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Project Title
For support of the Weave: The Social Fabric Project
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Weave: The Social Fabric Project was founded in 2018 by New York Times columnist David Brooks, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, to spotlight and support the grassroots leaders and neighbors who are building trust, relationships, and community in local settings. The project aims to strengthen America’s civic fabric by rebuilding the social trust that supports a healthy democracy. The project responds to deep community disconnection, declining institutional trust, and weakening civic participation by supporting local “weavers” who build relationships, shared responsibility, and mutual care. With Carnegie’s support, Weave will enhance its Social Trust Map, an interactive experience showing different neighborhoods and their traits linked to social trust, to guide community action, develop relational skill building courses, and host four in-person local salons to model trust-building conversations. This support will expand the tools, training, and civic infrastructure needed to grow this trust-building movement and shift cultural norms toward mutual care.
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For project support of the Virtual and In-Person Senate Immersion Module for students
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Many students lack opportunities to engage with democratic processes and institutions, leaving them unprepared for civic participation. Since 2015, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate (EMKI) has addressed this gap through its flagship Senate Immersion Module (SIM), an experiential program in which students act as senators, debate public issues, negotiate compromises, and participate in all stages of lawmaking in a full-scale Senate Chamber replica. Supported by pre- and post-visit lessons on negotiation, lawmaking, and civil discourse, SIM builds civic skills such as reasoning, dialogue, and consensus-building. With Carnegie support, EMKI will expand access through two initiatives: the development of a new Virtual Senate Immersion Module (V-SIM), expected to serve 25 student groups (approximately 1,000 students) in its first year once developed, and the expansion of in-person SIM from four to five program days per week, increasing annual reach from 8,000 to at least 9,200 students and engaging roughly 18,000 students over the two-year grant period, which will allow EMKI to engage more low-income students both in Massachusetts and nationally.
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For support of the election protection hotline
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Voting rights experts anticipate obstacles for voting to intensify in the upcoming midterm elections, including an increase in mis- and dis-information campaigns. Founded in 1963, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) was created at the request of President John F. Kennedy to mobilize the nation’s leading lawyers as agents for change in the civil rights movement. For more than sixty years, it has engaged in voting rights and civil rights litigation, advocacy, and nonpartisan voter education at the national, state, and local levels. Leading the Election Protection (EP) coalition, the Lawyers’ Committee provides real-time support and rapid-response infrastructure that complements its legal advocacy. In 2024, the program mobilized more than 5,000 trained volunteers to staff the national 866-OUR-VOTE hotline to assist voters facing long lines, technical failures, and misinformation during early voting and on Election Day. With Carnegie support, the Lawyers’ Committee will expand and deepen the impact of the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline in advance of and during the 2026 midterm elections to serve more than 300,000 voters.
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For project support of a youth changemaker challenge for civic engagement in the U.S. and Sub-Saharan Africa
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
While more than 70 percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and 52 percent of the world’s population are under thirty, formal political structures are dominated by older adults. According to UN Youth, fewer than 3 percent of parliamentarians globally fall within this age bracket. For forty-five years, Ashoka has leveraged its international network of social entrepreneurs to address this gap by developing youth leadership in the changemaking sector. To date, they have developed over 20,000 youth-led social ventures across thirty-seven countries and provided over $20 million in seed funding. With this proposed grant, Ashoka will build on past changemaker initiatives to launch the Carnegie Challenge for Civic Leadership. Working with ground-level partners to promote this initiative, the challenge will support over 1,000 youth aged twenty and below to identify solutions for civic issues in their communities across the U.S., Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Selected participants will receive prize money to launch and grow their projects, certification as civic leaders, and ongoing support within a strong global community of changemakers.
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As a one-time grant for support of the Teen Voices: America’s 250th project
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
18 months
Description
As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, New York City’s libraries are playing a vital role in inspiring young people to explore, reflect, and share their own American stories. Writing is a powerful form of self-expression, and when young people see that their voices matter, they are more likely to engage in civic life as adults. Yet fewer than half of students in New York City today are proficient readers and writers, highlighting the importance of programs that cultivate these skills. Reaching nearly 140,000 teens each year across 89 branch libraries, New York Public Library’s (NYPL) free programs for New York City youth help to bridge these gaps. Their city-wide Teen Voices contest and magazine project offers young people ages 13-18 the opportunity to submit their stories, essays, poems, and art to be published in print and digital formats. With support from Carnegie, NYPL will offer two special Teen Voices contests inviting NYC-based youth to reflect on what America means to them. In conjunction, NYPL will offer an array of themed programs celebrating America’s 250th and engaging youth in telling their American story, including writing workshops, classroom field trips showcasing NYPL’s archives, a summer writing contest for students ages 6-12, and an activity guide for educators, families, and community organizations.
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For core support of the Public Media Bridge Fund
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2001, Public Media Company (PMC) has worked with more than 400 local media organizations across fifty states to ensure local media informs, connects, and inspires communities. The Public Media Bridge Fund (PMFB) is a philanthropic collaborative fund operated by PMC to respond to federal cuts to funding for local public media and to support new thinking and mechanisms to navigate the public media system and determine long-term funding mechanisms. The PMBF is prioritizing interventions for those local public news entities most susceptible to closure. With Carnegie support, the PMFB will help guide local public media systems in rural and underserved areas in ensuring the long-term sustainability of local and national news and educational programming for millions of Americans.
