Carnegie Newsline March 2, 2006

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the March 2, 2006 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an international conference on teacher quality

Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Atlanta, GA
One-year grant of $25,000 for a strategy to promote adolescent literacy

Center on Education Policy, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $750,000 toward monitoring the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act at the state and district level

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Nine-month grant of $48,700 for a study of school and student correlates of freshman-year academic performance

University of Cincinnati Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
Two-year grant of $668,700 toward a research project examining the relationship among teacher education, classroom practices and student achievement

Editorial Projects In Education, Inc., Bethesda, MD
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward coverage of district-level reform

Education Sector, Chevy Chase, MD
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Fifteen-month grant of $350,000 toward a study on incentives and test-based accountability in public education

National Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA
Fifteen-month grant of $10,000 for the publication and dissemination of an adolescent literacy report

National Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth, Kansas City, MO
One-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward systemic strategies for struggling students

New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA
One-month grant of $10,000 toward a conference on New England's arts and cultural assets in the new economy

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Eighteen-month grant of $681,200 for a study on the impact and implementation of middle school reading coaches

Research for Action Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a study of public/private collaboration in restructuring high school education in Philadelphia

Teach for America, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward strategic planning to strengthen training and support programs

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
Thirty-three-month grant of $118,500 toward the establishment of a unit to promote higher education and research networking in Africa

Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, United Kingdom
Four-month grant of $50,000 toward participation by selected African university executives in the association's general conference

Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $140,000 for a pilot training project in investigative reporting for journalists, editors and publishers in Nigeria

The Leadership Foundation, Washington, DC
Twenty-month grant of $50,000 toward support of two African higher education fellows

New York University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $213,600 toward a position at the Steinhardt School of Education to coordinate the work of the foundation partnership to strengthen African universities

University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward participation of representatives from selected African universities to present papers at an international conference on gender equity in higher education

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

American Council for International Education, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 for a center for advanced study and education in Belarus

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the international activities of the Congressional Program

Brown University, Providence, RI
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a project to promote a new global security agenda

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward meetings for U.S. and international participants to exchange ideas on global approaches to biosecurity

Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc., Berkeley, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an investigative documentary on the proliferation of nuclear weapons

International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a multilateral dialogue on Iran's nuclear program

International Peace Academy, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $362,000 toward a project to assist the development of the United Nation's Peacebuilding Commission

National Committee on American Foreign Policy, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward a multilateral dialogue on North Korea

National Security Archive Fund, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $450,000 toward support for the Russia and Former Soviet Union Initiative

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Two-year grant of $350,500 toward an analysis of post-conflict Afghanistan and its future

World Security Institute, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $75,000 toward the production and distribution of a television series promoting global dialogue

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

Alliance for Children and Families, Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a pilot program that will help nonprofit human service agencies improve the civic engagement of their constituents

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $22,000 for preparing amicus briefs by political science scholars in defense of provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

American University, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward the establishment of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate

Appleseed Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC
Seventeen-month grant of $50,000 toward electoral reform research and advocacy on computerized statewide voter registration systems

William J. Brennan, Jr., Center for Justice, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $600,000 toward support of its democracy program

Center for Effective Philanthropy, Inc., Cambridge, MA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward expanding and creating tools for foundations to assess their effectiveness, performance, and governance

Center for Governmental Studies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward improving California's systems of governance and civic engagement

Center for Political Accountability, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward improving transparency and accountability in corporate political spending

Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $250,000 toward support of its domestic program

Center for Public Interest Research, Inc., Boston, MA
Thirteen-month grant of $200,000 toward the New Voters Project, an initiative to promote youth voter registration

Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, DC
Three-year grant of $500,100 as a final grant toward support

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago, IL
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a project on understanding the challenges of engaging U.S. Muslims in domestic and foreign policy discussions

Communications Consortium Media Center, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward coalition-building and communications to build public support for comprehensive Census data collection

Constitutional Rights Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Two-year grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward coalition building, public education, research and communications to promote a comprehensive approach to school-based civic education in California

Council on Foundations, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $45,000 toward 2006 membership support

Democracy North Carolina, Carrboro, NC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward research and public education on the impact of same-day registration and voting on turnout in North Carolina

Grassroots Policy Project, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward documenting a program that trains nonprofits in integrating year-round civic engagement activities

Hispanics in Philanthropy, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $3,000 toward 2006 membership support

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Chicago, IL
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a national communications strategy to promote statewide immigrant integration policy

Impact Online Inc., San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward developing and implementing a financial sustainability system for VolunteerMatch.org

Independent Sector, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $12,500 toward 2006 membership support

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Saint Paul, MN
One-year grant of $100,000 toward strengthening the capacity of nonprofits that promote voter/civic engagement

National Public Radio, Inc., Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $200,000 toward an initiative to improve local public news reporting capacity

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $16,000 toward 2006 membership support

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on redistricting reform and its impact on minority voters

Northeastern University, Boston, MA
One-year grant of $23,000 toward a conference analyzing the role of swing voters in American elections

Philanthropic Research, Inc., Williamsburg, VA
Two-year grant of $250,000 as a final grant toward support for GuideStar, a national database of nonprofit organizations

Proteus Fund, Inc., Amherst, MA
One-year grant of $200,000 as one-time support toward a funder collaborative on media reform and media democracy

Reform Institute Inc., Alexandria, VA
Twenty-three-month grant of $200,000 toward its democracy and elections program

Support Center for Nonprofit Management Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward an initiative to promote sustained, strategic philanthropy in African American, Asian American and Latino communities

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $20,000 toward research examining political participation among Arab Americans

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

America Speaks, Inc., Washington, DC
Three-month grant of $50,000 toward an interactive conference engaging citizens in the planning for the rebuilding of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and its surrounding communities

Council on Foundations, Inc., Washington, DC
s Six-month grant of $35,500 toward advocacy on public policy issues related to private foundations

Institute of International Education, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $100,000 as one-time support for a feasibility study on developing indicators of academic freedom worldwide

Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $40,000 for a meeting with officials of the National Library and Archives of Iran

National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $106,000 as one-time only support for its 2006 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

JOURNALISM INITIATIVE

University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward enhancing journalism curricula and deepening journalism school impact on university resources

University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward journalism curriculum enrichment in the arts, music, and theater

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward journalism curriculum enrichment focusing on religion and legal affairs

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Twenty-seven-month grant of $250,000 toward enhancing journalism curricula in the areas of news literacy, demographics, and technology

ISLAM INITIATIVE

Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Seven-month grant of $50,000 toward a program on religious studies