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For a project to test a scalable and cost-effective approach to curriculum-based professional learning
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
2Revolutions is a national education design lab that builds capacity to transform toward more equitable, learner-centered schools and systems. They draw on their broad experience with school, district, community, state, and higher education partners to design solutions rooted in local needs.This grant supports a newly launched project that seeks to transform K-12 professional learning by enabling efficient access to high-quality professional learning experiences that are modular and interoperable, competency-aligned, credential- and credit-bearing, with evidence of effectiveness. The grant will support two proof of concept pilots involving Teaching Lab and OpenSciEd building on their approaches to curriculum-based professional learning.
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As a one-time grant for support of a fellowship program that expands career opportunities for underrepresented voices in the media industry
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1975, the Boston Review (formerly, the Boston Critic) is an independent, nonprofit magazine dedicated to political analysis, literary and cultural criticism, and more. In February 2021, the Boston Review launched the Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship in an effort to confront the lack of diversity in publishing and to alleviate some of the institutional barriers that limit entry into the sector, including exclusive networks and low entry-level salaries. The fellowship supports the professional growth of aspiring media professionals through rigorous training in every aspect of publishing work—from identifying authors and stories, to acquisitions, web and print production, and promotion in digital and conventional media. With Corporation funding, the Boston Review will support two new media fellows through targeted mentorship, hands-on training, and production of the fellows’ independent projects.
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For the Arab Political Science Network
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
25 months
Description
Founded in 2019, the Arab Political Science Network (APSN) works to enhancescholarly capacity and expand the field of political science in the Arab region. With Corporation support,APSN will build organizational capacity andinstitutionalize its academic networks.With funding from the Corporation APSN will support early-career scholars through book proposal and publication workshops; facilitate cross-regional collaboration with political scientists in Latin America and Africa on cutting-edge scholarship on global trends; and develop educational and teaching resources including a podcast series, a short video series on new scholarship in the field, and subtitled open-access methods videos.
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For understanding the implications of technological change on nuclear stability
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
14 months
Description
Rapid technological change and advances in military-relevant technologies may lead to increased nuclear risks. The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) will engage in cross-disciplinary research and conveningto assess the risks and consider options for minimizing them. The project will focus on new trends in command and control, cyber vulnerabilities, and proliferation pathways andengage an extensive network of national security policymakers and Silicon Valley technologists. The resulting technical and policy recommendations will be aimed at policymakers and the private sector involved with relevant trends.
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For a project on nuclear history and policy outreach
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
59 months
Description
Improving nuclear policies often requires understanding the historical context in which those policies were initially devised. The Stevens Institute of Technology will engage in two related research projects that employ an historical, comparative, and unclassified approach to nuclear questions. The first project will compare launch authority procedures in various nuclear possessor states, an especially relevant question given recent Congressional interest in reforming U.S. launch authority. The second project will investigate a 1960s incident in which large quantities of enriched uranium went missing from a facility in Pennsylvania. The projects will result in publications and/or a podcast aiming at specialists and the broader concerned public.
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For the creation of a long-term sustainable, braided funding plan to build site-level fiscal sustainability
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Build UP is the nation’sfirst and only early-college workforce development modelthat provides low-income youth career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships with industry-aligned secondary and early postsecondary academic coursework, leading them to become educated, credentialed, and empowered civic leaders, professionals, homeowners and landlords. Throughout the full-time, year-round program, youth split their time between academic and career development settings, gaining knowledge that is directly applicable to paid apprenticeships in high-demand fields. Build UP’s student-apprentices collaboratively rehab blightedabandoned homes and lots, andrelocate donated homes that would otherwise end up in landfills, creating affordable and sustainable options for achieving like-new, multi-unit homeownership. Support from the Corporation will allow Build UP to pursue a financially sustainable model expansion by ensuring funding streams are effectively braided from state, regional, and local sources, includingpublic, private, and philanthropic, to fully leverage all relevant funding opportunities.
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For the Parents, Partners and Peers program of the Yale Child Study Center
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The Comer School Development Program (SDP), widely recognized as a successful systems approach to educational change, has promoted the importance of involving parents in educational decision-making and practices since 1968. The SDP has a long history of helping parents help change schools so that they support development that enhances the academic and social learning of their children. More recently the SDP developed the Parents, Partners, and Peers program (PPP), a peer-led, conversational approach to increase parents’ knowledge of child development principles to enhance their child-rearing practices. The PPP, a hybrid of the Comer School Development Program principles and the Smart and Secure Children program developed at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, provides a practical application of a developmental approach within a cultural context. This grant provides support for the piloting of an online-only version of the PPP in several New York City schools in collaboration with the United Federation of Teachers.
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For the COVID-19 Constituency Project
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
10 months
Description
The COVID-19 Constituency Project will define and identify the conditions and extent to which the shared COVID-19 experience has created a much heightened, public support for bold education initiatives. The project will be based on public, not political, priorities, which will be gathered through mediums such as polling, focus groups, or surveys. This opinion gathering process will inform effective messaging that galvanizes the COVID-19 Constituency – the newly motivated citizens who have shared this experience of the global pandemic and demand a transformation of education systems. Once the priorities are identified, The Hunt Institute will work with partners and stakeholders to shape the policy options that could address those same priorities at the national, state, and local levels. The policies would highlight the needed action and change to ensure our education system meets the needs of all children across this country and addresses long-standing equity gaps that have persisted in the country for far too long. Supported by the visible Covid Constituency, policies would drive the politics – showing policymakers that change is desired and there is public support to transform education in bold and innovative ways.
