides for selected classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction book-length works published by Penguin Books. The discussion guides are available on both the Penguin Books and the Great Books Web sites.
Perfection Learning
The Great Books Foundation has teamed up with Perfection Learning to create Discussion Guides for selected texts from 13 titles in Perfection Learning's groundbreaking Literature & Thought series.
Perfection Press
The print-on-demand services from Perfection Press make possible Junior Great Books Classroom Publishing.
Polyhedron Learning Media, Inc.
Polyhedron Learning Media, a technology company that specializes in developing educational software, audio/video, and print materials, is working with the Foundation to develop DVD- and web-based resources for the Foundation's science series.
Project on Civic Reflection
The Great Books Foundation collaborated with The Project on Civic Reflection and editors Adam Davis and Elizabeth Lynn to produce the Civically Engaged Reader. Established in 1998 with support from Lilly Endowment, The Project on Civic Reflection encourages the practice of civic reflection–reading and conversation on fundamental questions of civic life.
Promise Cyber School
Promise Cyber School uses Great Books literature and the Shared Inquiry method to help people of all ages develop their English language skills online.
Staples Foundation for Learning
Staples generously supports the Great Books Readers 2 Leaders program in several Chicago public schools. Readers to Leaders helps high school students create their own after-school book clubs. Students perfect their leading skills in discussions with peers before leading groups of students in nearby elementary schools.
Verizon
Verizon supports the Great Books Foundation through the Verizon Great Books, Great Kids program, a new effort to help schools improve reading and critical thinking through Junior Great Books, and the Great Books Great Teachers Awards.
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