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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While education innovation has yielded a variety of new school models, most school operators lack the time and capacity necessary to simultaneously operate schools and undertake the research and development (R&D) work necessary to innovate and iterate upon those models. Transcend exists to address this need. Founded in 2015 with Corporation support, Transcend makes two distinct contributions to its partners and to the field. First, they provide school communities across the country with iterative, research-backed, and community-driven design support so that they can continuously make significant shifts in their school models. Second, Transcend builds partners’ capacity for ongoing piloting, learning, and evolution, and shares tools and resources to support R&D efforts across the field. With Corporation support to date, Transcend has partnered with 188 schools, serving over 256,000 students, and helped to develop and spread eight school models. With renewed support, Transcend will continue to support school- and system-level changes.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Innovators across the country have proven that it is possible to deliver high-quality learning experiences that support students’ diverse needs, strengths, and interests. However, these actors often operate in siloes, lacking the capacity to connect and achieve meaningful scale such that the most underserved students can benefit from these innovations. The Learning Accelerator (TLA) fills this gap, serving as an engine to connect and accelerate efforts and catalyzing national transformation through greater collaboration, coordination, and learning. With prior Corporation support, TLA has developed and led several large, cross-sector projects to produce open resources for the field and support widespread change. A recent example is the partnership that TLA has forged with Ariadne Labs, an innovative health care organization in Boston. Together, they created tools and strategies to support education leaders in minimizing health risks while maximizing learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Continued support would position TLA to lead similar collaborative efforts.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
As a result of years of education innovation there has been a proliferation of new school models that prioritize elements that research tells us are essential to long-term growth: personalization, cultivation of student agency and intellectual curiosity, and real-world application of core skills. However, in a decentralized system, there is no way to mandate adoption of promising models. Instead, we must promote more holistic adoption by building demand and supporting policies that make this work easier to do. The Aurora Institute (Aurora) has been on the forefront of this work since 2003, helping to build the nascent field of personalized learning through policymaker education, practitioner networking, convenings, and the publication of seminal reports. Demand for Aurora’s work remains high, and program staff believe that Aurora is well-positioned to build upon past successes, maintaining its unique and vital role as field leader, capacity-builder, and trusted source.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While district leaders and practitioners largely recognize the importance of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to academic and lifelong success, they often lack the resources and support to implement SEL in a comprehensive way. The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy (Rennie), an organization that sits at the nexus of research, policy, and practice, developed the Excellence through Social Emotional Learning (exSEL) Network to build the capacity of district and school leaders to implement SEL. Over the last four years, Rennie has successfully supported thirty-two districts representing 100,000 students across Massachusetts integrate SEL as a district priority. Continued support will allow Rennie to serve as an SEL policy and practice hub by launching the next phase of the exSEL Network, which will include SEL design sprints for district and school leaders, partnering with Boston Public Schools to build adult capacity to deliver SEL in secondary schools, and applying lessons learned from the exSEL Network to advance a robust policy agenda focused on holistic learning.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Effective content instruction is difficult to accomplish when educators do not have a deep understanding of their instructional materials and when system and school leaders do not have a clear view on how to improve teacher instruction. Intervention models and systems can help narrow these content and instruction gaps for educators, school leaders, and system leaders. Instruction Partners works with schools, districts, and states to mitigate challenges related to unfinished teaching and learning in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. Through this renewal grant, Instruction Partners will a) improve ELA and math instruction for partner schools, b) improve science implementation with partner schools and states, and c) share their learnings with the education field.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The pandemic and its unequal impacts in health, income, and education outcomes, along with a reenergized movement for racial equity and justice, have created a great disruption in our society and systems. With the investments enacted to date by the Biden Administration as well as those proposed at both the federal and state level, there is a significant opportunity for transformative change. Through this work, Opportunity Institute will continue to advance the principles of social and economic mobility, equity, and racial justice by focusing on the education space and adjacent areas of social policy, cradle-through-career. Their work in four key areas– whole child equity, resource equity, equity indicators, and the future of work– serves to bridge the domains of policy, research, advocacy, and implementation in service of more equitable systems.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Camelback Ventures (Camelback) leads programs that identify, develop, and promote early-stage entrepreneurs, working to distribute more investment dollars and cultivate the untapped talent of founders of color and women. By broadening the pool of people and ideas, Camelback seeks to create an innovation ecosystem that multiples our collective ability to improve the education system. Through this general support grant, Camelback will expand the reach and develop and test new iterations of its core program, the Camelback Fellowship. They intend to (a) reach more Fellows through increased numbers of shorter duration Fellowship cycles with additional supports, (b) create online modules to facilitate and scale programming, and (c) create a search tool that helps aspiring entrepreneurs understand and find additional funding opportunities.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Creating pathways to help high-striving, low-income students and students of color advance and demonstrate college readiness is essential to ensure their chances of socioeconomic mobility. The COVID-19 pandemic further jeopardized access to these pathways for all students, but especially those in under resourced communities. The National Education Equity Lab, launched in 2019, takes existing online credit-bearing courses from top colleges and universities and delivers them to talented, high-striving high school students in Title 1 high school classrooms. With support from the Corporation, the Lab will focus on amplifying their operations and developing sustainable partnerships across higher education to offer their college-in-high school model at scale for all scholars and schools wishing to participate.
