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Project Title
For congressional education on armed conflicts, fragile states, and humanitarian crises
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
Despite the role of Congress in foreign and national security policy, congressional members and the staffers who support them do not always come to Washington, D.C. familiar with the complexities of international relations. To help deepen their understanding of and inform their decisionmaking on foreign policy, a program of OXFAM America will educate congressional members and staffers about conditions in countries experiencing conflict or humanitarian crisis. Through a series of in-person briefings, OXFAM America, through its Oxfam Rights In Crisis Briefing Series, will expose key bipartisan and bicameral lawmakers to the perspectives of communities affected by crises. The series will aim to build congressional awareness of what is happening on the ground and identify U.S. governmental approaches that can best address them.
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For the Scholar Rescue Fund
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
As the number of scholars facing threats to their safety or work has increased globally, IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund has been receiving a record number of applications each year since 2017. Scholar Rescue Fund places professors, researchers, and public intellectuals at academic institutions around the world. Renewed funding from the Corporation will enable IIE to provide direct support to scholars from the broader Middle East, and to strengthen and expand partnerships with academic institutions focused on the region.
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As a one-time grant for a project on the 2024 elections
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Geopolitical crises like Russia’s war with Ukraine, U.S. tensions with China, and the Hamas-Israeli war along with other conflicts and global trends are consequential to the United States and the world. As foreign policy does not feature prominently in U.S. elections, the Corporation supports initiatives to inform the American public about the world and U.S. foreign policy positions leading to presidential elections. For the 2024 elections, a project at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy program will seek to provide a platform for an examination of key foreign policy issues and America’s role in the world through a set of publications, podcasts, and public events.
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As a one-time grant for a project on the 2024 elections
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Geopolitical crises like Russia’s war with Ukraine, U.S. tensions with China, and the Hamas-Israeli war along with other conflicts and global trends are consequential to the United States and the world. As foreign policy does not feature prominently in U.S. elections, the Corporation supports initiatives to inform the American public about the world and U.S. foreign policy positions leading to presidential elections. For the 2024 elections, a project at the Council on Foreign Relations will provide a platform for an examination of key foreign policy issues and America’s role in the world through a set of activities, including a digital election hub, publications, podcasts, and public events throughout the country.
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For social science education of early career journalists
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Febrayer is a regional network that supports journalism and knowledge production in the Arab region. It connects independent media institutions and provides professional development to researchers and writers. The Corporation will contribute support toward a postgraduate training program that selectively enrolls thirty students annually. While teaching journalism skills, the program works with university-based experts to cover academic disciplines that have the potential to enrich journalism: humanities and social sciences such as economics, anthropology, political theory, literature, arts, and feminist studies.
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As final grant core support of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) in Armenia
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) in Armenia is part of a network of CRRCs initially launched in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. CRRCs are dedicated to generating and disseminating data-driven research for diverse communities of decisionmakers, from policymakers to the business community to educational and academic stakeholders. With this final grant, CRRC Armenia will continue a set of initiatives aimed for social development in Armenia and the region. The grant will also support CRRC Armenia’s efforts to focus on development and sustainability to remain an active and effective non-governmental organization in the region.
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For core support on international crisis mediations
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Inter Mediate is a nongovernmental organization working on international crisis mediations around the world. Its key objective is to offer high-level peace advice and process support to leaders of ongoing conflicts and escalating crises. With Corporation support, it will expand and intensify its crisis response activities through engagements with respective stakeholders and search for effective solutions. The grant will also enable Inter Mediate to document the legacy of peacemaking lessons for leaders around the world.
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For Smolny Without Borders
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
35 months
Description
Russia’s first liberal arts college, Smolny College, was founded in 1994 by the St. Petersburg State University in collaboration with Bard College. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent restrictions within Russia’s civil society and educational space, former faculty members of Smolny College and of other Russian liberal arts programs founded a virtual education platform in 2022, called Smolny Beyond Borders. It offers courses for university credit, grounded in a broad liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Corporation’s grant will support its core activities, including research, teaching, and publication through fellowships, professional development, and online courses.
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As a final grant for strengthening U.S. expertise and knowledge about Russia
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the premier national research center established to improve American expertise and knowledge about Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region through research and exchange. With renewed support from the Corporation, the Institute will provide communication training to scholars in residence, organize briefings in Washington, D.C. with prominent experts on Russia and the region, and administer an active program of public lectures and conferences. The activities will result in publications and dissemination. As the Russia studies field continues to adapt to challenges that have resulted from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Institute will continue to serve as a nonpartisan space for presenting and debating ideas.
