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As a one-time grant for support of the Preserving Democracy Initiative
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
The United States has one of the world’s lowest youth voter turnouts, with fewer than one in five young people casting ballots in all Super Tuesday states in 2020. In response, WNET is expanding its established Preserving Democracy program—a cross-platform, multi-tiered public media project that encourages civic engagement—to reach youth. Building on its digital initiative connected to more than fifty partner stations across the country and Ballotpedia, the nonpartisan online political encyclopedia, WNET will provide a national platform of local content related to civics, voter tools, and the electoral process. With Corporation support, WNET will go beyond its traditional PBS and NPR audiences to engage college-age voters—including at community colleges—by reaching them on media platforms such as Instagram, Threads, and TikTok.
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For support of a project to build bipartisan caucuses aimed at reducing polarization in Utah and Washington State
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Americans on opposite sides of the political spectrum do not only disagree on issues—they are increasingly losing trust in one another. America’s political polarization challenge has been building for decades and is now deeply rooted in major institutions in the United States. Established in 2016, Braver Angels is one of the nation’s leading grassroots political depolarization organizations whose mission is to bring Americans together to bridge the partisan divide. Its newest initiative, Braver Politics, fosters opportunities for elected officials, staff members, and constituents—at the national, state, county, and local levels—to develop the skills and commitment to work together across political differences. With Corporation support, Braver Angels will engage with Utah and Washington state legislatures to build constructive relationships across the political spectrum.
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In support of International Public Service Project Stipends at the Clinton School of Public Service
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2004, the mission of the Clinton School of Public Service is to educate and prepare professionals in public service who understand, engage, and transform complex social, cultural, economic, and political systems to ensure equity, challenge oppression, and effect positive social change at home and across the globe. Students apply master’s in public service course curricula to real-life situations that require empathy, effective communication, analytical thinking, understand what public service leadership “looks like” in international settings; and grow academically, professionally, and personally. Partner organizations will have experienced increased capacity to serve more people, develop new programs and/or services, create better systems/programs/services, obtain new funding, and increase their public profile. A Carnegie Corporation grant will support 45 students with $5,000 stipends during their 8 – 12 – week project “on the ground’ with an international organization, culminating in 240 hours of public service work each.
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As a final project support grant to provide Digital Careers tools and resources to educators, students, and families that allow for guidance on how to navigate postsecondary training pathways
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Shared Lane Consulting Services was founded in 2021 with a mission to promote diversity and equity of access to digitally enabled careers. Its work supports schools and organizations developing youth career pathways by building curriculum and teacher training around IT career opportunities within the high-demand tech-enabled economic sectors. With Corporation support, Shared Lane developed the Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP) that prepares motivated adults who are unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as tech professionals and creates onramps for businesses that need their talents. Funding also allowed Shared Lane to develop a product roadmap creating free digital tools that support educators and high school learners. The web-based toolkits, “Digital Career Toolkit” and “Forging Allied Healthcare Careers,” are unique in that they are student-facing while including robust facilitator guides for educators. To date, over 6,000 users have availed themselves of these resources. Continued general operating support will allow Shared Lane to scale its Expanding Pathways Collaborative, designed to bring together front-line staff from workforce training providers against a range of sections, and high school and intermediary representatives. Shared Lane will also promote its “Workforce Gateway Internships” (WGI), a pre-admission opportunity for high school seniors. This work includes facilitating a 30-hour micro-internship in which participants attend abridged training at a workforce site and participate in a mock admissions interview.
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In support of Scholarships for Women
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2005, the Asian University for Women (AUW) is an international liberal arts and sciences university that recruits talented young women from countries across Asia and the Middle East, where women’s education is often inaccessible and overlooked. It currently enrolls 1,600 students and has graduated over 1400 women who have gone on to pursue graduate school opportunities; employment across the non-profit, government, and private sectors; and served as role models for young girls in their home communities. AUW has increased its commitment to women who have been displaced as a result of violence, persecution, gender-based discrimination, among other reasons. With Corporation support, the ASU will provide scholarships for pre-undergraduate and undergraduate studies to 22 women over three years.
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For a research project on the Sahel region
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
31 months
Description
Since its establishment in 2014, the African School of Economics (ASE) has built a strong reputation for producing some of the most promising African economists and policy analysts on the continent. As part of its commitment to addressing pressing issues, ASE has proposed a comprehensive research agenda to better understand and tackle the ongoing crisis in the Sahel region (focusing on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso), which is currently grappling with threats from terrorism, rebel groups, and military coups that are destabilizing countries, exacerbating humanitarian needs, and fueling political turmoil. The project aims to investigate the root causes of the conflict, explore policies to enhance peace and stability, and build capacity in the region through workshops and scholarships. ASE will leverage its extensive network of African public policy scholars and its experience in conducting research on historical influences on contemporary outcomes, strengthening political institutions, and enhancing peace and security.
