Carnegie Newsline October 9, 2003

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the October 9, 2003 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

Academy for Educational Development, Inc.
Three-year grant of $13,059,600 toward Teachers for a New Era: a Corporation initiative to reform and improve the education of teachers

All Kinds of Minds
One-year grant of $50,000 toward Missing the Points, a planning project that targets the comprehension challenges facing children in middle childhood

American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Fourteen-month grant of $300,700 for a descriptive study of the Alabama Reading Initiative

Aspen Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $411,400 for the Congressional Program on Education

Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
Two-year grant of $75,000 toward establishing an institute on governance for public college and university chief executives

College of the Atlantic
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a support network for teacher training

Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies
One-year grant of $350,000 toward a documentary film on the development of one of the New Century High Schools in the Bronx (High School for Contemporary Arts)

Carnegie Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $850,000 for technical assistance and evaluation services for the Schools for a New Society initiative

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Nine-month grant of $250,000 for research and analytic support for the Carnegie Advisory Council on Reading to Learn

Carnegie Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $1,330,000 for technical assistance associated with the Teachers for a New Era initiative

Center on Education Policy
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward support to monitor the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act at the state and district level

Council for Basic Education
Three-year grant of $465,100 for support of the Standards-based Teacher Education Project

Education Trust, Inc.
Two-year grant of $600,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on the achievement and opportunity gaps in American education

University of Kansas, Center for Research, Inc.
Six-month grant of $29,900 for a Study of Successful Reform Models in Urban Schools: Identifying Factors that Lead to Sustained Improvement in Literacy Outcomes for At-Risk Adolescents

New York University
Five-month grant of $25,000 for a working meeting of superintendents of predominantly black suburban school districts

University of Pennsylvania
One-year grant of $50,000 for a study and book on large-scale improvement in Community District #2 in New York City

Rutgers University
One-year grant of $49,400 for improving literacy achievement in New Jersey, grades 4-8

Stanford University
Three-year grant of $799,000 toward research examining the effect of teacher preparation on student learning and teacher labor market decisions

University of Washington
Thirty-month grant of $386,100 as a final grant toward support of the Strengthening and Sustaining Teachers project

WestEd
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward strengthening a model of adolescent literacy acquisition

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

American Library Association
Seven-month grant of $49,000 for a study on the impact of federal regulations requiring public libraries to provide reader proclivities

Association of African Universities
Sixteen-month grant of $134,500 toward development of a database of African theses and dissertations

Association of African Universities
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward the restructuring and revitalization of the Association of African Universities (AAU)

University of Cape Town
Three-month grant of $20,900 toward participation in a higher education management training seminar by women from selected African universities

Carnegie Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $750,000 for technical assistance and assessment services for African universities

University for Development Studies
Seven-month grant of $25,000 for improving the university's financial system and fundraising

University of Ghana
Three-year grant of $1,637,300 for leveraging comparative strengths and competencies in the University of Ghana through information and communication technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ten-month grant of $50,000 for a feasibility study on access to online laboratories for selected African universities

Pamoja, Inc.
Six-month grant of $24,800 toward developing a training manual on grantseeking and proposal writing and upgrading electronic communication capacity to better serve African institutions

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Six-month grant of $48,900 toward professional development for Corporation grantees in Kenya

University of Education, Winneba
Three-year grant of $1,686,000 toward distance education, student internship and graduate studies

World Bank
Four-month grant of $24,600 for a regional training conference on improving tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

American Council of Learned Societies
Three-year grant of $1,200,000 for fellowships in the humanities for scholars in the former Soviet Union

British American Security Information Council
Eight-month grant of $40,000 for a transatlantic biological weapons education project

Brown University
Nineteen-month grant of $49,500 for development and DISSEMINATION of a high school curriculum that encourages classroom discussion about international issues related to America's role in the world

Brown University
Two-year grant of $299,200 as a final grant toward promoting discussions between Americans, Russians and Europeans on security issues

