Carnegie Newsline April 13, 2000

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the April 13, 2000 Board Meeting.

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Brigham Young University
One-year grant of $300,700 toward a study of the public's use of political Web sites in 2000

California Voter Foundation
Eighteen-month grant of $25,000 toward research and public education on state-based efforts toward online disclosure of campaign contributions

National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
Ten-month grant of $25,000 toward a multiethnic survey in the United States

Hudson Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward congressional briefings on campaign financing issues

Institute for Global Ethics
One-year grant of $201,100 implementing a model candidate code of conduct in Ohio during 2000 local elections

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Inc.
Eleven-month grant of $25,000 toward a national policy institute on economic advancement for African American leaders

New York Community Trust
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward census outreach activities in low-income immigrant neighborhoods

Russell Sage Foundation
Two-year grant of $1,500,000 toward research on income inequality in the United States

American Council on Education
Fifteen-month grant of $186,700 toward follow-up activities of a task force on teacher education

American Council on Education
Eighteen-month grant of $275,000 toward development of models for comprehensive internationalization of undergraduate education

Aspen Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $150,000 toward support of the urban high school reform project

Association of American Colleges and Universities
Three-month grant of $25,000 for development, DISSEMINATION, and institutionalization of practices to strengthen liberal arts education

Association of American Colleges and Universities
Two-year grant of $1,000,000 for development, DISSEMINATION, and institutionalization of practices to strengthen liberal arts education

Classroom, Inc.
Three-year grant of $650,000 toward a comprehensive approach to improve teaching and learning in eight urban school districts

Columbia University

Nine-month grant of $25,000 toward a consultative meeting on INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTs in early childhood education and care

Communications Consortium Media Center
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward media strategies to improve state and national early childhood education policy

Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward the DISSEMINATION activities of an international network of early childhood organizations

Council for Basic Education
Three-year grant of $450,000 toward support of the Standards-based Teacher Education Project

Education Writers Association
Two year grant of $225,000 toward seminars and an interactive research service for reporters on critical issues in education

Institute for Educational Inquiry
http://depts.washington.edu/cedren/InstituteForEducationalInquiry.html Three year grant of $486,900 for project to increase membership in the National Network for Educational Renewal

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward an early childhood education financing and facilities initiative

National Academy of Sciences
Eighteen-month grant of $100,000 toward a strategic plan to connect research to education practice and policy

National Alliance of Business, Inc.
Seven-month grant of $108,400 toward support of a campaign to improve teacher quality

National Public Radio, Inc.
Two-year grant of $540,000 toward expanded news reporting on education reform issues

New York University
Five-month grant of $25,000 for planning a national study of equity and access to learning in charter schools

State University of New York College at Cortland
One-year grant of $25,000 for planning an urban teaching initiative at State University of New York

Rutgers University Foundation
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a planning meeting to improve the preparation of prekindergarten through fourth grade teachers of literacy

Temple University
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward an analysis of literacy materials and books used by child care and preschool programs

United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Nine-month grant of $187,000 toward planning of a high-quality early childhood education system in the city of Philadelphia

Wellesley College
Four-month grant of $25,000 for strategic planning activities of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Three-year grant of $988,800 for strengthening historical literacy in grades 11-14

Stephen Ansolabehere
Nineteen-month grant of $93,100 for a research project titled The Rise of Money in American Elections

Matthew Evangelista
One-year grant of $97,700 for a research project titled Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? Lessons of the Chechen Wars

Jay Heubert
Two year grant of $100,000 for a research project titled Promotion and Graduation Tests: How Do They Affect Student Learning and Progress and How Can Proper Test Use be Promoted?

