New York University
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For core support of the Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2013 as the first human rights center at a business school, the New York University (NYU) Stern Center for Business and Human Rights has developed a pioneering model that integrates research, teaching, and advocacy to address pressing human rights issues across industries. The center focuses on fostering corporate accountability, encouraging governments to adopt effective regulations, and training future business leaders to integrate human rights principles into their practices. With a specific emphasis on the technology sector, the center’s work is addressing critical challenges such as disinformation, extremism, and harmful digital content. The center’s work is crucial in highlighting the human rights implications of harmful online content and advocating for responsible corporate practices, and effective government oversight. With Corporation support, the center aims to produce actionable research, educate policymakers, and engage corporate leaders in creating safer, more transparent online environments.
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For a project on peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a new era of great power competition
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached a critical juncture. The country faces escalating violence that has uprooted seven million people and resulted in thousands of deaths yet lacks a coherent strategy to tackle both the immediate and underlying causes of the conflict. Concurrently, the UN’s peacekeeping forces are in the process of withdrawing, and the newly elected government is reassessing its conflict resolution tactics. At the same time, the DRC’s strategic importance has grown in the context of the Sino-American rivalry. The scramble for DRC’s strategic mineralswill play a major role in the clean energy transition. Building on the cumulative lessons learned from previous efforts, the proposed project from the Congo Research Group (CRG) within New York University’s Center on International Cooperation aims to produce research and analysis on the current conflict and its trajectory. This work will feed into a series of dialogues with key stakeholders, as well as inform the broader public and expert community.
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As one-time funding for a project on centering cities in the global peace agenda as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
28 months
Description
Urban violence plays an increasingly outsized role in people’s daily lives, accounting for four times as many deaths as within conflict zones, yet it receives insufficientattention and investment, particularly in multilateral systems. By leveraging the Peace in Our Cities network, the project aims to use global action to address local problems and reduce the most serious forms of violence in urban communities as part of exploring multilateral approaches to pressing problems. It will support city leaders with on-demand research, small-scale assistance through pilot projects, and training on effective international engagement. In addition, the project will elevate the issue of urban violence and the role of city actors as essential stakeholders in multilateral institutions through convenings and expanded partnership.
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For core support of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools and project support for the Equity Indicators Project
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
47 months
Description
Historically, the work of education researchers has been largely disconnected from that of school district officials and educators, and research findings have often done little to influence policy or improve day-to-day practices in schools. The Research Alliance aims to change this in New York City by building the capacity of the whole system to learn and improve in a sustained way. The Alliance provides high quality evidence to strengthen policy and practice; documents and helps the City learn from success and failure; and informs the decisions that stakeholders make every day. Continued coresupport will enable the Alliance to expand partnerships, improve access to its data archive, and increase the use of evidence by NYC education stakeholders.Project support will enable the Alliance to develop a set of indicators of education equity and extend the research agenda with an explicit focus on equity and racial justice.
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For support of a convening of artists, scholars, and activists to raise awareness around global displacement and its accompanying humanitarian challenges
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
28 months
Description
According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), 70.8 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Displaced children experience unique hardships emerging from family separation and socioeconomic deprivation in the communities that receive them. They are often found relocated in places without access to basic healthcare, adequate nutrition or education, consigning them to lives of limited opportunity. Founded in 1997, the Institute for Art and Civic Dialogue at New York University convenes artists, scholars, and activists to generate opportunities for raising global consciousness around social issues. With Corporation support, the institute will convene leading artists and thought leaders from around the world to explore ways to represent the myriad humanitarian challenges affecting displaced persons and refugee children, through art.
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For core support of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Historically, the work of education researchers has been largely disconnected from that of school district officials and educators, and research findings have often done little to influence policy or improve day-to-day practices in schools. The Research Alliance (Alliance) aims to change this in New York City by building the capacity of the whole system to learn and improve in a sustained way—across mayoral administrations, funding cycles, and changes in state policy and leadership. The Alliance provides high quality evidence to strengthen policy and practice; documents and helps the City learn from success and failure; and informs the decisions that stakeholders make every day. This core support will enable the Alliance to build and sustain partnerships; communicate the results and implications of their work; promote evidence use; grow their data archive and provision of fast-response research; and leverage other funding.
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For a U.S-China dialogue on Afghanistan
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States continues to face a daunting challenge in Afghanistan. Beyond political and military complications, the surrounding region is undergoing a dynamic transformation associated with China’s ambitious and far-ranging Belt and Road Initiative. The Afghanistan Regional Project at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) seeks renewal support for a series of unofficial, high-level U.S.-China dialogues on Afghanistan involving experts and policy officials from the United States and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Continued funding from the Corporation will help generate concrete policy recommendations for consideration by the United States, China, and other stakeholders involved in Afghanistan.
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For a book project on “Rethinking Islam: A Modern Interpretation of the Classical Tradition"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
In parts of the world today, Islam is sometimes viewed as anti-modern and dogmatic. Ali Mirsepassi, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University and a 2007 Carnegie Scholar, seeks to influence the debate over the Islamic tradition with a new book project, entitled “Rethinking Islam: A Modern Interpretation of the Classical Tradition.” With Corporation support, through his research and writing Professor Mirsepassi plans to counter the view that liberal secularism is alien to the Islamic tradition. He will do so through a historical lens, focusing on the intellectual biography of the eminent and influential 11th-century Islamic scholar al-Ghazali. Professor Mirsepassi aims to shift scholarly understanding of Ghazali, and in doing so break new ground in the field of Islamic Studies.
