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Project Title
For broadening understanding of Russia’s foreign policy
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
29 months
Description
It is essential that the United States ground its policies toward Russia in a sound understanding of Russian foreign policy drivers and interests. Such a task is made difficult by the extensive range of Russian foreign policy activity, including the use of diplomacy, coercion, and force across a variety of domains. Indeed, in many instances, Russian foreign policy has been mercurial: responding in differentdomains than those that have beeninitially expected. The proposed project will continue to analyze general trends in motivation, rhetoric, and behavior (principles, strategy, action) associated with Russia’s approach to exercising international power and influence across time, domains (military, information, energy, international institutions/governance), and regions (the United States, European Union, Ukraine, and the Middle East). With continued support, emphasis will be placed on bringing together American, European, and Russian experts to discuss how best to evaluate Russian behavior empirically.
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For the next podcast seasons of "Things That Go Boom"
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Public media provides programs that educate society and help inform essential discourse. Explaining global affairs in a way that is compelling builds an engaged citizenry that can understand the drivers of today’s most pressing security problems. The podcast Things That Go Boom (TTGB) explores national security and foreign policy issues through rigorous journalism and storytelling. A project of Public Radio Exchange and Inkstick Media, TTGB analyzes issues from multiple viewpoints, perspectives, and disciplines, particularly those underrepresented in the public conversation. Continued Corporation support will allow the development, production, and distribution of the next few seasons of TTGB, following foreign policy and national security issues through the 2022 midterm elections and toward the 2024 presidential election.
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For a 2022 Assessment of the State of Russian Studies and Research in the United States
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
21 months
Description
A robust academic fieldof Russian studies in the United States is critical to understanding Russian behavior and strategy. However, support and interest in the field has waned since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, leading to reductions in U.S. academic expert capacity. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) will undertake a study on the state of the Russian Area Studies field in the United States, as an update of their 2015 published study, also commissioned by the Corporation. The grant will result in a publishable report that would be disseminated through panels, briefings, and other outreach activities.
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For a project on building the field of critical development studies in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
0 months
Description
In thepastdecade the Arab region has experiencedmajor mobilizations, political transformations, and prolonged conflicts. Scholars point toeconomic challenges and inequality as criticaldrivers of sustained uprisings.The area is a hub for international development interventions, yet it lacks academic programs to train and connect regional expertise.In light ofthe magnitude of economic and socialchallenges, the Corporation awarded the American University of Beirut (AUB) a grant in 2020 to expand and advance the field of critical development studies in the region. Renewed Corporation funding will build upon the dynamic first phase of that effort. Working with the Center for Lebanese Studies (CLS) it will bridge studies on development, political economy, and social contention with labor, migration, and conflict issues. Corporation funds will support staff costs, a summer school for early-career scholars, an op-ed and seminar series, data analyses and audiovisual productions.
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For core support to Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
60 months
Description
At a time of new leadership at the American University in Cairo (AUC), a core grant from the Corporation will support a presidential initiative to develop a major Middle East Studies graduate program in the Arab region. In addition to establishing new graduate degree programs, a complementary small grants program will support relevant scholarly projects and outreach in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and economic development in the region. The graduate program will include cross-disciplinary collaborations among numerous AUC departments and centers including Gender and Women’s Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, and the Gerhart Center for Philanthropy, Civic Engagement and Responsible Business.
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For a project on media and security studies in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
0 months
Description
The Arab region has a vibrant media industry, numerous academic units that teach journalism and media studies, and governments and non-state actors that deploy media and information technologies. However, resources and institutions are needed to grapple with urgent information and media-related challenges of transparency, privacy, and accountability, and their impact on governance, social cohesion, and political life. With Corporation support, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar will launch an Arab Information and Media Studies Society to strengthen the institutional bases of the field in the Arab region. It will connect scholars and build media studies as a multidisciplinary, trilingual, academically rigorous, policy-relevant, and public-facing field. Corporation funds will support research, workshops, fellowships, and a security studies cluster at the Institute.
