Partnership for the Future of Learning

Name

Partnership for the Future of Learning

Legal name

Partnership for the Future of Learning

Website

https://futureforlearning.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Policy Advocacy

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Equity, Access & Inclusion Policy Research (EDADADAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education Partnerships for Equity, Inclusion & Gender (EDADALAF), Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Partnerships (EDADALAK)

Keywords

• Education policy advocacy
• Public education resources
• Education policy frameworks
• Community schools strategy
• Nonprofit education network

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The Partnership for the Future of Learning was a national, values-driven nonprofit network that produced and distributed free policy resources for the U.S. public education advocacy field. Its offerings consisted of playbooks, frameworks, narrative guides, and toolkits on topics including community schools, the teaching profession, education funding, AI in education, and charter schools, designed to be shared and adapted by partner organizations working to advance equitable, democratic, and high-quality public education.

Product overview

Partnership for the Future of Learning was a national, values-driven network (closed April 2026) that produced educational resources, policy frameworks, toolkits, and guidance documents rather than a technology product. The portfolio consists of publications spanning policy frameworks, playbooks, narrative guides, and toolkits focused on advancing equitable, democratic public education. Key resources include the AI Resource Guide (2025), Community Schools Playbook, A Framework for Strengthening Public Education, Truth in Education Funding Guide, and the Two Year Network Policy Agenda. These resources served the education advocacy and policy community rather than functioning as software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Resources: A collection of playbooks, frameworks, toolkits, and guides developed over the network's 10+ years of work in public education, spanning topics from community schools to AI in education to funding advocacy.

Products and services

• Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Public Education: AI Resource Guide A toolkit developed in 2025 to help partners navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in schools and communities, supporting school systems and partners in using AI responsibly, ethically, and effectively.
• Community Schools Playbook: A Practical Guide to Advancing Community Schools Strategies A practical guide released in 2018 providing guidance on advancing community schools strategies.
• A Framework for Strengthening Public Education A framework developed through dialogue among partners holding different views on charter schools, offering 12 guiding values for strengthening charter and traditional public schools.
• Truth in Education Funding Guide A guide examining the impact of school voucher programs and providing resources to understand vouchers and support advocacy for equitable, effective investment in public education.
• Powering a Breakthrough for Public Education: Two Year Network Policy Agenda A roadmap released in June 2025 for collective action to empower the public education system through proactive, coordinated, and aligned actions that protect and strengthen public schools.
• ESSER Storytelling Toolkit A toolkit for partners working to describe how public funds can be used effectively so that schools are centers of belonging, opportunity, and healing.
• Teaching Profession Playbook: Building a Strong and Diverse Teaching Profession A playbook focused on building a strong and diverse teaching profession.
• Patriotic Education and Civic Learning in Public Schools: Narrative Guide A narrative guide developed in 2025 in partnership with the Education Law Center to support communications around patriotic education, offering messaging and talking points to counter opposition narratives.
• Public Education in a Strong Democracy: Our Network's Vision The Partnership's 2024 updated vision outlining the role of public education in advancing a more just, inclusive, multiracial democracy.
• Trump Administration Play-by-Play: January 2025 Analysis examining proposals to reshape the public education system, mapping timing and processes behind potential federal actions and identifying opportunities for partners to respond.

Quantifiable outcome

• Built cross-sector community connected across roles, geographies, and perspectives
• +4 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Education Law CenternotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025In 2025, the Partnership for the Future of Learning released 'Patriotic Education and Civic Learning in Public Schools: Narrative Guide' in partnership with the Education Law Center. The guide was developed to support communications around the push for 'patriotic education,' offering messaging, talking points, and research-informed framing to counter opposition narratives and strengthen advocacy for comprehensive, equitable civics education.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Education Law Center: National nonprofit advocating for equitable public education through policy, litigation, and resources. Co-developed the Patriotic Education Narrative Guide with the Partnership in 2025, indicating directly overlapping mission, audience (educators, advocates, policymakers), and resource-distribution model.
• Chiefs for Change: Network of state and district education chiefs focused on equity, innovation, and systems change in public education. Highly comparable as a network-of-leaders model producing playbooks, frameworks, and convenings for systems leaders in the Partnership's primary segment.
• Public Agenda: Nonprofit producing public engagement, narrative, and messaging research for education and democratic practice. Comparable as a field-builder focused on narrative infrastructure and bridging divides in public education, closely mirroring the Partnership's "Truth in Our Classrooms" and narrative guide work.
• Learning Policy Institute: Research-driven nonprofit producing policy reports and frameworks on equitable public education, teaching profession, and whole-child schooling. Highly comparable as a field-shaping research-to-policy intermediary that publishes freely available playbooks and frameworks for the same advocacy audience.
• Center for American Progress (Education): Think tank producing K-12 and higher education policy analysis, frameworks, and advocacy toolkits for federal and state policymakers. Comparable as a federally focused policy research and advocacy intermediary serving similar system-leader and advocate segments.
• Aspen Institute Education & Society Program: Cross-sector convening and policy program that produces reports, frameworks, and leader networks on public education. Directly comparable convening-and-framework model targeting systems leaders and funders in the same equity-oriented public education space.

Broad incumbents

• National School Boards Association: Federation of school board members producing policy resources, model policies, and advocacy tools on public education governance. Comparable as a membership organization producing model policies and toolkits (e.g., the Partnership's School Board Model Policy Template) for the same K-12 systems leader audience.
• Teach For America: National nonprofit placing leaders in under-resourced schools and advocating for educational equity. Comparable as a values-driven, network-based education equity organization with overlapping audience (educators, advocates, funders) and similar policy advocacy outputs.
• National Education Association: Largest US educator membership organization advocating for public education funding, teacher profession, and equity. Comparable as a membership-based advocacy body producing policy resources for educators and system leaders, though at vastly greater scale and with a union-driven advocacy model.
• Council of Chief State School Officers: Bipartisan association of state education chiefs producing policy frameworks and resources on equity, funding, and teaching quality. Comparable as an established membership body serving systems leaders with frameworks and policy resources on the same public education equity agenda.

Market position

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/futureforlearning

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Investors

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