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For support of its Center for Constitutional Studies' youth civic education program
Date
Jun. 04, 2026
Duration
15 months
Description
As Utah’s largest public university, UVU’s Center for Constitutional Studies advances the rule of law through nonpartisan academic programming. Key initiatives include the Tocqueville Fellowship and Summer Civic Institute, where students engage in hands-on civic projects and civil dialogue. Additionally, the center’s Constitutional Literacy Institute equips K–12 teachers to bring constitutional expertise to their classrooms. Carnegie funding will support twenty undergraduate fellows and expand teacher training in civil discourse.
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For project support to convene a symposium and publish a policy brief exploring how sports can be harnessed to increase civic engagement and reduce polarization
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2024, the Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service at the University of Southern California (USC) advances evidence-based policy research, civic engagement, and public leadership through four centers, including the Center for Civic Society (CCS). With support from Carnegie under the Education program’s new initiative focused on youth sports as a vehicle for civic engagement and reducing polarization, CCS will design and host a one-day symposium bringing together approximately 40 leaders across sports, research, policy, and civil society to examine how sports strengthen civic engagement and social cohesion. The day will open with a keynote followed by three panels on who participates in sports communities, what institutions can do, and how sports narratives shape civic attitudes. One panel will focus on the specific conditions under which participation in youth sports develops the habits, relationships, and capacities that strengthen civic life and mitigate polarization. CCS will select high-profile speakers and cover meeting expenses, including travel stipends for attendees requiring support. The event will take place on USC’s Los Angeles campus in fall 2026. The deliverable will be an evidence-based framework, published as a Schaeffer Institute white paper and released in conjunction with Carnegie, that identifies how sports can be harnessed to strengthen democracy and that substantiates recommended funding priorities.
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For project support to expand work-based learning opportunities for high school students in New York City
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1995, PENCIL has spent more than 30 years connecting New York City public school students with professional networks, essential skills, and work-based learning experiences that support long-term economic mobility, growing its annual reach from 7,400 students in 2022 to more than 12,000 in 2024. As a central partner to New York City’s FutureReady initiative, PENCIL is now poised to scale significantly to reach more than 80,000 students annually through partnerships with schools and the central office by 2029. The proposed grant will fund the direct student programming that public contracts do not cover across 45 or more schools, including career exploration and skill-building for ninth and tenth graders and paid internships and work-based learning for upperclassmen, growing annual reach from 24,000 to 35,000 students in the first year.
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For project support for start-up grants to create two-year college programs within selective universities
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
For millions of low-income students, a high-quality, affordable college education remains out of reach. Pell grant recipients are severely underrepresented at selective institutions, the cost of attendance has far outpaced available financial aid, and completion rates at two-year colleges remain low, with only 16 percent of students ultimately earning a bachelor’s degree within six years. The Come to Believe Foundation (CTB) was founded to address these challenges by replicating a proven model: an affordable, rigorous, high-touch, and holistically supportive two-year college embedded within a four-year university. First established at Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago in 2015, the model has since expanded to four institutions, with nearly 80 percent of students transferring to bachelor’s degree programs. Of the students who transfer, 70 percent earn a bachelor’s degree within five years, well above the national average of 16 percent. This grant will fund matching grants of up to $500,000 each for four new CTB colleges, creating 1,200 postsecondary seats and serving 6,000 students over the next decade.
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For project support to launch an AI Engineering Workforce initiative
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the workforce faster than most training systems can keep pace, creating high-paying roles in AI infrastructure computing and agentic engineering that remain inaccessible to many from underserved communities due to the cost of traditional technical training programs, which often run $20,000 to $30,000. Kura Labs is a nonprofit workforce training academy that has reduced that cost to approximately $2,000 to $3,000 per participant by combining instructor-led instruction with enterprise-grade simulations through its partnership with Codon, a platform that replicates real-world AI and cloud infrastructure environments. Since its founding in 2020, Kura Labs has trained more than 100 engineers and achieved placement rates of 80 to 90 percent, with graduates landing roles at Bloomberg, AWS, Oracle, and Capital One, and many participants more than doubling their income to starting salaries up to $100,000. This grant will more than double Kura Labs’ historical participant volume, serving 400 to 500 participants over 24 months as it evolves its program to focus on AI infrastructure and agentic engineering roles.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Established in the wake of the 2018 murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Eradicate Hate Global Summit is now a multi-faceted initiative dedicated to combating hate-fueled rhetoric and violence, uniting a diverse array of international experts and community leaders focused on promoting civil discourse and bridge-building. It has since evolved into a multi-faceted initiative focused on combating hate-fueled violence targeting faith and marginalized communities. Its programs engage over 1,500 international experts and leaders dedicated to eliminating violent extremism. In addition to the Global Summit and aligned Student Summit, core activities include year-round programming that engages young people as leaders in the prevention of hate-motivated violence in their communities and schools. With renewed Carnegie support, Eradicate Hate will continue to facilitate year-round collaboration across various fields and borders, utilizing its specialized working groups and annual convenings to implement practical, research-based solutions and achieve quantifiable progress towards its priorities.
