Grants

Yale University

Project Title

For a project to create a platform for the remote sensing assessment of conflict-related displacement

Date

Jun. 04, 2026

Duration

24 months

Description

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) is a leader in accessing and analyzing open-source information related to peace and security. Currently, Yale HRL builds bespoke data infrastructure for each crisis it monitors, an approach that is costly, inefficient, and limits data sharing with critical stakeholders. Carnegie funding would enable the Lab to replace this with reusable infrastructure and standardized protocols for tracking displaced populations and automating assessments of key indicators including population movement, food security, building damage, and sanitation conditions. The platform will also establish data sharing agreements with UN agencies, NGOs, media, and others to ensure that analysis reaches decision-makers in real time. Yale HRL brings over two decades of geospatial expertise to this work and has contributed to several humanitarian and accountability outcomes in Sudan and Ukraine, including evidence supporting six ICC indictments.

Project Title

For the Parents, Partners and Peers program of the Yale Child Study Center

Date

Jun. 03, 2021

Duration

24 months

Description

The Comer School Development Program (SDP), widely recognized as a successful systems approach to educational change, has promoted the importance of involving parents in educational decision-making and practices since 1968. The SDP has a long history of helping parents help change schools so that they support development that enhances the academic and social learning of their children. More recently the SDP developed the Parents, Partners, and Peers program (PPP), a peer-led, conversational approach to increase parents’ knowledge of child development principles to enhance their child-rearing practices. The PPP, a hybrid of the Comer School Development Program principles and the Smart and Secure Children program developed at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, provides a practical application of a developmental approach within a cultural context. This grant provides support for the piloting of an online-only version of the PPP in several New York City schools in collaboration with the United Federation of Teachers.

Project Title

As a final grant for expanding and enriching the study of Russia

Date

Dec. 05, 2019

Duration

69 months

Description

Academic and policy expertise on Russia and the post-Soviet region is essential to developing effective U.S. approaches towards dealing with Russia. To help build this capacity, the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) at Yale University’s MacMillan Center has brought together and institutionalized research, teaching, and public outreach strengths of the university. With continued support, REEES will develop Russian studies and social science courses; hire a research scholar and post-doctoral fellow; host a major international conference on Russia; promote new academic research by providing study and travel grants at the graduate level; and deepen linkages between Yale and Russian institutions by bringing more scholars, students, and professionals from Russia to the United States. The program’s ultimate intent is to nurture an upcoming generation of deeply trained experts on Russia and its neighborhood.

Project Title

For expanding and enriching the study of Russia

Date

Dec. 06, 2018

Duration

12 months

Description

The challenges for U.S. policy and relations with Russia call for strengthening the research and training on Russia and its region. With Corporation support, Yale University’s newly established Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies will aim to meet this need with a special focus on the social sciences. The Program will facilitate collaborations across the university’s professional schools, create new research and advanced training opportunities, organize international academic conferences, and offer research and travel grants to Russia for graduate students. These and other activities will lay the groundwork for sustained, long-term engagement by Yale in the field of Russian studies.

Project Title

For the Yale Child Study Center's celebration and symposium for the Comer School Development Program 50th Anniversary

Date

Jun. 14, 2018

Duration

9 months

Description

Research provides strong evidence that development and learning are inextricably linked and that students whose school experiences integrate development and academic learning fare best. The Comer School Development Program (SDP) of the Yale Child Study Center was an early pioneer of this insight, which has gained recognition in recent years with renewed interest in social emotional learning. The SDP launched fifty years ago and has helped more than 1,000 schools in the United States and abroad to integrate child development to improve school outcomes. The Comer model focuses on parent and family engagement; school teams to address organization, management, and student support; and comprehensive school planning. This grant supports a celebration and symposium to mark the program’s 50th anniversary and contribute historical perspective and add momentum to the movement to ground schooling in the science of development.

Project Title

For a project on new directions in Russian studies

Date

Sep. 07, 2017

Duration

12 months

Description

The study of Russia and the former Soviet Union is at an inflection point in the United States. At the same time, opportunities and resources for training younger regional experts is declining and exposure to the issues posed by the region are diminishing. Yale University’s Project on New Approaches to Russian Studies seeks to contribute to the field of Russian studies with new analysis, scholarship, and methodologies that draw on a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences. With renewed funding, the project will develop more robust programming and opportunities for Yale students, faculty, and scholars on the campus and in Russia; encourage academic exchanges with Russia; and reinforce the institutional foundation for the long-term sustainability of Russian studies at the university.

Project Title

For a project on new directions in Russian studies

Date

Sep. 17, 2015

Duration

25 months

Project Title

For a high-level U.S.-China Track II dialogue

Date

Mar. 05, 2015

Duration

51 months

Project Title

As a final grant for the Inter-Asia Initiative, a transregional scholars network

Date

Sep. 11, 2014

Duration

51 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

24 months

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For a project to research and educate the public about government secrecy and its effect on immigration and voting rights policies

Date

Mar. 07, 2013

Duration

12 months

Project Title

For the InterAsia: Building a Transregional Scholars' Network for the Asian Century program

Date

Sep. 13, 2012

Duration

24 months

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For translating, digitizing and publishing works previously unavailable in the U.S.

Date

Jun. 09, 2011

Duration

198 months

Project Title

Toward international internships for the Yale Journalism Initiative

Date

Mar. 01, 2007

Duration

23 months

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Toward an international scholarly conference on Soviet society

Date

Sep. 29, 2005

Duration

24 months

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Toward publishing a volume of the Stalin archives in the Annals of Communism series

Date

Sep. 29, 2005

Duration

64 months

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One-time funding toward the Papers of Benjamin Franklin Project

Date

Sep. 30, 2004

Duration

33 months

Project Title

Toward research and dissemination of a study on the impact of public service announcements on voter turnout

Date

Dec. 02, 2004

Duration

8 months