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Project Title
As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
As schools and systems look to support students and families as they recover from the instructional, social, and emotional toll of the pandemic, school and system leaders must have access to evidence-based, job-embedded professional learning that support accelerated instruction and centers racial equity. New Leaders’ leadership development programs support both school systems in building diverse pipelines of equity-minded leaders who champion instructional excellence, as well as support school leaders in building their capacity to implement policies and practices that advance equity and accelerate learning outcomes. Through this final grant for general support, New Leaders plans to (a) implement their core programs in districts, (b) research and refresh their Transformational Leadership Framework, the backbone of their professional learning programs, (c) build capacity of program staff to deliver redesigned programs to partners, and (d) disseminate learnings and advocate for continued investment in exceptional, equity-driven education leadership.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Many industries are in the process of outsourcing their entire computing power (store, manage, and process data) to cloud computing platforms which can reduce Information Technology costs significantly. This shift to cloud computing represents a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for companies and high-paying positions for individuals with skills in this field. However, there is a shortage of skilled workers that can support the massive migration and maintenance to cloud computing. Kura Labs bridges the gap between the existing and growing corporate need and the shortage of skilled workers by training high-performing under-resourced students and graduates from CUNY, private colleges, and community-based organizations (CBOs). These colleges and CBOs represent an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse pool of candidates that are facing additional challenges due to the COVID-19 crisis. Corporation support will help Kura Labs continue to engage employers and colleges to train and connect highly talented and diverse students to fill current staffing needs that exist within Cloud Computing.
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For core support of the Democracy Capacity Project
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Many small nonprofit organizations lack the resources to afford regular legal counsel and training to ensure compliance with state laws. Since 2019, the Democracy Capacity Project has been producing free, accessible resources to help nonprofit civic engagement organizations better comply with local laws and regulations. In partnership with the Alliance for Justice, the organization also provides nonpartisan trainings and pro bono assistance to help organizations design effective, compliant nonpartisan advocacy programming and identify internal operations in need of modifications. With Corporation support, the Democracy Capacity Project will develop resources for all fifty states.
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For core support for the Africa program
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Greater inclusion of Africa-based researchers in strategic dialogues can support the development of U.S.-Africa policy by providing on-the-ground perspectives steeped over the long term in local realities. This is particularly critical as U.S. policymakers attempt to address issues of conflict resolution and peacebuilding on the continent. To provide such opportunities, the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars formed the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), which includes twenty-two key policy and research institutes based in thirteen African countries. In collaboration with SVNP members, the Wilson Center hosts fellows and convenes meetings to reach out to U.S. and African policymakers, scholars, and practitioners. Further support will continue these activities.
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For core support of the Nuclear Policy Program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s (CEIP) Nuclear Policy Program (NPP) is one of the leading voices globally on nuclear issues. NPP’s team includes international experts with deep expertise on nuclear issues ranging from nuclear safeguards and export controls to regional challenges in North Korea, South Asia, and Iran. This grant will allow NPP to continue its interdisciplinary work to reduce the likelihood of nuclear use by diagnosing acute nuclear risks; informing debates on solutions; and engaging international actors to affect change. NPP’s analyses, international gatherings, and outreach activities will lead to policy-relevant recommendations and publications.
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For core support of Managing the Atom project
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Policymakers require new approaches and analyses on the many nuclear security challenges facing the United States and the world, from North Korea’s nuclear program to the deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations that impacts the nuclear policies of the two major nuclear powers. Harvard University’s Managing the Atom (MTA) project has a track record of identifying, incubating, and advancing solutions. This core support grant will allow MTA to adapt its research and outreach efforts to the highest priority challenges in the nuclear security field, and to engage with U.S. and international partners to promote practical risk reduction steps.
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For educational programming
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
From its founding in 1923 through today, the Museum of the City of New York has been dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of New York City. Utilizing the approximately 750,000 objects in its collection, the museum designs and provides special exhibitions, public programs and educational experiences that explore the past, present, and future of one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world. With Corporation support the Museum will expand its community-based initiatives, as well as its virtual and in-person educational programming.