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For core support to PassBlue, a digital publication that covers the United Nations
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The United Nation’s (UN) size and bureaucracy often hinder broader public understanding of the international organization’s operations, politics, and programs. In response, PassBlue, a non-profit, digital publication administered through The New School, provides reporting on breaking news, long-form journalism, and multimedia products on the UN’s far-ranging operations. It has become the go-to site for behind-the-scenes perspectives on the UN and the United States’ role relevant to it. With Corporation support, PassBlue will continue to produce award-winning investigative journalism, exclusive stories, and data-driven articles.
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For core support of the Student Success Network
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
21 months
Description
College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—research indicates that students’ socio-emotional and metacognitive skills are key to their lifelong success. While the literature indicates a relationship between socio-emotional learning (SEL) and key academic and life outcomes, SEL is too often treated as an add-on rather than as a central component of academic and extra-curricular programming. The Student Success Network (SSN) is a network of eighty education and youth development organizations committed to empowering New York City’s low-income students with the learning experiences and SEL competencies they need to succeed in college and career. SSN plays a unique role in building the capacity of practitioners to deliver SEL and solve organizational and city-wide challenges. With continued support, SSN will build the network’s capacity to create stronger organizations and implement SEL, facilitate working groups to address city-wide obstacles to student success, conduct a participatory action research project to elevate youth priorities, and strengthen youth-adult partnerships within member organizations.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
Since the Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) gutted voting rights protections under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, states have closed polling locations in underserved districts, removed voters from voting rolls, and enacted voter identification requirements that many are either unable to meet or are inadequately informed about. Social media has also enabled disinformation campaigns to further undermine trust in elections and public education campaigns, contributing to lowered faith in government and democratic participation. Since 1969, the Leadership Conference Education Fund has served as the education and research arm of one of the largest legacy civil rights coalitions in the country. The education fund aims to build public will for laws and policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of every person in the United States. With Corporation support, the education fund will spearhead public education campaigns that empower and mobilize advocates at the local, state, and federal levels.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1987, the American Immigration Council (AIC) is dedicated to making the United States immigration system fairer and more just using litigation, policy advocacy, and strategic communications. It is a watchdog group that investigates government spending and administrative policies pertaining to immigration enforcement. It is also home to the newly launched Center for Inclusion and Belonging, which is dedicated to reshaping public narratives about immigration with the goal of unifying the country. With Corporation support, AIC will engage in policy advocacy, pursue impact litigation, and launch a communications campaign with the Ad Council.
Project Title
As a one-time grant for general support in recognition of its 100th anniversary
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
With over 40,000 members from more than 2,000 institutions, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) is the premier membership organization that strengthens higher education governing boards and the strategic roles they serve within their organizations. AGB helps navigate complex issues, implement leading practices, and streamline operations. Member institutions, and higher education broadly, are facing unprecedented challenges to the higher education business model, student success, and continuing questions about the value of higher education. With Corporation support, AGB will produce a variety of projects in celebration of their 100th anniversary including conferences, retreats, consulting services for governance, publications, and digital resources.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
There remain long-standing inequities in the education system, and while some schools seek to disrupt these inequities, entire school systems must be transformed to challenge, engage, and empower all students and foster belonging, agency, and a purpose in learning. Research shows that to rectify inequities and establish this transformative approach to learning, high-quality, culturally affirming instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning are critical in shifting the mindsets of teachers and district leaders. EL Education offers both a high-quality K-8 English language arts (ELA) curriculum and curriculum-based professional learning to schools and districts which are two primary levers in their transformative approach working with partners. Through this general support grant and informed by their four-year strategic plan, they will: a) revise their ELA curriculum, b) develop an English Language Development curriculum for English language learners, c) reshape K-8 learning environments, and d) launch strategic partnerships.