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For a project on China and the international economic order
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
China is now a powerful voice in the Western-led international financial institutions established at Bretton Woods and has also built a series of parallel institutions that are close to equaling their scale. The Boston University-based Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) has forged partnerships in China and abroad to generate data, convene policy dialogues, and bring early-career fellows to the center of discussions around China’s role in the international economic order. With Corporation support, the GDP Center will continue to prioritize policy-relevant research to assess the implications of these developments and encourage constructive engagement between the United States and China to maintain global financial stability and prosperity.
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For support of the 2024 Regional Teacher Shortages & Diversity convenings
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
4 months
Description
The U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with the Hunt Institute and Teach.org, will be hosting a series of three regional convenings focused on addressing the teaching shortages and issue of teacher diversity.Eliminating the educator shortage is a key pillar of the Raise the Bar initiative to boldly improve learning conditions. These three convenings (in New Mexico, Mississippi, and Illinois) will bring together teams (ideally 6-8 teams) of representatives from states across a region, including state Chiefs, Governors (or their advisors) and state legislators, superintendents, teacher representatives, and higher education leaders to build momentum for taking action and making additional state investments in teachers, including on preparing, supporting and retaining diverse teachers and boosting teacher compensation. The goal of these convenings is to support data-driven state and local goals aligned to these objectives, and to galvanize ‘teams’ of K-12, higher education, teacher representatives, and state elected officials to move toward action, undertake state legislative efforts, and break log-jams.
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As a one-time only grant in support of educational programming
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1876 the Boys’ Club of New York (BCNY) provides diverse, inclusive, research-based programming and a supportive clubhouse environment for boys and young men in New York City. As a comprehensive afterschool space operating in under-resourced communities, the College Access Initiative and Career Prep programs are essential to creating pathways of postsecondary success for members. The College Access Initiative empowers teen members by creating a college-going culture and providing direct support during the college application process. The Career Prep programs prepare members to become workforce-ready through vocational training programs. Corporation support will allow for the continued growth of BCNY’s College Access Initiative and Career Prep programs, preparing teen members for future academic and career success.
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For the annual librarian awards program honoring exemplary performance by public, academic, and school librarians
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1876, the American Library Association (ALA) is the largest and most respected membership association in the world for the library industry. Its mission of “to provide leadershipfor the development, promotion and improvement of library and information servicesand the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to informationfor all.” In 2008, the Corporation partnered with the ALA and The New York Times to reinstate the I Love My Librarian Awards program. Since then, each year ten exceptional public, academic, or school librarians have been recognized for improving the lives of the people in their communities. This award aims at drawing attention to the key roles librarians play in promoting literacy and education, creating lifelong learners, and developing an informed electorate to sustain democratic traditions. With Corporation support, the ALA will continue to award cash prizes to the winners, hold the popular annual awards ceremony, and increase support for libraries and librarians through national media outreach.
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In support of the Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
In 1900, Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Technical Schools in Pittsburgh that would provide an education for the children of steel-mill workers with practical skills in technology and arts.The school eventually became Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), now one of the world’s major research institutions. CMU’s Neuroscience Institute (NI) was launched to bring together faculty and students from across the University to conduct multi-disciplinary work to advance the state of brain science. With Corporation support, the NI will continue to administer the Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences (the Prize), which recognizes trailblazers whose research has helped advance the field and its applications. Each year, the winner is invited to Carnegie Mellon University’s campus to deliver a scientific talk and they are presented with anoriginal piece of artwork commissioned from artistGreg Dunn.The prize also awards a one-year graduate fellowship to a CMU student, who will have an opportunity to visit the recipient’s lab.
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For support of the Thomas H. Kean Theatre & Dance Internship Fund
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
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For a final grant for the Good Authority blog
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Good Authority is the new iteration of “The Monkey Cage” blog that was previously linked with the Washington Post. During its seven-year affiliation with the newspaper, it became an important intermediary between international affairs scholars and the broader public, encouraging a more publicly focused political science discipline and political discourse informed by sound research. Since September 2023, Good Authority has built on this legacy by continuing to edit and publish scholarly work that is readable and comprehensible to non-specialists. Renewed funding will assist the project in pursuing further growth and sustainability, thus maintaining Global Authority’s role as a resource for policymakers, scholars, and the global public interested in the complexities of international politics.
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For support for the expansion of Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Today’s students require schools that prepare them to succeed in college, achieve economic mobility, and participate actively in our democracy but access to this kind of education remains inconsistent. Over the last two decades, Bard Early College (BEC) has developed a best-in-class early college high school model that bridges the gap between secondary and postsecondary education by providing students with a tuition-free college course of study as they pursue their high school diplomas. BEC currently operates nine schools across several states that serve over 3,300 students annually and have achieved notable success: 84 percent of graduates finish their bachelor’s degree within six years compared to the nationwide average of 62 percent. BEC’s first two schools have operated in New York City for over twenty years with particularly impactful results, including the highest on-time bachelor’s degree completion rate for low-income students among all public schools in the state. Corporation support will allow BEC to respond to the heightened demand for early college in New York City by creating two new schools, doubling the number of students it serves from 1,300 to 2,600.
