Carnegie Newsline June 12, 2008

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the June 12, 2008 board meeting.

Contents:

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY
Four-year grant of $5,000,000 for fellowships in the humanities in Africa

American Library Association, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $270,700 toward strengthening public outreach of libraries

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
One-year grant of $50,000 toward participation in an academic management training workshop

Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, United Kingdom
One-year grant of $50,000 toward African participation in conferences for vice-chancellors and public affairs officers

The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $800,000 toward the Foreign Policy Studies program

Brown University, Providence, RI
Two-year grant of $375,000 toward a project to promote a new global security agenda

University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 for a project on international sanctions and nuclear proliferation

City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Three-year grant of $2,495,000 as a final grant for the creation of a model reference library in Cape Town

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward a seminar series on foreign policy

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
Five-month grant of $50,000 toward a conference on U.S.-Russia security policy

Catalytic Diplomacy, Chevy Chase, MD
Three-month grant of $50,000 for Track II diplomacy in Northeast Asia

Center for Policy Studies in Russia, Monterey, CA
Two-year grant of $280,000 toward a training program on nonproliferation for young specialists

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $400,300 toward a project on reforming U.S. and international post-conflict reconstruction efforts

Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, DC
Three-month grant of $50,000 toward a study on national security reform

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Two-year grant of $500,000 for data collection, publications and outreach on terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an independent task force on U.S. nuclear weapons policy

Global Security Institute, San Francisco, CA
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward forums to promote nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Three-year grant of $600,000 for policy-relevant analysis of political, social, and religious change in Eurasia

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $1,114,900 toward the executive training programs for military officers and policymakers from Eurasia

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL
Three-year grant of $380,000 as a final grant for strategic planning and automation of African grantee university libraries

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Eleven-month grant of $50,000 toward a workshop on Islamic influence on Western Enlightenment philosophies

Institute for State Effectiveness, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward the creation of handbooks for support of specific functions of states at risk

International Crisis Group, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $450,000 toward research, analysis, dialogue, and dissemination on preventing state collapse

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $700,000 toward support of the Security Studies Program

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Two-year grant of $450,000 as a final grant for a joint project with the European University in St. Petersburg to foster the development of the social sciences in Russia's regional universities

National Defense University Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 for a Washington, D.C.-based working group on U.S.-Russian relations

Network 20/20, Inc., New York, NY
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a project to inform American policymakers and the public about key developments in Pakistan

University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Three-year grant of $1,000,000 for promoting leadership skills for model libraries in Africa

Sabinet Gateway, Centurion, South Africa
Four-year grant of $1,800,000 toward the retrospective digitization of African journals

South African Institute of Distance Education, Braamfontein, South Africa
Four-year grant of $1,200,000 toward an African university e-learning initiative

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a project on enhancing public security and the rule of law in post-conflict states at risk

Tufts University, Medford, MA
Ten-month grant of $27,200 toward a conference on the future of policy planning in international relations

Washington Cathedral, Washington, DC
Eleven-month grant of $50,000 for a meeting to facilitate inter-religious understanding and reconciliation

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward support

Women Make Movies Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a documentary on education in South Africa

NATIONAL PROGRAM

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
One-year grant of $1,000,000 for the development and piloting of a new partnership design to merge the assets of science institutions and urban schools to improve student achievement

America's Promise: The Alliance For Youth, Alexandria, VA
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support for a dropout prevention campaign

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, Dearborn, MI
Three-year grant of $750,000 toward support of the National Network for Arab American Communities

Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund, New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward encouraging voter participation among Asian Americans

Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $560,000 toward a project to re-design general education in public higher education systems

Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a symposium to develop policy recommendations on the national purpose of American higher education

Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, Oakland, CA
Three-year grant of $1,600,700 toward the creation of a data-based professional development network

Be The Change, Inc., Cambridge, MA
One-year grant of $500,000 toward a summit exploring policy and civic engagement challenges of the 21st century

California State University, Long Beach, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 for supplemental funding toward research examining the relationship between measures of preservice teacher preparation and student achievement gains

Center for Community Change, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward meetings to build the capacity of African immigrant-serving organizations

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Four-month grant of $29,100 for an analysis to explore the development of a series of longitudinal studies examining reading development during the middle-grade years

