Grants

Stanford University

Project Title

For support of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society’s research on polarization and electoral reforms

Date

Mar. 06, 2025

Duration

0 months

Description

The last decade has demonstrated the profound ways in which digital technologies have reshaped civic life and tested democratic systems. Rapid technological advancements have transformed relationships between citizens, governments, corporations, and civil society organizations in ways that challenge prior understandings of society and human behavior. With Corporation support, Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) will bring together social scientists, practitioners, philanthropists, and policymakers to explore and share ideas for strengthening public institutions, rebuilding trust in democracy, and aligning technological progress with human well-being. Among other projects, Corporation support will be used toward PACS’ structural democratic reforms project, an effort to address weaknesses in American democratic systems by identifying effective, politically feasible structural reforms that promote voter participation, representation, and inclusion.

Project Title

As a one-time only grant for improving diversity in the study of nuclear security

Date

Sep. 15, 2022

Duration

36 months

Description

Calls for greater diversity resonate across the sectors of American society, including in the field of nuclear security. Addressing this challenge requires strengthening the pipeline of individuals entering the field as practitioners and creating opportunities for diversifying tenure-track scholars in academia. With these goals, a project at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation(CISAC) will recruit, mentor, and train a research assistant from a diverse background aiming for admission to competitive PhD programs or policy-relevant careers in the field of nuclear security. Corporation support will enable the university to host a research assistant through the provision of a fellowship.

Project Title

For research, training, international engagements, and outreach on international security

Date

Sep. 15, 2022

Duration

36 months

Description

The international security environment continues to evolve rapidly and in complex and unpredictable ways. The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) is Stanford University’s hub for faculty and researchers who focus on international security and work collaboratively to seek solutions to the world’s longstanding and emerging global challenges. CISAC’s scientists, social scientists, and policy experts produce applicable and practical research findings on international security problems; teach and train the next generation of security specialists; and inform policymaking through publications and outreach events. With renewed support, CISAC will continue to train and mentor fellows and will deepen its policy-relevant research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and nuclear deterrence

Project Title

As a final grant for the Nuclear Risk Reduction Project

Date

Sep. 10, 2020

Duration

23 months

Description

Despite the dangers associated with the nuclear arsenals of the great powers, cooperation between them has declined. The Nuclear Risk Reduction project of the Center for International Security and Cooperation works to help reduce risks from proliferation and terrorism, the possibility of an arms race, and potential accidents in military or civilian nuclear systems. It also aims to increase cooperation among the next generation of nuclear professionals in Russia and in China and to help reduce the nuclear threat posed by North Korea. Over the next year, the project will engage in studies and analyses focusing on the benefits of nuclear cooperation between American and Russian nuclear laboratories, China’s nonproliferation and nuclear security efforts, and North Korea’s nuclear program.

Project Title

For research, training, international engagements, and outreach on international security

Date

Sep. 10, 2020

Duration

24 months

Description

The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) is Stanford University’s hub for faculty and researchers who focus on international security and work collaboratively to seek solutions to the world’s longstanding and emerging global challenges. CISAC’s scientists, social scientists, and policy experts produce applicable and practical research findings on international security problems; teach and train the next generation of security specialists; and inform policymaking through publications and outreach events. With renewed support, CISAC will continue its programs of research,publications, dissemination, convenings, and fellowships.

Project Title

For research, training, international engagements, and outreach on international security

Date

Sep. 13, 2018

Duration

24 months

Description

The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) is Stanford University’s hub for researchers who are tackling some of the world’s most pressing security and international cooperation issues. Working collaboratively, scientists, social scientists, and policy experts at CISAC produce policy-relevant research on international security problems, teach and train the next generation of security specialists, and inform policymaking on critical security issues through publications and outreach events. With continued support, CISAC’s research and training agenda will focus on nuclear risk reduction and cyber-enabled information warfare. The grant will support research, fellowships, convenings, and publications.

Project Title

For a U.S.-Japan Security and Defense Dialogue Series

Date

Sep. 07, 2017

Duration

24 months

Description

The U.S.-Asia Security Initiative (the Initiative) led by Ambassador Karl Eikenberry at Stanford University facilitates interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, research emphasizing security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. In May 2016, the Initiative held its inaugural workshop in Tokyo, convening experts and government officials from the United States and Japan. This grant builds on the success of the inaugural workshop to establish an ongoing dialogue series between American and Japanese security experts and officials on an annual basis.