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As a final grant for support of an oral history project on Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Founded in 1948, Columbia University’s Center for Oral History Research is among the oldest oral history programs in the world. Its collections are the most cited oral history archive in the United States. Its Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) maintains unique expertise around the connection between public policy and historical memory, especially in relation to themes of democracy across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. With Corporation support, the center will conduct hundreds of interview sessions with Corporation staff and board members, as well as grantees, and investigate the Corporation’s archives, with the goal of analyzing its modern legacy and ongoing influence in national and global philanthropy.
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For a final grant for a project on promoting ethical approaches to policy engagement
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Continued support for this project will address an important but underexamined issue in efforts to bridge the academic-policy gap: Despite progress in many areas, not only is there not enough engagement between researchers and policymakers, but when such engagement does occur, it is sometimes ethically flawed and counterproductive. Building on its previous Corporation-supported work, the Sié Center at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies (Korbel) will focus on the dilemmas that can arise as researchers advise policymakers or become involved in policy processes. Among the themes addressed will be how intense polarization has raised questions about the foundational assumptions, theories, and methods in the international relations field and the importance of critically examining research through an ethical lens.
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As a final grant on a podcast series on U.S.-China relations
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Rising bilateral tensions between the United States and China have drawn Americans’ attention to China in unprecedented ways. But accessible resources examining the state of Sino-American relations for the general public remain scarce. Building off the success of its first season, Harvard University’s Belfer Center will produce the second season of Face Off: US vs China, a limited podcast series that seeks to explain the development of the modern U.S.-China relationship to a broad audience. Episodes will range from Beijing and Washington’s competition over semiconductors to the U.S. debate on TikTok. Hosted by former New York Times Beijing bureau chief Jane Perlez with commentary from Harvard China historian Rana Mitter, Face Off will merge narrative storytelling with expert interviews to create an educational podcast on the nature of the U.S.-China impasse as well as encourage thoughtful and diplomatic solutions to it.
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In support of the America 250 Project
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1998 by cellistYo-Yo Ma, Silkroad is named after the historical Silk Road, which Ma recognized as a model for productive cultural collaboration, and for the exchange of ideas and traditions alongside commerce and innovation. Leading up to our nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary in 2026, Silkroad is developing a new initiative under the auspices of America250 and the American Railroad project illuminating the impact of the transcontinental railroad and westward expansion on the communities it displaced and those who labored to build it. With Corporation support, the American Railroad project will curatenew commissions of music, a multi-year touring program, deep community engagement, and educational programming for underserved and underestimatedmiddle school students. Programming will include artistic residencies, free-of-charge concerts, expansive broadcasting, and a series of song commissions, all culminating in a major concert on the National Mall on Juneteeth, June 19, 2026.
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For project support of Carnegie Scholarships for undergraduates and vocational ESL training for immigrant and newcomer workers in the Los Angeles area
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
California’s janitorial workforce, predominantly composed of immigrants, faces significant economic and educational challenges including low wages, minimal benefits, and limited career advancement opportunities under subcontractors. These difficulties are compounded by language barriers that hinder both professional growth and parental engagement in their children’s education, perpetuating a cycle of intergenerational poverty. Since its inception in 2007, Building Skills Partnership (BSP) has been dedicated to leveling the playing field for these workers by providing essential job skills through workforce development programs, facilitating integration into American civic life with immigrant inclusion initiatives, and fostering community partnerships to address educational needs.With Corporation support, BSP will expand its impact by providing traditional and vocational ESL instruction to at least 500 workers. This will scale their traditional ESL by 329 percent and vocational ESL by 233 percent. Additionally, they will offer college access support services for workers’ children, $80,000 in Carnegie scholarships, and paid internship opportunities. This holistic approach aims to empower individual families and promote lasting social and economic mobility across immigrant communities in California.
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For project support to increase college access and completion for Latino students through Carnegie Scholarships in selected states
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
The significant increase in Latino student enrollment in U.S. schools, more than doubling since 1995 and predicted to reach 30 percent of the public-school population by 2030, highlights the urgent educational challenges and barriers this demographic faces, including lower college enrollment rates compared to their white peers and limited access to quality bilingual education. Latinos in Action (LIA) partners with public schools nationwide to improve Latino youth’s educational outcomes and social mobility through elective courses, which provide community leadership opportunities, college readiness services and scholarships. With the support of the Corporation, LIA plans to expand its program into five districts in Utah and Florida to at least 400 students by fostering their academic identities, readiness for college, and leadership skills. The “Carnegie Talento Scholarships” will provide crucial financial assistance to ten high school seniors, facilitating their pursuit of higher education and alleviating some of the financial challenges of college attendance.
