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Carnegie Corporation of New York Board Approves 57 Grants Totaling $38,485,000

At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on December 11, 2025, Carnegie Corporation of New York’s board of trustees approved 57 grants totaling $38,485,000. Brief descriptions of each board-approved grant are provided below.

Dec 16, 2025

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Celeste Ford

CFC@carnegie.org

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

The Africa Center (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $900,000 for a project to establish culture and heritage protection as strategic peacebuilding tools through a Peace and Memory Lab initiative in Sudan

Atlantic Council of the United States (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $385,000 for a project assessing the capabilities to reduce further nuclear escalation after first nuclear use as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

Brown University (Providence, RI)
36-month grant of $900,000 for a project to strengthen biological threat reduction capabilities across Africa

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $500,000 for core support of the Nuclear Policy Program

Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Chicago, IL)
24-month grant of $325,000 for a project on understanding public attitudes of nuclear proliferation among U.S. allies

Council on Strategic Risks (Washington, D.C.)
12-month grant of $350,000 for a project to strengthen the Outer Space Treaty and deter nuclear weaponization of space as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project to provide training in strategic force analysis

George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $450,000 for the Project on Media and National Security

Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $320,000 for the Scoville Peace Fellowship

Inkstick Media (Frederick, MD)
24-month grant of $450,000 for Things that Go Boom

Institute for Security and Technology (Oakland, CA)
24-month grant of $400,000 for the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator to bridge the knowledge gap between nuclear policy and artificial intelligence

Institute of International Education (New York, NY)
18-month grant of $1,300,000 for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

Inter Mediate (London, United Kingdom)
24-month grant of $400,000 for a project on strengthening crisis channels and arms control pathways across critical nuclear dyads as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
24-month grant of $400,000 for a feasibility study on the verification of nuclear weapons in orbit under the Outer Space Treaty as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $350,000 for U.S.-Russia Track II dialogues on strategic stability

National Security Archive Fund (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $350,000 for a study on nuclear targeting, civilian casualties, and the laws of war

New America (Washington, D.C.)
12-month grant of $400,000 for a project to explore options to reduce escalation after first nuclear use as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

Outrider Foundation (Madison, WI)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project training journalists in nuclear weapons issues

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
24-month grant of $600,000 for core support of Managing the Atom

Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
24-month grant of $800,000 for core support of the Program on Science and Global Security

Public Radio Exchange (Cambridge, MA)
24-month grant of $400,000 for core support to The World

The Reckoning Project (Falls Church, VA)
24-month grant of $475,000 for a project on developing scalable documentation and archiving models for conflict-affected African communities

ReThink Media (San Francisco, CA)
24-month grant of $500,000 for a project to improve the communications capacity of the U.S. non-governmental sector engaged with nuclear issues

Search for Common Ground (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $450,000 for a project to develop social digital twin simulations for nuclear risk reduction as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

St. Antony’s College (Oxford, United Kingdom)
36-month grant of $1,125,000 for the University Consortium

University of Global Health Equity (Burera, Rwanda)
24-month grant of $850,000 for support for the Consortium of Medical Schools in Africa

University of Pretoria (Hatfield, South Africa)
36-month grant of $650,000 for a project on transforming peacekeeping and peacebuilding knowledge through direct engagement with multiple African publics

University of Wisconsin–Madison (Madison, WI)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project to develop an integrated, open-access model that simulates the full spectrum of the consequences of nuclear conflict as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

U.S. Pugwash (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $500,000 for general support

Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (London, United Kingdom)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project providing open-source estimates of the Chinese nuclear program as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers

WNET (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $450,000 for GZero World with Ian Bremmer

NATIONAL PROGRAM

The Association for Rural & Small Libraries (Seattle, WA)
24-month grant of $2,000,000 for project support to strengthen broadband access and digital literacy in rural communities by providing direct support to Carnegie rural libraries

Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
18-month grant of $1,000,000 for project support for the pilot and launch of the Second Transcript

Build UP (Birmingham, AL)
24-month grant of $600,000 for project support to expand to Selma, Alabama, and Brownsville, Texas

Center for Tech and Civic Life (Chicago, IL)
24-month grant of $1,000,000 for general support

Children’s Aid (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $1,250,000 to provide college and career support to New York City youth through community centers

College Unbound (Providence, RI)
18-month grant of $350,000 for project support for the expansion of public service pathways and degree completion opportunities for adult learners

Internationals Network for Public Schools (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $1,125,000 for general support

Mediators Foundation (Boulder, CO)
24-month grant of $500,000 for core support of AllSides Education’s media and news literacy in schools initiative

Modern States Education Alliance (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $900,000 for project support to expand the Freshman Year for Free program

National Association for Media Literacy Education (Albany, NY)
24-month grant of $600,000 for project support to build the foundation for scalable, cross-curricular integration of media literacy

National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, CO)
24-month grant of $250,000 for support of a project on immigration policies in state legislatures

NEO Philanthropy (New York, NY)
12-month grant of $2,000,000 for support of Four Freedoms Fund’s nonpartisan civic engagement work

NEO Philanthropy (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $2,000,000 for core support of the Voting Rights Working Group

News Literacy Project (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $1,200,000 for general support

Nonprofit VOTE (Waltham, MA)
36-month grant of $400,000 for support of National Voter Registration Day

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
12-month grant of $250,000 for project support to the Applied Social Media Lab to implement the Frankly platform in youth dialogue projects

Public Private Strategies Institute (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $250,000 for support of a project mobilizing small businesses for legal immigration pathways

Teachers College, Columbia University (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $300,000 for project support of participatory budgeting simulations

Theirworld USA (New York, NY)
18-month grant of $400,000 for project support of Theirworld’s peace, security, and education task team of Global Youth Ambassadors

Vot-ER (Boston, MA)
24-month grant of $500,000 for general support

Welcoming America (Decatur, GA)
24-month grant of $500,000 for support of a project to reshape the narrative about immigrants in new destination states

YMCA of the U.S.A. (Chicago, IL)
24-month grant of $1,000,000 for project support of the Youth and Government program

CROSS PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES

Girl Scouts of the United States of America (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $2,000,000 for project support to advance civic engagement and democracy education through hands-on, experiential learning opportunities

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

American Academy in Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
36-month grant of $330,000 in support of the American Academy in Berlin fellows program

National Theatre in America (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $600,000 in support of the expansion of the National Theatre Collection in the U.S. program

Rodel Institute (Phoenix, AZ)
24-month grant of $1,000,000 in support of the Rodel congressional fellowship program

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