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For core support to the Malcolm Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The Arab Middle East faces unprecedented socioeconomic, political, and institutional challenges. Under present conditions, inequalities in health, education, and economic opportunity will pose even greater difficulties for Arab states. With longstanding Corporation support, the Malcolm Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center (MKCMEC) draws on top regional experts to provide in-depth analysis of political, socioeconomic, and security issues in the Middle East and North Africa. With renewed support, the Center will empower local scholars and institutions to contribute to international policymaking, offer insights into challenges faced by states and citizens, and address long-term trends.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Under the leadership of its new President Timothy Knowles, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) continues to advance educational equity by acting as a catalyst across the domains of practice, scholarship, policy, design, and innovation; and with the commercial and social sectors. CFAT’s overarching priority is to pursue authentic educational equity in direct response to systemic and institutionalized racial, educational, and economic injustice. Specifically, CFAT seeks to develop strategic plans in three key areas: educational attainment, with a focus on Black, Latinx, Indigenous and first-generation students; postsecondary innovation, including creating a new Economic Mobility Classification; and the future of learning, shifting from time- and credit-based models to those based on competency.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The Carnegie Institution for Science was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 to advance investigation, research, and discovery, and apply that knowledge to the improvement of humankind. Today, Carnegie scientists are leaders in the life and environmental sciences, Earth and planetary science, and astronomy and astrophysics. Carnegie Science is an incubator for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that is expanding knowledge of all that is around us. With Corporation support, the Carnegie Institution for Science will continue to engage the community and the public to help advance their plans for the future of the institution through strategic capacity building.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
To fundamentally shift the paradigm of professional learning, the field will need to support states in shifting their enabling conditions and support teachers and leaders in solving the most difficult problems. Teaching Lab aims to address this issue by partnering with teachers, schools, districts, and states to integrate curriculum, professional learning, and teacher leadership initiatives and build their local capacity for sustainable curriculum implementation. Through this general support grant, Teaching Lab will implement their FY 2021-2022 plan by a) continuing to develop and pilot curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) for teachers, b) increasing the reach and impact of their CBPL services with school systems, c) developing and scaling their CBPL services for system leaders, and d) launching a dissemination strategy to build demand for CBPL in the field.
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For core support of the Education Redesign Lab
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite facing greater challenges related to health, safety, and academic performance, students living in poverty continue to have relatively limited access to high quality schools and enrichment opportunities as compared to their more affluent peers. Addressing this challenge will require integrated systems of support that bring together multiple community stakeholders to attend to the broad spectrum of student needs within and outside of the classroom. This is precisely the work of the Education Redesign Lab (the Lab) at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). With Corporation support since 2017, the Lab has worked with city teams—comprising mayors, superintendents, and key cross-sector community leaders—to develop comprehensive systems of education and child support in those cities. The Lab has also developed and shared resources, and facilitated a broader network of cities, so that innovations can be implemented beyond the Lab’s partner communities. Renewed support will enable the continuation and next iteration of this work.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
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 andprofessional development of women working in the foreign policy andinternational security fields. Through workshops, research, and publications,WIIS also seeks to increase knowledge and understanding of the nexus betweengender and security, and to bridge the divide between the traditional securitystudies community and the gender studies and women, peace and securitycommunities. With general support from the Corporation, WIIS will continue suchactivities as its Next Generation Symposium, professional developmentworkshops, policy roundtables, a regular policy brief series, andcollaborations with its chapters, affiliates, and partners.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1972 as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF is a national civil rights organization that uses litigation, advocacy, and community education to fight back unlawful, discriminatory practices against Latino communities. Using the federal and local court systems, LatinoJustice PRLDEF has successfully challenged systemic discrimination against hundreds of thousands of American citizens, immigrants, and even non-Latino persons, with the objective of advancing a more inclusive vision for the United States. The organization’s primary issue areas are immigration, criminal justice, labor and economic justice, voting rights, and redistricting. With Corporation support, LatinoJustice PRLDEF will continue to defend the rights of Latinos in the United States and help change public narratives around immigration and immigrant communities.
