Carnegie Newsline December 1, 2005

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the December 1, 2005 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $248,300 for developing policies aimed at reducing dropout rates

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $419,500 for the Congressional Program on Education

Fund for the City of New York, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $220,000 for continuation of the documentation study of the New Century High Schools partnership strategy

University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., Athens, GA
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward an online course for middle school teachers on adolescent literacy

Make the Road By Walking, Brooklyn, NY
Six-month grant of $15,000 toward a youth conference on high school reform in New York City

National Urban League, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a strategic plan for community engagement in adolescent literacy

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa
One-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward the KwaZulu Natal Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Association Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward an international conference on Bosnia and Herzegovina

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a joint project, with Duke University, on global strategic challenges and foreign policy

Center for Global Development, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward research on transnational threats posed by states at risk

Dayton Peace Accords Project, Medford, MA
One-year grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward state-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Eurasia Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $2,000,000 toward interdisciplinary research and training centers in the Caucasus

Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $320,000 toward a project on relations among the United States, Russia and China

Future Generations, Franklin, WV
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward research and policy development on the role of community participation in states at risk

Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, GA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a meeting on security issues in Northeast Asia

International Research and Exchanges Board, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $699,000 for improving university administration in Russia and other post-Soviet states

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Two-year grant of $375,000 toward research and policy outreach on national and international decision-making structures addressing states at risk

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

Advancement Project, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $200,000 toward its election administration and voting rights program

American University, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $200,000 toward dissemination of the recommendations of a commission on federal election reform

Committee for Economic Development, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward outreach and public education within the business community on campaign finance reform, including judicial elections

Common Cause Education Fund, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $400,000 toward a public education campaign on the role of the competitive media environment in U.S. democracy

Common Cause Education Fund, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward support

Midwest States Center, Prairie Farm, WI
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward support of a strategic convening and planning retreat of regional centers

National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward support

National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO
One-year grant of $100,000 for a collaboration with the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators on immigrant issues at the state level

National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA
One-year grant of $100,000 toward public education on the impact of the legal precedent of Vermont's spending limits law

Northeast Action, Inc., Boston, MA
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward support

NSA Anthology Charitable Trust, Malden on Hudson, NY
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward the publication of an anthology on student organizing and leadership

Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward increasing ethnic media's capacity to cover immigration reform issues

Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the Peace and Security Funders Group

Public Campaign, Washington, DC
Three-year grant of $600,000 as a final grant toward support

Public Interest Projects, New York, NY
One-year grant of $1,000,000 toward a funder collaborative on immigrant civic integration

Western States Center, Inc., Portland, OR
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward building civic capacity among new immigrant communities in the Northwest region

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a consortium of Arab policy institutes focusing on policy alternatives for reform and modernization in the Muslim world

International Cultural Property Society, New York, NY
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on cultural property law

SEPTEMBER 11 RECOVERY

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $10,000 toward international summits on the role of arts and culture in the process of rebuilding and recovery in the aftermath of catastrophic events

World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $250,000 toward support, in honor of John C. Whitehead

ISLAM INITIATIVE

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $250,000 toward promoting political reform across the Muslim world

John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Incorporated, Boston, MA
Fifteen-month grant of $100,000 toward a series of dialogues among Israeli and Palestinian journalists

HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF

American Red Cross, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $250,000 toward Hurricane Katrina relief

The Salvation Army, Alexandria, VA
One-year grant of $250,000 toward Hurricane Katrina relief