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For a final grant for nuclear policy outreach and education for Congress
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite the key role of Congress in foreign and national security policy, congressional Members and aides do not always come to Capitol Hill familiar with the complexities of international relations. Knowledge about nuclear weapons in particular has been eroding as rhetoric about their possible use continues to intensify. This disparity has heightened the need for lawmakers who are informed about national security and nuclear issues. To expand congressional knowledge on nuclear-relevant issues, the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation (CACNP), led by former Congressman John Tierney, conducts bipartisan and bicameral off-the-record briefings and other programs for Members and staffers by experts. The briefings are tied to current events, to maximize their relevance for those on the Hill who seek real time insights on unfolding developments.
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For Brookings' Foreign Policy Program
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
As one of the leading think tanks working on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, the Brookings Institution is an influential player in the field. With continued Corporation support, the Brookings’ Foreign Policy program will generate and disseminate independent research, analyses, and publications on a range of geopolitical, economic, and security issues to inform policy considerations among policymakers, as well as understanding among the public. The Corporation’s core grant will support scholars, events, and publications.
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For a one-time project on the securitization of migration as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Migration and the security measures that result from it have created new inter- and intrastate political levers. Through this grant, the Fletcher School at Tufts, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, will analyze migrant weaponization by transit states and illicit political economies, convene workshops to create alternative scenarios for managing these challenges, and disseminate the findings through papers and briefings to relevant policymakers both in the United States and abroad.
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For a one-time project on transnational networks shaping non-Western shadow spaces as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Ongoing geopolitical conflict has led to the proliferation of ungoverned ‘shadow spaces,’ or zones where state and non-state actors engage in criminality and illicit behavior that further disrupt the norms, institutions, and security of the global system. This project will conduct case studies on regional and technological actors and networks to establish transnational maps of illegitimate networks. It then will examine the effects of these networks on geopolitical crises to produce recommendations to contain threats of destabilization, strategically communicating findings to stakeholders in the form of media publicity and public events convened in Washington, London, and Stockholm.
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For a one-time project to assess the evolving global order from the perspective of Pacific islands as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
The location of the Pacific islands has long set them at the crossroads of geopolitical competition, a position of strategic importance that is growing in a global order largely shaped by U.S.-China relations. Islands themselves are understudied as a unit of analysis for understanding and influencing larger shifts in international affairs. The Pacific Center for Island Security (PCIS) seeks to break down information silos around geopolitical activities in the Northern Pacific through a two-part project. First, they will create a comprehensive tracking infrastructure to analyze major powers’ military, diplomatic, and economic activity in islands. Second, they aim to develop local capacity within Micronesia for the analysis of geopolitical issues by supporting local scholars and convening a group of decisionmakers from the region to discuss a shared security agenda. This project will provide a new view of the islands from the islands.
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For a one-time project on transnational political networks as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
27 months
Description
The major factors shaping the global order are typically assumed to be those derived from the power of states. Yet social power—or soft power—is key to galvanizing populations and governments. This project will explore the potential of transnational political networks to shift norms through the use of social power. It will convene a team of multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners from a range of institutions who will create a series of case studies, produce white papers outlining roadmaps for future strategies, and design and convene workshops in different global locations. The specific topics of exploration will include technological changes, geostrategic challenges, and ecology.
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For a one-time project on small-state statecraft and realignment as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
As the forces supporting global order continue to weaken, Texas A&M University proposes to research the drivers of small-state alignment with greater regional and global powers. Combining social, economic, and political measures in a latent variable statistical analysis, Texas A&M will create a global alignment measure for every country in the world, tracing what factors influenced alignment behaviors from 2000-2025. The project’s findings will be compiled in a final report to be published and briefed to policymaking and analytical communities.
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As a final grant for the Center for Human Rights
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights aids governmental, corporate, and civil society actors in understanding and applying regulations that protect civilians in armed conflict. Among its successes, the ABA’s Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance, has become a resource for policymakers, as well as for multilateral organizations and the private sector. Renewed funding will allow the Center to continue providing both public information and services to nonprofits and the private sector currently engaged in setting up human rights due diligence programs internationally to advance oversight of arms transfers and international peace.
