| 2012 |
School & Main Institute, Inc. |
Urban and Higher Education |
New Designs for Education Systems |
$250,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For continued development and implementation of the Schools for the Future model |
| Abstract: |
Researchers estimate that there are anywhere from 1.9 million to 5.2 million 'disconnected' young adults ages 15-24 in the United States. Schools for the Future is an innovative public high school model that enables struggling youth who have been detached from the traditional educational system to address severe academic skill gaps and successfully graduate from high school, ready for college and further career training - without the need for remediation. The model employs data driven assessments, blended learning environments and technology-enabled educational methods, and affective and cognitive strategies. Carnegie Corporation funding will allow Schools for the Future to complete the design elements, processes, digital platforms and training modules necessary to implement the model in districts that seek to provide alternative pathways for their highest risk youth. |
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| 2012 |
Institute for Science and International Security |
International Peace and Security |
Nuclear Security |
$280,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For expanding public education and outreach on Iran's nuclear activities |
| Link: |
www.isis-online.org |
| Abstract: |
With Corporation funding since 2008, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has developed as one-if not the only-resource within the nuclear security field that provides experts, policymakers, media, and the informed public with technically sound analysis about Iran's nuclear capabilities. ISIS develops information about the direction of Iran's nuclear activities and disseminates it via a web site that centralizes news and assessments of Iran's nuclear program, reports on diplomatic activity to halt the country's uranium enrichment production, and provides satellite imagery with analysis of Iran's nuclear-related sites. As it is likely that the crisis of confidence over Iran's nuclear program will only increase, the international community will continue to need robust new policy options for heading off Iran's various future nuclear options. Over this next grant phase, ISIS's role will become even more important. |
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| 2012 |
American Library Association |
Special Opportunities |
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$300,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
32 |
| Description: |
For an annual Andrew Carnegie Medal honoring the best adult fiction and nonfiction books of the year |
| Link: |
www.ala.org |
| Abstract: |
Established in 1876, the American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization created to provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all. The ALA has established several national awards that serve as a guide to the very best reading and viewing materials for the general public, but no ALA award exists today honoring the best adult fiction and nonfiction books. With Corporation support, the ALA will create two new annual awards honoring the best fiction and nonfiction adult literature. Unlike other adult book awards selected by writers and critics, these awards will reflect the expert judgment of the library professionals who work closely with adult readers. |
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| 2012 |
National Committee on American Foreign Policy |
International Peace and Security |
Nuclear Security |
$300,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For a multilateral dialogue on North Korea |
| Link: |
www.ncafp.org |
| Abstract: |
The continuing impasse over North Korea's nuclear program threatens both regional and global security, and presents U.S. government with one of the major challenges on its over brimming foreign policy agenda. During the past eight years of on-again, off-again official negotiations, Track II dialogues supported by the Corporation have, for much of this period, provided the only channel of communication between North Korean officials and their American and regional counterparts, and other experts. Over the next two years, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (the National Committee) hopes to build on its record of success in organizing such dialogues by continuing to substantively engage North Koreans in a series of high-level meetings and activities to complement and advance official negotiating efforts related to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in the post-Kim Jong Il era. |
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| 2012 |
National Immigration Forum, Inc. |
Democracy and Civic Integration |
Immigrant Civic Integration |
$300,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For a project to build consensus among Evangelical Christian and business communities as well as other stakeholders on immigrants and immigrant integration |
| Link: |
www.immigrationforum.org |
| Abstract: |
Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform have worked to establish deep alliances with a diverse group of partners inside the immigrant community and out. Establishing a big tent that includes as many members of diverse communities as possible is crucial to the movement's success. With Corporation support, the National Immigration Forum will collaborate with Evangelical Christian, business, and other conservative leaders to galvanize support for immigration reform both at the federal and state levels. |
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| 2012 |