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Toward a deliberative poll on youth voting
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Today’s youth will shape political discourse for decades to come, but they are reaching voting age in a highly polarized time. The United States faces deep divisions, yet polls demonstrate that individuals from all political affiliations, socioeconomic backgrounds, races, and genders are capable of congregating to listen and understand differing perspectives. Founded in 1971, Close Up Foundation is a nonpartisan civic education organization that believes a strong democracy requires active, informed participation by all citizens. Close Up Foundation has partnered with schools nationwide to serve more than one million students and educators through resources that give participants a deeper understanding of history, government institutions, current issues, and the role of citizens. Close Up Foundation, in partnership with the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University (DDL), Helena (Group Foundation), and the Generation Lab, will convene 500 young Americans in July 2024 for America in One Room: The Youth Vote, a large-scale experiment in democracy to engage a representative sample of first-time voters in civil discourse about policy issues impacting them.
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For project support of the Democracy and Media Summit to inspire the development of new content that will bridge political divides to strengthen democracy
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Increased polarization within the United States presents challenges to our democracy and it is crucial that we continue to support efforts that help bridge this divide and inform all communities with reliable sources. While mis and disinformation has been a major source for the growing polarization, studies show that public media consistently remains one of the most highly trusted sources of news and information. WGBH, an award-winning public media station and PBS’s single largest producer of television and web content, has a mission to inform audiences about profound social topics through programming and services that educate, inspire and entertain. With support from the Corporation, WGBH will host a one-day Democracy and Media Summit in February 2025 that will bring public media and other leading non-profit media content creators together with experts on democracy, civil society, civic engagement, and communicating across differences from across the political spectrum. The Summit aims to inspire the development of new content that will bridge political divides to strengthen democracy, especially among younger audiences, but also to establish relationships within the public media ecosystem among producers concerned with fostering common ground, and to begin to identify a cohort of experts who can readily advise such endeavors.
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For a project to leverage Narrative 4’s global ambassadors to enhance youth civic participation through storytelling, education, and leadership in select U.S. communities
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Narrative 4 (N4) was founded in 2013 to help young people harness the power of stories to drive change in their communities. N4 envisions a world where “every young person leads with compassion and loneliness and isolation are replaced with connection, community, and action”. N4 established a new model for arts-based leadership and social engagement with the belief that stories, empathy, and connection can be used in innovative ways to cultivate the essential practices of curiosity, deep listening, imagination, and positive action. N4 has expanded to four continents, reaching more than 42 countries and 36 states in the United States. With Corporation support, Narrative 4 will seek to target 6-8 key diverse and geographical focus cities in the United States exhibiting programmatic success as well as strong community interest. Providing these local networks with the time, resources and support needed will allow for dialogue and civic engagement as it explores key themes affecting these communities, including identity, faith, environment, violence and immigration. Using storytelling, Narrative 4 hopes to create deep connections in the focus cities and facilitate dialogue around civic engagement and community change.
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In support of curatorial and programming initiatives
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1985,the NYCFire Museum (NYCFM) is aself-sustaining, non-profit organization.With more than10,000 objects in its collections, it isresponsible for archiving, maintaining, restoring and exhibiting historic artifactsand ephemera related to the history of the FDNY. It alsoprovidesa robust Fire Safety Education Programs forpublic and private school students, and the museum’s facilities are available for educational tours. On May 11, 2024, the NYCFM was forced to initiate an unplanned closure following crane operations on Spring Street that led to concerns about our building’s structural integrity. With Corporation support, the NYCFM will continue to address mission-critical issues including the remediation and care of its collections. The curatorial team will continue tooffer programming outside the Museum’s walls including special events, fire safety programs for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) personnel to help mitigate lithium battery fires caused by e-bikes, and community outreach through various city-sponsored activities and fairs.
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In support of the Atlas of Impunity
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1998, Eurasia Group Ltd. is a privately held, for-profit political risk research and consulting firm headquartered in the US. Its Atlas of Impunity, launched in 2022, is a quantitative assessment of impunity which, in its starkest form, is the exercise of power without accountability measured by independent indicators across five sites in society. These dimensions include unaccountable governance, human rights abuse, conflict and violence, economic exploitation, and environmental degradation. The Atlas scores and ranks the level of impunity in 163 countries and provides partial, indicative scoring for another 34.The project aims to deepen the understanding of impunity, stimulate debate, and promote strategies to combat abuses of power globally. A Corporation grant will support the completion of the third edition of the Atlas of Impunity.