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For a project to connect national security policymakers with academia
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Academic research on international security is rarely integrated into policymaking. The Intersect Project at the University of Southern California makes scholarly expertise more accessible to policymakers by connecting international security scholars with practitioners in the U.S. government. The project produces quarterly email compendiums with short summaries and commentary highlighting the most timely and relevant scholarly books and articles in the field. The project also organizes monthly roundtables, hosted by government agencies, featuring scholars who present their current research to policymakers. Corporation support will contribute to the project’s activities.
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For Track II dialogues among nuclear weapon possessor states on artificial intelligence and international security
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is integrated into military actions, policymakers and national security leaders need to establish mechanisms and frameworks for addressing its potential disruptive effects. The Center for a New American Security will launch Track II dialogues amongst nuclear weapon possessor states to produce draft agreement texts for AI confidence-building measures. Specifically, the expert group will produce agreements on maintaining human control over nuclear launch decisions, and reducing the risk of conflict escalation of incidents involving the interactions of autonomous systems. The process of drafting the agreement texts through international dialogues will be designed to advance cooperation in AI and international security.
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For a project on collaborative approaches to peacebuilding in Nigeria
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Longstanding, localized tensions in Nigeria between farmers and herders continue to escalate due to resource scarcity, climate change, rising population density, and agricultural developments. As a result, by some estimates, farmer-herder related violence has become more deadly than the Boko Haram insurgency in the country. In response, the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) in partnership with the United States Institute for Peace and Search for Common Ground is focusing on facilitating a multi-stakeholder approach to address farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria. This project builds on previous convening and conflict mapping work conducted by CDD with Corporation support and will assemble local dialogue platforms, engage media to promote transparency and close the knowledge gap that fuels harmful narratives, and arrange direct engagement between national and local leaders towards identifying collaborative approaches for addressing the conflict trends in the region. This project is funded in coordination with the GHR Foundation.
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For support of a capstone convening of African peacebuilders
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1946, Wilton Park organizes more than fifty events a year in the United Kingdom and in other countries, convening leading representatives from the worlds of politics, diplomacy, academia, business, civil society, the military, and the media. Continuing its partnership with two key Corporation grantees, the Social Science Research Council-led African Peacebuilding Network and the King’s College London-led African Leadership Centre, Wilton Park will organize a final capstone convening for their series on peacebuilding in Africa. Building on meetings organized between 2015 and 2020, this event will bring together a range of Corporation grantees with local partners, international institutions, scholars from both the Global North and South, and key policymakers to discuss African perspectives on peacebuilding and approaches toward it on the continent.
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For project support of the pre-service teacher training framework
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
15 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. With Corporation support, NAFSCE convened the Family Engagement Consortium on Pre-service Educator Preparation, which brings faculty and states to develop the Pre-service Framework. Through this renewal grant, NAFSCE will support select institutes of higher education and state departments in the development, piloting, and evaluation of coursework, curricula, program requirements, and policy changes based on the recommendations outlined in the Family Engagement Pre-service Framework.
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For the doctoral program in social studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Doctoral programs by coursework and research are rare in the social sciences in African universities, as are programs that encourage the development of theory rooted in Africa. The doctoral program in social studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), launched in 2012, seeks to improve social science training on the continent. The program provides contextually-relevant training to students from across Africa, taught by a mix of African and visiting international scholars, through a rigorous, interdisciplinary five-year curriculum. To date, the program has graduated thirty-five students with MPhils, and nine have completed doctorates. Corporation support will fund additional doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, augment digital library holdings and the MISR publications program, and strengthen MISR’s capacity to provide materials and instruction online.
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For support of a network doctoral program in public policy
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) was formed in 2011 with the initial aim of developing a collaborative master’s degree program in public policy. As of 2021, 14 universities in seven African countries offer the Master’s in Research and Public Policy program, graduating 179 students to date. Building on this, the PASGR pilot network doctoral program aims to strengthen training of social scientists, particularly those with an interest in policy-relevant research, through strengthening university capacity to design and implement high-quality doctoral programs. The doctoral program combines coursework and the production of a dissertation, along with specific requirements of the network universities. With Corporation support, PASGR will offer competitive fellowships, research, fieldwork, and faculty mobility grants, and training workshops for doctoral students and supervisors, among other activities.