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For core support of Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math)
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
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 2013 with funding from the Corporation to understand how post-secondary education in mathematics might better meet students’ and employers’ needs and to serve as a catalyst for change by identifying innovative practices where they exist, advocating for such practices where they do not, and working with partners to implement and scale up effective practices. This grant supports further development, emphasizing increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the mathematical sciences, ensuring equitable opportunities in mathematics for all.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Established in part through Corporation support, Women in International Security (WIIS) is a global, nongovernmental membership organization that advances the leadership and professional development of women working in the foreign policy and international security fields. Through workshops, research, and publications, WIIS also seeks to increase knowledge and understanding of the nexus between gender and security, and to bridge the divide between the traditional security studies community and the women, peace and security community. With general support from the Corporation, WIIS will continue such activities as the Next Generation Symposium, professional development workshops, policy roundtables, a regular policy brief series, and collaborations with WIIS chapters, affiliates, and partners.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
The Carnegie Institute, known today as the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is comprised of four institutions: the Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum, and the Carnegie Museums of Art and of Natural History. Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, today, the Institute brings together expansive research, exhibitions, and educational offerings in the arts and sciences. Over the next three years, each of the Museums will offer a virtual and in-person educational programs, exhibitions, and special projects. This interdisciplinary effort will unite the Institute’s goal of exploring new ways to educate visitors on contemporary issues related to art, science, and the natural world.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Established in 2007, Rhode Island Public Radio is an independent media organization dedicated to informing and connecting local communities in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Using quality journalism and storytelling, Rhode Island Public Radio provides the public with a better understanding of issues that pertain to their lives and communities. Its past reporting and programming include a series focused on the state of elections and democracy from the perspective of local residents, a weekly interview program featuring discussions on local politics, and a podcast featuring the stories and perspectives of immigrants in southern New England. With Corporation support, Rhode Island Public Radio will continue to produce quality journalism and be a reliable source of local news in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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For developing programming and infrastructure for high quality internship experiences
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
While the nation has made impressive strides toward greater high school completion, college and career readiness have not kept pace and achievement gaps remain. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing challenges and created new obstacles for those young people on the cusp of their transition to postsecondary opportunities. The Corporation’s longstanding investments in secondary and postsecondary models that blend academic and applied learning are particularly salient now. For twenty-five years, Big Picture Learning (BPL) has provided these opportunities to tens of thousands of high school students across twenty-eight states. With Corporation support, BPL has expanded its work outside of the BPL school network to launch work-based learning (WBL) programs in a variety of contexts. Continued support will allow BPL to increase access to real world learning experiences for students in thirty-six schools, inform city- and state-level policy in New York to create favorable conditions for schools to launch these experiences, and to deepen partnerships with five schools interested in implementing the Key Distinguishers that define BPL’s school model.
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For core support of the Bush Institute's immigration program
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
The United States is home to nearly 45 million immigrants from around the world. They are entrepreneurs and innovators who add to the rich heritage of the country and play a vital role in the economy, accounting for nearly half of the labor force growth from 2006-2016. Yet the United States is only realizing a fraction of the potential that immigrants represent due to complex laws and outdated priorities. Current immigration policies do not meet the needs of the country or adequately welcome newcomers. Founded in 2009, the George W. Bush Foundation is home to the Bush Institute-Southern Methodist University (SMU) Economic Growth Initiative, which works to advance immigration policy reforms that promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and inclusive growth. With Corporation support, the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative will advocate for bipartisan policy solutions that are both economically sound and humane through a series of activities, including policy commentary and analysis (op-eds, reports, speaking engagements), and events and convenings of ideologically diverse stakeholders.
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For core support of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools and project support for the Equity Indicators Project
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
47 months
Description
Historically, the work of education researchers has been largely disconnected from that of school district officials and educators, and research findings have often done little to influence policy or improve day-to-day practices in schools. The Research Alliance aims to change this in New York City by building the capacity of the whole system to learn and improve in a sustained way. The Alliance provides high quality evidence to strengthen policy and practice; documents and helps the City learn from success and failure; and informs the decisions that stakeholders make every day. Continued core support will enable the Alliance to expand partnerships, improve access to its data archive, and increase the use of evidence by NYC education stakeholders. Project support will enable the Alliance to develop a set of indicators of education equity and extend the research agenda with an explicit focus on equity and racial justice.