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As a final grant for the Forum on the Arms Trade
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The Forum on the Arms Trade is a communication and dissemination hub for 180 international researchers centered in Washington, DC. They analyze data on security assistance and related policies, with an aim to advance both transparency and policy alternatives. The Forum’s publications and online panels attract major media as well as smaller outlets in the U.S. and overseas. A grant to the expanding Forum will support training international researchers from a diverse range of backgrounds. Renewed funding will result in a new cohort of emerging experts, as well as outreach and facilitation of collaborative research.
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For innovative and analytical proposals for immigration
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
19 months
Description
The Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School advocates for executive action to provide immigration relief to long-term undocumented residents. The program is home to an immigration law and advocacy law clinic that focus on innovative work on behalf of undocumented and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) communities through the Path2Papers Project, including streamlining access to employment-based visas for youth with DACA Status, and on advocacy for detained immigrants and asylum seekers. The program also houses the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, the State Policy and Advocacy Clinic, and the Fellows Program, which brings prominent immigration scholars, policymakers, and other public figures across the ideological spectrum to teach, conduct research, and engage with the public. With Corporation support, Cornell University will continue to expand its projects and programs to identify, develop, and seize opportunities for innovative law and policy change at the local, state, and national level.
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For project support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute's mapping project of U.S. civic infrastructure
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The decline in spaces of civic life has led to an era of polarization, distrust, disinformation, and societal fragmentation. These spaces provided people with the necessary experiences to cultivate the capacities for collective life in pluralistic societies. In 2017, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) founded the Agora Institute, inspired by the Greek word for assembly, to integrate research, teaching, and practice to strengthen opportunities for people of all backgrounds to participate in civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue. With Corporation funding, the Agora Institute will undertake the Mapping the Modern Agora (MMA), which will create the first comprehensive civic infrastructure map of the United States to better understand what kind of groups are cultivating a healthy democracy.
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For a project on the future of Russia-West relations
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine dismantled the relationship between Russia and the West. As a new post-war equilibrium will need to be found to reduce further risks, a project at the European Council on Foreign Relations will seek to convene a group of experts to consider the future of the transatlantic relationship with Russia. The group will focus on regional security architecture and social interactions in assessing the prospects and approaches to mitigating future conflicts and engaging on economic, social, and cultural issues. The assessments will result in policy-relevant papers and outreach.
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For support of the inaugural Utah community service fellowship program
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
38 months
Description
Meaningful service opportunities for young adults where they help solve local issues not only prepare them for higher education and their careers, but they also create connections that strengthen communities and foster civic engagement. UServeUtah, Utah’s state commission on service and volunteerism, is launching the One Utah Service Fellowship to provide meaningful service opportunities to young adults in the state. The One Utah Service Fellowship blends funding from the national AmeriCorps agency, state agencies, including the Governor’s office and the Utah System of Higher Education, into one program to support youth service and overall promotion of volunteerism and community engagement in the state. With Corporation support, the inaugural Utah community service program will support 700 young adults in accessing service opportunities in Utah to help prepare them for education and career development and address high priority needs in the state through service. Corporation funding signals external funding for the program and is expected to attract corporate and other philanthropic support.
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For a project mapping contemporary regional connections between China and the Arab region
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
42 months
Description
China’s growing economic presence throughout the Arab region through finance, commercial activities, labor markets, and development initiatives affects the region’s future. With Corporation support, the University of Exeter launched an initiative in 2021 to produce cutting-edge analysis of China’s connections with the Middle East across financial markets, private sector commerce, migration and labor markets, and humanitarian and development aid. In addition to delivering new insights on these issues, the project fosters academic networks and research collaborations, with a strong emphasis on mentorship and training of early career researchers in the Middle East. Corporation funds will support research and mentoring, workshops, multimedia outputs, and publications.
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For a project on Euro-Atlantic Security
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
32 months
Description
The International Security Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) conducts bilateral and multilateral dialogues on issues of relevance to global and European security. With Corporation support, GCSP will facilitate two dialogues. The first one will focus on a medium-term outlook for U.S.-Russia relations in the context of competitions and confrontations among major powers and a shifting global order. The second one will focus on the future Euro-Atlantic security through the examination of various scenarios for how it might be impacted by the termination of the war in Ukraine.