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward support

City College of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $200,000 toward support of the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward research on the role of labor in immigrant integration

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action, Ltd., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a toolkit for nonprofit service groups to promote civic engagement

Educational Policy Improvement Center, Eugene, OR
Four-year grant of $2,000,000 for a college-readiness diagnostic assessment system

Equal Justice Society, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a conference to foster multi-racial alliances around civil rights and immigrant rights issues

FairVote, Takoma Park, MD
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a pilot study on systemic voter registration and education methods in high schools, community colleges, and universities

Fiscal Policy Institute Inc., Albany, NY
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward research on the impact of immigrants on the New York economy

Friends of Girls Preparatory Charter School of New York, Inc., New York, NY
Ten-month grant of $50,000 toward a conference on the impact of single-sex public schools in preparing students for high school and college

Fund for Independence in Journalism, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward support

Grantmakers for Education, Portland, OR
One-year grant of $3,000 toward 2008 membership support

Independent Media Institute, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 for its internet-based public education efforts on immigration issues

Media Matters for America, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward its analysis of the media coverage on immigrant integration issues

National Articulation and Transfer Network, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward capacity building

National Civic League of Colorado, Inc., Denver, CO
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a special issue of the National Civic Review devoted to the relationship between diversity, social capital, and immigration

New Leaders, New York, NY
Four-month grant of $50,000 toward the development of a learning plan to increase principal effectiveness and student achievement in secondary schools

New Leaders, New York, NY
Three-year grant of $2,526,700 toward a reform strategy to increase principal effectiveness and student achievement in urban secondary schools

Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $2,500 toward 2008 membership support

Overseas Vote Foundation, Arlington, VA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support

Philanthropy Roundtable, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $10,000 toward 2008 membership support

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Seven-month grant of $50,000 toward its project on security, civil liberties, and immigrant policy

Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward 2008 membership support for the Peace and Security Funders Group

Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $350,000 for case studies, public education, and outreach about the impact of immigrant policy on law enforcement at the local level

Progressive States Network, New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward improving the quality and breadth of immigration-related policy at the state level

Public Agenda Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $549,900 for public opinion research and dissemination on immigrant attitudes toward civic participation

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
One-year grant of $50,000 toward survey research on civic attitudes of Mexican Americans

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Five-month grant of $49,800 for an English-language learner online video resource

Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $1,000,000 for building SERP's research and development capacity in urban districts

Teach For America, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $2,000,000 toward expanding a pilot implementation of interim assessments to drive student achievement, teacher accountability, and program improvement

The New School, New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward its project on ethnic media coverage of immigrants and their views on issues in the 2008 elections

Tides Foundation, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $5,000 toward its Technology Affinity Group project

Tides Foundation, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a fund to support coordinated efforts to protect voters' rights

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward ongoing public education around the public discourse and implementation of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward its efforts to narrow the educational achievement gap

Coalition for DC Representation Education Fund, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $75,000 toward support

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward an online digital archive of The Open Mind, a long-running television interview broadcast

Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Two-year grant of $500,000 for institutional capacity-building, including faculty support

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward the purpose of exploring collaborations with education partners in South Africa and Ghana

The New Press Inc., New York, NY
Seven-month grant of $30,000 for the planning phase of a publishing program on Islam/Muslim studies

DISSEMINATION

Fund for the City of New York, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $48,000 for coverage of women and the rule of law in Africa, and of women in Islam in the United States and across the world

SPECIAL INITIATIVES

American Library Association, Washington, DC
Fifty-eight-month grant of $489,200 toward the creation of the annual Carnegie New York Times librarian awards program honoring exemplary performance by public and academic librarians

JOURNALISM INITIATIVE

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Three-year grant of $2,625,000 toward expanding the News21 network of universities providing innovative, hands-on journalism education

Arizona State University Foundation, Tempe, AZ
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward curriculum enrichment

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Three-year grant of $375,000 toward curriculum enrichment

Columbia University, New York, NY
Three-year grant of $375,000 toward curriculum enrichment

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Three-year grant of $450,000 for research and leadership of Carnegie Knight Task Force on Journalism

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward curriculum enrichment

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Three-year grant of $375,000 toward curriculum enrichment

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Three-year grant of $375,000 toward curriculum enrichment

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward curriculum enrichment