Union of Concerned Scientists |
International Peace and Security |
Nuclear Security |
$347,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
36 |
| Description: |
For a project to train the next generation of independent technical security analysts |
| Abstract: |
The Union of Concerned Scientists (the Union) summer symposium, which will soon enter its twenty-fifth year, represents one of the most important opportunities for technically trained scientists to apply their expertise to policy questions. It is also one of the few 'on ramps' for physicists and engineers looking to make a transition to policy work and to expand their international professional network. This project will continue this longstanding summer symposium and alumni network. It will also add a new pilot project to use emergent communication technology to strengthen the field of technical security analysts. Using online meeting software, the project will host a series of virtual 'net-work-shops' that combine the benefits of networks and workshops. The Union will also bolster several online resources aimed at sustaining and enlarging the technical security community. |
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| 2012 |
Aspen Institute, Inc. |
Urban and Higher Education |
New Designs for Education Systems |
$450,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For the Congressional Program's project on education reform |
| Link: |
www.aspeninstitute.org |
| Abstract: |
Congress plays a unique and critically important role in the development and generation of federal education policy. Yet, members of Congress have wide-ranging responsibilities and significant demands on time and attention beyond education. The Aspen Institute Congressional Program is an educational initiative designed to address the need for effective and efficient access to non-partisan expertise in areas related to education policy. The Aspen Education Seminars will bring together leading members of Congress with scholars to discuss research and policy options for improving American public education. |
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| 2012 |
American Councils for International Education, Inc. |
Higher Education in Eurasia |
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$500,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
A final grant for a center for advanced study and education (CASE) on social transformations in the Western Eurasia Border Region |
| Link: |
www.americancouncils.org |
| Abstract: |
Robust and independent social sciences and humanities research is crucial to societal transformations. Modern approaches to study, teaching, and publication in these fields help move societies toward democracy, transparency, and international integration. To advance the social sciences and humanities in Russia and other post-Soviet states, the Corporation created a network of thirteen Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASEs) that includes nine centers in Russia, one center in the western part of Eurasia (Belarus) and three centers in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia). This grant will continue the center focusing on social transformations in the Western Eurasia border region of Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova, by supporting research, fellowships, publications, and academic mobility. |
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| 2012 |
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Islam Initiative |
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$500,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For networks and research on political and economic transitions in the Arab region |
| Link: |
www.ceip.org |
| Abstract: |
Following the citizen uprisings of 2011, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (the Endowment) is moving to expand its program work in the Arab region, including the creation of satellite offices in Egypt, Morocco, and Qatar. Working with local universities, think tanks and foundations, Endowment experts based in the region will carry out research, analysis, and public communication on political transitions and governance, the economics of transitions, and reform of education. The overall aim is to advance policy grounded in research and oriented toward robust democratic civic participation. But a longer term aim remains building the next generation of expertise and spreading think tank models that facilitate transparency and accountability. |
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| 2012 |
Citizen Schools |
Urban and Higher Education |
Strengthening Human Capital |
$500,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For the development and implementation of a STEM initiative that will recruit, train, and support 1,800 STEM citizen teachers over two years to work in schools across the country |
| Link: |
www.citizenschools.org |
| Abstract: |
Despite the compelling need for excellent science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for all students, there are chronic shortages of full-time math and science teachers. At the same time, there are millions of working scientists and engineers with content expertise and career experience but no direct connection to schools or students. Citizen Schools, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995, brings 'citizen teachers' off the sidelines and into classrooms, where they can help teach and inspire high-need middle school students. Through this grant, Citizen Schools will recruit, train, and support 1,800 citizen teachers from STEM fields to partner with schools across the country, increasing their students' knowledge of the STEM subjects and connecting them to the real-world application of those skills. |