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For the Education Redesign Lab’s next phase of work, with a focus on the research agenda for cross-sector collaborations and the launch of a national Success Planning community of practice
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
In the pursuit of equity and social justice, EdRedesign supports the field to build cross-sector, community-wide systems of support and opportunity for children from birth to adulthood.They aim to advance principles of effective practice in two interrelated focus areas: (1) cross-sector collaborations, which bring together government, schools, and community organizations to coordinate supports and opportunities for children, supported by a backbone organization; and (2) success planning, through which each child in a community is paired with a caring adult navigator, who utilizes the infrastructure created through cross-sector organizations to help the child access supports and opportunities based on their individual needs and interests, both in and out of school. This grant supports a broad research agenda on cross-sector collaborations and the launch of a national community of practice focused on success planning.
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For support of competitive early-career fellowships
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Young scientists are a critical resource to advancing research for development and expanding capacity for increased university enrollment in Africa. With a focus on early-career academics, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a network of 129 African universities, will implement a competitive program comprised of multiple interventions targeting postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, drawn from member universities. With continued Corporation support, RUFORUM will award ten postdoctoral fellowships, forty doctoral research grants, and ten short-term teaching attachments, with a target of 50 percent women across all activities. Fellows will receive stipends and support for research, conference attendance, and publishing. RUFORUM will also organize skill-building workshops and networking opportunities for the fellows.
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For building the capacity of #DegreesNYC’s Data Co-Op and Learning Network
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
While there is a robust set of community-based organizations supporting young people in New York City, particularly with the goal of preparing them for college and career, these organizations often work in siloes and lack the mechanisms needed to share learning and measure impact. #DegreesNYC is a collective impact initiative focused on improving postsecondary access and completion in New York City by bringing organizations and stakeholders together under a shared set of goals and structures. In partnership with the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, #DegreesNYC facilitates a data co-op with fourteen college access organizations to equip them with the data and skills needed to improve programming and outcomes for students. As part of the Focus NYC initiative, Corporation support will allow #DegreesNYC to expand data co-op membership by seven organizations, advance policy efforts focused on career preparation and pathways, and report on systemic inequities in the postsecondary education pipeline.
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For support to incorporate a Career Readiness Diagnostic, which assesses a young person’s preparedness to find a first job, into the K12-to-college-to-career ecosystem
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Basta was founded in 2016 with the singular goal of helping first-generation college students of color get great first jobs. This work is critical, as decades of longitudinal research indicate that young people from marginalized backgrounds experience significant employment and wealth gaps, even when compared to privileged peers with comparable academic backgrounds. ‘Powered by Basta’is Basta’s scaling and impact vehicle, allowing Basta to share their expertise and results-orientation with other providers in the K12-to-college-to-career ecosystem. As part of the Focus NYC initiative, Corporation support will enable Basta to continue to work with high schools, institutions of higher education, and youth serving community based organizations to embed Basta’s results-oriented approach to career readiness into their program models, increasing the likelihood that first generation college students thrive and achieve early career success in New York City.
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For developing and scaling a technology platform to support college advising and admissions for New York City’s students
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
5 months
Description
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources and targeted tools to support students’ college access and success are insufficient. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges facing students on their paths to and through college and accelerated the need for tools that meet the shifting needs of students, families, and educators. Overgrad equips schools and community-based organizations with the data and tools necessary to empower students to make informed decisions and optimize their college match in order to expand postsecondary access and success. Overgrad’s platform provides real-time insight into student progress toward key postsecondary milestones and offers students customizable information about best-fit colleges. As part of the Focus NYC initiative, Corporation support will allow Overgrad to expand its partnerships with schools and community-based organizations in New York City, refine the platform to meet the needs of new partners, and report on postsecondary readiness across New York City.
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For a project on U.S.-China scientific engagement
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
33 months
Description
ContinuedtensionsinU.S.-China relations are likely tohave significant implications for the ways that the two nations’ scientific communities interact over the coming decades. In recent years, the relationship has suffered from an overlay of competition and mistrust. This is particularly salient as issues related to science, technology, and health have become major contested areas between the two countries.It is also occurring at a time when increasing numbers of global issues require global technical and policy cooperation. In response, the National Academy of Sciences’ Policy and Global Affairs Division is establishing a committee on U.S.-China Scientific Engagement and organizing a series of Track II dialogues with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to initiate ideas for potential cooperation.
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As a one-time grant for a neurocognitive study on how middle school students process information through print and digital media
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
20 months
Description
Despite literacy-dependent cultures around the world transitioning away from print media toward digital products, there is a dearth of high-quality scientific research on the differences between print and digital information processing, especially on the neurocognitive level. Behavioral studies on cross-medium reading habits and information retention are often mixed or highly nuanced, making it difficult for educators and policymakers to make informed decisions on school design and pedagogical approaches. With Corporation support, researchers with the Neurocognition of Language Laboratory at Teachers College, Columbia University, will use brain imaging technology to conduct highly controlled, non-invasive experiments analyzing how the brains of middle school students process print and digital texts on a systematic level.