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For the Orfalea Center partnership with the Security in Context network
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
0 months
Description
The Arabregion is an area in which the shifting geopolitical order is being shaped and contested. In response to changing circumstances and with Corporation support, scholars have formed Security in Context (SiC), an interdisciplinarynetwork of university nodes promoting collaborative research and policy analysis on key questions regarding peace and conflict, the political economy of security and insecurity, and international norms. TheOrfalea Center for Global and International Studiesat the University of California, Santa Barbara,serves as a networknode for theWestern United States. In complementarity to research pursued by partner nodes in the network, the UCSB SiC hub advances research and analysis on the securitization of urban space, infrastructure, and the social impact of data-driven technologies. With renewed Corporation funding, the Center will convene working groups,advance international research collaboration, produce publications, host public events, and expand partnerships with Middle Eastern and Global South institutions.
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For the New American Engagement Initiative
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
13 months
Description
The world of the 21st century is beset by novel strategic challenges for American foreign policy. Pandemics, climate change, emerging technologies, and fracturing multilateral institutions are just a few of the forces that policymakers contend with today. In this new security environment, the Atlantic Council’s New American Engagement Initiative seeks to identify and promote prudent solutions to vexing challenges for the United States through research, policy and public engagements, publications, and dissemination.
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For a program to educate Congress on nuclear policy
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The U.S. Congress plays a crucial role in shaping foreign policy through guidance and budget appropriations. The Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation (CACNP) conducts bipartisan and bicameral off-the-record educational events to help enhance and expand knowledge among Congressional members and staffers on issues relevant to nuclear weapons. With renewed support, CACNP will facilitate interactive outreach programs, host individual briefings for members and staffers, and produce objective, easily digestible information and analysis to support congressional engagement in the nuclear policy discourse.
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As a final grant for expanding and enriching the study of Russia
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
33 months
Description
The invasion of Ukraine has jeopardized the future of academic exchanges between the United States and Russia, especially among those working in the social science disciplines. This risk comes at a time when U.S. policymakers will need a nuanced, informed, and textured understanding of contemporary Russia. The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is among the Corporation-supported institutions that have been working since 2016 to deepen U.S. expertise on Russia while exposing Russian academics to American thinking. In a final phase, its Wisconsin Russia Project (WRP) will support academic positions; expand social science graduate student fellowships; and help create a consortium to find positions for displaced Russian social scientists across multiple American public universities.
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As one-time funding for a project on city and state diplomacy as part of grantmaking on exploring the connections between U.S. domestic and foreign policies
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
As one-time funding for a project on investing in city and state diplomacy as part of grantmaking on exploring the connections between U.S. domestic and foreign policies Although U.S. cities and states are increasingly active globally, that engagement is overlooked when determining American foreign policy. The Truman Center for National Policy (Truman) sees this as a missed opportunity and will design and test more ways for local governments to build upon their emerging capacity. This grant will help Truman strengthen bonds between the U.S. Department of State and states and cities, as they become key participants in international relations.
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As one-time funding for the Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship to increase diversity in international affairs
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The prevalence of racism in the United States is manifested, among other places, in the lack of diversity within the U.S. Department of State and other institutions involved in U.S. foreign policymaking or international relations more broadly. It is increasingly evident that the lack of diversity deprives the country of valuable perspectives from people with different lived experiences that could be helpful in addressing the mounting challenges around the world. Howard University’s Patricia Roberts Harris Public Affairs Fellowship (PRH) was established in 1987 to complement the university’s course offerings in public policy, and to encourage students to consider careers in public service. Corporation grant will enable the expansion of PRH’s national and international peace and security programs through internships, access to foreign policymaking organizations, and institutional partnerships.
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For Phase III of the National Agenda for the Future of Syria
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Inresponse to the conflict inSyria,in 2012the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia(UNESCWA) launcheda platform for the region’s social scientists to participate in joint economic and social policy development. The NationalAgendafor the Future of Syria (NAFS)serves asatechnical policy dialoguefocused on the transition from conflict toward reconstruction in Syria. It is a leadingprovider ofdata and analysisto the UN Special Envoy for Syriaand UN Member States.With Corporation support, NAFSPhase IIproduced toolsto support resilience and reconciliationbyaddressingsignificant social, economic, and governance issues that led to the conflict. Phase IIIaimsto contribute to peacebuilding byproviding impact-oriented research and analysis to Syrian stakeholdersand the wider regionandfacilitatingsubstantive discussion on reform options and needs.Focus areas include boosting regional economic growth, leveraging remittances for post-conflict Syrian development, and decentralization. Corporation funds will support staff costs, research and dissemination, dialogues, conferences and meetings.
