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Project Title
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 relationshipbetween Russia and the West. As anew 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
36 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 2021to produce cutting-edge analysis of China’s connections with the Middle East acrossfinancial markets,private sector commerce,migration and labor markets, and humanitarian and development aid.In addition to delivering new insights on these issues, the project fostersacademic networks and research collaborations, witha strong emphasis on mentorship and training of early career researchers in the Middle East. Corporation funds will supportresearch and mentoring, workshops, multimedia outputs,and publications.
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For a project on Euro-Atlantic Security
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The International Security Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)conducts bilateral andmultilateral dialogueson issues of relevance to global and Europeansecurity. With Corporation support, GCSP will facilitate two dialogues.The first onewill focus on a medium-term outlook forU.S.-Russia relations in the context of competitions and confrontations among major powers and a shifting global order. The second onewill focus on the future Euro-Atlanticsecurity through the examination of various scenarios for how it might be impacted bythe 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, anddiplomatic 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
24 months
Description
The James L. Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is thehighest 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 grantwill lead to courses engaging close to350 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
TheCouncil 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
0 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 becamelargely 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 academicresearch and teaching onRussia. To facilitate thewide use anddisseminationof DRL’s resources and outputs, the programwill conduct online seminars,recruit graduate and early-career scholars to participate in its activities, and producepublic 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
18 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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As a final grant for a project on media studies in the Arab region.
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
With Corporation support, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar launched an Arab Information and Media Studies program to strengthen regional media studies in three languages (French, Arabic, and English). Renewed funding will support capacity building through academic workshops, networking, conferences, anddissemination ofacademic papers and policy briefs.
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Project Title
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 relationsin conflict-affected regions by constructing and maintaining aglobal intellectual community of scholars with expertise in “identity politics.” Corporation grant willsupport 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.
Project Title
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 Corporationsupport, 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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Project Title
For StratBase
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
For U.S. policy towards Russia to be effective, it must be grounded in an accurate understanding of Russian strategic capabilities and interests. Improving the accuracy of U.S. policy is complicated both by the distinct culture and foundations of Russian foreign policy making, as well as the West’s own analytical biases. Project StratBase aims to address these twin challenges by introducing collaborative research principles from advanced scientific disciplines in combination with cutting edge research tools like data analytics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing models.With Corporation support, StratBase will initiate three research modules related to Russia’s war in Ukraine, its contemporary relations with China, and comparative perspectives on the future of Euro-Atlantic Security architecture. The project will result ininternational collaborative research, creation of new tools and datasets to study Russia, briefings to policymakers, and academic and policy publications.
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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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Project Title
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 internationalscholarsengaged 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 studentsmentorship 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 theglobal political economy from the perspective of Global South states and actors. It will use a bottom-up approach and employresearch 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
0 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 foracademic 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 institutionsand scholars who fled Russia. With support from the Corporation, SWB will aim to:Improvesocial capital by helping academics build international networks, local ties, and professional skills; createan online resource to allow affected scholars to identifygrant competitions and employment opportunities; and provideresearch grants to spur cooperation amongscholarly 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 Institutewill 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 levelpractitioner Fellows, which in 2023 were named the Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellows. Theirengagement 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
Description
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 instructionfor 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
24 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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In support of the launch of the Christchurch Call Foundation
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
In March 15, 2019, a terrorist attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 people and injuring 50. The attack was livestreamed by the terrorist for 17 minutes, went viral, and marked a turning point in terrorist exploitation of the internet. The Call’s objective is elimination of terrorist and extremistcontent. Itfocuseson prevention; targeted positive interventions in the information environment to prevent disinformation-driven violent extremism; tooling to research and deliver insights into the impacts of algorithmic processes on radicalization; andinvestment in youth-led prevention of radicalization. This grant is to support the launch of the Christchurch Call Foundation as a fully independent body from the NZ government following its spin-out in 2023.
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Toward the expansion of the Student Presidential Leaders Series
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
27 months
Description
According to the 2023 Arkansas Civic Health Index, Arkansas has the lowest voter registration and turnout rates in the United States with voter turnout declining in the past two generations. In 2001, President William Jefferson Clinton established the Clinton Foundation to create programs and partnerships to expand economic opportunity, improve civic health, confront the climate crisis, and inspire citizen engagement and service. Through the expansion of its Student Presidential Leaders Series, the program will help fifty high school students develop their leadership skills and explore the importance of inclusivity and civic participation. Additionally, in a pilot program, over 750 ninth graders throughout Arkansas will complete 75 hours of district or school approved community service with help from the Clinton Center, housed at the Clinton Foundation. With Corporation support, the Clinton Center will support high school students to engage in community service across the state.
