Carnegie Newsline February 2000

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the February 1, 2000 Board Meeting.

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EDUCATION
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Child Care Action Campaign
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward planning a campaign on the importance of early childhood literacy for child care and preschool educators

Committee for Economic Development
Four-month grant of $25,000 for a planning meeting on financing early childhood education and care

Learning Matters
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a television series and reporting about education reform

National Academy of Sciences
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a workshop and report on preparing Ph.D.-level scientists for careers in secondary school teaching

National Association for the Education of Young Children
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward the redesign of a professional accreditation system for early childhood care and education programs

Recruiting New Teachers
Twenty-nine month grant of $235,000 toward a national study of community college career corridors for elementary and secondary teacher recruitment and preparation

Replication and Program Strategies
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward a project on replicating successful early childhood programs, held in cooperation with the National Center for Children in Poverty of Columbia University

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
One-year grant of $85,000 for a national meeting of urban secondary school teachers and faculty members in the liberal arts at research universities

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
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Aspen Institute
One-year grant of $602,000 toward support of the international activities of the Congressional program

University of Bradford
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward a project on preventing the proliferation of biological weapons

British American Security Information Council
Nine-month grant of $14,000 for a research project on the Verification Protocol of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Eighteen-month grant of $100,000 for a project on political Islam in Russia

University of Denver
Eighteen-month grant of $125,000 toward a joint project with the International Peace Academy on self-determination, security and the United Nations

Federation of American Scientists Fund
Two-year grant of $212,000 for the Working Group on Biological Weapons Verification

Financial Services Volunteer Corps
Two-month grant of $25,000 for planning a multidisciplinary study of the relationship between the security and economic problems of Russia

Financial Services Volunteer Corps
Ten-month grant of $250,000 for a study of Russia's security, economic and banking crises

George Washington University
Three-month grant of $18,400 for planning a study group on state-building in Russia

George Washington University
Ten-month grant of $250,000 toward a study group on state-building in Russia

Harvard University
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward the Women Waging Peace Initiative

Harvard University
Eight-month grant of $25,000 as a final grant toward a working group on Israeli-Palestinian relations

Harvard University
Two-year grant of $120,100 toward the Harvard Sussex Program on the global elimination of biological and chemical weapons

Hunter College of the City University of New York
One-year grant of $15,000 toward research and writing by Sumit Ganguly on the Indo-Pakistani conflict

Institute for Eastwest Studies
Six-month grant of $24,000 for the translation into Russian of published volumes on Russia's security environment on its western, southern and eastern boundaries

Johns Hopkins University
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward planning a project on issues of water scarcity in South Asia

National Bureau of Asian Research
Ten-month grant of $250,000 for a study of social cohesion in Russia

Overseas Development Council
One-year grant of $73,500 toward a joint project with Rice University on U.S. national interests in ethnic conflicts and other forms of civil war

Pennsylvania State University
Three-year grant of $25,000 toward publication in English of the complete memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev

Ploughshares Fund
Five-month grant of $24,000 toward a project on Y2K preparedness and emergency response in Russia

Ploughshares Fund
Two-year grant of $25,000 toward the Peace and Security Funders Group

Social Science Research Council
Three-year grant of $300,000 toward a project on cooperative security in Northeast Asia

Henry L. Stimson Center
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward the project on chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation

Henry L. Stimson Center
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a project on South Asia

University of Sussex
Two-year grant of $129,900 toward the Harvard Sussex Program on the global elimination of biological and chemical weapons

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Five-month grant of $21,500 for planning a study on political democratization and economic reform in Russia

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ten-month grant of $250,000 toward a study of political democratization and economic reform in Russia

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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University of Zimbabwe
Two-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward a science and technology policy dialogue in Zimbabwe

DEMOCRACY/SPECIAL PROJECTS
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Article 19, the International Centre Against Censorship
One-year grant of $25,000 toward establishing an interactive Web site

Carnegie Institution of Washington
One-month grant of $25,000 toward a program to improve science, mathematics and technology education for children in public elementary schools in the District of Columbia

Center for Responsive Politics
Three-year grant of $450,000 toward support

Children's Television Workshop
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward an international symposium to evaluate a joint Israeli/Palestinian production of "Sesame Street"

Council on Foreign Relations
Twelve-month grant of $250,000 toward a program on economics and national security for young scholars

French-American Foundation
Twelve-month grant of $20,000 toward conference expenses and development of a program on aging workers' issues

Hunter College of the City University of New York
Twelve-month grant of $25,000 toward a model project of the Brookdale Center on Aging to obtain a complete count of the elderly in the 2000 Census

Iowa Citizen Action Network Education Foundation
Twelve-month grant of $20,000 toward a joint public education project with the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance on campaign financing

Midwest States Center
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a seminar for the news media on campaign financing

National Endowment for the Humanities
Twenty-seven month grant of $1,000,000 toward support of a core collection of works by American authors for rural and small public libraries in the United States

National Urban League
Three-year grant of $750,000 as a final grant toward support

Native American Rights Fund
Three-year grant of $450,000 as a final grant toward support

University of Pennsylvania
Eighteen-month grant of $300,000 toward research by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center on political discourse and issue advocacy advertising

United States Hispanic Leadership Institute
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward support

William C. Velasquez Institute
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward support

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