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For core support to Carnegie China
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Relations between the United States and China have deteriorated to their lowest point in decades, raising the risk of conflict and undermining opportunities for addressing global problems that require cooperative approaches. To address these challenges, Carnegie China generates research and analysis from American, Chinese, Southeast Asian, and wider Asian-Pacific perspectives, and facilitates dialogue between the United States and China. The work educates the public and informs governments, business sectors, international and local media organizations, and diplomatic communities. From its new hub in Singapore, Carnegie China will implement programming on China’s relations with its neighbors, engaging a wide set of audiences in China, the United States, and globally.
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For a final grant to conduct a qualitative study of family engagement practices and the launch of a public information campaign on the science of learning.
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
This grant to Learning Heroes consists of two projects. The first project is the final phase of a study on family engagement practices, which includes an analysis of the strategies that enabled schools with effective family engagement practices to perform better during the pandemic. The study will culminate in a policy report and inform a measurement tool for family engagement practices. The second project will design and execute a campaign on the science of learning and human development. Learning Heroes and The Human Potential L.A.B. will develop and manage a public awareness campaign to offer practical tools for youth emotional well-being and learning. The campaign will translate the science of learning into accessible language, benefiting educators devoted to helping youth achieve their highest potential.
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As a final core support grant of Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Post-secondary education in mathematics does not adequately meet the evolving needs of today’s students, employers, or society, due largely to outdated teaching materials, methods, and content. Few undergraduates understand the many stimulating and vital ways mathematics is now used in diverse fields, and many students, especially those from under-served communities, experience mathematics as a barrier rather than a gateway. Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE) was created in 2014 with funding from the Corporation to understand how post-secondary education in mathematics can better meet students’ and employers’ needs and quicken the pace of change by identifying, advocating for, and implementing innovative and effective practices.
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For core support to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
The James L. Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is the highest producer of career professionals in the field of nonproliferation. It has established itself as an important resource for seasoned actors in the field of nuclear nonproliferation and has produced hundreds of emerging nuclear experts and practitioners in the United States and abroad. To date, the center has increased diversity among its key programs; developed models for teaching nonproliferation; and assisted chairs and presidents of Nonproliferation Treaty preparatory and review conferences, with an estimated 125 former students serving as delegates to treaty discussions. With renewed funding, it will continue its nonproliferation pedagogy initiatives and run new cohorts of the Visiting Fellows and Young Women’s Initiative. The grant will lead to courses engaging close to 350 young international diplomats and offer specialized nonproliferation trainings to women from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and African continent.
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As a final grant for supporting critical research and strengthening scholarly capacity in North Africa
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers in North Africa – the American Institute for Mahgrib Studies (AIMS) and Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) – provide mentorship, capacity building, and collaborative research opportunities to new generations of local scholars working on political, economic, and social questions and building the institutional capacity of their universities. Renewed Corporation funding will expand collaboration with and among North African researchers and universities, promote the production and dissemination of locally produced scholarship through a variety of print and digital media, and support a new cohort of young scholars to produce research on critical themes through an established set of working groups.
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For support of policy relevant scholarship and outreach at the Social Science Research Lab at West Point
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The Social Science Research Lab (the Lab) at West Point proposes to enhance an annual (since 2022) seminar bringing together diverse academic and policy voices at West Point each February over the next two years. The mission of the Lab is to develop and promote relevant and impactful scholarly work in political science and economics. The Lab will engage two accomplished and emerging academic fellows who will anchor Working Groups in their areas of expertise. The fellows will team with a policy leader and a scholar-soldier from the Department of Social Sciences to develop research and advice for policy leaders, as well as digestible written outputs for a public audience. The Lab also aims to professionalize what has been a shoestring activity by using All Academic, a standard organizational platform used for conferences like the American Political Science Association’s and the International Studies Association’s annual conventions to increase both the quality and the quantity of the seminar’s output.
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As a final grant for core support of the Democracy Program
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Today, more than a quarter of voting-eligible Americans are not registered to vote. This is partly because many states do not comply with various aspects of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), resulting in missed opportunities to bring millions of people into the democratic process, especially people from low-income households and communities of color. In addition, local and state governments have sought to remove registered voters from their rolls in what are known as “voter purges,” which further depress voter participation. Founded in 2000, Dēmos is a nonprofit public policy organization working to build a just, inclusive multiracial democracy and economy. It advances policy solutions, research, legal advocacy, and narrative strategies to build civic and economic power. With renewed Corporation support, Dēmos will work with partners to remove barriers to full democratic and civic participation by all and advance voting rights for disenfranchised groups.