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As a final grant for support of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse’s immigration projects
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The immigration debate in the United States is mired in misinformation and misleading or false claims, and the public is often unable to access reliable sources and data from federal officials, who often erect barriers to block the free flow of information about their practices. Since 2005, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), has been using the Freedom of Information Act to collect, validate, analyze, and distribute immigration data from the federal government. With Corporation support, TRAC will continue to obtain and analyze records on immigration enforcement practices and their impact on individuals and communities and compile this data into understandable forms for widespread distribution to advocates, public interest lawyers, journalists, and other stakeholders in the immigration field.
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As a final grant for core support of LearnerStudio
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
Much of our education system was designed for the industrial era and is not equipping students with the future-ready skills needed to achieve economic mobility and navigate our increasingly complex world. While we aspire to prepare all students for future success, and despite strong examples of innovations that do so, universal access remains elusive. For over three years, the Corporation has engaged a group of eighty funders in a dialogue about the need for change in response to the educational toll of the pandemic. As an outgrowth of that work, prior Corporation support enabled widely respected social entrepreneur Kim Smith to conduct an analysis of impact opportunities in the education sector. This spurred the creation of the LearnerStudio, a new organization seeded by the Corporation and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, to address the need for a backbone organization to identify and fund high-leverage innovations, aggregate promising solutions toward more impactful change, and galvanize momentum among system leaders to accelerate the pace of transformation. Corporation support will enable the LearnerStudio to respond to today’s most pressing challenges with innovative learning solutions and partnerships that strengthen the education sector.
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For support for the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) evidence website and its expansion to include data on Corporation-supported fellows
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
27 months
Description
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) seeks to address the “Capacity Building and Scientific Impact Tracking System for Africa” (CB-SITS Africa) project that will track the outcomes and various forms of impact of select Corporation-supported projects. It builds on the CARTA Evidence project, a website that was launched in December 2022 to showcase the impact of the CARTA network. With additional funding, the approach will be deepened, improved, and expanded to elevate the visibility of African scholarship and produce data of value to a variety of stakeholders on the continent and beyond.
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For support of the Middle East Consultation Group meetings
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Recent fast-moving crises in the Middle East have raised the level of instability and risk within and beyond the region to near unprecedented levels. In responding to these developments, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) will convene a high-level, multinational group of 15 experts and former policymakers to support ongoing diplomatic efforts in the broader Middle East. Through a series of monthly meetings (both virtual and in-person) in several key states in the region, the “Middle East Consultation Group” (the Group) will identify, list, categorize, and prioritize the key questions and issues to be resolved if the region is to become peaceful and fulfill its enormous, if heretofore stifled, potential. The Group will draft an early-stage review of this dialogue to be presented at the MSC annual conference in February 2025 and a final report to be presented to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York in September 2025.
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For a project to provide training in strategic force analysis
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Opportunities to learn technical analysis of nuclear strategy, weapons capabilities, and the impact of emerging technologies are scarce, especially for those new to the nuclear field. Renewed funding to Dartmouth College will enable emerging nuclear weapons scholars and practitioners to learn how to assess and model the capabilities of strategic nuclear forces through week-long in-person training courses. These courses will also facilitate networking among course participants as well as with established experts.This, in turn, will encourage future collaboration as well as sustain technical and analytical capacity in the field.
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For core support of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
International, refugee, and undocumented students in the United States face unique obstacles in pursuing higher education, launching careers, and building stable lives. The obstacles include an outdated federal immigration system and an uneven patchwork of state policies and institutional practices that systematically limit their ability to achieve education and career goals. Fiscally sponsored by the National Center for Civic Innovation, the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration is a national network of over 550 presidents and chancellors of public and private colleges and universities serving over 5 million students in forty-twostates, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. It is the only national nonprofit organization exclusively focused on the intersection of higher education and immigration. With Corporation support, the Presidents’ Alliance will continue to educate policymakers about the importance of advancing immigration reforms that will improve educational and economic outcomes for immigrant students and the country overall.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite China’s global rise, U.S. companies, government agencies, think tanks, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions face a talent deficit due to insufficient Chinese language capabilities and experience in China. Without a deep pool of China-fluent, China-knowledgeable professionals, Americans in both public and private sectors will continue to operate at a disadvantage. The American Mandarin Society (AMS) is dedicated to nurturing the current and future generations of China-focused professionals and creating meaningful channels for dialogue. With continued Corporation support, AMS will publish bilingual, theme-specific learning guides for professionals; foster the next generation of bilingual American journalist; run a mentorship program for mid-career African-American China professionals; and maintain a website offering Chinese-language learning tools.