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For a project to revise the national board teaching standards for secondary science teachers
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
45 months
Description
To meet the demands of teaching rigorous curricula and ambitious outcomes for students, there must be accomplished, experienced teachers in every classroom who can offer high-quality instruction and meet students’ learning needs. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, launched with support from the Corporation over thirty years ago, is the gold standard in advanced teacher certification, offering National Board Certification across twenty-five certificate areas in sixteen subjects from pre-K through grade 12. The National Board recently completed the development of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Standards that now can inform revisions of all their teaching standards. This grant supports phase two of this effort and focuses on the revision of the teaching standards for secondary science using the new DEI Standards.
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For core support of the State Priorities Partnership's immigration project
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
In 1992, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) co-founded the State Priorities Partnership (SPP). SPP is a network of forty-three fiscal policy institutes across the country that are committed to improving the lives of low-income people and other vulnerable populations. Beginning in 2012, and with Corporation support, CBPP partnered with SPP members to analyze the fiscal implications of immigration-related policies. Since then, CBPP has expanded its immigration project to fifteen states, representing roughly 50 percent of the United States’ population and more than half of all immigrant residents. In addition to funding support, CBPP provides members of SPP’s immigration project with technical assistance, webinars with internal and external partners, resource guides, peer learning calls, and cohort convenings. With Corporation support, CBPP will continue working with partner organizations to create inclusive state economies and increase protections for immigrants.
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For fellowships for early-career scholars in the social sciences and humanities
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
48 months
Description
African research leadership in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) is critical for informing the global knowledge base and for providing African policymakers with contextually relevant data and advice. While African research in some fields, such as health and agricultural sciences, is on the increase, SSH research continues to lag. The Science for Africa Foundation (SFA) aims to mobilize SSH researchers to contribute to solving the developmental challenges facing the continent. With Corporation support, SFA will strengthen research leadership in these critical disciplines by awarding competitive fellowships to up to 25 early-career researchers, delivering a blended training program focused on research and communications skills, and providing mentoring and support for policy outreach and publishing.
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For a project on revitalizing debate on the global arms trade
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
28 months
Description
Understanding the connections between foreign policy, national security, and defense industries is vital to understanding global conflict escalation. The World Peace Foundation at Tufts University will build on previous Corporation-funded research to analyze arms transfers involving the Arab region, in particular to areas of conflict, as well as oversight mechanisms. The project aims to impact policy by increasing transparency and informed dialogue about the arms trade, showing its relationship to other security issues, and nurturing a new generation of researchers and policy analysts. Corporation funds will support collaborative research, workshops, and publications.
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For the Evidence in Governance and Politics Africa hub
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Unequal access to research funding and methodological training leads to underrepresentation of scholars from French-speaking West African countries in publishing and research networks. This weakens the legitimacy of scholarship, exacerbates inequalities, and increases the risk that research uptake will not occur. Corporation support will allow the Centre for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP), in collaboration with the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network at the University of California, Berkeley, to address these inequalities through the creation of a regional hub for learning and collaboration on peacebuilding in Francophone Africa. Activities will include methodological training workshops, consultations on designing specific collaborative studies, research grants to support a set of selected studies, and dissemination activities both within the region and beyond. Key products will be translated into English and linked to other peacebuilding grantees in Africa. The project will ultimately help African scholars make policy recommendations to local and international stakeholders regarding the best strategies to mitigate political violence.