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For project support of College Access and Civic Engagement Programs for Teens with an emphasis on Immigrant Youth and English as a Second Language (ESL) program for adult immigrants throughout New York City
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is instrumental in realizing Andrew Carnegie’s vision of accessible knowledge. As part of the Corporation’s Library Initiative, including grants to the Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library, this grant will address the lack of access to ESL programs for the 1.7 million non-English-speaking residents and the limited availability of extracurricular activities, leading to social isolation amonglow-income teenagers. The NYPL will enhance adult ESL skills, supportintegration and social mobility, and provide wraparound services, including civic and digital learning classes. The NYPL will also implement the Teens 360° Initiative, offering safe after-school learning environments, college and career resources, technology courses, paid internships, and community engagement activities through its twentyTeen Centers.
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Towards the research and learning components related to Maryland’s Service Year Option and Maryland Corps
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Young people should have access to opportunities to serve their communities and build a foundation for a shared future. To promote service and volunteerism in the state of Maryland, the Department of Service and Civic Innovation was established by executive order and subsequently formalized by the SERVE Act of 2023 (Serving Every Region Through Vocational Exploration). The SERVE Act allows for a Service Year Option–a gap year opportunity for recent high school or General Education Diploma graduates–and Maryland Corps—for anyone over the age of 18. In its inaugural year, more than 250 young adults and more than 100 employers participated. With Corporation support, the Department of Service and Civic Innovation will strengthen these programs in two key areas: 1) program enhancements in service member development, success, and civic leadership, and 2) research, learning, continuous improvement, and documentation and promotion that will improve the program and create the basis for replication in states and localities around the country.
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As a final grant for research projects on U.S. immigration and immigrant integration into American society
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2015, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) panel on Immigrant Integration in the United States, co-funded by Carnegie Corporation and the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), found that contemporary immigrants and their descendants are successfully integrating into U.S. society. At the same time, the NAS report identified three sources of persistent concern for immigrant integration: 1) the role of legal status; 2) the role of racial stratification in integration outcomes, and 3) low rates of naturalization. Beginning in 2016, RSF—in partnership with the Corporation—solicited research proposals to address these challenges to integration. With renewed Corporation support, RSF will support a new cohort of researchers who will tackle important questions about inter-generational mobility.
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For support of a project to build local digital platforms that promote democracy and inclusion
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
With the decades long decline of local physical civic institutions and a global pandemic, American towns have turned to local digital forums as central information hubs. Depending on the leadership of these digital forums, they can either contribute to the decline of social trust by amplifying fears about crime and deepening divides or serve as engines of social trust. Founded in 2022, New_ Public strives to reimagine social media and build digital public spaces that connect people, promote civic engagement, and build community. Through its Local Lab, New_ Public provides technical support and skill building, and connects leaders to local digital public spaces throughout the United States. With Corporation support, New_ Public will build critical infrastructure for a civil society in the form of digital public spaces and support networks for the people who create and moderate these spaces.
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For general support and project support of the continued implementation and expansion of the "Life After High School" project, seeking to deliver trusted, accurate local news to more Americans
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization founded in 2019 by two former editors at the Chronicle of Higher Education, aims to improve the information Americans receive about college atnational and local levels. Colleges play crucial roles in social mobility, but limited coverage of their performance creates a disconnect with employersand citizens. ManyAmericans lack key information about postsecondary options. Although some resources, like FAFSA guides, are available, few local, independent tools exist to help students begin their postsecondary journey. Trusted, independent local news outlets can disseminate this much-needed information to the public. Currently partnering with fourteennewsrooms nationwide, Open Campus aims to expand to all fifty states. Support from the Corporation will fund two strands of work: expanding higher education and college readiness coverage in local newsrooms and advancing the Life After High School project.
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In Support of the Global Order and Conflict Project
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The International Crisis Group (ICG) was established in 1995. Its mission is to prevent, resolve, and mitigate deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and conflict actors. Corporation support will further Group’s overall objective to produce analysis that contributesto understanding the shiftingglobal order and its implications for peace and security, with specific reflections into how the context for internationalpeacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding is evolving; how post- World War II and post-Cold War norms and mechanisms for advancing international justice and humanrights are affected by the changing environment; and how mediators and other conflict prevention actors can best navigate changing these conditions. At the same time, this work will calibrate ICG’s contributions to the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict in a new era.
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As a one-time only grant for a project to explore new ideas for nuclear arms control
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States, Russia, and China are poised for a nuclear arms race and traditional arms control measures appear inadequate, given the lack of trust and transparency. There are also numerous regional conflicts where nuclear weapons may create instabilities.With this project, Chatham House will explore opportunities to build upon existing arms control agreements, develop new approaches to limiting arms buildups, and find ways to strengthen existing norms and restraints on nuclear use. The project will build upon lessons from past agreements, explore new pathways for rethinking arms control in the current political environment, and vet and disseminate the results with the goal of future arms reductions or limits.