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| 2012 |
Achieve, Inc. |
Urban and Higher Education |
Standards and Assessments |
$800,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For the completion of the Next Generation Science Standards |
| Link: |
www.achieve.org |
| Abstract: |
Achieve, Inc., Washington, DC
For Completion of Next Generation Science Standards
$800,000 for 12 months, starting April 2012
Recommended by: Andr |
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| 2012 |
New Technology Network |
Urban and Higher Education |
New Designs for Education Systems |
$875,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For integrating blended learning components in STEM courses |
| Abstract: |
Globalization and an increasingly international labor market are redefining the skills and knowledge today's students need to acquire to be successful in tomorrow's labor market. In response, the nation's schools are facing a great demand to bring many more students to college readiness and post-secondary success. Schools and school systems must evolve their instructional practices with particular promise for engaging under-prepared adolescents, and technology can be a critical tool for this. The New Tech Network supports a school model in 40 high schools across 9 states, serving a majority of low-income students and students of color, with promising results in academic achievement. Facing significant increases in demands for its model, New Tech Network will build its organizational infrastructure and improve its core high school design model to both expand and strengthen its education delivery in the coming two years. |
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| 2012 |
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. |
Future of Journalism Education |
|
$1,000,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For the PBS NewsHour and its 2012 election coverage |
| Link: |
www.weta.org |
| Abstract: |
Since its creation in 1976 as the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, the PBS NewsHour has been a daily news show known for its high standards and core mission. A combined audience of 23 million turns to the NewsHour each month for daily reporting and analysis. As public media suffers through a harsh economic climate, the NewsHour has expanded its reporting, embracing new technologies and sending more anchors out into the field to tell in-depth stories. With support from the Corporation, the NewsHour will cover all aspects of the 2012 Presidential election, exploring issues key to the Corporation's program strategy, including immigration, civic immigration, and the vital importance of journalism to a healthy democracy. |
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| 2012 |
Center for Community Change |
Democracy and Civic Integration |
Immigrant Civic Integration |
$1,000,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
36 |
| Description: |
For general support |
| Link: |
www.communitychange.org |
| Abstract: |
For forty years, the Center for Community Change has worked with low-income communities nationwide to develop their public policy skills and their leadership capacity to encourage positive change in their communities and the policies that affect them. The center's history of working with diverse communities has given it an advantage in forging partnerships between immigrant communities and African American, faith-based, low-income white, unions, and other groups. With renewed Corporation support over the next three years, the center will continue to help grow this diverse tent and build the capacity of these constituencies working with local and state-based groups nationwide to advance immigrant integration policies at the federal and state levels. |
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| 2012 |
New Classrooms Innovation Partners, Inc. |
Urban and Higher Education |
New Designs for Education Systems |
$1,000,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For managing the implementation of Next Generation Learning classrooms |
| Abstract: |
To help widen the pathway to success to include all students, the Corporation has engaged in strategic work to advance Next Generation Learning (NGL), a term educators use to refer to new teaching and learning practices that prepare today's students for tomorrow's challenges, consistent with the wide-scale adoption of the Common Core. NGL must be enabled by new tools, including technology, assessments, and flexible learning environments that allow students to learn what they need, when they need it. In order to fully enable NGL, there is a need to seriously and comprehensively rethink how people, time, and technology are used within individual classrooms to create the best results for the largest range of students. New Classrooms does just that-driven by the belief that all students should be enabled to successfully access all content, it shifts how time, space, technology and people are used within a school to enable meaningful individualization of learning experiences in mathematics. |
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| 2012 |
Teach For America, Inc. |
Urban and Higher Education |
Strengthening Human Capital |
$1,000,100 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For the development of a STEM-focused campaign and a research 2.0 agenda |
| Link: |
www.teachforamerica.org |
| Abstract: |