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For the Alternative Policy Solutions Program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Economic inclusion and development remain key challenges in the Arab region today. Alternative Policy Solutions (APS) is a program based at the American University in Cairo designing public policies that integrate the inputs of stakeholders and policymakers. The APS team includes some of Egypt’s finest economists and researchers who use their expertise to draft technical policy solutions in the fields of economic development, resource management, and institutional reform. With Corporation support, APS began cultivating a network of young policy experts and scholars versed in inclusive development and participatory policy production. During the next phase of the project, APS will build on their initial success to expand their regional scope in the Arab region and Africa. Renewed funding will support staff costs, public events, consultation sessions, workshops, and publications.
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For a project researching the transparency of arms transfers to the MENA region
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Lack of transparency in arms transfers to the Arab region has been a factor in sustained conflicts and has contributed to corruption in defense sectors in the region. Transparency International’s Defense and Security initiative aims to increase the transparency and accountability of U.S. security partnerships and arms transfers to the region. The project will address the state of transparency in the arms trade to provide the U.S. and UN policy communities with information, analysis, and recommendations to address the transparency gap and reduce the risk of corruption-related diversion in international arms transfers. Corporation funds will support staff costs, research costs, multimedia publications, briefings, and public events.
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For developing, fostering and supporting critical scholarship in Iraq
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Decades of war have deeply affected academic institutions, scholars, and knowledge production in Iraq. The International Institute for Peace at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark will work in partnership with Iraqi academic and civil society institutions to develop, foster, and support contemporary scholarship in Iraq and bridge academic knowledge production with civil society and policy spheres. The project will provide training and mentorship to Iraqi scholars producing new research on issues of governance, gender, environmental security, and violent conflict studies. Corporation funds will support staff costs, research costs, workshops, and multimedia publications.
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For research and analysis on Iran’s grand strategy and implications for U.S. policy
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
11 months
Description
The U.S. analytical expertise about Iran has significantly deteriorated over the four decades of diplomatic estrangement between the United States and Iran. Yet, understanding Iran’s domestic and foreign policies is critical to developing an effective and viable strategy toward Iran that cuts across partisan lines. With Corporation support, a leading Iran expert, Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will continue to provide in-depth assessments of Iran and U.S.-Iran relations to inform policymakers, congressional staff, journalists, and the general public. The research and analyses will result in articles, briefing papers, media appearances, and a podcast series.
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For a project on knowledge, publics and crisis in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Gaps in the knowledge sector underlie key issues of governance, citizen participation, and unemployment in the Arab region. The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is an independent professional organization dedicated to strengthening social science research to address key challenges in the Arab region. The ACSS fosters a new generation of social scientists, integrates them into regional networks, and facilitates their policy-relevant research and publication. With renewed support, ACSS will continue its growth as an effective field-building institution. The grant will enable ACSS to offer early career fellowships, promote research and publications, monitor the state of social science in the region, and maintain issue-oriented working groups.
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For advancing scholar-practitioner engagement
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite some notable advances over the last decade, there is an ongoing need to bridge the academic-policy gap. In addressing this gap, Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) combines the experience and outlook of the practitioner and academic worlds. Another round of Corporation grant will support the expansion and dissemination of the ISD’s well-established diplomacy case studies program, used by academics and students globally as teaching materials, and a series of ISD scholar-practitioner working groups on emergent, global diplomatic challenges. It will also support the “Diplomatic Immunity” podcast and “The Diplomatic Pouch” blog, both of which address issues facing diplomats and national security decision-makers around the world. Through these activities, the project also seeks to shape the professional trajectory of early career academics and policy analysts by promoting the application of rigorous, policy-relevant scholarship to pressing issues on the international peace and security agenda.
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For global, open-access, knowledge-based journalism to bridge the gap between research and policy in Africa
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the peace and security challenges facing Africa and highlighted the importance of widely available evidence-based information. The public and policy community can benefit from the insights, research, and analyses of academic experts in responding to this crisis and its aftereffects. The journalism sector is critical to providing information to help decision-makers on the continent and beyond design effective policy responses, as well as inform and empower the public to advocate for sound policies. The Conversation Africa’s (TC-Africa) model provides a free to read, free to republish platform for experts to communicate their research, bridging the gap between the academy and the public and policy community and supporting efforts to advance African growth and development in the shadow of the pandemic. Through its republishing mechanism, TC-Africa articles have been featured in a wide range of major publications, supplementing shrinking newsrooms and enabling the broad dissemination of rigorous and readable research.