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For support of the renewing democratic participation project of Columbia World Projects
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
0 months
Description
No successful democracy can thrive without a vibrant, legitimate, and effective party system. Successful political parties usually attract support from broad coalitions, which helps parties in office govern effectively by addressing both fundamental long-term challenges and more immediate issues voters view as urgent priorities. Increasingly, parties can be seen by the public to have fallen short, negatively impacting civic participation and civic culture. There is a critical need for interdisciplinary scholarship to examine particular features of the party system and to offer concrete ideas for overcoming this failure of contemporary politics. Founded in 2017, Columbia World Projects will convene an interdisciplinary network of political scientists, historians, legal scholars, political sociologists, and practitioners—both at Columbia University and from other leading universities in the United States—to examine particular features of the party system and other deficits of the U.S. electoral infrastructure, and to offer solutions.
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For project support of the District Fellowship Program, an initiative working to expand the teaching of news literacy at the district level and creating models for scale in other locations
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
The News Literacy Project (NLP), a nonpartisan education nonprofit founded in 2008, aims to equip all students with news literacy skills before they graduate high school, fostering well-informed critical thinkers. Currently, such education is mandated in only nine states. With support from the Corporation, NLP will expand its District Fellowship program, a two-year initiative designed for district leaders to enhance news literacy education by incorporating news literacy activities into various school subjects. The fellowship builds a network of administrators, curriculum directors, and educators to develop and implement district-wide news and media literacy plans, ensuring replicable practices. The program, which has integrated news literacy into various subjects across eight states (CO, IA, MI, NM, NY, OR, PA, UT), will now include a third cohort of district fellows, adding nine new districts in CA, FL, NE, OK, and NC. This expansion will involve 37,228 educators and 960,891 students, doubling the program’s size to seventeen districts across thirteen states.
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As a final grant to support of Deeper Learning Dozen: Developing a New Approach to Equitable and Humane Systems Change
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2018, the Deeper Learning Dozen (DLD) supports superintendents and their teams, through a community of practice, to transform their school districts to support equitable access to deeper learning experiences and outcomes for all students and adults. “Deeper learning” is defined as learning, which is purposeful, engaging, and helps students gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and critical capacities that will prepare them for college, careers, community, and citizenship. While a small number of students experience deeper learning, few if any districts are achieving this at scale, particularly districts serving large numbers of high poverty students and students of color. DLD supports district improvement efforts to provide deeper learning for all by centering programming around: changes in leadership approach, school and district systems, adult learning, and pedagogy. A grant from the Corporation will support DLD’s community of practice, individual advising to participating districts, and completion and dissemination of their District Transformation Playbook.
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In support of Free Sundays for New Yorkers program
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Through commemoration, exhibitions, and educational programs, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993. While nearly 24 million individuals have come to the Museum from around the nation and the world since it opened, New York residents–those physically closest to the devastation and loss at the World Trade Center site—make up less than 6% of Museum visitors. To better serve New Yorkers, a Carnegie Corporation grant will support the New York First Sundays initiative, expanding on the success of the pilot program, New York First Mondays. Free museum access will be offered to New Yorkers from 4-7p.m. on the first Sunday of every month in 2025, welcoming an additional 3,600 New Yorkers in 2025. Additionally, the museum will offer free on-site resources and activities for children and multi-generational audiences to help them navigate challenging conversations around 9/11 and its continued relevance.
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For one-time funding for a project to assess the economic and social costs of a limited nuclear war
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Analysis of the effects of nuclear war tends to focus on a large-scale nuclear exchange and on the immediate casualties and impact on climate. The implications of more limited nuclear use and its economic and societal consequences are less analyzed or understood. With this grant, the University of Maryland will help fill this gap by providing a comprehensive study of the costs of nuclear war with a focus on the more limited nuclear exchanges that represent the most likely scenario for the use of nuclear weapons today. The project will also go beyond immediate physical effects to analyze the longer term economic and societal consequences of limited nuclear use. The researchers will employ physics, engineering, and economic modeling to promote a better understanding of the repercussions of limited nuclear strikes on key countries.
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As a final grant to support the New Tech Network of schools
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Founded twenty-five years ago, New Tech Network (NTN) leverages rigorous project-based practices to support deeper learning in over 240 elementary, middle, and high schools in twenty-four states and the District of Columbia, serving a geographically diverse population of students: 48 percent of schools are in urban areas, 31 percent are situated in suburban communities, and 21 percent are in rural areas. NTN high school students graduate at a rate of 95 percent compared to the national average high school graduation rate of 85 percent and persist in college at a rate of 82 percent compared to 74 percent nationally. With prior Corporation support, NTN deepened partnerships within three districts (Farmington ISD, Bay City ISD, and Hardin County Schools) to increase access to high-quality learning environments to approximately 30,000 students. Renewed support will enable NTN to spread its model to four districts, reaching over 8,000 students, significantly increasing both the opportunities and quality of deeper learning experiences for enrolled students.