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For support of its Braver Politics and Braver Education initiatives
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2016, Braver Angels is the nation’s leading cross-partisan, volunteer-led movement to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen communities. Operating through a volunteer-powered network of alliances in 37 states and supported by more than 17,900 individual donors and 15,000 annual members, Braver Angels has developed cross-partisan programming such as workshops, debates, summits, and panels for community members, young people, and elected officials. Carnegie funding will support two initiatives: Braver Politics, which builds cross-partisan state legislative caucuses in New Hampshire, Utah, and Washington State by pairing inside-the-chamber relationship-building with grassroots constituent engagement, and Braver Education, which will develop, pilot, and evaluate a five-module youth civic development curriculum in Colorado, Illinois, and Ohio through partnerships with community-based youth-serving organizations.
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In support of a teaching training program at the Graduate School of Education
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
12 months
Description
The Andrew Carnegie Foundation will support the Asian University for Women’s development of a new Master’s in Teaching program that prepares women educators to establish and lead secondary schools for girls in underserved communities across Asia. By training cohorts of women to create safe, accessible, and high-quality local schools in their home communities, the initiative seeks to reduce barriers to girls’ education, strengthen women’s leadership, and expand educational opportunity where access to secondary education remains limited. The program aims to create a growing network of community-based schools that bring quality education closer to girls and help them remain in school.
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For support of More in Common’s democracy and polarization research and a segmentation on youth
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
More in Common works across seven countries, including the United States, to identify the root causes of social fragmentation and defend democratic foundations against declining public trust. It conducts rigorous research grounded in social psychology and political science to surface shared values, counter “us vs. them” narratives, and equip civil society leaders to build more cohesive democratic societies. With Carnegie support, More in Common will update its groundbreaking 2019 report, Hidden Tribes of America, producing new research with a special focus on youth, 14-29 years of age, and cultivate a robust network of bipartisan partners and initiatives aimed at diminishing polarization and fostering a more cohesive society.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration is a coalition of nearly 600 leaders from diverse colleges and universities serving over 5 million students in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. It is the leading national organization working at the nexus of immigration and post-secondary schooling. The alliance provides legal guidance, policy analysis, and access to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, now reaching nearly 40,000 monthly users across more than 40 partner organizations. Carnegie support will help the alliance continue to support higher education immigration pathways for international and U.S.-based students, which sustains the nation’s civic and economic vitality.
Project Title
For support of a project to build digital platforms
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent years have seen the rapid decline of traditional media, accompanied by a sharp decline in public trust and acceleration of polarization. These trends are widely recognized to be exacerbated by social media. New_ Public was established by on-line media leaders to redesign the social media landscape by creating digital environments that foster genuine connection and civic participation in communities nationwide. With renewed Carnegie support, New_ Public will continue to develop and expand new models of digital infrastructure to promote a healthy and cohesive civil society.
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In support of educational programming
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1981, The Actors’ Gang (TAG) is a Los Angeles-based theater company and educational organization established by a collective of artists. TAG uses theater to foster creativity, strengthen communities, and create opportunities for personal transformation through its performance, education, and prison programs. Its nationally recognized Prison Project has demonstrated the power of theater to build empathy, communication, and self-reflection among incarcerated individuals, reinforcing the organization’s belief that creative expression can strengthen both individuals and communities. An Andrew Carnegie Foundation grant will support The Actors’ Gang Education Program (TAG-ED), expanding access to young people in underserved communities while strengthening program evaluation. Through theater workshops in schools and community settings, students build confidence, communication, empathy, and teamwork while learning to understand different perspectives, engage constructively with others, and become more active participants in their schools, communities, and civic life.
Project Title
For continued support and expansion of the Citizenship Test Initiative, including partnerships with libraries
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Fewer than one in four eighth graders score proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress civics assessment. Addressing this challenge requires high-quality civic and history education at scale. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, founded in 1994, improves the teaching and learning of American history through primary source-based educational programs, reaching approximately 38,000 schools and 100,000 teachers. With this renewal grant, the Institute will continue expanding its Citizenship Test Initiative by developing study aids for all 128 Citizenship Test questions, releasing an Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics study guide expected to reach 250,000 students, and launching a national library contest that will award grants to 25 libraries annually, with the goal of supporting 100 libraries nationwide over the grant period, prioritizing those serving underserved communities.
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For core support of the Principled Citizenship Program
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) was founded in January 2017 by a small group of Latter-day Saint women who were concerned about the divisive politics of the 2016 United States election cycle. The nonpartisan organization empowers women of faith to advocate for ethical governance, protect democratic institutions, and promote bipartisan solutions. Through its Principled Citizen program, MWEG will equip women with issue-based educational materials, media literacy, and advocacy education and training to be more active and engaged citizens beyond elections.