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As a final core support grant to OpenSciEd
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
OpenSciEd was launched in 2018 with support from the Corporation and three other national foundations. The initiative has reached over 90,000 educators and led to curriculum adoptions in 88% of the states. Meaningful science learning for students occurs when teachers align their instruction to the Next Generation Science Standards, use standards-aligned instructional materials, and are supported with curriculum-based professional learning. OpenSciEd is an initiative that brings together state science leaders, expert curriculum designers, learning scientists, science education leaders, and classroom teachers to develop and support a complete set of freely available, full-course, high-quality instructional materials and associated professional learning resources. Through this final grant, OpenSciEd will complete the development and field test of an elementary science curriculum for grades K-5 and bring them to the market with distributors.
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As a One-Time Grant for the Russia Program
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions, Russia became largely inaccessible to Western scholars for conducting research, fieldwork, or in-person engagements. The Digital Research Laboratory (DRL), part of the Russia Program at George Washington University, will engage with academics and big tech industry to create a data platform for innovative academic research and teaching on Russia. To facilitate the wide use and dissemination of DRL’s resources and outputs, the program will conduct online seminars, recruit graduate and early-career scholars to participate in its activities, and produce public op-eds, academic articles, and policy reports.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Sustained, nonpartisan voter engagement is essential to a healthy democracy. Established in 2004 with Corporation support, State Voices is a national network of twenty-three permanent, nonpartisan, state-based coalitions. Its role is to connect nonprofits that are working on a diverse range of issues to nonpartisan voter engagement strategies. State Voices oversees and enables more than 1,000 state, local, and national affiliate organizations in all fifty states to collaborate on campaigns, strengthen each other’s policy impacts, and increase civic engagement overall. State Voices also supplies organizations with the tools and training to further enhance their campaigns. With renewed Corporation support, State Voices will continue to grow its network and support shared efforts to increase nonpartisan civic and voter engagement.
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For a workshop on the Middle East
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
As many experts and policymakers have concluded, sustainable peace in the Middle East will not be possible without addressing the long-festering and intractable issue of Palestine. In the current escalatory environment, U.S. and international efforts to encourage a diplomatic settlement to the war in Gaza (as well as the war in Lebanon) do not appear promising and there is genuine concern among some that no better “day after” in Gaza or the rest of the region is possible. While current circumstances may seem especially daunting, one day there will be a cessation of active conflict and a need for a roadmap for moving forward. Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Collaboration, Conflict, and Complexity (AC-4), housed in the Earth Institute, will convene influential figures from the region to explore viable options for navigating such a roadmap.
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For a global scholars network on identity and conflict
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The world is witnessing the rise of nationalism and polarization. In response to these trends, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University launched the Global Scholars Network on Identity and Conflict (GSNIC). The international and interdisciplinary network aims to improve intergroup relations in conflict-affected regions by constructing and maintaining a global intellectual community of scholars with expertise in “identity politics.” Corporation grant will support analyses on the roots of violence waged in the name of ethnicity, religion, or other identities and effective ways to addressing it.
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For global, open-access, knowledge-based journalism to bridge the gap between research and policy in Africa
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
African scholars produce in-depth research on peace and security issues that rarely appears in formats accessible to policymakers and the interested public. At the same time, journalists often lack access to specialist expertise to inform their reporting on these issues. To address these disconnects, AllAfrica, a leading online source of news across Africa, began working with African peacebuilding scholars in 2018 to produce multimedia content for and with its network of more than 100 news and policy-oriented organizations. With renewed Corporation support, AllAfrica will continue to produce this content, conduct briefings between media leaders and peace researchers, facilitate policy dialogues, and disseminate peacebuilding analyses. In addition to publishing original content and providing consistent coverage of underreported crises, the project’s emphasis on engaging African media professionals and fostering connections among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers is a key strength.