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For a data gathering project on the impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine on displaced Ukrainian and Russian academic communities
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Russia’s war on Ukraine has significantly impacted scholarly and scientific research communities in the two countries. By some estimates, thousands of Ukrainian scholars have been displaced due to the direct threat of the war, while many Russian scholars have left the country or plan to leave as the Russian government cracks down on those who express opposition to the invasion. The displacement and migration of scholars has raised fundamental questions about the state of these communities within and outside the affected countries. To get to some of these questions, more reliable data is needed about the scope of the problem. A new project to be administered by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) will attempt to gather data on academic displacement and migration by looking into wherethe problem ismost acute in terms of geography and disciplines? Where are scholars moving? Do they view their current situation as temporary or more permanent? Which organizations and/or institutions are currently assisting, supporting, and hosting them? And what are the short- and long-term needs of these communities in Ukraine and Russia. The publicly available data will provide information to policy, scholarly, and philanthropic communities.
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For core support to Brookings' Foreign Policy Program
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The Foreign Policy Program (FP) at the Brookings Institution is a source of policy-relevant research, analyses, and outreach to the policymaking community, the media, and the general public on critical international peace and security concerns. It is comprised of academic experts and specialists, including those with high-level policymaking experience, who aim to produce outputs with concrete policy recommendations. With core support from the Corporation the FP will continue a comprehensive set of research and outreach activities on topics that will include U.S. global leadership, strengthening the domestic foundation for U.S. foreign policy, implications of rapidly changing technology on U.S. national security and geostrategic competition, strategies for managing the increasingly rivalrous relationships with China and Russia, and countering transnational threats such as terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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For nuclear policy outreach and education for congress
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S. Congress plays an essential role in shaping foreign policy and national security through guidance, oversight, and budget appropriations. However, since the end of the Cold War, congressional knowledge about complex domestic and international nuclear weapons policy has eroded. To address this gap, the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation (CACNP) conducts bipartisan and bicameral off-the-record educational events to help enhance and expand knowledge among Congressional members and staffers on issues relevant to nuclear weapons. Over the next two years, CACNP will facilitate interactive outreach programs, host individual briefings for members and staffers, and produce objective information and analysis to support congressional engagement in the nuclear policy discourse.
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For the Security in Context Initiative
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
42 months
Description
Today’s changing dynamics of security and insecurity are affecting the Middle East and are under study by the region’s scholars. This grant will support the work of the Security in Context (SiC) network based at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. SiC links university centers in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in the Arab region, to advance interdisciplinaryresearch, pedagogy, and policy analysis on key questions related to peace and conflict, political economy, international relations, and development. It fosters comparative research and scholarly communication on the international affairs of the Arab region, focusing on the intersections of security with emerging technologies, mobility, infrastructure, climate change, and geopolitics. Incomplementarity to research pursued by partner nodes in the network, thisSiC hub advances research and analysis on great power competition in the global South, war andinstitutional change, and militarism.Corporation funds will support research and mentoring activities,a speaker series, graduate student workshops, fellowships, fostering collaboration with partners in the MENA region.and an electronic magazine.
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For a project on American and Russian Public Opinion in The Wake of The Invasion of Ukraine
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a powerful effect oninternational publics’ attitudes towards geopolitical issues. The Chicago Council will partner with the premier independent Russian polling organization, the Levada Center, to conduct joint surveys in the United States and Russia to better understand prevailing and shifting attitudes toward the war. The survey questions will be developed by the two institutions through a consultative process, with the results published in the respective countries. The Corporation’s grant will support activities associated with administering, publishing, and disseminating the surveys through public-oriented events.
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For core support to the Odum Institute Data Archive
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
48 months
Description
A leading obstacle identified in Arab social sciences is the lack of data and data analysis capacity within the region.In 2017 with Corporation support and partners in the region, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) launched the first interdisciplinary social-science data archive in the Arab region.Following its successful design and implementation, the initiative will nowbroaden the scale of data archiving with new strategies to promote the norms of data preservation and expand the collection of datasets. The initiativewill also hold data management workshops,expand training of trainers in the region, preparing each to conduct their own data archiving workshops. Corporation funds will support staff costs, workshops, and data analysis.