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For project support to help a cohort of first-generation college-students gain credentials while attending college
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
30 months
Description
First-generation college students from low-income backgrounds often lack the professional networks, career guidance, and credentials needed to launch economically mobile careers. ScholarMatch, founded in 2010, addresses this gap through a seven-year integrated model spanning college access, persistence, and career launch. It has served more than 10,000 students with strong outcomes. With support from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, ScholarMatch will launch a pilot program enabling 50 college juniors and seniors to earn industry-recognized digital certifications alongside their degrees, with up to $3,000 per student for high-value credentials. ScholarMatch will conduct a labor market analysis, develop a playbook, and translate pilot findings into accessible resources for diverse stakeholder audiences, maximizing impact well beyond the initial cohort.
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For project support to expand a free virtual tutoring program powered by volunteers
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Low-income students continue to face persistent pandemic-related academic gaps, with traditional tutoring programs costing thousands of dollars per student and pandemic recovery funding largely expired. Founded in 2016, UPchieve is an edtech nonprofit that connects middle and high school students across the country with trained volunteers for free, 24/7 online tutoring in 35 subjects and college counseling. To date, UPchieve volunteers have answered more than 350,000 tutoring requests from more than 50,000 students, and a Mathematica randomized controlled trial found that students who completed 10 or more sessions enrolled in four-year colleges at a rate of 72 percent. With support from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, UPchieve will expand its team, launch fully sponsored partnerships with 10 low-income schools, and grow the National Tutoring Honor Society (NTHS), with the goal of reaching more than 40,000 students annually by 2027.
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For project support to provide access to civic experiences in D.C. Public School classrooms
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Washington D.C.’s students grow up surrounded by some of the most significant civic institutions in the country, yet students in the city’s most economically disadvantaged communities have historically had few civic learning experiences. DCPS adopted a skills-based, inquiry-driven social studies approach grounded in the C3 Framework and embedded an eighth-grade Action Civics course as mandatory, credit-bearing coursework across all schools. The D.C. Public Education Fund (D.C. Ed Fund) is DCPS’s independent nonprofit strategic partner, having raised more than $225 million in philanthropic investment over nearly two decades. This grant will complete the full grades 6-12 civics curriculum sequence, deepen implementation of the Action Civics course, expand student-facing civic programming across grades 6-12, and fund transportation to connect students to the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, embassies, and other civic institutions.
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For a project to embed constructive dialogue in higher education across state systems and individual campuses
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
The Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) is one of the nation’s leading organizations working to help colleges and universities prepare students to communicate, collaborate, and solve problems across differences. CDI combines evidence-based student programming with institution-wide strategies designed to strengthen campus culture, reduce polarization, and build the skills needed for democratic participation and workforce success. This grant will support CDI’s efforts to expand dialogue programming through state higher education systems and individual campus partnerships while exploring how dialogue skills can be integrated into career-readiness pathways. Carnegie funding will provide targeted subsidies to public institutions, community colleges, minority-serving institutions, and campuses serving larger numbers of low-income students that would otherwise be unable to participate. The project will directly support approximately 300,000 students across 40 campuses as part of CDI’s broader effort to reach 1.25 million students nationwide.
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For project support to recognize colleges and universities creating upward mobility through the Carnegie Classification
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Higher education faces a growing legitimacy crisis as rising costs and student debt prompt questions about whether colleges deliver meaningful economic opportunity for low-income and first-generation students. Building on a catalytic early investment from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching partnered with the American Council on Education to reimagine its 50-year-old Carnegie Classification as an outcomes-focused framework. In 2025, the resulting Student Access and Earnings Classification identified 478 Opportunity Colleges and Universities (OCUs), which deliver both high access and competitive earnings. This grant encourages more institutions to become OCUs through research (a 50-State Report, State Data Profiles, and a “Near-OCU Query Tool”) and engagement with 387 near-OCU institutions enrolling over 2.5 million students. The goal is to double the share of undergraduates at OCUs to 30 percent by 2037, with milestones of 250,000 additional students by 2028 and 1 million by 2031.
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For core support to NewsMatch to increase education news coverage in rural newsrooms across the country
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
NewsMatch, housed at the Miami Foundation and operated by the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), addresses the collapse of local journalism that has left two-thirds of media outlets without any education reporting. NewsMatch supports over 500 nonprofit newsrooms across the U.S. with targeted funding, training, one-on-one coaching, and tools to build fundraising strategies, run digital campaigns, secure local matches, and strengthen donor relationships. Through its Education Partner Fund, NewsMatch ensures that critical coverage of school boards, budgets, and education equity reaches the communities that need it most. The Foundation’s funding has directly supported 119 newsrooms across 38 states, with a targeted focus on rural newsrooms and K–12 education coverage in news desert regions. With continued support, NewsMatch will launch the 2026–27 Education Partner Fund campaign with a back-to-school focus, deepening coverage that helps citizens make informed decisions during school board elections. NewsMatch will also survey Education Partner Fund recipients to surface real-world examples of how local education journalism keeps communities informed and civically engaged, strengthening the long-term sustainability of local newsrooms serving rural America.