Caroline Hoxby
Fourteen-month grant of $49,300 for a research project titled Ideal Vouchers, Ideal Charter School Tuition: Price Mechanisms That Solve Problems Potentially Created by School Choice

Richard Jolly
Two-year grant of $99,800 for a research project titled Widening Global Income Gaps: Causes, Remedies, and Policy Proposals

Richard Langhorne
0 grant of $100,000 for a research project titled New Emissaries and No Emissaries: The Representation of New Voices in Global Politics

Beverly Mack
Two-year grant of $98,600 for a research project titled Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim Women's Scholarship and Social Activism in West and North Africa

Steven Rosefielde
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project titled Forgotten Superpower: The Economic Case for Arms Control and the Russian Federation

Michael Sandel
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project titled What Money Can Buy: Markets, Morals, and Civic Life

Ian Shapiro
Twenty-month grant of $99,900 for a research project titled Democracy and Distribution in the United States

Dorothy Shipps
One-year grant of $74,200 for a research project titled School Reform, Corporate Style: The Nexus of Politics, Business and Education Change in Twentieth Century Chicago

Kathleen Vogel
Seventeen-month grant of $78,400 for a research project titled A Plague Upon the Nations? Proliferation Concerns from the Former Soviet Bioweapons Complex Women In Law And Development In Africa Two-year grant of $250,000 as a final grant toward training and advocacy on women's rights

Botswana National Library Service
Six-month grant of $67,000 for development of a strategic plan to revitalize public libraries in Botswana

Kenya National Library Service
Six-month grant of $75,000 planning grant to develop a strategic plan to revitalize public libraries in Kenya

Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program
Nineteen-month grant of $25,000 toward matching support for a Tanzanian fellow under the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Program

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three-year grant of $548,400 for a project on stability in the post-Soviet territory

Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
One-year grant of $25,000 toward participation by Russian scholars in the establishment of an international forum on Arctic and Circumpolar issues

Brown University
Eleven-month grant of $25,000 toward a policy-level simulation exercise on targeted financial sanctions

University of California, San Diego
Two-year grant of $296,700 for research on the conditions necessary for successful inclusive governance in ethnically divided societies

Center for Policy Studies in Russia
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward nuclear nonproliferation in Russia

Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
Three-month grant of $20,000 toward a project on cooperation among the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the future of international security

Columbia University
Five-month grant of $20,000 toward an international research conference on ethnic regional autonomy

Council on Foreign Relations
Seven-month grant of $10,000 for the publication and DISSEMINATION of a report on the role of China in nuclear arms control

Foundation for International Arts and Education, Inc.
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a feasibility study on distance learning in the former Soviet Union

Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Two-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward support

Institute for Science and International Security
Two-year grant of $170,000 for nuclear nonproliferation in Russia

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a meeting to strengthen nuclear nonproliferation

Johns Hopkins University
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a joint project with the Global Environment and Energy in the 21st Century on water and security in South Asia

Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Inc.
Two-year grant of $250,000 for strengthening constitutional democracy in Russia

Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Inc.
Four-month grant of $20,000 for the publication and DISSEMINATION of a White Paper on national missile defense

University of Maryland, College Park
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward the DISSEMINATION of Report 2000: Conflict, Self-Determination, and Democracy

National Academy of Sciences
One-year grant of $160,000 for a conference on terrorism

National Security Archive Fund, Inc.
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward support for the Russia and Former Soviet Union Initiative

Occidental College
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward research and writing by Philip Taubman on the use of spy satellites in combating terrorism, proliferation, and deadly conflict

University of Pennsylvania
Two-year grant of $248,000 for research and analysis on globalization's effects on ethnopolitics

Princeton University
One-year grant of $169,400 toward support of South Asian scholars in research and training on new policy initiatives

Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
Two-year grant of $200,000 for a project to address problems in nuclear cities in Russia

Southern Illinois University Foundation
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a project on Rwanda

Stanford University
One-year grant of $203,500 for a study of external international intervention in regional ethnic disputes

Texas Tech University
Seven-month grant of $54,000 for a project on ethnic groups and potential external supporters

Union of Concerned Scientists
Eleven-month grant of $25,000 toward the DISSEMINATION of a report on national missile defense

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Two-year grant of $2,400,000 toward the creation of centers for advanced study and education in Russia

Aspen Institute, Inc.
Two-year grant of $250,000 to promote United States public and policymaker engagement in international issues

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward institutional strengthening

New School University
Fifteen-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on privacy

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