Teach For America (TFA), a long-standing Corporation grantee, enlists the nation's most promising recent college graduates as teachers in low-income communities and advocates for education reform. The first part of this grant focuses on TFA's STEM work. As a founding partner in 100Kin10, TFA has committed to accelerating and expanding its existing STEM initiative by launching a national recruitment campaign to raise awareness of the need for excellent STEM teachers while growing its STEM teaching corps to a cumulative total of 11,000 new STEM teachers between 2011 and 2015. The second part of the grant will enable TFA to take advantage of its long focus on data to expand the breadth and depth of its research and develop a more sophisticated research and evaluation apparatus to inform internal program improvements. |
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| 2012 |
American Council of Learned Societies |
Higher Education and Libraries in Africa |
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$5,450,000 |
| Date: |
03/01/2012 |
| Duration (months): |
66 |
| Description: |
A final grant for fellowships in the humanities in Africa |
| Link: |
www.acls.org |
| Abstract: |
The American Council of Learned Societies launched the African Humanities Program in 2008 in response to the dearth of research opportunities for early-career African humanities scholars. Fellowships for either doctoral dissertation or postdoctoral research and writing are awarded on a competitive basis to humanities scholars working in universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. Fellows may apply for additional funds to spend time at an approved study center in another African country. To date, 109 fellowships have been awarded, with another fifty-seven fellows to be selected in April 2012. This grant will support an additional 204 fellowships, including fifty in a new category for senior scholars, and 148 residential allowances. A publications series will be launched, in partnership with the University of South Africa Press, to disseminate fellows' research. |
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| 2011 |
Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Inc. |
International Peace and Security |
Dynamics of Global Power |
$410,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For a project on relations among the United States, Russia, China and India |
| Link: |
www.fsvc.org |
| Abstract: |
The last several years have seen major changes in foreign and domestic policies of the United States, Russia and China. The complexity and interdependence of national and international challenges necessitate engagement among these powers. One way to foster this is through unofficial discussions that are structured to help advance official policies. The Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) has been conducting trilateral meetings involving these countries. The meetings, which also include representatives from India and Europe, provide venues for experts and practitioners to discuss topics that lie at the intersection of security, economic, financial, and energy considerations in defining foreign policies. With continued support, the project will hold two annual international symposia, several working group meetings, and publish recommendations for action. |
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| 2011 |
International Research and Exchanges Board, Inc. |
Higher Education in Eurasia |
|
$668,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For improving university administration in Russia, Eurasia, Ghana, and Tanzania |
| Link: |
www.irex.org |
| Abstract: |
Well-functioning universities shape leaders who will support and promote democratic governance and a productive economy. The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) through its University Administration Support Program (UASP) helps universities in developing countries by strengthening their foundations in academic leadership. The program comprised of eight-week U.S. university study visits, case study development, and a pilot grants program exposes participants to alternative leadership cultures, approaches, and strategies with application to issues relevant to their own management and institutions. IREX proposes to implement UASP in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Belarus, and to further expand the program to include Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania by providing international exposure to participants in national higher education leadership training programs. |
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| 2011 |
Human Rights Watch, Inc. |
|
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$250,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For general support |
| Link: |
www.hrw.org |
| Abstract: |
Despite significant advances in the human rights movement, human rights violations persist—and, in some instances, are increasing—in many regions of the world. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is the largest human rights organization based in the United States and has a global reach and reputation. It conducts fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses wherever they occur, and its findings generate extensive coverage in local and international media. This publicity helps to highlight the actions of abusive governments in the eyes of their citizens and the international community. HRW then meets with government officials to urge changes in policy and practice. Corporation general support will help HRW continue its work, including in critical cases associated with the “Arab Awakening” in the Middle East and North Africa. |
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| 2011 |
Harvard University |
International Peace and Security |
Nuclear Security |
$500,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For multilateral dialogue on security issues in the Greater Middle East |