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For project support to scale digital citizenship resources, library media literacy initiative, and annual summit sponsorship
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Established in 2003, Common Sense Media is the leading U.S. organization dedicated to helping young people thrive in the digital world. Its Digital Citizenship Program draws on rigorous research across AI, technology, child well-being, and education to equip young people with the skills needed to navigate an increasingly complex information landscape. Common Sense reaches 1.5 million educators across two-thirds of U.S. schools. With the Foundation’s support, Common Sense developed a revised K–12 digital literacy curriculum featuring nearly 200 lessons covering AI literacy and civil discourse, successfully piloted 16 media literacy workshops across seven public libraries reaching 550 teens and 33 librarians, and hosted the Common Sense Summit with over 600 attendees including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sam Altman, and Sal Khan. The rise of AI and misinformation heightens the civic information crisis. Common Sense serves as a strategic countermeasure, equipping communities to navigate AI-driven information environments and utilizing schools and libraries as key distribution hubs. With renewed support, Common Sense will launch its K–12 curriculum to 95,000 schools, scale library workshops through partnerships including the Urban Libraries Council, and sponsor the Common Sense Summit in 2027 and 2028.
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For project support of career, college, and civic readiness at I Have a Dream Foundation East Harlem
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
18 months
Description
Founded in 1981 by businessman Eugene Lang in East Harlem, the “I Have A Dream” Foundation (IHAD) has grown into a national organization serving approximately 3,000 Dream Scholars across 11 affiliate and chapter sites in 28 states through a “first grade to first job” model that provides long-term academic, social-emotional, and career readiness support to every scholar regardless of need, achieving a 96 percent high school graduation rate and 88 percent postsecondary enrollment rate in New York City. Entering its 45th year, IHAD is expanding its East Harlem and Chelsea sites, including the launch of a new site at P.S. 146 in September 2026. The proposed grant will support three initiatives: a Dream School Pipeline Expansion enrolling 170 new students, a Workforce for the Future Initiative providing career readiness programming to 140 scholars and a Service Learning and Civic Engagement Initiative engaging 40 Dream Scholars through youth councils and community-based leadership projects, reaching 350 or more Dream Scholars in total.
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For project support of Tango expanding programs into state university systems, community colleges, high schools, and libraries
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Tango is an evidence-based civic bridge-building initiative founded in 2018 in the Harvard University laboratory of Joshua Greene. Through a cooperative online quiz game, Tango pairs participants from different political, religious, racial, or geographic backgrounds and asks them to work together as teammates rather than debate one another. A study published in Nature Human Behaviour, based on five randomized controlled trials involving approximately 5,000 participants, found that less than one hour of gameplay reduced polarization and increased cross-partisan respect, with effects lasting at least four months. To date, approximately 15,000 individuals have participated through public games and deployments at more than a dozen colleges and universities. With Carnegie support, Tango will expand through higher education institutions, civic and community organizations, public libraries, and high school settings. The organization will develop new partnerships, create age-appropriate content for adolescents, and conduct additional research and evaluation. The proposed work aligns with Carnegie’s Civic Participation strategy by helping young people and adults build the trust, relationships, and experiences needed to engage constructively across differences.
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For project support to launch Changeist's civic leadership certificate program with UCLA
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
The abilities to deliberate, work across differences, and contribute to one’s community are durable skills that matter for both democratic participation and success in today’s workforce. Developing these capacities in young people is at the heart of Changeist’s work. This California-based project of Community Partners engages approximately 500 young people in service and civic learning, with college-aged mentors guiding teams of middle and high school students through community-based projects. With this grant, Changeist will partner with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to create a new civic leadership credential. The program will combine university coursework with hands-on community practice and extend access beyond UCLA students to include high school participants. Students will earn transferable UCLA credit and a recognized credential in civic leadership. The program will serve 136 participants in its first year and expand to nearly 200 annually by 2027–28.
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For project support to scale the Tutor-to-Teacher program
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Tutors, paraprofessionals, and instructional aides working in schools bring real classroom experience and frequently reflect the racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity of the students they serve, yet the pathways from these roles into full-time teaching are expensive and poorly designed for working adults. CitySchools Collaborative (CSC), formerly CityTutor D.C., is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that has grown from a pandemic-era tutoring initiative into a regional organization supporting high-impact tutoring and educator workforce development. In 2026, CSC supported more than 10,750 students across 130 schools, with an independent analysis finding that students receiving full tutoring dosage gained the equivalent of 59 additional instructional days of mathematics learning. In 2024, CSC launched its Tutor-to-Teacher (T2T) program, which was piloted with 88 participants, 63 of whom pursued school-based roles or formal educator pathways. This grant will scale T2T to serve 300 participants over three years across Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland, supporting participants who could more than double their annual income through placement in credentialed teaching roles.
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For project support of the Civic Summer experiential learning program for rising high school sophomores in selected cities
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2024, the Center for Rising Generations at the Aspen Institute is dedicated to making civic engagement a predictable part of growing up for teens and young adults. This grant supports two initiatives: Aspen Ideas: Rising Generations, a weekend festival for up to 500 participants ages 18–24 featuring discussions across lines of difference, and Civic Summer, a free four-week experiential civics program on college campuses in three communities serving approximately 250 rising 10th graders per community to build civic knowledge, civil discourse and civic participation skills before those dispositions are established. America’s Promise Alliance, a national network of approximately 170 youth-serving organizations, will lead local student recruitment, while the Center for Rising Generations will lead curriculum design, program strategy, and implementation oversight.