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For the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Few tenured political scientists working on peace and security issues have experience working in government, while few government officials working on foreign and national security policy closely follow academic research. As a result, academic work is usually not informed by the constraints and demands faced by policymakers, while policymakers typically operate without the benefit of systematic scholarly research. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) proposes to address this gap by continuing a variant of its successful International Affairs Fellowship program (aimed primarily at untenured, junior academics) focused on tenured scholars. The program enables academic fellows to work in a U.S. government agency or international governmental organization to gain valuable hands-on experience in the international policymaking field and inform their teaching and scholarship. Selected scholars are required to arrange a paid sabbatical with their home universities, while CFR covers the balance of the academics’ salaries and assists with placement in policy positions.
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For improving university research administration in sub-Saharan Africa
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Increasing enrollment and academic staff in emerging research universities in sub-Saharan Africa requires improved research infrastructure and administration. International Research and Exchanges Board’s University Administration Support Program (UASP) was launched in the early 2000s with support from the Corporation to develop university administration capacity through workshops and fellowships at U.S. universities. With Corporation renewed support, UASP will partner with the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) to deliver virtual research management training for research administrators from member ARUA universities and select thirty fellows for tailored exchanges at U.S. universities.
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For a project on China and the international economic order
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
China is a member of all Western-led international financial institutions established at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference and is now a powerful voice in shaping their operations. To gain leverage in these institutions, or perhaps supplant them, China has also built a series of parallel institutions that are close to equaling their scale. To assess the implications of these developments and encourage their contributions to global peace and prosperity, the Boston University-based, Global Development Policy Center’s (GDP Center) has forged partnerships in China and abroad to generate data for transparency and accountability, to conduct joint research, and to convene policy dialogues. The GDP Center seeks support from the Corporation to bring early career scholars and emerging leaders to the center and conduct a series of research projects that can contribute our understanding of China’s increasing role in the international economic order.
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For support of the 21st Century China Center
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
As the world’s second-largest economy and an increasingly active global power, China is exerting an outsized influence on other countries. While China’s leaders continue to double down on efforts to make their country an industrial-technological powerhouse, it will be important to discern the patterns of policymaking in China, the strategic and bureaucratic logic behind such patterns, the policies’ impact on society, and the public’s reaction to them. Although there are increasing constraints to conducing field research in China, the digital age has brought an avalanche of information that needs to be analyzed by experts steeped in knowledge of Chinese politics and society, and well trained in digital data analytic methods. To meet this challenge, the University of California, San Diego’s (UCSD) 21st Century China Center (the Center), will bring together four data-driven research projects led by early-career scholars of Chinese politics and political economy, that will shed light on underexamined dynamics of domestic policymaking in China, and conduct on-line public opinion surveys of Chinese attitudes toward various domestic policies.
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For ongoing support of the Task Force on US-China Policy, in an initiative collaborating with China experts from Indo-Pacific countries
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
With U.S.-China relations on an increasingly adversarial trajectory, the deterioration of this relationship has enormous consequences for international peace and security. The United States needs to improve its ability to understand and assess China’s actions and aspirations in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. Asia Society’s Task Force on U.S.-China Policy (the Task Force) seeks to engage with Indo-Pacific and China specialists on core issues of mutual interest, including trade and economic relations, military and geopolitical strategy, and the implications of scientific and technological developments. The Corporation’s continued support of the Task Force promotes communications and collaboration among a bipartisan group of the country’s top regional experts and outreach to the U.S. government. The reports and briefings resulting from Task Force working groups aim to inform U.S. policymaking, as well as provide analytical resources for military officers, academic scholars, and other experts.