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For the Middle East and North Africa Workshops
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
48 months
Description
Academic networks and capacity-building opportunities are essential to expanding cohorts of dynamic young scholars working to build local knowledge on the Arab region. The American Political Science Association’s Middle East and North Africa (APSA MENA) Program supports political science research and networking among early-career scholars across the MENA region. With previous support from the Corporation, APSA MENA has advanced institutional-level impact through a series of workshops, departmental collaborations, research grants, and other academic opportunities. With continued support, it will expand alumni program services, hold research development and methods training workshops, collaborate with university departments in the MENA region, and offer mentoring and professional development opportunities. Corporation support will go toward staff costs, workshops, publications, scholarships, and departmental grants.
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As one-time funding for a project on reforming the global health commons as part of grantmaking on reimagining multilateral solutions to transnational challenges
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
45 months
Description
As one-time funding for a project on multilateralism and global health as part of grantmaking on reimagining multilateral solutions to transnational challenges The unequal global distribution of COVID pandemic vaccines represents a failure of multilateralism. As the international community reckons why and how the international system failed to avert health and economic collapse over the last two years, Duke University’s Center for Policy Impact in Global Health will undertake a project to reshape the multilateral health system to prevent future international health crises. The work will reimagine international collective action to promote global health security and welfare; identify the obstacles to health multilateralism; and develop realistic options to address them.
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For support of Deeper Learning Dozen: Developing a New Approach to Equitable and Humane Systems Change
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
Founded in the fall of 2017, the Deeper Learning Dozen (D.L.D.) supports superintendents and their teams, through a community of practice, to transform their school districts to support equitable access to deeper learning experiences and outcomes for all students and adults. D.L.D. does this by centering programming around: changes in leadership approach, school and district systems, adult learning, and pedagogy. The main problem D.L.D. aims to address is the inequitable access to deeper learning experiences. There are many classrooms, and some schools, which enable their students to engage in what is increasingly being called “deeper learning” – learning which is purposeful, engaging, and helps students gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and critical capacities that will prepare them for college, careers, community, and citizenship. But while these classrooms and schools show that it can be done, there are few, if any, districts that are achieving this at scale, especially districts serving large numbers of high poverty students and students of color. The Corporation will providesupport to twelve districts currently engaged in the initiative.
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For an African diaspora fellowship program in the humanities and social sciences
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
45 months
Description
The expansion and growth of universities in Africa have led to shortages of senior academics and support systems to train the next generation of academics. At a disciplinary level, institutional policies and practices in most African countries continue to underfund the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in favor of science and technology. Yet the SSH are critical tosound decision-making by national governments and transnational organizations on issues of development. The presence of a large African academic diaspora can serve to strengthen SSH disciplines by assisting in teaching and research. With the Corporation’s renewed support, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa will continue to foster linkages between African diaspora academics and African universities through visiting professorships,mentorships of doctoral students, and production of knowledge on issues facing African higher education.
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As one-time funding for a project on operationalizing a transition to renewable energy as part of grantmaking on exploring the connections between U.S. domestic and foreign policies
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
51 months
Description
As one-time funding for a project on operationalizing a just transition to renewable energy as part of grantmaking on exploring the connections between U.S. domestic and foreign policies Mitigating the current climate emergency needs a just and orderly global energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy. Efforts to support the change should apply both domestic policies toward renewable energy as well as multilateral policies aimed to end fossil fuel financing. A project of the University of Pittsburgh will work to enable U.S. energy transition efforts to move from the broad articulation of support for the Just Transition set of practices, which focus on reskilling workers and diversifying the economies of fossil fuel reliant communities.
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For a project that pairs US/UK teaching faculty of higher education institutions in a virtual exchange on a given global challenge
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
40 months
Description
To solve complex problems, we urgently need to bring together a diversity of experiences and perspectives to learn from each other and collaborate. International education exchange is one tried and tested way of doing this. But traditional, in-person exchange is under severe economic and environmental pressure and, crucially, is not a viable option for everyone. The US-UK Fulbright Commissionhas shown for overseventyyears the transformational impact of cross-national immersive academic experiences. The US-UK Fulbright Commission seeks to democratize international education exchange by creating a sustainable infrastructure designed to widen participation in international education and global learning. This initiative, Global Challenges Teaching Awards, promotes innovative ways of co-designing and co-teaching a virtual exchange course that address key global challenges and provides an inclusive and equitable pathway for faculty and students to acquire international experience, test ideas and to learn new skills to aid in their participation in a global economy. Corporation supportwill alsoaid to the research base of this burgeoning field and codify best practices that will be disseminated to analogous organizations and higher education institutions.