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For Future Africa’s early-career leadership fellowship program to build transdisciplinary research skills
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
31 months
Description
“African solutions for Africa’s problems” is a commonly heard refrain that has animated African researchers. However, most research is still highly disciplinary in focus while critical problems facing the continent–youth unemployment, conflict, food security, climate change adaptation, and others–require new ways of conceptualizing and conducting research. The University of Pretoria’s Future Africa institute is designed to bring together researchers across fields and stages of professional development to tackle complex problems. With Corporation support, Future Africa will award twenty-five fellowships to early-career African researchers on the theme of interaction of human well-being and the environment, enabling fellows to engage with senior researchers and postgraduate students, receive training in transdisciplinary skills, get a seed grant to jumpstart their research, and take advantage of virtual knowledge platforms.
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As a one-time only grant for an international conference to commemorate thirty years of the School of Women and Gender Studies
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
13 months
Description
Makerere University’s School of Women and Gender Studies (SGWS) is home to Africa’s oldest and largest institute on gender. Celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, SGWS will host a three-day global conference, drawing expertise from government, civil society, industry, and thirty gender schools across the continent and Global South. Participants collectively will explore ways African universities can enhance teaching and research on gender in addressing Africa’s development challenges, mobilize new networks and research collaboration, and celebrate African gender and feminist scholarship. Planned for August 25-27, 2021, the conference will accommodate blended participation, with in-person local and international attendance where possible and digital participation via livestream. The grant will fund conference attendance of keynote speakers, increased digital capacity, and a special journal issue.
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For research and education on emerging proliferation challenges
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Nuclear nonproliferation and arms control efforts face a changing threat landscape that includes emerging technologies and gaps in governance. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) has long provided bipartisan education and outreach to help policymakers deal with these technical and political challenges. NPEC will build on its nuclear policy course and fellowship program, which was designed to provide Capitol Hill and Executive staff, journalists, and foreign diplomats with key information and skills to better address global proliferation risks. NPEC also brings experts and policymakers together in unclassified forums, war games, and diplomatic policy simulations, and has a diversified outreach effort to share its findings.
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For a digital rapid response capability for nuclear crises
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
21 months
Description
With the public increasingly getting its news from social media, the nuclear policy community must accelerate its transition to digital communications to remain relevant. This project, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will build capacity within the nuclear security community to rapidly respond to the next nuclear crisis with timely digital assessments and outputs. Working with leading communications experts, this multi-disciplinary MIT team will work closely with nuclear policy organizations to generate fact-based responses in real-time to emerging events.
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For training national security experts on emerging technologies in nuclear nonproliferation and arms control
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Addressing challenges like nuclear verification and deterrence requires deep technical proficiency. Through this project, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will train doctoral students and develop future researchers in nuclear security, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. These students will focus on the implications of advances in precision guidance and mobile missile tracking, as well as the potential application of developments in information theory to future warhead verification.
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For supporting the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
An effective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is critical to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and ensuring peaceful access to nuclear technology, but the IAEA must achieve its growing mandate with limited resources. Since its establishment, the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation (the Vienna Center) has provided research, education, outreach, and networking activities in support of nonproliferation and disarmament. The Vienna Center has become an indispensable platform for academic and research institutes to engage the IAEA and other Vienna-based international organizations. With support from the Corporation and other funders, the Vienna Center will continue its work developing and promoting innovative ideas in support of the IAEA.
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For a biennial conference of African university leaders, and media programming
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The Association of African Universities (AAU), a core organization for exchange of information and cooperation among institutions of higher education in Africa, will host its biennial Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP) under the patronage of the President of Ghana, July 5-8, 2021. During the virtual event, AAU’s 400 member universities will deliberate on this year’s theme, “The Future of Higher Education in Africa,” with a particular focus on how African universities are addressing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Corporation support will contribute to facilitation, media coverage, and dissemination. In addition, the grant will support AAU’s broadcasting initiative, AAU TV, which spotlights the African higher education sector through interviews and related programming.