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For support of the nonpartisan Vote Everywhere program for youth
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Young voters consistently vote at a lower rate than other age groups. This trend can be explained in part by exclusionary voting laws that reduce access to the franchise, including the rejection of student residency as a voting qualification, the removal of on-campus polling sites, gerrymandered campuses, and restricted absentee and provisional ballots. In honor of its namesake, a twenty-year-old college student who volunteered for the Freedom Summer 1964 to register Black Americans to vote, the Andrew Goodman Foundation was established in 1966 to encourage youth civic engagement and electoral involvement. Currently, its nonpartisan Vote Everywhere program works across 69 campuses in 26 states and Washington, DC, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). With Corporation support, the Andrew Goodman Foundation will provide student leaders with valuable skills to protect and extend voting rights nationwide and encourage voting.
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For launch of the Carnegie College Comebackers
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
6 months
Description
The Burning Glass Institute (BGI) was founded in 2022 to advance data-driven research and practice on the future of work and on the future of learning. BGI works with educators, employers, public agencies, regional coalitions, and policymakers to develop solutions that build mobility and opportunity through skills. BGI’s expertise in mining new datasets for actionable insight draws attention to pressing problems and frames the potential for new approaches. With Corporation support, BGI will establish the Completion Hub to manage centralized functions of a multipronged series of projects supporting the College Comebacker initiative. In this initial period, the Hub will create a strategic roadmap detailing quantitative and qualitative analysis serving as a backbone for goal-setting, approach, target audience, initial locations, defining the elements needed to scale to support adults with some college, no degree to re-enroll in college, persist, and complete a degree beginning with the 56k municipal workers in NYC who aspire to a BA.
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For one time funding for a project to assess the risks of nuclear escalation in the age of artificial intelligence
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Although there is significant concern that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may destabilize deterrence and make crisis decisionmaking more prone to escalation, most analysis has focused on the overall problem of AI and nuclear risks. With this project, SIPRI will conduct a deeper and more systematic analysis of the variables and contexts that will impact the relationship between AI and military power. This analysis will focus on better understanding the scenarios in which AI’s integration into conventional military systems may inadvertently create pressure to escalate to nuclear conflict and how such dangers are affected by contextual variables such as strategic relationships, unfolding events, and perceptions. The goal is to produce a menu of measures to reduce nuclear risks that can be adapted to different AI uses and strategic contexts.
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For a one-time project on security programs in disordered states as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Newly emergent multi-actor security networks have reshaped the role of domestic actors in maintaining global stability. Through this project, an international team of researchers at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley, will analyze the partnerships between security providers and takers, and their effect on the international order. The project will produce a framework for understanding these security networks and test this model in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. By producing research and providing fora for engagement, the project will also seek to establish a global community examining the evolution of these networks.
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For participatory research in MENA contexts
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
27 months
Description
In long-running conflicts, people often lack channels for representation, participation, or accountability in governance. This project has shown how independent knowledge production that adopts a participatory approach–engaging with conflict-affected communities–can provide a space for people to represent their expectations and priorities and enhance their power to transform conflict dynamics. These transdisciplinary methodologies and scholar network democratize knowledge production, countering prevailing security narratives and supporting society-led initiatives toward more inclusive governance in MENA countries. Building on the accomplishments of the Know War project situated at the University of Vienna, the project will concentrate on three research themes: the reconceptualization of citizenship and political participation, the social economy, and solidarities in the context of conflict.
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As a final grant for a scholars network on economic and urban development studies in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The Middle East is a hub for international development interventions, yet lacking in academic programs to train and connect regional expertise in this field. In light of this gap, the Corporation awarded the American University of Beirut (AUB) a grant in 2020 to expand and advance the field of development studies in the region and to establish an academic degree. The network has grown to incorporate 80 international scholars engaged in curriculum development, op-ed writing, and mentoring of graduate students and junior scholars in the region. A final grant supports work on urban development together with the project’s annual training institute, which offers thirty graduate students mentorship and an opportunity to workshop their writing for publication.
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For a one-time project on the Global South and the World Order as part of a Request for Proposals on Understanding the Forces Shaping the Global Order
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
Ongoing conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and other international security, political, and economic trends, are accelerating a longer-term dynamic that will be key in shaping the future of the global order. This project will analyze the strategies and partnerships influencing the global political economy from the perspective of Global South states and actors. It will use a bottom-up approach and employ research and surveys to compare attitudes toward security, diplomacy, and political economy and will promote a South-South dialogue on geopolitical issues. Security in Context, a U.S.-based international research network with a track record of producing research and policy outputs from non-Western perspectives, will co-coordinate the work.