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For core support of its educational programming
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1981, the Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Foundation is a nonprofit that collaborates with the National Park Service to restore, maintain and continuously support projects at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. They have successfully created the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, developed the free 65-million record Ellis Island Passenger Search Database, constructed the Statue of Liberty Museum, and funded more than 20 additional projects. Their educational initiatives aim to celebrate and elevate the American immigration story and present the meanings of liberty, immigration, and democracy. With Corporation support, the Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Foundation will continue develop further educational and virtual opportunities with greater access to millions of people.
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For a project on geopolitics, nuclear issues, and the Middle East
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite the Biden Administration’s intent to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, experts and Western government officials are increasinglypessimistic about the future of the deal. If it is not restored, its non-proliferation and diplomatic benefits could be lost. The nascent regional dialogue that has brought about the first direct meetings between Iranian and Saudi officials in years could alsofall apart. An accelerated Iranian nuclear program could rekindle the dangerous dynamics familiar from the first decade of this century, leading this time to military confrontation and, potentially, war. Againstthis backdrop, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) seeks continued Corporation support to maintain and foster crucial channels of communication among decision makers and opinion leaders from Iran, the Gulf Arab states, the United States,and other major powers.
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For competitive fellowships for early-career academics at Makerere University and four Ugandan partner public universities
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
To achieve its goal of becoming a premier research-led university, Makerere University is increasing its capacity to nurture talented emerging researchers in Uganda, assisting them to strengthen their research, publication, outreach, and postgraduate supervision skills. Building on the success of previous programs, Makerere will support a university-wide competition to identify early-career faculty with the potential to become research leaders and award fifteen of them with comprehensive research fellowships. To enhance research collaboration, Makerere will also extend the model to ten early-career faculty at four Ugandan public universities, also selected through a competitive process. The twenty-five fellowships, awarded with gender equity as a chief consideration, will include funding for research, disciplinary training, departmental strengthening, and publication support.
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For the Wilson China Fellowship program for early career scholars
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
China’s role in shaping economic, political, social, and security developments in Asia and beyond is having profound implications on global peace and stability. From its far-ranging economic reach through the Belt and Road Initiative to its expanding military power, China’s increasing global presence is likely to continue having significant geopolitical impact as the 21st century unfolds. To increase understanding of China’s evolving global role and its relations with the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will support thirty early career researchers through the Wilson China Fellowship program. Through scholarships and mentorships, the fellows will bring new ideas and data on U.S-China relations, Asian security, and the global peace and security implications of China’s growing technology and innovation sectors.
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For support of international politics coverage at The Monkey Cage
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Although academics have deep insights into international events and issues, they often find it hard to share their expertise with a broader audience. Conventional venues for academic publishing are largely inaccessible to this audience. Over the last 15 years, The Monkey Cage (TMC) has become a crucial intermediary between international affairs scholars and the broader public, helping to create a more publicly focused political science discipline and making America’s political conversation more informed by sound research. With the Washington Post as its platform to bridge the worlds of scholarly and public debate, TMC edits the work of scholars to make it readable and comprehensible to non-specialists. Continued corporation support will allow TMC to strengthen its coverage of international politics in two ways. First, it will help provide full-time editorial support to scholars with knowledge of international relations, national security, foreign policy, and the politics of various regions of the world. Second, it will enable TMC to establish new channels of communication to disseminate and promote its international politics coverage, as well as measure the impact of that communication with policy-relevant audiences.
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For project support for Stronger Together, family engagement initiative for native communities in Alaska
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
16 months
Description
Culturally responsive family partnerships are an essential predictor for student outcomes, equity, and student learning. However, Native American families’ cultural capital and social capital are often overlooked by public education systems, owing to decades of assimilation and the lack of culturally sensitive methods of engaging families.In Alaska, the lack of efforts to include parents in student learning has resulted in Native students being underserved and achieving at lower academic levels in reading and math. The Alaskan Association of School Boards (AASB) is the organization that brings together school board members from 52 districts across Alaska to enhance the ability of districts to deliver high quality education. With the Corporation’s request for proposals on family engagement to support student learning grant opportunity, the AASB will identify opportunities and processes for Alaskan families to find relevant and meaningful opportunities for building connections and links to learning. By developing resources with families, “Stronger Together”, will strengthen educators’ skills to engage Native Alaskan families.