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For one time support of Fund IV and Fund V
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
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Today’s students require schools that prepare them to succeed in college, achieve economic mobility, and participate actively in our democracy but access to this kind of education remains inconsistent. Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF) was founded in 2005 to identify the country’s highest-performing charter schools, fund their expansion, and increase their impact. CSGF’s network of 1,400 schools — many of which are among the highest-performing schools in their states — serve over 720,000 students in thirty states, representing about one in ninety-five of all public-school students in the United States. Nearly 75 percent of students attending network schools are from low-income households, and more than 90 percent identify as students of color. With Corporation support, between 2022 and 2023, CSGF opened 139 new schools across over twenty states in a wide range of urban, rural, and ex-urban communities. These high-performing charter schools will ultimately serve approximately 77,000 additional students – more than any previous year in CSGF history. Renewed support will allow CSGF to seed and scale high-performing charter networks primarily serving students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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For support of the Big Picture Learning network of schools
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
0 months
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Today’s students require schools that prepare them to succeed in college, achieve economic mobility, and participate actively in our democracy but access to this kind of education remains inconsistent. Research suggests that providing students with work-based learning (WBL) opportunities helps them connect classroom learning to the real world and builds the technical and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in the workplace. For three decades, Big Picture Learning (BPL) has operated a network of schools that integrate rigorous WBL opportunities into the school experience helping students from low-income backgrounds achieve social and economic mobility. BPL operates 166 schools in thirty states to make real-world learning a core component of students’ learning experience. Early findings from a longitudinal study show that 74 percent of graduates going directly into the workforce secured jobs through their BPL internships. Further, 82 percent of BPL students graduate, many of whom did not experience success in more traditional school settings. Prior Corporation support enabled BPL to increase access to WBL in New York. Renewed support will enable BPL to add 1,500 student seats, strengthen WBL implementation in at least eight schools in Western NY, and influence policy conditions to support the expansion of WBL.
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For project support for college and career match and postsecondary success initiatives
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
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Founded in 1994, KIPP is the nation’s largest network of public charter schools, educating more than 123,000 students, in 278 schools, across twenty-sevenregions, in twenty-onestates and the District of Columbia. Under a prior Corporation grant, KIPP built out their college access and success strategies to continuously improve their college counseling, persistence, and career preparation; codified and scaled these strategies across the network; and began to share them with other CMOs and districts. Now there are currently 15,000 KIPP alumni pursuing postsecondary degrees. A subsequent grant allowed KIPP to find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni to and through college, all the while sharing practices to benefit others. This grant builds on that work focusing on KIPP’s high school and alumni success strategies.
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For project support to implement results-oriented, affordable two-year college models at selective universities for underrepresented students
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
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Come to Believe Foundation (CTB) is a nonprofit organization formed to provide higher education institutions with an innovative, results-oriented, affordable two-year college model that is accessible to students who are underrepresented at selective universities. CTB’s model is designed to ensure that students complete their degrees with little to no debt an innovative, results-oriented two-year college model provides appropriate academic and wraparound supports for students, leading to both higher rates of success earning two-year degrees as well as an easier transition to afour-yeardegree programs for interested students. Continued Corporation support would enable CTB to refine its Design Grant program, an innovative cohort-learning model that allows interested colleges and universities to explore the model in-depth and begin implementation in their respective contexts. It would also provide funding for CTB’s “innovation grant program” which provides funds for existing CTB model colleges to strengthen programs and measurably improve outcomes for underserved students.
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For project support of coverage on pathways to socioeconomic mobility and overcoming polarization
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Education Week (EdWeek) is a trusted source of news and analysis on American education. For over 60 years, EdWeek has provided high-quality journalism to inform educators, policymakers, and stakeholders. With nearly 2 million registered users, its audience includes teachers, principals, district leaders, and policy professionals. EdWeek’s content spans print, online, video, and social media platforms, ensuring broad accessibility. With a strong social media presence reaching 2.4 million followers, EdWeek fosters a highly engaged community of influencers and educators. With renewed support from the Corporation, EdWeek will expand reporting on critical issues like Pathways to Economic and Social Mobility and Combatting Polarization in American education, supporting Carnegie’s goal of strengthening education and civic engagement.
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For project support to empower parents and students to graduate high school and transition to college
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Many students from low-income families lack access to essential guidance during their high school years, key for college readiness. Without support, these students may struggle with tasks such as understanding college options, completing SAT testing, navigating the FAFSA process, and submitting applications. The Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE), a nonprofit operating in 14 states, engages families by providing them with the skills to partner with schools. With Corporation support, they will implement the Bridge to College program, a program for 11th-grade families, followed by post-workshop sessions in 12th grade and check-in phone calls to ensure students stay on track for graduation. Participant families will be located in rural communities of Central Valley, California including Fresno and Modesto. This year-round initiative will provide weekly English, Spanish, and Farsi sessions to 120 families, covering essential topics like financial aid resources, time management, and academic advising. The program also includes a resource fair and last-mile Carnegie scholarships to help students with out-of-pocket expenses to access higher education.