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In support of the conservation and restoration of the west-side quadrangle, to be named the “Andrew Carnegie Seminar Room"
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1413, the University of St Andrews is Scotland’s oldest university and one of the world’s leading institutions of higher education. The Andrew Carnegie Foundation grant will support the conservation and restoration of the historic former Madras College buildings as part of the New College redevelopment initiative, preserving a nineteenth-century landmark while creating a new academic home for interdisciplinary teaching and research. It reflects Andrew Carnegie’s deep connection to the University, where he served as Rector from 1901 to 1907, and the Foundation’s continuing relationship with the institution. Support for this project honors Andrew Carnegie’s enduring commitment to education and helps ensure that these historic buildings continue to serve future generations of students and scholars.
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For core support of the Hechinger Report
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
The Hechinger Report is an independent nonprofit newsroom based at Teachers College, Columbia University, dedicated to informing the public on education news, strengthening local news ecosystems, and driving national education discourse — offering its work freely as a public service. With our current grant, Hechinger produced notable investigative work including a federal impact tracker documenting actions affecting state and local communities, reporting that contributed to changes in Pell Grant protections, and exposed special education failures in New Jersey. Hechinger fills local news gaps through syndication, resource sharing, local reporter fellowships, and diverse publishing partnerships, and has expanded its reach to Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences through short-form video on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit. With continued support, Hechinger will focus on civic participation and the relationship between education and economic mobility, while addressing the drop in local newsroom staffing by sustaining targeted collaboratives in news deserts, high-quality data and video sharing, and fellowships that equip local reporters to tackle complex stories.
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For a project on informing the peace and security policy architecture and advancing partnership models for peacebuilding
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
30 months
Description
Global conflict is at its highest level since World War II, yet policies and approaches that promote peace are fragmented, siloed, underfunded, and poorly communicated. The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), a network of nearly 300 organizations working in 181 countries to prevent conflict, will address this challenge by articulating and building support for a nonpartisan approach to U.S. foreign policy that prioritizes global peace and stability. With Carnegie’s support, AfP will expand and employ its Future of Peace and Security Coalition to help develop and disseminate recommendations on rebuilding and reforming U.S. foreign policy and assistance geared toward peacebuilding and conflict prevention. Congressional offices will receive information on implementing a peace and security-centered U.S. foreign policy through bipartisan briefings and memos. AfP will also work to build public understanding and support for peacebuilding, using polling and consultations to test and refine its messaging on the importance of prioritizing peacebuilding. By developing and building widespread support across sectors for a U.S. peacebuilding architecture, AfP aims to support durable peace, and prevent and reducing deadly conflict.
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For a project supporting the Global Initiative on Polarization
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
18 months
Description
Rising political and social divisions are adversely affecting governance, peacebuilding, and social cohesion around the world. In this renewal grant, the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT), an international nongovernmental organization headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, will focus on strengthening local and global capacities to prevent and reduce polarization across democratic and conflict-affected settings. In the next phase of its Global Initiative on Polarization, IFIT will consolidate its role as a global hub on depolarization by strengthening collaboration, sharing knowledge, and developing innovative approaches to reduce polarization. With Carnegie’s support, IFIT will deepen collaboration and exchange among leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on depolarization through monthly learning activities and convenings; advance and disseminate a Depolarization Strategy Framework alongside locally led testing in nine countries; and explore piloting an online training for youth in conflict and crisis situations. Over time, IFIT aims to strengthen democratic resilience, social trust, and peaceful coexistence.
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For a project examining the dynamics of non-state actors in shaping peace, health, and stability in Africa
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a research-to-policy institution with a West Africa Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal that promotes evidence-informed decision making in Africa. This proposed project will examine how non-state actors influence peace, health, and stability along the migration route linking Dakar, Agadez, Niger, and northern Nigeria. With Carnegie’s support, APHRC will study how non-state actors— including community groups, transport providers, armed groups, and criminal networks—shape the ability of migrants and travelers to resolve disputes, get reliable route and safety information, find safe transport, and access health and social services. The project will include research documenting the dynamics of this terrain, mapping of non-state actors, assessment of health and social service access, and the development of practical governance tools with policymakers, service providers, and community actors.
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For project support to increase re-enrollment of adult learners with some college but no credential to high-demand career pathways in North Texas
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
18 months
Description
More than 888,000 adults in North Texas have some college credit but no credential, often due to financial, family, or employment circumstances rather than academic ability. Regional employers, meanwhile, cannot find enough credentialed workers to fill open roles, particularly in healthcare and technology. The University of North Texas (UNT), the largest university in Dallas–Fort Worth, launched the Texas Talent Accelerator (TTA) in September 2025 to close this gap, building a coalition of more than 100 employers, colleges, and economic development organizations to provide labor market data and coordinate re-enrollment efforts. TTA and its partners launched round 1 of the “Some College, No Credential Regional Re-Enrollment Pilot” in summer 2026, testing the outreach approach across three institutions. With Carnegie’s support, TTA will scale to six institutions, matching 2,000 returning students across rounds 1 and 2 to credential pathways aligned with regional workforce demand, rather than defaulting back into their original program.