| Link: |
www.harvard.edu |
| Abstract: |
The Pugwash Dialogue for Peace and Security in the Greater Middle East seeks to help address the complicated and interconnected challenges in this region through continuation of its longstanding intraregional, multinational Track II workshops. Pugwash workshops engage current and former policymakers and opinion shapers who participate in their personal capacities, according to Pugwash “Chatham House rules” (the substance can be reported, but not attributed to any one person). Because of this arrangement, its workshops tend to produce insightful and targeted recommendations that often find their way into the corridors of power through reports and personal post-workshop meetings and briefings. Corporation funding will provide partial support for a series of interrelated, Track II activities focused on Iran, Afghanistan, Post-Arab Spring changes, and Turkey. |
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| 2011 |
American University |
International Peace and Security |
Dynamics of Global Power |
$595,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For a joint project, with the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University, on global strategic challenges and foreign policy |
| Abstract: |
The next phase of the Bridging the Gap initiative, involving a collaboration among American University, Duke University, and the University of California, Berkeley, will continue its commitment to three core goals: 1) To develop and lead policy-relevant research projects that tap the particular expertise of project principals; 2) To train, develop, and mentor an expanded cohort of scholars whose work is oriented towards policy-relevant scholarship and/or theoretically informed policy work; and 3) To collaborate with like-minded colleagues and programs for broader and fundamental changes that move international relations and political science scholarship towards greater policy relevance. The project intends to build on its progress to date by scaling up and extending its efforts while focusing substantive research on new, medium-term foreign policy challenges. |
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| 2011 |
Institute for Advanced Study |
Urban and Higher Education |
Strengthening Human Capital |
$2,000,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
12 |
| Description: |
For continuing implementation of the Opportunity Equation report's recommendations for improving mathematics and science education |
| Link: |
www.ias.edu; www.msi-sig.org |
| Abstract: |
Since its inception two years ago, the Opportunity Equation initiative has been an effective, credible, and versatile vehicle for advancing systemic education reform, with STEM education as a key lever, as recommended in the Opportunity Equation report. In the coming year, the initiative will continue to serve as the managing and operational partner for the 100Kin10 mobilization and in supporting the implementation of winning ideas from the Ashoka Changemakers competition. Opportunity Equation will also continue to serve as a communications hub for STEM reform, particularly through its award-winning website. The year ahead will be a time of transition for Opportunity Equation, as the initiative’s co-chairs and staff consider its future and make decisions about how best to sustain the progress made so far in advancing the recommendations of the Opportunity Equation report. |
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| 2011 |
New Teacher Project, Inc. |
Urban and Higher Education |
Strengthening Human Capital |
$3,000,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For general support |
| Link: |
www.tntp.org |
| Abstract: |
There is overwhelming evidence that teachers have greater in-school influence on student achievement than any other person or program. Yet systems that differentiate, develop, and reward teachers based on demonstrated impact are virtually nonexistent. As a leading human-capital reform organization, The New Teacher Project (TNTP) partners with school districts and states to bring high-quality teachers into hard-to-staff schools and to redesign their talent management systems. TNTP also advocates for related policy reform. This grant will support TNTP as it continues its current work and adapts to address the challenge of broadly increasing the quality of instruction. |
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| 2011 |
National Security Archive Fund, Inc. |
International Peace and Security |
Nuclear Security |
$1,000,000 |
| Date: |
12/15/2011 |
| Duration (months): |
24 |
| Description: |
For archival programs on Nuclear Security and U.S.- Russia Engagement |
| Link: |
www.nsarchive.org |
| Abstract: |
The National Security Archive Fund (the Archive) seeks renewed support for its work to expand the universe of primary sources available to scholars, journalists, and citizens on two issues of central importance to the Corporation: nuclear security and U.S.-Russian relations. This grant merges two previous Archive initiatives on these issues. Over the past decade the Archive has conducted extensive work to document and publish untold stories on nuclear and former Soviet history. This project will build on this foundation. It is a dynamic moment for historical research in the post-Soviet space because new laws in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia enable, in principle, greater access to government-held records. With current debates on the role of nuclear weapons, it is also an opportune time to unearth and examine archival information related to past efforts at transforming the U.S. nuclear posture. |
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