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As a one-time project to Roadtrip Nation to spotlight the critical role of libraries and librarians in fostering community, education, and civic engagement across America
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
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Roadtrip Nation, part of Strada Collaborative, is an Emmy Award-winning nonprofit media organization that empowers learners by providing resources, educational support, and career experiences to create equitable education and employment pathways. With Corporation support, Roadtrip Nation will make a television episode for PBS that sparks a national conversation about the role of libraries as vital community institutions. The episode will highlight the essential services libraries offer, including ESL programs, digital literacy, college access, job placement, and literacy initiatives, while also inspiring viewers to consider careers in librarianship. With a distribution network reaching up to 100 million households through public television and 14 million students annually through partnerships, Roadtrip Nation will collaborate with schools, Boys and Girls Clubs, the College Board, Naviance, and other partners to showcase career options for young people through this impactful series.
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For a project to the Center for Public Research and Leadership to implement the Carnegie Future of School Institutes, in which students will build their deliberative democracy skills while designing solutions for public schooling
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
To fully engage in democracy, young people must develop the skillsand dispositions to work collaboratively. Since 2011, the Columbia Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) has been committed to revitalizing public education. As part of its mission to foster deliberative democracy skills among students, CPRL will engage students from diverse backgrounds through the Carnegie Future of School Institutes. The Carnegie Future of School Institutes will help students cultivate essential civic skills, including perspective-taking, effective communication across socio-demographic lines, evidence-based problem-solving, and cognitive flexibility. At least 200 students from public schools in New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin will participate, focusing on the future of public education within our democratic society. The results will be disseminated through toolkits and resources created with students, serving as a guide for others in the field.
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As a final grant to support curriculum-based professional learning with school leaders
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
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The Leadership Academy is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that was launched in 2003 to build the capacity of educational leaders, at every level of the system, to confront inequities and create the conditions necessary for all students to thrive. A central problem for schools is that a student’s demographic characteristics continue to be a predictor of their academic achievement, especially as achievement gaps continue to persist for students across races. The Leadership Academy’s mission is to develop, support, and empower school principals and district administrators to become culturally responsive leaders. A part of culturally responsive learning environments requires the need for teaching with high-quality instructional materials supported with curriculum-based professional learning and coaching. Through this final grant, The Leadership Academy will continue to integrate curriculum-based professional learning resources and tools into their culturally responsive leadership approach.
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In support of the Imirce Project, documenting the Irish emigration experience to North America
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
The Imirce database at the University of Galway in Ireland offers online access to thousands of letters and memoirs written by Irish emigrants to North America from the 1600s to the late 1900s. These documents provide invaluable insights into the experiences of emigrants, often under difficult conditions, and their efforts to integrate into a new society. The database, derived from a collection of 7,000 items curated by historian Kerby A. Miller and donated to the university in 2021, aims to double its size by 2030. With Corporation support, the Imirce database will solicit additional material, develop educational resources for various academic levels, and enhance digital mapping tools and data visualization to establish the Imirce database as a premier resource for studying the Irish emigrant experience. It is expected that the results will be widely disseminated in the United States and draw connections to Americans and the long history of Irish immigration to the United States.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
After seventeen years of global democratic erosion, 2024 is ahistoric year of elections around the world that could dictate whether democracy is renewed, or if countries will continue to fall into democratic backsliding. Recognizing the threat of autocracies, Protect Democracy was founded in 2016 with the mission to prevent American democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. The organization has helped prevent the rigging of election systems, held political actors accountable for their actions, and prevented the Executive Branch from abusing its power. Through a combination of legal, policy advocacy, media, and technologicalinterventions, the organization aims to protect the 2024 election, strengthen institutions, and address long-term challenges. With Corporation support, Protect Democracy will continue its efforts to uphold the integrity of upcoming elections through litigation, strategic media coverage, and election monitoring.
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As a one-time only grant for a project to analyze the impact of polarization on nuclear politics
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Political polarization in the United States is likely to impact nuclear security in a variety of ways.With Carnegie support, the London School of Economics (LSE) will analyze the impact of reduced bipartisan consensus on U.S. domestic consideration of nuclear weapons-relevant policy, the concerns of allies about nuclear risks and extended deterrence, and the ability of U.S. adversaries to exploit partisan disagreement.This analysis and its dissemination will increase our understanding of the implications of polarization for nuclear-weapons relevant issues and help advance scholarship on the relationship between domestic politics and nuclear issues.
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