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For support of Higher Education Forum on Africa, Asia and Latin America (HEFAALA) III and publications
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
21 months
Description
The Covid-19 crisis has confirmed that tackling global problems requires collaborative research across continents. Yet the pandemic has exacerbated inequalities in the global higher education landscape. It has also highlighted the challenges facing universities and researchers in the Global South to gain international attention on topics of local concern. The Higher Education Forum on Africa, Asia, and Latin America was launched in 2016 as a project of the International Network for Higher Education in Africa to promote international collaboration among universities in the Global South. With renewed Corporation support, it will hold a third forum in partnership with Boston College Center for International Higher Education and St. Mary’s University, based in Addis Ababa, in November 2021 on the topic of “Academic Collaboration in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the post-Covid World.” Corporation funding will be earmarked to research, conference participation, and resulting publications.
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For support of e/merge Africa e-learning professional development network
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
30 months
Description
COVID-19 necessitated a global reliance on educational technology. Although African universities have invested in remote learning infrastructure, there have been few opportunities to improve the educational technology skills of African university staff. Founded in 2014, e/merge Africa is an online professional development network based at University of Cape Town that aims to offer such opportunities to African universities. Corporation support will enable e/merge Africa to further expand its programs of workshops, mentorships, online courses, and the deployment of the diaspora to support e-learning projects on the continent.
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For support of early-career fellowships and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
27 months
Description
As the nation’s leading university, University of Ghana (UG), with partial support from the Corporation, has been enhancing its faculty’s credentials and research productivity, resulting in over 77 percent of faculty with PhDs. This effort has been aligned with Ghana’s national policy and the projected increase of the country’s tertiary education sector from the current 18.8 percent to 40 percent by 2030. With continued Corporation support, UG will stay the course of early-career faculty advancement and research output by offering an array of programs, including doctoral completion grants, postdoctoral and team research grants, and doctoral academy training schools with a focus on basic and applied sciences and health sciences.
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For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The student population in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double each decade until 2050, necessitating an expansion of higher education faculty on the continent. In this context, the academic diaspora represents an intellectual resource for capacity-building and innovation. Since 2013, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) has offered 528 diaspora fellowships at 168 African universities, supporting joint research and teaching, postgraduate training, curriculum development, and in-person and virtual conferences. With Corporation support, CADFP will offer 115 diaspora fellowships, further expanding opportunities for academic diaspora exchange.
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For research and policy dialogues on African higher education in the pandemic environment
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
30 months
Description
The pandemic environment has highlighted existing inequalities in delivery and access to higher education in Africa. Lack of strong infrastructure and preparedness has exacerbated concerns for some universities, while others have benefitted from remote learning, public-private partnerships, and increased local research. The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), based in Nairobi, Kenya, has developed Utafiti Sera, a Swahili word for research-policy dialogues, to engage higher education policymakers, the public and private sectors, and concerned communities in the design of appropriate partnerships and programs. Corporation support for PASGR’s Utafiti Sera will address and respond to COVID-19 disruptions in African higher education through research, workshops, and policy dialogues.
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For a project on building political legitimacy in the Arab world
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
27 months
Description
Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, have become a focal point for the clash of geopolitical interests in an increasingly complex and multipolar world. The Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit (CCSRU) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is dedicated to impact-driven research and policy engagement on conflict and governance globally. A team of social scientists based at LSE will continue to develop policies for the construction of legitimate public authority in collaboration with universities, local researchers and organizations, and international policymakers. With renewed Corporation funding, the project will produce research, policy publications, a comprehensive historical analysis of constitutionalism in the region, and expand collaboration through workshops with local partners in the region.
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For the second phase of the KnowWar project centered in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
30 months
Description
The war in Syria has resulted in the largest population exodus in recent global history. To achieve a more adequate understanding and practice of research in conflict in the region, the KnowWar project was launched in 2018 with support from the Austrian Development Agency. The project has brought together an international network of experts and institutions to design and pursue new methods of participatory field research for conflict zones and produce critical knowledge on the nexus of war and war economies, displacement, repatriation, and reconstruction. Corporation support toward the second phase of the KnowWar project, now based at the University of Vienna’s Development Studies Department, will enhance social science research on inclusive economies and strengthen capacity building of next-generation researchers. The grant will go toward research, workshops, publications, multimedia outputs, and dissemination.