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For the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Security challenges in Northeast Asia revolve around the intensifying U.S.-China strategic competition, the North Korean nuclear buildup, cross-Taiwan Strait tensions, as well as maritime disputes in the East and South China seas. Corporation support to the University of California San Diego’s Northeast Asian Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD) will maintain a Track 1.5 mechanism that seeks to reduce risk and build trust at an increasingly turbulent time. NEACD brings together some forty to fifty government and military officials and academics and specialists from China, Japan, Russia, the United States, North Korea (when they choose to participate), to address the implications of regional hotspots, share information and perspectives, and propose potential solutions. Meeting back-to-back with NEACD, the related Defense Information Sharing (DIS) workshop convenes regional military and defense officials to exchange information about their respective missions, forces, doctrines, policies, and exercises. DIS findings are then fed into the NEACD plenary.
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For support of the Ufahamu Africa podcast
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
28 months
Description
Western narratives about Africa are primarily shaped by external voices and often lack contextual understanding or meaningful nuance. These perceptions contribute to misunderstanding and sub-optimal policies and programs toward African countries. Established in 2017, Ufahamu Africa, is a weekly podcast aimed at informing and engaging the public and key stakeholders on events and issues in Africa through broadcasting conversations with academics and practitioners. With Corporation support, Ufahamu Africa will increase the proportion of podcasts guests from Africa, expand dissemination activities, and improve audio quality.
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For a project on elevating African peacebuilding expertise in the media - Connecting African Media with Peacebuilders and Policymakers
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
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 compelling content for and with its network of more than 100 news and policy-oriented organizations. With renewed support for content development and media engagement activities, the project will continue its efforts to ensure that evidence-based research is accessible to policymakers, practitioners, and the general public.
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For a project to amplify the expertise of African peacebuilding practitioners and scholars
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Despite an increase in knowledge generated by scholars and practitioners, their ability to influence national, regional, and global policy responses to fast-moving emerging crises in Africa remains a challenge. Valuable experience residing within the practitioner community is rarely fully analyzed and presented in formats that are useful to policymakers. Search for Common Ground, a leading operational peacebuilding organization, has developed a model for forming scholar-practitioner networks that co-produce knowledge and recommend paths out of conflict to policymakers and practitioners. With further support, this project will build on its successful experiences by applying the scholar-practitioner network model to other pressing peacebuilding issues on the continent, namely, social media in Mali and urban violence in Nigeria. The outputs will include joint analyses, research, and policy recommendations.
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For support of the Global Dispatches podcast
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Media outlets’ coverage shapes our fundamental understandings of current events and critical foreign policy topics. Unlike most media, the podcast, Global Dispatches, features experts based in the regions where they work and study. The podcast provides a platform for sharing new research that is accessible and important to the podcast’s audience of researchers, policymakers, and the foreign policy-interested public. With support from the Corporation, Global Dispatches will produce and distribute forty episodes featuring experts in African and Asian peace and security fields presenting new research on foreign policy-relevant topics.
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For an oral history project on the impact of civil society actors on nuclear risk reduction
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Civil society actors have played a role in nuclear security, but their involvement and contributions have not been studied. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will conduct an oral history project on the impact of civil society, in particular academic, foundations and other nongovernmental actors, on nuclear risk. The project team will prepare a lengthy bibliography, collect testimonials, carry interviews, and conduct other activities to elicit views and perspectives of relevant experts. The intent of the project is to showcase the civil society’s successes and failures in the nuclear threat reduction space, so as to better align future engagement strategies.
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For a project to assess the views of U.S. allies on nuclear declaratory policy and No-First-Use
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
16 months
Description
Although official U.S. policy allows the use of nuclear weapons first in a conflict, there have been persistent debates over whether to adopt a policy to use nuclear weapons only in response to a nuclear attack. Such a No-First-Use pledge has been repeatedly rejected because of concerns it would call into question U.S. commitments to defend allies. Global Zero will undertake an in-depth assessment of the diversity of views on declaratory policy among U.S. allies in Europe and East Asia and especially concerns prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The project will involve detailed dialogues with policy experts and current and former officials and will produce publications and briefings that analyze the diversity of views among allies on No-First-Use and the impact such a declaratory policy would have on perceptions of U.S. commitments to allies.
