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Media Relations Contact

Matthew Spaur, Branding & Visibility Manager
730 Harrison Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107-1242
Tel: 415.615.3219
Fax: 415.512.2024
Email: mspaur@WestEd.org

Agency Quick Facts

• Agency name: WestEd
• CEO: Glen Harvey
• Headquarters: San Francisco, California
• Mission: WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, works with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults.
• Staff: WestEd’s more than 600 staff, over a third of whom are minority, are housed in 16 offices nationwide. Our staff bring to bear a wealth of diverse expertise and experience, including educational assessment and accountability; early childhood and youth development; program evaluation; community building; and policy analysis.
• Areas of Work: WestEd’s body of work is organized under 12 programs. Our work concentrates in the following areas:
• Assessment, Standards, & Accountability
• Culture, Diversity, & Equity
• Early Childhood & Early Intervention
• English Learners
• Evaluation
• Healthy Kids, Schools, & Communities
• Leadership & Teacher Professional Development
• Literacy
• Mathematics & Science
• Policy
• Postsecondary and Career Readiness & Success
• School & District Improvement
• Special Education
• Technology & Information Services
• Board of Directors: WestEd is governed by a Board of Directors comprising leaders from public and private education and other human services enterprises, as well as from business communities throughout the United States.
• Funding: Supporting our work are hundreds of funding sources, more than half of which are local education agencies. Annual WestEd revenue is over $100 million.