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For Arabic Collections Online (ACO)
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is an open-access digital library created by New York University. Other than focused collections of scholarly Arabic literature and theology, very little Arabic-language content is available online to the public. This has limited the ability of scholars and others to study and research Arabic culture and history. To address this problem, ACO is bringing a substantial, open-access Arabic library collection to an internet environment long dominated by Western-language content. Currently, half of ACO’s growing readership is in areas where libraries are not easily accessible. Corporation support contributes toward creating an overall 23,000-volume, Arabic-language library accessible to all.
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For a joint project with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on enhancing South-South cooperation and promoting African responses to peacebuilding in Africa
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The continuation and re-emergence of conflict in Africa demonstrates the need for more effective peacebuilding strategies. Yet policymakers often design these strategies based on assumptions lacking empirical evidence of what works in practice. Adding to the multitude of traditional peacebuilding actors on the ground, there are growing expectations for the role of African actors, including sub-regional organizations, and “South-South” cooperation more generally, in assisting countries emerging from conflicts. In response to these developments, New York University’s Center for International Cooperation (CIC), the South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS), and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO,) have formed a consortium to analyze the peacebuilding approaches of African actors and sub-regional African organizations, and their potential for facilitating sustainable peace on the continent.
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For core support of Scholars at Risk Network
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Scholars at Risk Network is rooted in the principle of academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Around the world, scholars are attacked because of their words, their ideas and their place in society. Scholars at Risk (SAR) responds to these attacks by protecting scholars suffering grave threats to their lives, liberty and well-being, primarily by arranging positions of sanctuary at universities, colleges and research centers in a safe country. With Corporation support, SAR will continue their role as a catalyst, advocate and convener, advancing a vision of higher education which is accessible, high quality, values-based, and publicly-engaged. Specifically to (1) to protect more scholars, (2) defend higher education communities and values through data-driven advocacy, (3) empower individuals through research and training to protect socially-engaged higher education, and (4) increase outreach to institutions and individuals, especially in Africa and the Middle East.
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For core support of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
17 months
Description
Rigorous evidence to inform how to use public resources for education, particularly in service of young people who face the highest barriers to achievement and healthy development, is often unavailable, irrelevant, or poorly communicated. Historically, the work of researchers has been largely disconnected from that of school district officials and educators, and research findings have often done little to influence policy or improve day-to-day practices in schools. The Research Alliance for New York City Schools, based at New York University, was founded in 2008 to address this problem, by designing and carrying out rigorous studies, building and maintaining archives of longitudinal data on NYC schools and communities, and communicating the results of their work to diverse audiences locally and nationally. This grant provides core support for the Alliance.
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For a U.S-China dialogue on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For support of the Center for Health and Human Rights at the New York University, School of Medicine
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For support of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools
Date
Mar. 06, 2014
Duration
18 months
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For support of a U.S.-China dialogue on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Date
Mar. 07, 2013
Duration
24 months
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For a study on teacher education reform
Date
Dec. 05, 2013
Duration
14 months
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For a national conference on building a field of interfaith/multifaith leadership in a university environment
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
6 months
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For a workshop and report on alternative scenarios and outcomes for Syria
Date
Dec. 13, 2012
Duration
15 months
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For support of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Environmental Science (STEME) Education Week
Date
Jun. 14, 2012
Duration
12 months
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For support of a US-China Dialogue on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Date
Dec. 13, 2012
Duration
4 months
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For a project to develop a workshop and report on alternative scenarios and outcomes for Pakistan
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
17 months
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For planning activities for a new project concerning nuclear power in developing countries
Date
Jun. 03, 2010
Duration
17 months
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As a final grant toward a project on enhancing governmental and intergovernmental capacity to support state-building
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
24 months
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For a study on health behaviors and beliefs of the Ghanaian community and other West African immigrants in New York City
Date
Dec. 03, 2009
Duration
12 months
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For a project to implement a series of workshops to create alternative scenarios and outcomes for global issues
Date
Mar. 05, 2009
Duration
23 months
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Toward a position at the Steinhardt School of Education to coordinate the work of the foundation partnership to strengthen African universities
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
18 months
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Toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on the impact of international institutions on regimes and institutions in states at risk
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
24 months
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Toward a project on multilateral verification of the suspension of formerly covert nuclear weapons programs
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
10 months
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Toward a project on enhancing governmental and intergovernmental capacity to support state-building
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
24 months
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For a series of public conferences on Western and Islamic theories of law
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
8 months
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Toward a philanthropy fellowship program in memory of Lisa Goldberg
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
12 months
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For creating a positive learning environment for ninth-grade mathematics classes
Date
Mar. 01, 2007
Duration
33 months
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Toward a project on enhancing governmental and intergovernmental capacity to support state-building
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
24 months
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Toward a position at the Steinhardt School of Education to coordinate the work of the foundation partnership to strengthen African universities
Date
Mar. 02, 2006
Duration
30 months
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Toward a study on improving Congressional performance in considering long-term policy reforms
Date
Jun. 08, 2006
Duration
19 months
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Toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on legal regulation of private military companies in states at risk
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
24 months
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Toward a book on the decline of civic interest in federal government service
Date
Sep. 29, 2005
Duration
27 months
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Toward a position at the Steinhardt School of Education to facilitate the work of the foundation partnership to strengthen African universities
Date
Feb. 05, 2004
Duration
24 months
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Toward an analysis of cost and performance in small and large New York City high schools
Date
Dec. 02, 2004
Duration
32 months
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Toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on legal aspects of states at risk
Date
Sep. 30, 2004
Duration
24 months
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Toward a project on enhancing governmental and intergovernmental capacity to support state-building
Date
Jun. 09, 2004
Duration
24 months