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We've Been Awarded a Call to Effective Action Grant from Accelerate

Once is a second-time grantee for Accelerate's Call to Effective Action, enabling us to conduct research trials demonstrating efficacy before scaling our impact.

Today we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve received a Call to Effective Action grant from Accelerate!

Once is thrilled to be a second-time grantee for the Accelerate Call to Effective Action. Accelerate’s support of our research trials is critical for helping us demonstrate efficacy, a gating step before we can scale our impact.

We continue to be inspired by the Accelerate community, and we’re grateful to continue to be a part of it.

This grant will give us funding support, but it will also help us conduct research and show that our program is effective.

We’re also honored to participate in the Tutoring Evaluation Accelerator, a partnership between J-PAL North America and Accelerate.

Learn more about CEA and all of the awardees.

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