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For support of an initiative to reinvigorate civic education in America
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
An initiative of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn (DKP-Learn) conducts research on civic learning, co-designs curricular resources with educators, offers professional learning opportunities, and develops assessment tools and resources—all in support of education for and about constitutional democracy. With Corporation support, the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn will enhance its efforts in K-12 civic learning, provide professional development for K-12 educators in the civic learning space, and scale the implementation of the Educating for American Democracy (EAD) Roadmap. This groundbreaking effort convened a diverse, cross-ideological group of scholars and educators to create guidance and an “inquiry framework” that states, local school districts, and educators can use to transform history and civics education to meet the needs of today’s diverse K–12 student body.
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For a project on Scholars Without Borders
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
27 months
Description
Given the implications of Russia’s war on Ukraine for academic communities, among others, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has launched a Scholars Without Borders (SWB) initiative to support scholars in Ukraine affiliated with Ukrainian institutions and scholars who fled Russia. With support from the Corporation, SWB will aim to: Improve social capital by helping academics build international networks, local ties, and professional skills; create an online resource to allow affected scholars to identify grant competitions and employment opportunities; and provide research grants to spur cooperation among scholarly communities. The grant will support administrative and operational costs.
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For Columbia University's SIPA Institute of Global Politics, Carnegie Distinguished Fellows
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP), launched in October 2003, is the flagship initiative of Dean Karen Yarhi-Milo and SIPA’s primary impact platform. The Institute will attempt to bridge the gap between academics and policy makers by convening leading scholars and practitioners to advance policy solutions to today’s pressing global challenges. To this end, the IGP hosts high level practitioner Fellows, which in 2023 were named the Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellows. Their engagement includes generating policy reports; participating in public events; policy roundtables and skills workshops; and working with Columbia students on op-eds and other research projects. With Corporation support, IGP will host, in its second year, a new cohort of fellows.
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For project support of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs for adult immigrants, and teen programming that supports economic & social mobility
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Founded in 1896, Queens Public Library (QPL) serves the most diverse county in the nation, Queens, NY, where 47.8 percent of its 2.4 million residents are foreign-born, and an estimated 180 languages are spoken. In 2023, QPL had over 5.6 million visitors, circulated over 7.7 million resources, and offered over 50,000 programs at its sixty-six library locations, including four Carnegie libraries (Astoria, Poppenhusen, Richmond Hill, and Woodhaven) for newcomers, young adults, and teens. Prior Corporation support enabled QPL to expand the number of teens served through its college readiness programs. With Corporation support, QPL will scale its programming over two years to provide an estimated 1,000 newcomers with basic English as a Second Language classes, 560 newcomers with workforce training for industry certifications, sixty-four young adults with instruction for the high school equivalency exam, and 1,500 teens with college readiness programs.
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For research on African philanthropy by early-career African scholars
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Philanthropic culture in Africa, comprising an array of formal and informal giving, is part of African societies. However, there is little knowledge about the field of philanthropy in Africa that is based on research and academic scholarship. The Centre for African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School, University of Witwatersrand, seeks to address this gap. Established in 2017, CAPSI aims to: close the gap in research on philanthropy between Africa and the rest of the world; support the development of African researchers with expertise on philanthropy practiced in Africa; and generate knowledge about African philanthropy. With renewed support, CAPSI will pursue a set of training, research, and publication activities.
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For international dialogues on Arab region security
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Internationalized conflicts in the Arab region continue with devastating human consequences. In complementarity to official diplomacy, Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues offer a means of identifying pathways toward conflict de-escalation and regional cooperation. Middle East Institute’s Dialogues Program organizes such discussions among stakeholder officials, advisors, and experts from the United States, Russia, China, and the Broader Middle East. Through a set of regular meetings and jointly drafted documents, participants grapple with current political and security dynamics and explore conflict mitigation and prevention mechanisms. In the next two years, this initiative will focus its efforts on dialogues involving the U.S., China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and other regional actors including some attention to the current Middle East violence and its ramifications. Renewed support will enable private meetings and the dissemination of findings through briefings and publications. The program aligns with International Peace and Security (IPS) program priorities to address regional conflict. It builds on past efforts related to Iraq, Syria, and GCC-Iran relations.
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