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Seven-month grant of $35,000 toward the second Moscow international conference on the future of the nonproliferation regime

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Nine-month grant of $25,000 for a conference and outreach activities on post-war Iraq

Center for Defense Information, Inc.
Two-year grant of $312,000 toward electronic news services on contemporary Russia

Center for Public Integrity
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a study of the politics of national security

DePaul University
One-year grant of $50,000 for a project to promote criminalizing biological terrorism and biological weapons proliferation

Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Inc.
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a project on relations between the United States, Russia and China

Georgetown University
One-year grant of $25,000 for research, meetings and publications on U.S. power and multilateral implications

Georgetown University
One-year grant of $50,000 toward symposia in international affairs

Indiana University
One-year grant of $50,000 for a project on Russian elections

International Research and Exchanges Board, Inc.
Two-year grant of $704,000 for improving university administration in Russia and other post-Soviet states

University of Michigan
Thirty-one-month grant of $450,000 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 Academy of Sciences
Two-year grant of $200,000 as a final grant toward trilateral and bilateral meetings of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control with its Russian and Chinese counterparts

National Committee on American Foreign Policy
One-year grant of $25,000 for a multilateral, unofficial dialogue on North Korea

New School University
One-year grant of $25,000 final grant for a seminar series on the impact of cultural factors on Russia's transition

New York University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a project on multilateral security arrangements

Ploughshares Fund
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward the Peace and Security Funders Group

Royal Institute of International Affairs
Two-year grant of $199,900 for cooperation between Russia and the West on INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY issues

Scripps College
One-year grant of $20,000 for a conference on European Union-United States relations

Stanford University
One-year grant of $50,000 toward increasing the fundraising capacity of the Center for International Security and Cooperation

Stony Brook Foundation
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward the planning phase of a pilot project to develop a training program for combined competence in bioscience and security policy

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
One-year grant of $25,000 toward educating Congress about the continued threat of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

Action Without Borders, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the merger of Action Without Borders with Campus Outreach Opportunity League

American Documentary
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward support of a public education campaign around immigrants, particularly those who recently arrived

Association for Community-Higher Education Partnerships
One-year grant of $25,000 toward developing a national infrastructure that will support partnerships between higher education institutions and nonprofits working in economically distressed communities

Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits
One-year grant of $15,000 toward research that identifies states with little access to philanthropic resources and a communications effort to encourage more philanthropic investment in those states

Brookings Institution
One-year grant of $25,000 toward DISSEMINATION of the National Commission on the Public Service's recommendations for reform of the federal public service

Brown University
Three-year grant of $598,400 for efforts to use two model programs to promote a comprehensive approach to civic education in Maine and Indiana

Business Volunteers Unlimited
One-year grant of $25,000 for research on the feasibility of replicating a model program that matches business executives with nonprofits in need of management and board services

Catholic University of America
Eighteen-month grant of $47,600 for data analysis and publications about the role of school-based required and voluntary service in the civic development of high school students

The Century Foundation
Two-year grant of $300,100 toward research and public education on the nexus of domestic security, civil liberties and immigrants

Clark Atlanta University
Eighteen-month grant of $25,000 for a study on the impact of proportional representation on black political representation in Alabama

Committee for Economic Development
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

Constitutional Rights Foundation
Two-year grant of $549,400 toward coalition building, public education, research, and communications to promote a comprehensive approach to school-based civic education in California

Council for Excellence in Government
Seven-month grant of $50,000 for planning a national effort to implement the recommendations of the Civic Mission of Schools report

Earth Force Inc.
Three-year grant of $517,600 for efforts to use the Earth Force program as a model to promote a comprehensive approach to civic education in Michigan

Foundation Center
One-year grant of $35,000 toward research on the philanthropic response to the events of September 11th

HOPE Foundation, Inc.
Six-month grant of $8,500 toward data collection and evaluation of a high school in Hudson, Massachusetts, that involves all students in school decision-making processes and policies