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For strengthening and mainstreaming U.S. expertise and knowledge about Russia
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is a premier institution dedicated to the study of Russia and Eurasia. The Institute trains experts on Russia and the region to communicate better with policy and general audiences and provides a nonpartisan space to present and debate ideas. It also administers an active program of public lectures and conferences and disseminates the results of its activities through a variety of publications, reports, and books. Over the next two years, the Institute will continue its work to help improve U.S. understanding of Russia’s domestic, regional, and global policies, while maintaining channels of social and academic dialogue between our societies.
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For a Chinese language fellowship program and a research project on China’s conceptions of the Indo-Pacific
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s global rise continues to attract the attention of international affairs experts, practitioners, and world leaders. Tensions with the United States—exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing security and economic concerns, and growing China-Russia ties—have increased the salience of U.S.-China relations and their implications for peace and security. Renewed Corporation support of the National Bureau of Asian Research advances two important initiatives: the renewal of a Chinese Language Fellowship Program that aims to improve the Chinese language skills of American graduate students; and a policy research project on China’s definition of the “Indo-Pacific” and its strategic implications. The former fills a unique niche that addresses the general deterioration of area studies in the context of strained U.S.-China relations, while the latter responds to the need for an informed understanding of a region of growing importance and contention.
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For the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
In fields devoted to international affairs there is a persistent lack of incentives for applying knowledge gained about the world to policymaking. Since its inception in 2015, the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON), housed within the Henry Kissinger Center for Global Affairs (HKC) at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), has carried out a series of programs to help close the divide between the worlds of ideas and action in global affairs. Involving an eight-university consortium, IPSCON’s seeks to address the “market failures” in international affairs graduate training and experiments with novel pedagogy and methods. With renewed Corporation support, IPSCON will continue to diversify the participation of PhD students and institutions, encourage interdisciplinary perspectives, promote co-authorship between junior and senior scholars, and increase opportunities to workshop and disseminate student scholarship.
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For participation of African early-career academics in the association's annual meetings and skills-enhancement workshops
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1957, the African Studies Association (ASA) promotes production and dissemination of interdisciplinary knowledge about African societies. With close to 2,000 participants, ASA’s annual meetings provide a platform for emerging scholars to engage with the wider scholarly community. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ASA held virtual meetings in 2020 and 2021. A new hybrid format adapted from the virtual conference learnings will enable ASA to virtually deliveracademic and professional skills training to Corporation-supported scholars at the 2022 meeting, with a smaller cohort selected to attend in-person. At present, the 2023 meeting will revert to the traditional format. This grant will support competitively selected fellows to take part in scholarly panels, present papers, and benefit from mentorship and leadership training, as well as intensive workshops on scholarly writing and paper presentation.
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For building capacity for institutional data gathering, policy advocacy, and research at African Research Universities Alliance universities
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Collaboration across societal sectors is instrumental to ensuring progress toward development goals is sustained and far-reaching. The African Research Universities Alliance(ARUA) collaborates across sectors, regions, and disciplines, aiming to enhance the quality of research conducted in Africa by African researchers. ARUA seeks to build the network’s relationships with government and society, to advocate for its member universities, and expand its institutional partnerships. With renewed Corporation support, ARUA will strengthen its impact through improved institutional data gathering and analysis;design of collaborative,interdisciplinary doctoral programs withinitsresearchcenters of excellence;scholar participation in ARUA’sfourth biennial conference;and an evaluation of the alliance’s activities to date.
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For core support of its educational programming
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1804, New-York Historical Society is New York City’s oldest museum and one of the nation’s most renowned historical research libraries. New-York Historical Society collects, preserves, and interprets material relevant to national, state, and local history for the broadest public. It also maintains and cultivates partnerships with a wide range of organizations citywide to provide programming on K-12 education content. Through such programming, the New-York Historical Society aims to bridge the gaps between education and civic engagement and provide tools to analyze dominant historical narratives critically and expand people’s vision and understanding of American history. With Corporation support, the New-York Historical Society will continue to expand their educational programs and offer resources in civics, naturalization, and history to thousands of students and teachers.
