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30 October 2025
How Education Evidence Labs are reshaping education systems
At this year’s Education World Forum (EWF), the world’s largest gathering of education and skills ministers, the call for data-driven, evidence-informed policymaking took center stage. With education budgets under pressure, governments are looking…
Newsletter
10 October 2025
What We Learn: autumn edition
The latest What We Learn newsletter is here! In this edition, we reflect on a season of milestones and momentum, from surpassing CHF 1 billion in philanthropic giving to advancing global evidence use and locally led reform. Highlights include our …
News
22 September 2025
Education funders and partners unite to strengthen global evidence use to accelerate learning
In a landmark step for education, 22 leading organizations have come together to back a central resource that will make evidence on what works for children and learning more accessible, actionable, and globally relevant. This kind of collective ac…
News
18 September 2025
The Jacobs Foundation surpasses CHF 1 billion in philanthropic giving
In its 36th year, the Jacobs Foundation has reached a milestone that reflects both its history and its future: more than CHF 1 billion has been invested since its founding to advance children’s learning and development around the world. This…
News
28 August 2025
Fabio Segura and Richard Hawkes on why education financing must be central to the SDGs
In an opinion piece for Impact Alpha, Fabio Segura, Co-CEO of the Jacobs Foundation, and Richard Hawkes, CEO of the British Asian Trust, argue for putting education at the center of global financing discussions. Despite education’s role as the bac…
News
23 July 2025
Fabio Segura in conversation: rethinking how we fund education
In a recent Devex Pro Funding live conversation, Fabio Segura, Co-CEO of the Jacobs Foundation, discussed how the organization is rethinking education funding at the midpoint of its Strategy 2030. With education often being the first casualty of b…
News
27 June 2025
LEVANTE opens 2025 Call for Proposals
The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 Call for Proposals under our Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) initiative, offering up to USD 5 million in research funding to deepen understanding of how children l…
News
16 June 2025
Reimagining evidence use in Community-led Learning Ecosystems
A new learning brief and in-depth report from the Jacobs Foundation, developed in collaboration with On Think Tanks, explore how Community-led Learning Ecosystems (CLLEs) are using evidence to improve education outcomes in context-specific and sus…
Newsletter
12 June 2025
What We Learn: summer edition
The latest What We Learn newsletter is here! In this edition, we share highlights from the launch of SCALE in Ghana, the expansion of LEVANTE’s global research network, and the research proposals developed by Young Scholars at our annual conferenc…