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As a one-time only grant for general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership was founded to facilitate open-minded, informed, and respectful dialogue among a broad and engaged public and its leaders to arrive at outcomes that help to create better communities.The foundation works to encourage mutual respect, engage diverse views, and promote transparency through its seminars, research, and publications on a wide range of topics that emphasize the increasing economic, social, and political disparities in society. It has previously collaborated with think tanks and individuals with expertise in various programmatic matters, including forced displacement; technology, productivity, and income distribution; and the role of art in society. With Corporation support, the Chumir Foundation will continue to improve dialogue globally on issues related to current and future geopolitical dynamics.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Given the successful adoption of new science standards across the country, most students attend schools that aim to teach science ways that reflect the innovations and vision of the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Standards aligned instructional materials provide the best opportunity to move the implementation of the Framework and NGSS forward. Yet, the complex nature of all curricular innovations has resulted in confusion in the field of what is high-quality. This creates a need for an arbiter to carry out an independent third-part evaluation to help discern between high-quality NGSS instructional materials and those not in alignment with the NGSS. EdReports is a national leader providing evidence-rich reviews of full-course curricula. The independent non-profit publishes freely available, educator-led reviews of materials claiming alignment to college and career ready standards. Through this grant, EdReports will increase the demand for and availability of high-quality instructional materials and expand into their reviews in K-12 science education.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
When teachers have access to high-quality professional learning that is aligned with their curriculum, they are better equipped to meet the diverse needs of their students and ensure that every child can succeed. However, school leaders are faced with numerous nonacademic responsibilities, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic, which makes it operationally challenging to provide curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) at the school level. For teachers to be most effective, school and district leaders need to provide strong, effective instructional leadership and leverage the supportive conditions and structures thatCBPL requires. Instruction Partners supports school and district leaders to provide their teachers with effective curriculum-based professional learning. This general support grant will allow Instruction Partners to continue supporting their partners and build the field of CBPL.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization that supports values-aligned leaders of color in being agents of change in the lives of children, families and communities they serve. Rooted in the research that proximate leaders positively impact the outcomes of the stakeholders they serve, EdLoC provides programming that supports the leadership development and cross-sector collaboration of its members, as well as advocating for policies on the local and state level in furtherance of the mission of EdLoC and its members. With Corporation support EdLoC will 1) evolve the membership network to increase racial and sector diversity and spark cross-sector collaborations designed to reduce the wealth gap, and 2) focus on advancing mission-aligned federal policies and supporting the policy agenda of network members.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
The study of U.S. foreign policy has been traditionally limited in terms of diversity and perspectives of underrepresented communities. This has recently led to concerted efforts among funders and practitioners in the field to address this shortcoming through a variety of measures, including by cultivating a next generation of leaders embodying and embracing diversity. With a specific focus on China, Black China Caucus (BCC) identifies and amplifies Black professionals whose range of careers provide new and diverse perspectives about China. Corporation support will allow BCC to continue programs aimed at enhancing a community of over 170 professionals and future China hands through such initiatives as a professional directory, mentorship program, student pipeline program, and professional development opportunities. BCC’s programs will help deepen and expand the presence of Black China experts in the U.S. discourse and policymaking relevant to China.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States’ immigration system has long been criticized for failing to meet the country’s changing economic demands and the needs of millions of immigrants who already contribute to the economy. Under a divided Congress, policymakers will need to access innovative, cross-ideological policy ideas to help untangle the current immigration system and build something more resilient, fair, and better for the country. Since 2016, the Cato Institute’s Project on Immigration Reform has been using rigorous, data-driven research to develop policy principles and ideas capable of uniting conservatives, liberals, and libertarians. With Corporation support, the Cato Institute will continue to produce data and research to debunk anti-immigrant myths and bolster the case for innovations in the country’s immigration system.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
15 months
Description
The Student Leadership Network (SLN) supports young people from diverse underserved communities to access educational opportunities that prepare them to lead successful lives. Their CollegeBound Initiative (CBI) program boasts nearly two decades of successful college access program provision, supporting more than 19,000 young adults enrolling in college. Continued Corporation support will allow SLN to continue building on their Alumni Engagement Team’s capacity-building and programming strategies, strengthening their partnerships, and expanding their initiatives supporting young people on their postsecondary journeys.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Family Engagement Lab (FEL), a nonprofit organization created in 2016, provides parents with information to support learning at home. Their home-to-school connection tool, FASTalk, is a cost-effective tool for teachers that sends curriculum-aligned learning activities to families by text message in their home language. Through this renewal grant, FEL will invest in market research, sales, and partnerships. They will grow FASTalk’s reach in underserved communities, complete the design of new FASTalk functionality, cultivate new funder relationships and implement product improvements that reduce FASTalk-related costs. Finally, they will assess the viability of distributing FASTalk via a curriculum partner.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Getting students back on track after the pandemic will require families to understand how their children are currently performing in school. EdNavigator, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 with support from the Corporation, provides high-quality education support to families from under-resourced and marginalized communities. Through this renewal grant, EdNavigator will (a) launch a free online parent guide available in Spanish and English, providing families nationwide with the same information and resources that navigators use every day, (b) refine and improve navigation support, and (c) incorporate lessons learned from on-the-ground navigation into well-designed research projects, emphasizing how communication and incentives can lead to positive outcomes at relatively low costs.
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