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For a final grant of the N Square innovation collaborative
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
The N Square funder collaborative was established in 2014 in partnership with several major foundations with the goal of bringing new ideas, resources, and talent to the nuclear security sector. While nuclear risk remains acute, public engagement on these issues is sporadic, in part because of high barriers to entry. To address this challenge, N Square has cultivated a network of innovators, with special emphasis on individual within the sectors of technology, media, and the arts. During the next phase, N Square will focus on the Horizon 2045 initiative—one of the promising initiatives that came out of the N Square network. Its objective is to mobilize organizations and thought leaders who believe that humanity can, and will, move beyond nuclear deterrence as a security doctrine by 2045. N Square will offer a series of skill-building opportunities for current and next generation leaders in human centered design and innovation, design research, persuasion, engagement and communication, systems thinking, strategic foresight, and wicked problems.
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For support for the Security Studies Program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
29 months
Description
With support for the field of security studies on the decline, tomorrow’s scholars and practitioners have fewer opportunities to develop the interdisciplinary skills needed to address complex challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Security Studies Program (SSP) is a research group and graduate-level educational center with a dual mission of improving public understanding of national security and training future scholars, teachers, and analysts. SSP’s work is rigorous, policy-relevant, and interdisciplinary, combining political science, history, and the physical sciences. Corporation support will allow SSP scholars to continue their research, training, and policy outreach activities.
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For support of University World News (Africa) higher education editorial projects
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
A significant increase in high school graduates and a widely accepted correlation between economic development and post-school education has led to expansion and transformation of the higher education sector in sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade. However, a lack of regular and quality media reporting contributes to a poor understanding of the sector’s systems and policymaking. University World News (UWN) Africa is the only regular news publication dedicated wholly covering the sector’s developments, informing stakeholders, and increasing the visibility of African higher education globally through traditional and new forms of media. With Corporation renewed support, UWN Africa will continue to deepen its editorial content, expand its media platforms, grow global readership, and enhance quality through trainings and workshops.
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As a one-time only grant for support of an initiative to establish an international network for the protection of cultural heritage and cultural workers
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
29 months
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The Freer Gallery of Art, founded in 1923, and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, founded in 1987, are collectively, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA). The museum is committed to preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting exemplary works of art. With Corporation support, the NMAA proposes to examine laying the foundations for an international consortium of art museums, cultural institutions, universities, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies that would raise consciousness about the vulnerability of tangible cultural heritage and collections, an irreplaceable record of our human existence and the workers that preserve it. It would also identify possible measures to mitigate risks and respond more effectively and expeditiously to protect both moveable objects and museum staff in Asia and the Middle East imperiled by political or military crises with humanitarian dimensions.
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For a project to build support for intergenerational programming within the social sector
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
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Founded in 1999 as Civic Ventures, Encore.org has cultivated a diverse, intergenerational network of older adults and youth that are tackling social problems and bridging cultural divides. Encore.org has connected thousands of older adults with social sector organizations and helped them develop deeper connections at the community level. This has enabled organizations across the country to confront deep-seated challenges that may benefit from intergenerational knowledge sharing and community building. With Corporation support, Encore.org will expand its network of nonprofit partners in the social sector.
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For support of the first National Collegiate Teaching Conference
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
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The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) was founded in 2014 to support student success and equity through quality instruction. ACUE awards the only nationally recognized credential in effective college instruction endorsed by the American Council on Education (ACE). ACUE partners with over 300 colleges and universities across more than forty states, supporting over 16,000 faculty members. As a result, more than 1.8 million students are benefitting from evidence-based and equity-promoting instruction. Initial support from the Corporation allowed ACUE to strengthen the education and career readiness of over 7,000 students at City College of New York-CUNY. The current grant has helped more than 340 faculty across CUNY’s community colleges to strengthen their online instruction, benefitting more than 62,000 CUNY students. Continued support will go toward the inaugural National Collegiate Teaching Convention, hosted in New York City in early 2023 and in collaboration with CUNY. The convention will bring together nationally recognized civic and education leaders, teaching experts, and faculty, along with celebrity champions of postsecondary success to create a focus on the importance of quality instruction as part of the postsecondary completion and success agenda.