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For a project on Arab region dynamics and US policies
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
In the past ten years no fewer than four countries have descended into conflict in the Arab region, while many face political and economic challenges. The Middle East Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) in Washington, D.C., connects international experts and scholars to produce cutting-edge research and real-time policy analysis. Continued support will enable them to study and advise U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East while amplifying the voices of emerging experts from the Arab region to bring grounded views to a global audience. The project will propose constructive policy options for policy officials and concerned organizations. Corporation funds will support research activities, roundtables, staff costs, and multimedia publications.
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For a project on mapping contemporary regional connections between China and the Arab region
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
China’s growing economic presence throughout the Arab region through finance, commercial activities, labor markets, and development initiatives is impacting the region’s future. The University of Exeter will launch an initiative to produce cutting-edge analysis of China’s connections with the Middle East across financial markets, private sector commerce, migration and labor markets, and humanitarian and development aid. In addition to delivering new insights on these issues, the project will build international academic networks and research collaborations, with a strong emphasis on mentorship and training of early career researchers in the Middle East. Corporation funds will support the launch of a website and data visualization tools, research and mentoring, workshops, and publications.
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For enhancing publicly engaged scholarship in the Arab region
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Civil conflict and authoritarian governance have both catalyzed and constrained critical analysis across the Arab region. Over the past decade, George Mason University (GMU) has emerged as a leading institution enhancing the capacity and visibility of experts in the region across a wide array of academic disciplines. In collaboration with the Arab Studies Institute, GMU expands the networks, research, publishing, and public profiles of Arab-region scholars working on such national and transnational problems as state-society relations, economic and cultural affairs, corruption, and prolonged conflict. With continued support, GMU will develop online tools, maintain institutional partnerships, and expand the productivity of Arab-region scholars while scaling up their audiovisual content and outreach through the influential journals, Jadaliyya and the Arab Studies Journal.
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For the Scholar Rescue Fund
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
To respond to high demand from threatened scholars affected by conflict and repression of academic freedom in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund places promising professors, researchers, and public intellectuals at safe academic institutions around the world. IIE uses a network of more than 9,000 international partners in the academic, human rights, diplomatic, and humanitarian relief sectors to help identify scholars in need as well as academic hosts able to offer them temporary appointments. With continued support, IIE will continue the program with a focus on the Middle East and some neighboring countries and will strengthen and expand partnerships with academic associations focused on the Arab region.
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For The Costs of War Project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had detrimental consequences for the broader Middle East. Through its authoritative data collection and analysis since 2011, the Costs of War project has been educating the public, media, and policymakers about three categories of costs of armed conflicts in the broader Middle East: human; economic; social; and political. With continued Corporation support, this network of scholars centered at Brown and Boston universities will produce data and analyses on the costs of the post-9/11 wars with a growing focus on: environmental impacts of war; the potential for conversion of military industries; the impact of militarization on democracy; and morbidity and mortality from destroyed infrastructure that endures post-conflict. Corporation support will go toward research, working meetings, reports, web design, interactive mapping, and media dissemination.
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For fostering the role of Arab region social scientists in policy development
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, a growing number of social scientists in the Arab region seek to bring their academic and research expertise to bear on public policy agendas. The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) bridges academic expertise with policy analysis in the Arab region. It provides social scientists with capacities, resources, and venues to inform terms of debate in the public sphere with the ultimate goal of influencing policy development. With Corporation support, ARI will provide capacity-building opportunities for next-generation scholars to expand policy-relevant research and strengthen partnership between educational and civil society institutions in the region.
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For a Forum on the Arms Trade project on the Arab region
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
For more than a decade the Arab region has experienced devastating and protracted conflicts in several countries including Syria, Yemen, and Libya. Research has shown that conflicts in the region are both prolonged and exacerbated by the provision of conventional arms and other forms of security assistance by foreign powers. The Forum on the Arms Trade is a leading convener of experts and organizations addressing dynamics of arms transfers, security assistance and weapons use, with the aim of proposing policy alternatives. Corporation funds will improve the Forum’s capacity to respond to fast-moving developments, expand its public outreach, and contribute to the training of the next generation of experts from diverse backgrounds to tackle these challenges in the future.
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For the Security in Context network
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 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 interdisciplinary research, 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. Corporation funds will support research and mentoring activities, a speaker series, graduate student workshops, fellowships, and an electronic magazine.
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