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For a project supporting grassroots mutual aid organizing to advance peace and enhance democratic governance in Sudan
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Malam Darfur Peace and Development (MDPD) is a Sudanese civil society organization established in 2012 with offices in Sudan and the U.S. that supports local peacebuilding and promotes accountable governance in regions of Sudan affected by the civil war. Working in partnership with grassroots groups, MDPD aims to strengthen social cohesion and local systems for managing conflict. With Carnegie support, MDPD and its partners will facilitate community dialogue, early conflict response, resolving resource disputes, local peacebuilding, countering hate speech and misinformation, conflict analysis, knowledge exchanges, and governance support in select locations across Darfur, Kordofan, and eastern and central Sudan.
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In support of the Book of Kells project
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1592, the Library of Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s largest academic library and home to the Book of Kells, one of the world’s most celebrated illuminated manuscripts. The Andrew Carnegie Foundation grant will support the creation of a new Book of Kells Digital Showcase as part of the Library’s conservation-led Old Library Development Project. The resulting conservation, research, and advanced digital imaging will expand access to the manuscript worldwide while serving as the centerpiece of a reimagined Book of Kells exhibition when the restored Old Library reopens to the public in 2030. Building on the Foundation’s previous investments in Trinity’s digitization initiatives, the grant supports an ambitious effort to preserve, study, and share one of the world’s most important medieval manuscripts.
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For project support to strengthen the Democratic Classrooms and Schools Initiative in New York City and expand the program to additional states
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Many young people have limited opportunities to practice the skills of civic participation, including identifying community problems, gathering input from others, working across differences, and contributing to collective decision-making. Founded in 1998 and based in Chicago, Mikva Challenge addresses this gap through Student Voice Committees in public schools. These committees are intentionally designed to engage students who might not otherwise hold formal leadership roles, giving them structured opportunities to identify school issues, gather input from peers, and work with school leaders to develop and implement solutions. With this renewal grant, Mikva will support 72 schools across New York City, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin over two years, reaching 212 Student Ambassadors, approximately 1,050 Student Voice Committee members, and an estimated 110,000 students through school-wide engagement activities, while supporting the development of 105 student-led action plans.
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For project support for KIPP NYC to provide over 2,000 low-income high school students with a comprehensive set of college-going supports
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1995, KIPP NYC Public Schools operates a network of 18 free public charter schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan serving more than 9,200 students in grades K–12, anchored by KIPP NYC College Prep High School, the network’s flagship, which achieves a 90 percent college matriculation rate and a 72 percent third-year persistence rate compared to a national rate of 15 percent for students from the lowest-income quartile. Beginning in fall 2026, KIPP’s high school will expand from 2,210 to 2,700 students by SY27–28, making it the largest charter high school in New York City. The proposed grant ensures that students accepted to four-year colleges can pursue their degrees undeterred by financial need. To achieve this, the initiative will support approximately 350 alumni through a microgrant program and fund four Postsecondary Success Fellows to advise graduates during their first two years of college. Additionally, the grant will scale advising efforts through upgraded technology platforms and provide expanded college visits for 250 to 350 students annually.
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For project support to the National Institute for Student Success to increase graduation rates and help transfer students succeed
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
30 months
Description
The National Institute for Student Success (NISS), founded at Georgia State University in 2020, works with colleges and universities to identify and resolve institutional barriers to college completion. Fewer than one in five community college students who intend to earn a bachelor’s degree do so within six years. While some causes, such as college costs, are difficult and expensive to address, others are within an institution’s control, including fragmented advising, lost transfer credit, and academic pathways misaligned with bachelor’s degree requirements. NISS addresses this through a diagnostic that identifies where transfer students fall off track, a customized playbook of evidence-based reforms, and a year of implementation support. This model is grounded in Georgia State’s own results, including a 70 percent improvement in bachelor’s graduation rates, and has since scaled to more than 170 colleges and universities and 11 state systems, reaching 1.8 million students and driving rising retention rates across partner institutions. With Carnegie’s support, NISS will apply this model to nine institutions across two community college transfer ecosystems to address both institutional barriers and regional breakdowns in transfer-credit policy and advising.
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For project support to increase access to student-led service, leadership, and civic engagement through Key Club expansion to new states
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Research indicates that young people who participate in service and civic experiences during high school are more likely to vote and volunteer as adults than peers who did not participate. Key Club International, founded in 1925 and operating as a program of Kiwanis, is one of the world’s largest student-led service programs for high school students, with approximately 233,000 members across 5,568 clubs in all 50 states. The Kiwanis Children’s Fund administers philanthropic investments supporting Key Club expansion, leadership development, and student scholarships. With this grant, the Kiwanis Children’s Fund will expand access to Key Club in California, Nevada, Hawaii, Florida, and New York, targeting 400 new clubs and approximately 22,000 new student members over two years and will double the Global Leadership Certificate Master Class from 50 to 100 students annually, providing stipends of $1,000 per student to attend the Master Class and Key Club International Convention.