University of Houston
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the publication and DISSEMINATION of Su Voto es Su Voz, a biography of William C. Velasquez

Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a national public education campaign on citizenship

Interfaith Education Fund, Inc.
One-year grant of $200,000 toward an immigrant leadership project

University of Maryland Foundation, Inc.
Four-month grant of $50,000 toward production and DISSEMINATION of the Civic Mission of Schools report

University of Maryland, College Park
One-year grant of $50,000 for research as to whether and how different types of text material enhance students' civic knowledge and engagement

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
One-year grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward national replication of its Standards for Excellence program

University of Minnesota
Three-year grant of $499,600 toward evaluation of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship's Public Achievement program, which teaches civic skills through community participation and problem solving

New York Community Trust
One-year grant of $50,000 for use by the Fund for New Citizens toward technical assistance, community outreach, coordination and monitoring of the special call-in registration program

Northern California Grantmakers
One-year grant of $25,000 toward research and writing on immigrant civic participation in the United States

Peace Games Inc.
One-year grant of $23,900 toward research, evaluation, and DISSEMINATION about school-based programs and practices that encourage civic engagement in young children

University of Pennsylvania
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward research by the Annenberg School for Communication and Public Policy Center on legislative issue advocacy advertising

University of Pennsylvania
Two-year grant of $500,000 for efforts to use the Student Voices program as a model for civic education curriculum and standards in Pennsylvania

People for the American Way Foundation
Fifteen-month grant of $250,000 as a final grant toward expansion of a project to promote civic participation, educate voters about their rights and assist them on Election Day

Project on Government Oversight, Inc.
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward support

Project Vote/Voting for America, Inc.
Fifteen-month grant of $200,000 toward support

Public Campaign
Two-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward support

Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward its leadership transition

Tomas Rivera Policy Institute
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a study of best practices and policies on immigrant integration in non-traditional areas

Third Sector New England, Inc.
One-year grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward development and national expansion of the Nonprofit Quarterly

Third Sector New England, Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 for research about the state and value of the nonprofit sector infrastructure

Tides Center
Eight-month grant of $10,000 toward a study of the capacity of national and local organizations to improve U.S. civic participation

William C. Velasquez Institute, Inc.
Two-year grant of $200,000 one-time funding toward measuring Latino political participation in 2003-04

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a joint project with the Brookings Institution to form a bipartisan commission to consider ways to ensure the continuity of government after a terrorist attack

Aspen Institute, Inc.
Fourteen-month grant of $200,000 toward an initiative on ethical globalization

Brooklyn Public Library Foundation, Inc.
Three-year grant of $750,000 toward support

Center for the Study of the Presidency
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a project to improve global communications about American culture, values and system of governance

Institute for Advanced Study
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a workshop on the influence of Greek political thought on Islam

The Interfaith Center of New York
One-year grant of $25,000 toward its civic engagement program in New York City Muslim communities

University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support of the Democracy Collaborative's interdependence day conference

MEM Associates, Inc.
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a communications and marketing strategy for the Healthy Steps for Young Children program

New School University
One-year grant of $100,000 as a final grant toward a project to establish meaningful dialogues between Muslims and Westerners at all levels of society

New Visions for Public Schools, Inc.
Seven-month grant of $400,000 toward development of a professional library for teachers and administrators

New York Public Library
Three-year grant of $3,000,000 toward the Emergency Campaign

Queens Library Foundation, Inc.
Three-year grant of $750,000 toward support

Toynbee Prize Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $20,000 toward an interdisciplinary conference and volume of essays on New Global History

Vital Voices Global Partnership
One-year grant of $50,000 toward support

Working Partnerships USA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a study on the social and economic problems created by the rise of virtual business enterprises and associated changes in employment

DISSEMINATION

Carnegie Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $1,790,000 for program dissemination of the Corporation's work