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For continued support for professional development and capacity building for the postsecondary access and success field
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
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The National College Attainment Network’s (NCAN) mission is to build, strengthen, and empower education communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. Students served by NCAN members outperform other low-income students in enrolling in and graduating from postsecondary. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crisis have set back years of hard-won progress in raising postsecondary enrollment and attainment rates for students. NCAN provides professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news so that organizations can deliver college access and success services more effectively. With continued Corporation support NCAN will strengthen member services/professional development/capacity-building resources to help members keep students of color and students from low-income backgrounds on the pathway to postsecondary access and success.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Propel America was founded in 2018 to empower low-income young adults with the skills, credentials, experiences, and networks they need for a good job that leads to upward career mobility. Too often, young people in the United States—especially Black and Latinx students from low-income backgrounds—are forced into a false choice after high school. They can forestall income and take on debt in hopes that a four-year degree will lead to a good job, or they can step into a low-wage job right away with little chance for advancement. With individual guidance and support, tuition-free training that also earns college credit, and guaranteed interviews with employer partners ready to hire, Propel America removes the barriers many young people face by promoting a ‘jobs-first higher education’ model to better support recent high school graduates. Propel will scale its impact and grow to support thousands of fellows in meaningful careers in healthcare. Corporation support will allow the expansion of Propel’s innovative approach to building connections from K-12 education to its fellowship through partnerships with high schools and youth-serving community organizations.
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For Developing Emerging Academic Leaders (DEAL) and the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA)
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
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African universities play a critical role in building the continent’s research ecosystem to ensure sustainable solutions to the continent’s grand challenges. As a leading research university on the continent, University of Cape Town (UCT), through its Developing Emerging Academic Leaders (DEAL) program and its Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) aims to build and retain a strong cohort of future academics trained within thematic research hubs and linked to international networks. Corporation renewed support for DEAL and HUMA will contribute to improving the credentials and research productivity of the continent’s emerging scholars through doctoral, postdoctoral, and early-career fellowships in addition to international conference participation.
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For participation of African academics in the 16th General Assembly conference on "The Social Sciences and Pandemics in Africa"
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
23 months
Description
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) General Assembly is the largest triennial gathering of social science researchers in Africa. Members come together to review the state of Africa and the world in the context of the challenges posed for social research. The 16th General Assembly will take place in Dakar, Senegal from December 12-16, 2022, with the theme “The Social Sciences and Pandemics in Africa.” An expected 400 participants from Africa and the diaspora will participate in sessions, review the functioning of the Council, and decide on its broad agenda for the next three years. Corporation support will enable thirty-eight African social science and humanities scholars to present their papers and participate in panels on the role of the social sciences and humanities in pandemic preparedness and responses.
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For strengthening research and writing capacity of early-career African social scientists and linking them to global scholarly communities
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
48 months
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Early-career social scientists based at African institutions are faced with limited professional opportunities to network globally and to publish in established international academic outlets. The Project on African Social Research (PASR), launched in 2020 with Corporation support, is a global network of leading scholars seeking to address this gap by providing opportunities for mentoring and research collaboration for early-career African scholars, as well as access to international networks that can facilitate publication in leading journals and media outlets. With continued Corporation support, the network will lead collaborative research and publication support workshops for African researchers, and build visibility for African scholars and PASR with a podcast, magazine, and lecture series.
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For a series of confidence building dialogues between American and Russian Retired Military and Select Experts
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
A U.S.-Russia strategic stability dialogue was launched following the June 2021 summit between Presidents Biden and Putin. Its goal is to lay the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures. In support of the initiative, the Stimson Center’s Russia Program proposes a series of confidence-building dialogues between American and Russian retired military and select experts. The dialogues will assess the risks of armed conflict escalation between Russia, the U.S., and its allies, and identify opportunities for cooperative multilateral engagement to prevent inadvertent military confrontation. The proposed project will leverage the power of Track II and issue policy reports and research papers that suggest solutions for cooperation between the two countries.
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