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For project support for Innovative Approaches to Strengthening the Home-School Connection to Support Educational Excellence for all Students
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
16 months
Description
For the overall school success of students, all stakeholders need to be involved including parents, and educators. Many Latinx parents are not able to engage with their students’ educators for a variety of reasons. Often their work schedules, especially for families with low paying jobs, prevent them from attending school events. Furthermore, many immigrant parents do not understand how the education system works. Founded in 2007, Building Skills Partnerships is a nonprofit serving Latinx immigrant parents. They work to overcome the challenges facing immigrant workers and their families in realizing the benefits of social, civic, and economic integration. With the Corporation request for proposals on family engagement to support student learning grant opportunity,Building Skills Partnerships will (a) update their Parent University curriculum and facilitate the curriculum to parents, (b) determine the schools where the children of family members attend in order to expand support(c) establish a partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) so support school-family partnerships that better alignswith parent needs.
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For project support to strengthen family engagement educator preparation through spread and scale
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Research shows that teachers’ lack of preparation is one of the greatest barriers to increasing family engagement in schools. Since 2014, the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) has advanced high-impact policies and practices for family, school, and community engagement to promote student learning. NAFSCE’s Family Engagement Pre-service Educator Preparation Initiative is piloting a Family Engagement Pre-service Framework, to guide the expansion of family engagement curricula in institutions of higher education.Through this renewal grant, NAFSCE will continue to build the capacity of and empower educators and administrators to plan for and implement research-based, high-impact strategies to support student achievement and school improvement.
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For core support of Campaign for Our Shared Future
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
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This mix of pressures and discouraging realities our society has faced in the last few years poses an existential threat to public education, and to the long-term investments in student well-being, access, and achievements that were just beginning to bear fruit.The Campaign for Our Shared Future (COSF) was established in 2021 in response to the alarming anti-Critical Race Theory movement and policies spreading across the country. Recognizing the need to elevate the perspective of those who support high-quality, accurate, and safe education for all students—and the urgency of doing so in a unifying, common-ground fashion—the campaign was created to ensure that educators could continue to focus on work that matters most: meeting the needs of students. With support from the Corporation, COSF will build upon its non-partisan efforts to mobilize school stakeholders to advocate for equity in education. The campaign will preserve meaningful content, engage and inform parents, combat misinformation, build strong alliances with community organizations, increase their capacity to lead this work, and provide research and communications support to the field.
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For core support of The Hechinger Report
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
9 months
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The United States educational system, K-16, is amid immense challenges, some related to the ongoing pandemic and others related to declining enrollments and changing attitudes toward public education. To raise awareness of these challenges as well as innovations that address them, we believe one must take readers into classrooms and onto campuses, to explore, explain and analyze, not simply tell. The Hechinger Report, adecade-old nonprofit, award-winning, independent news outlet focused oninnovation and education has been covering the inequities that permeate the U.S. education system, which is projected to be more pronounced over the coming yearsdue to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. With continued support from theCorporation,The Hechinger Report will continue to strengthen coverage of inequality, achievement gaps, and solutions- and research-based reporting; bolstering reporting of under-covered areas such as the West and the South.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
6 months
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Leaders need social and professional networks that can facilitate strong and sustaining connections, rapid transfer of information and ideas, and strategy sharing that can be put to use on the ground to support critical services, spark innovation, and sustain leaders working for positive change. That is the role the PIE Network is playing. With support from the Corporation, the PIE Network has been able to build a foundation that has been essential in today’s uncharted waters. The Network includes ninety-eight state and local advocacy organizations and twenty-eight national partners in thirty-three states and D.C.Continued support from the Corporation will enable the PIE Network to 1. help leaders take stock, adapt, and innovate; 2. build skills; advance efforts to build public understanding and community engagement through their networks; 3. focus on what’s working; paint new, compelling pictures of what’s possible; and scale up innovative and effective education programs, policy, and advocacy.
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For research on African philanthropy by early-career African scholars
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
25 months
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In 2016, the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) was established at the University of Witwatersrand Business School, primarily in response to the dearth of knowledge, data, and research on African philanthropy, and with the aim to develop a new narrative informed and driven by a cohort of African scholars and researchers. Since then, CAPSI has built a thriving training and research environment that has enabled the graduation of 3 PhDs with another 20 in the pipeline, and has hosted 13 postgraduates and 27 research associates. With renewed funding, CAPSI will continue to expand research and researchers in the field of African philanthropy and their contributions through a publication of an academic journal.
