Carnegie Newsline September 30, 2004

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the September 30, 2004 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a commission on general education in the 21st century

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $750,000 for support of the Carnegie Advisory Council on Reading to Learn

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $880,000 for technical assistance and evaluation services for the Schools for a New Society initiative

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $1,965,800 for technical assistance associated with the Teachers for a New Era initiative

University of Cincinnati Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
One-year grant of $200,000 toward planning and technical assistance to strengthen a research project examining the effect of teacher preparation and induction on student learning

Council for Aid to Education, New York, NY
One-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward an assessment system to measure the 'value added' of a liberal arts education

Jobs for the Future Inc., Boston, MA
Two-year grant of $500,000 for an initiative on making dropout and pushout issues a priority of high school reform

University of Kansas, Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence, KS
Two-year grant of $509,600 toward building a computer adaptive test for assessing reading comprehension

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Eighteen-month grant of $169,500 toward developing an instructional model and assessments to gauge children's comprehension of informational text

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Inc., Arlington, VA
Eight-month grant of $50,000 toward development of a five-year strategic plan

National Center for Family Literacy, Inc., Louisville, KY
One-year grant of $45,800 for a pilot project to engage parents in the literacy development of their adolescent children

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Two-year grant of $50,000 for a theoretical framework to study the development of effective teachers

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a conference of rectors, vice-chancellors, and presidents of African universities

Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, United Kingdom
Fifteen-month grant of $50,000 toward two workshops on women in African higher education management

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $618,000 for technical assistance for African universities

Foundation for Library and Information Service Development (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa
Five-month grant of $50,000 for strategic planning of a model national library in South Africa

City of Johannesburg Library and Information Services, 2017 Johannesburg, South Africa
Five-month grant of $50,000 for strategic planning of a model city library in Johannesburg

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa
Four-month grant of $39,800 as one-time supplemental funding to conclude a science and mathematics teacher training program in the province of KwaZulu Natal

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Three-year grant of $2,999,900 for institutional development

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward an international conference on the role of universities in ICT-enabled development

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Six-month grant of $25,000 for planning a project on providing access to online laboratories for selected African universities

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Two-year grant of $50,000 for enhancement of electronic networks at selected African universities and libraries by the Network Startup Resource Center

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Center for Defense Information, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant for a project on cooperative security in space

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward research and outreach on new security threats

Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $190,500 for research analysis, dialogue and dissemination on states at risk

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Three-year grant of $475,000 toward research and dialogue on building capacity for a weapons of mass destruction-free Korean peninsula

University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
One-year grant of $25,000 for a workshop on nonstate actors, terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 for a project on future biosecurity threats and policies

New York University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on legal aspects of states at risk

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
One-year grant of $25,000 for research and meetings on states at risk in the former Soviet Union

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Twenty-three-month grant of $360,000 as a final grant toward bringing distance learning courses to Russian universities

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Two-year grant of $1,450,000 toward research and training in international security

Tufts University, Medford, MA
Four-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the reassessing of the Bush administration's Preemptive Doctrine

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on states at risk.

Wilton Park, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Four-month grant of $25,000 toward an international conference on the proliferation of biological weapons

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

American Association of People with Disabilities, Washington, DC
Five-month grant of $50,000 toward electoral reform and voter participation activities in the disabled community

Boardsource, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $20,000 toward development of a business plan for the organization

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $300,000 toward its immigrant civic integration policy work

Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
One-year grant of $34,100 toward a seminar series to analyze and develop new youth development and political socialization models for youth civic engagement

Center for Community Change, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $10,000 as membership support (2003 and 2004) for the Funders' Committee for Civic Participation

Center for Effective Philanthropy, Inc., Cambridge, MA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the second phase of a research project on foundation governance

Center for Public Interest Research, Inc., Boston, MA
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward development of the New Voters Project's online nonpartisan voter registration technology

The Communications Network, Silver Spring, MD
One-year grant of $10,000 as membership support

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago, IL
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward dissemination of its immigration task force report

Democracy South, Virginia Beach, VA
Six-month grant of $49,700 toward providing nonpartisan voter registration and voter mobilization targeting services

Gamaliel Foundation, Chicago, IL
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward coordination of its national immigrant civic integration project

Human Interaction Research Institute, Encino, CA
One-year grant of $19,000 toward using an existing database to study foundation support of nonprofit capacity building and its national infrastructure

International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris, France
One-year grant of $50,000 toward membership support for the Association for the Development of Education in Africa

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., Columbia, MO
One-year grant of $15,000 toward training state and local news media on campaign financing issues

Partners For Democratic Change, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward developing a training and technical assistance program for immigrant communities in public advocacy, policy change management, and conflict resolution

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
One-year grant of $250,000 toward research and analysis on Election Day voting problems

Public Citizen Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward its outreach and public education on disclosure of nonprofit electioneering organizations

Tides Center, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support of Cast the Vote

Volunteer Consulting Group, Inc., New York, NY
Eleven-month grant of $25,000 toward expansion of boardnetUSA, a web-based project to match trustees and board candidates with nonprofit organizations

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Barnard College, New York, NY
One-year grant of $10,000 as one-time grant to defray travel costs to Ghana to research literature for a new course, Literature of the Middle Passage

Boston University, Boston, MA
Eighteen-month grant of $150,000 for support of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center's American-African Universities Collaborative

Camera News, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward development of educational outreach materials on Ralph Johnson Bunche

Crimes of War Education Project, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $100,000 as one-time grant toward support

Endowment of the United States Institute of Peace, Incorporated, Washington, DC
Five-month grant of $50,000 toward program development for the Center for Peace and Security Education

Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY
Twenty-seven-month grant of $150,100 as a final grant toward dissemination of the United Nations Intellectual History Project

Human Rights Watch, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $150,000 toward support

Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $375,000 toward public education and outreach on the need to secure nuclear materials and weapons

University of Wisconsin Foundation, Madison, WI
One-year grant of $100,000 as one-time funding toward the Dictionary of American Regional English

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $150,000 toward a forum for Congressional staff on social and economic issues in Africa

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Two-year grant of $100,000 as one-time funding toward the Papers of Benjamin Franklin Project

SEPTEMBER 11 RECOVERY GRANTS

9/11 Public Discourse Project, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $200,000 toward support

DISSEMINATION FUND

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $1,950,000 for program dissemination of the Corporation's work