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For core support of the Trust for Civic Life and for its public library initiative
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
The Trust for Civic Life, fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is a cross-ideological funder collaborative launched in 2024 to support civic participation, increase social trust, and build civic agency at the local level, with a particular focus in rural communities. Governed by national funders and community advisors, the trust operates through its Civic Hub grants to locally led groups, research and evaluation, and a funder Learning Network. Since its launch, the trust has committed $19.1 million across nearly 200 Civic Hubs, reached 35 percent of rural counties in the U.S., and secured co-investment from over 25 philanthropies toward a $66 million five-year budget. Carnegie’s proposed grant—cofunded by the Democracy and Education programs, will support three years of the trust’s core operations and a new Public Library Civic Experiment Grants initiative, which will fund approximately 70 small and rural public libraries in partnership with the trust’s grantees.
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As a final grant to support State-led high school redesign initiatives
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 2005, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) has partnered with leaders across 150 school systems and multiple states to modernize learning for more than five million students. With prior support from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, ERS deepened district partnerships and built field capacity, yielding results such as a $24 million reallocation in Nashville and a redesigned schedule in Detroit that added four credit slots for internships and dual enrollment. Building on statewide efforts in Massachusetts and Texas, ERS proposes a two-phase strategy in which it first works with a state education agency to develop a concrete implementation plan and then moves into direct support for districts through hands-on partnerships, targeted technical assistance, and tools and resources available statewide. The proposed final grant would launch this initiative in one or more future-ready state partners and establish the momentum needed to secure follow-on funding for long-term impact.
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For a project rebuilding social cohesion and local governance for durable peace in post-conflict Syria
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
The post-Assad landscape in Syria is defined by fragmented governance, competing authorities, weak institutions, and a deeply fractured society that threatens to fuel more instability in the region. Syrian Forum USA (SFUSA), through its Syrian affiliates Syrian Forum and the Omran Center for Strategic Studies, will implement an integrated initiative in target communities across five regions of Syria to rebuild social cohesion, strengthen local governance, and support the reintegration of displaced persons. The project will develop a multi-dimensional Stability Index measuring governance, service delivery, displacement dynamics, and social cohesion, then translate findings into activities designed to promote stability, including community dialogues, small grants for locally led initiatives, and capacity-building for local councils and civil society organizations. A Peacebuilding Toolkit documenting tested models will be disseminated through local and international channels to inform Syria’s broader stabilization and recovery efforts.
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For project support of Sesame Street Season 58 and a library-based initiative focused on connection, caring, and community participation
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
Sesame Workshop is the educational organization behind Sesame Street and a long-standing leader in research-based children’s media. Building on a historic partnership that began when Carnegie supported the research that led to the creation of Sesame Street, this initiative will help young children develop empathy, belonging, and cooperation, skills that support community participation. The project responds to growing concerns about social isolation, declining trust, and the need for opportunities that bring children and families together in trusted community spaces. With Carnegie support, Sesame Workshop will develop Season 58 of Sesame Street around its Connection and Caring framework and introduce a new library set as a recurring community hub. The grant will also support the creation of library resources, caregiver materials, librarian training, and in-person programming at four Carnegie-affiliated library systems. These efforts will combine Sesame’s national reach with libraries’ local presence to help children and families experience belonging, connection, and community participation.
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As a final grant to strengthen English as a Second Language services and college access programs for teens and parents in Los Angeles
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
12 months
Description
Many California janitorial and airport service workers face significant barriers to economic mobility. Low wages, limited English proficiency, and few pathways to career advancement leave many families struggling to support their children’s educational aspirations. Building Skills Partnership, founded in 2007 and based in Los Angeles, addresses these challenges through an integrated family economic mobility model that combines college readiness programming, English language instruction, family engagement, scholarships, and postsecondary coaching. With this final grant, Building Skills Partnership will serve 200 parents with guidance on college pathways, financial aid workshops, and civic participation, as well as English as a Second Language courses. The organization will also serve 125 high school students through college readiness programming, including college visits and career exploration activities; support 40 students in applying to college, university, or scholarship opportunities; award $40,000 in scholarships to 20 first-generation college students; and provide one-on-one coaching to 25 current college students to support postsecondary persistence and completion.
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As a one-time grant in support of the Third Founding
Date
Sep. 10, 2026
Duration
12 months
Description
The Third Founding is a nonpartisan initiative of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture devoted to renewing the cultural and institutional foundations of American democracy. It begins from the recognition that democracy depends not only upon laws, elections, and governmental institutions, but also upon a civic culture grounded in human dignity, mutual obligation, democratic agency, and the responsible exercise of institutional authority. Carnegie’s support would allow the Institute to publish and promote the Third Founding Declaration, launch the project publicly, convene scholars and civil society leaders, and begin building a broad network of people and institutions committed to the constructive and defensive work of democratic renewal.
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