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For support of National Voter Registration Day
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
36 months
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Every year, millions of Americans are unable to vote because of a problem with their voter registration, a missed deadline, an outdated or missing record, among other issues. Established in 2012, National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) is a day of coordinated, nonpartisan media and field events aimed at raising awareness of the registration process and empowering citizens to access their fundamental right to vote. In 2015 and 2016, President Barack Obama officially observed NVRD through presidential proclamations. President Biden did the same in 2021 and 2022. To date, the partners in NVRD have registered more than 4.7 million eligible voters. With Corporation support, Nonprofit VOTE will continue to spearhead NVRD and collaborate with corporate partners, national nonprofits, election associations of both parties, and other civic institutions in engaging millions of voters in the democratic process.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
6 months
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The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc. is dedicated to the advancement, and diffusion of international knowledge, understanding and humanitarian initiatives. Founded on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, they seek to empower modern-day saviors to offer help and hope to those in urgent need of basic humanitarian aid anywhere in the world and thus continue the cycle of giving internationally. Their work is shared with a broad international public through the annual Aurora Prize, the Aurora Dialogues and educational programs.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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The United States and Russia possess the bulk of the world’s nuclear stockpile, reduction of which depends on the political will in both countries. Through a general support grant, Global Zero will seek to reinstate arms control as a national security priority in the United States, Russia, and globally. With respect to the U.S. and Russian nuclear forces, Global Zero will outline a viableapproach to strategic stability and support the negotiations of a new strategic arms reduction agreement. On the multilateral front,it will push for the adoption of a“No First Use” by all nuclear-armed countries to reduce the risk of nuclear use and enhance predictability.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
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Recently established, the American Purpose is an online magazine, media project, and intellectual community. Through engagement in essays, podcasts, and hosted conversations with a diverse group of experts in a wide range of fields, the magazine has two broad goals: 1) To defend and promote liberal democracy in the United States; and 2) To better understand and address the challenges to liberal democracy abroad. In addition, because the American Purpose believes that the political and cultural issues of the moment cannot be separated from questions of enduring importance for life in the 21st century, more generally, it will offer criticism and commentary on history and biography, high art and pop culture, science, and technology. One-time only Corporation support will help this new platform develop its programming and build a sustainable business model, while it seeks additional support from other sources.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
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The United States’ arcane 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 new federal administration, immigration advocates see opportunities for improvements and reform. To meet this moment, 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 cutting-edge data and research to debunk anti-immigrant myths and bolster the case for innovating the country’s immigration system.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
18 months
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An overarching problem in teacher development is the disconnect between teacher preparation programs and teacher induction support during an educator’s first years in the classroom. This disconnect poses a problem as aspiring teachers lack the necessary guidance to bridge their theoretical coursework with instructional practice. Urban Teachers’ program immerses aspiring teachers in the classroom immediately, exposing them to multiple urban classrooms and over a thousand hours of classroom experience. They provide a clinically-based curriculum and three full years of coaching to novice teachers before they become a licensed teacher. Urban Teachers works to ensure that their educators closely reflect the diversity of students within partner districts and increase a teacher’s capacity to use high-quality instructional materials and standards-aligned instructional practices. Through this general support grant, Urban Teachers will focus on: a) recruitment of diverse applicants; b) curriculum redesign of the teacher development program beginning with the science of reading; c) retention of diverse participants; and d) financial sustainability of the program.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
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Founded in 1982, the National Immigration Forum is a national organization that brings diverse audiences from across the political spectrum into the immigration debate, helping to generate constructive conversations about the value of immigration to the United States. The forum believes the most effective way to broaden support for pro-immigrant policies is to help people calibrate their attitudes toward immigrants based on their existing beliefs, self-perception, and community norms. Among the forum’s trademark initiatives is Bibles, Badges, and Business (BBB), a national network of leaders from faith, law enforcement, and business who are helping to influence hearts and minds across the country. With Corporation support, the forum will continue to build relationships with leaders of diverse backgrounds and create values-based frameworks through which all Americans can recognize the importance of sensible and compassionate immigration reforms.
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