Cambiar HQIM 2030 Fund

The next generation of High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) isn't a curriculum product. It's a high impact learning system.

For decades, education funding has flowed into individual pieces – curriculum here, professional learning there, technology somewhere else. Students don't experience materials in isolation, and they shouldn't have to. Each piece may be well designed, but alone, none of them are enough.

Christina Heitz

Founder and CEO, Cambiar Education

Cambiar's HQIM 2030 Fund invests in coherent, high impact learning systems and in the long term sustainability of the organizations that build them.

Why Now: Three Shifts Make This the Moment to Act

AI is reshaping how curriculum reaches classrooms. After a decade of growth, more districts than ever are adopting high-quality curriculum. Now the field needs the infrastructure — the funding, technology, and evidence base — to sustain that momentum at scale.

High quality instructional materials are reaching a tipping point. After a decade of advocacy, more districts than ever are adopting high-quality curriculum. Now the field needs the infrastructure — the funding, technology, and evidence base — to sustain that momentum at scale.

The model works. Cambiar has deployed funds across a portfolio of top curriculum organizations, building a proven blueprint for how flexible capital and hands-on support turn strong ideas into systems that reach millions of students.

Cambiar's HQIM 2030 Fund combines blended finance and technical assistance to help curriculum leaders build the lasting financial and organizational strength they need to grow.

Flexible, Stackable Capital

Below-market loans, recoverable grants, and operating grants matched to each organization's growth stage. As capital is recovered, it is reinvested back into the portfolio, building a self-sustaining engine for the field, rather than a one-time infusion.

A Community of Practice

Below-market loans, Peer learning and coaching takes place alongside the organizations so none of them have to solve challenges alone.

Hands-On Technical Assistance

Expert support in strategy, finance, technology, AI, and go-to-market builds capacity that outlasts any single grant.

Shared Research Infrastructure

A coordinated engine for evidence-building strengthens each organization's case to funders and districts for years to come.

Cambiar HQIM 2030 Portfolio

This has been and continues to be one of the most useful and energized communities I’ve been part of. The level of openness from leaders is a key aspect of it.

Scott Hartl

President & CEO, EL Education

The capacity investment directly enabled Fishtank to make meaningful progress across all grant goals and strategies, strengthening our foundation for scale, sustainability, and product excellence.

Claire Kaplan

CEO, Fishtank Learning

Being part of a Cambiar-facilitated community of practice has been genuinely valuable. They bring the right people around the right questions at the right time, creating space for peer exchange, outside expertise, and candid conversation that leads to collaborative and actionable learning.

Sarah Delaney

Senior Director of Operations, OpenSciEd

We are deeply grateful to Cambiar for this capacity investment and for the trust placed in our team during a pivotal moment in CommonLit's evolution. Cambiar's partnership enabled us to build systems and leadership capacity that will have an impact far beyond the grant period.

Michelle Brown

Founder and CEO, CommonLit