Project Title

For support of a project to create shortened case studies, videos, and a viewing guide to accompany the Schools to Learn From report

Date

Sep. 08, 2016

Duration

12 months

Description

With Corporation support, Stanford University’s Understanding Language program identified secondary schools across the United States that are succeeding in preparing English Language Leaners (ELLs) from a variety of language backgrounds for success beyond high school. The 2015 Schools to Learn From study has generated interested from a wide range of stakeholders, but the length of the report, at almost 250 pages, limits its ready use by the widest possible audience. This renewal grant will support Stanford to 1) develop a condensed set of case studies aimed at sharing the seven innovative school design elements found across the schools from the original report, with a focus on how these elements, and the instructional practices that stem from them, allowed these schools to serve their ELLs successfully; and 2) create a set of videos and a viewing guide to bring to life the practices from the report. The shortened case studies, videos, and viewing guide will complement the Schools to Learn From report and make it far more accessible to practitioner and policy audiences in order to increase its impact.

Project Title

For research and writing on international security

Date

Sep. 08, 2016

Duration

24 months

Description

The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University’s research hub, was established forty years ago when scholars decided to create a teaching environment in which students from different disciplines could examine international security matters and understand how government policy is formed. With foundational Corporation support, CISAC brought mid-career scientists to Stanford to work on international security issues and inform the peace and security policymaking agenda in the United States and abroad. As global threats evolve and emerge, that knowledge takes on increased importance. Renewed support will allow scientists, social scientists, and policy experts to continue to work collaboratively at CISAC to help carry out its mission to produce policy-relevant research on international security problems, teach and train the next generation of security specialists, and impact policy making.

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For research and writing on international security

Date

Sep. 11, 2014

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Stanford University President John L. Hennessy's outstanding academic and institutional leadership

Date

Dec. 05, 2013

Duration

36 months

Project Title

As a one-time grant for scholar mobility fellowships to U.S. universities in support of social scientists from the Arab region

Date

Sep. 12, 2013

Duration

48 months

Project Title

For a landscape analysis and case studies of successful models for English Language Learners

Date

Jun. 06, 2013

Duration

27 months

Project Title

For research and writing on international security

Date

Sep. 13, 2012

Duration

24 months

Project Title

For a leadership meeting on promoting good work and "beyond the self" values

Date

Sep. 13, 2012

Duration

9 months

Project Title

For building on the Common Core State Standards Initiative to Improve Learning for English-language Learners

Date

Jun. 09, 2011

Duration

27 months

Project Title

One-time only grant toward the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Center's acquisition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review

Date

Sep. 16, 2010

Duration

12 months

Project Title

For effectively including English-language learners in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Date

Sep. 16, 2010

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Toward research for a book on the rise of new nuclear threats since the end of the Cold War

Date

Sep. 16, 2010

Duration

12 months

Project Title

Toward research and training in international security

Date

Sep. 16, 2010

Duration

24 months

Project Title

For a research project to improve and disseminate data collection for English-language learners

Date

Jun. 11, 2009

Duration

19 months

Project Title

For supplementary funding of research examining the relationship between measures of pre-service teacher preparation, individual teacher quality, teaching practices and student achievement gains

Date

Mar. 05, 2009

Duration

39 months

Project Title

For support of an e-learning mobile technology workshop

Date

Sep. 11, 2008

Duration

8 months

Project Title

For an English-language learner online video resource

Date

Jun. 12, 2008

Duration

8 months

Project Title

Toward research and training in international security

Date

Sep. 11, 2008

Duration

24 months

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Toward research and writing on international security

Date

Sep. 11, 2008

Duration

41 months

Project Title

Toward research and writing on international security

Date

Sep. 11, 2008

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Toward research and training in international security

Date

Sep. 28, 2006

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Toward research examining the relationship between classroom practices, teacher retention, and pupil achievement

Date

Dec. 07, 2006

Duration

63 months

Project Title

Toward research and writing on international security

Date

Sep. 28, 2006

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Toward research examining the relationship between measures of preservice teacher preparation, individual teacher quality, teaching practices and student achievement gains

Date

Sep. 29, 2005

Duration

48 months

Project Title

For development of prototype materials for pre-service teacher preparation in history

Date

Sep. 29, 2005

Duration

12 months

Project Title

For research on improving the quality of liberal arts education

Date

Jun. 09, 2005

Duration

3 months

Project Title

Toward research and training in international security

Date

Sep. 30, 2004

Duration

24 months

Project Title

As a final grant toward bringing distance-learning courses to Russian universities

Date

Sep. 30, 2004

Duration

25 months

Project Title

Toward research and writing on international security

Date

Jun. 09, 2004

Duration

27 months

Project Title

Toward research examining the effect of teacher preparation on student learning and teacher labor market decisions

Date

Oct. 09, 2003

Duration

48 months