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For the creation and promotion of holistic admission practices that increase admission of students of color, and students from low-income households and other historically underrepresented groups
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), is a non-profit, voluntary, professional association of more than 11,000 higher education professionals representing approximately 2,600 institutions. Its mission is to provide professional development, guidelines, and voluntary standards regarding the best practices in admissions, enrollment management, administrative IT, and student services. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many colleges and universities opted to go test-optional in their admissions practices. AACRAO seeks to bring together a diverse set of K12 and higher education stakeholders to collaborate on research-based standards for holistic admissions practices that can be customized for individual institutions. Participants will collaborate to raise awareness, educate, create guidelines, train, and prepare the higher education and K-12 sectors, with a focus including a diverse set of higher education institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs),and Tribal Colleges. Corporation support will launch the first stakeholder convening.
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For a project to create a playbook of evidence-based strategies for spending federal funding for education as part of the COVID-19 relief packages
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
3 months
Description
The $123 billion in Covid-relief aid that K-12 schools are receiving through the American Rescue Plan includes a requirement that at least 5 percent of state funding and 20 percent of monies passed through to school districts and charter schools be spent on “evidence-based” interventions to help students recover from lost instructional opportunities.But many education leaders say they aren’t clear what constitutes an evidence-based intervention, as defined under federal law, and what programs would work best for their students. There is a strong, immediate need to provide state and local education policymakers and practitioners with evidence-backed strategies for spending the federal funding.FutureEd, a think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, proposes creating a series of short, easy-to-read summaries of approximately two dozen evidence-based strategies for helping state and local education policymakers and practitioners use federal funding to expedite student learning.
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For a SciDev.Net interview series highlighting Africa female researchers
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Women scientists have a critical role to play in Africa’s development, however, persisting gender inequality limits women contributions to addressing development challenges. According to recent data from UNESCO, only 31 percent of researchers employed in research and development in Africa are women, and few hold senior leadership positions. To address this gender gap, SciDev.Net, a science and development news organization, launched a “Role Models” series that interviews successful women scientists across the developing world. Its aim is to highlight successful women researchers and contribute to policy dialogue around barriers to women achieving senior research positions. Corporation funding will support production of 24 interviews with women scientists in partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa and dissemination through videos, a podcast, and radio.
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For developing and scaling a technology platform to support college advising and admissions for New York City’s students
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources and targeted tools to support students’ college access and success are insufficient. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges facing students on their paths to and through college and accelerated the need for tools that meet the shifting needs of students, families, and educators.Overgradequips schools and community-based organizations with the data and tools necessary to empower students to make informed decisions and optimize their college match in order to expand postsecondary access and success.Overgrad’splatform provides real-time insight into student progress toward key postsecondary milestones and offers students customizable information about best-fit colleges.As part of the Focus NYC initiative, Corporation support will allowOvergradto expand its partnershipsin New York City,refine the platform and incorporate alternative postsecondary pathways,build the capacity of schools and organizations to utilize the platform,and analyze postsecondary readiness data.
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For supporting the International Nuclear Security Forum
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
29 months
Description
Civil society remains an important constituency for closing gaps in the international nuclear security system. The International Nuclear Security Forum, a successor to the Fissile Materials Working Group,is a global network of academic and civil society groups dedicated to minimizing the threat from weapons-usable nuclear materials. Through this grant, the Henry L. Stimson Center will act as the coordinator for this coalition.The initiative willbringtogether experts across disciplines to identify, prioritize, and promote policy solutions. Focal areas will include improving cybersecurity of nuclear facilities, minimizing highly enriched uranium, and preventing further accumulation of plutonium. The coalition will conduct research and outreach with U.S. and international decisiomakers to promote better-informed policy.
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As one-time funding for a project mapping the local-level impact of U.S. foreign policy as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “The Domestic-International Connection”
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
The implications of U.S. foreign and national security policies on domestic groups are significantly understudied. This project at Colorado State University will catalogue the ways that foreign and national security policies affect local communities across the United States. By employing quantitative and qualitative methods, the project will map the distributive implications of U.S. foreign policy and present its findings in a digestible manner, with the intent of allowing all communities to better understand their relationship to America’s role in the world.
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As one-time funding for a project on accountable security policy and democracy at home and abroad as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “The Domestic-International Connection”
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
17 months
Description
Accountable security institutions are a cornerstone of durable democracy. The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), in partnership with the Stimson Center, will undertake research and workshops to identify the most common reasons accountability falls short in the United States and abroad, and what forms increased accountability might take. The work will be informed by consultations with an array of non-governmental and governmental stakeholders and will result in a published report and public events promoting recommendations for bolstering the security and justice sectors at the state, federal, and international levels.
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As one-time funding for a project analyzing connections between military spending and funding domestic priorities as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “The Domestic-International Connection.”
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The annual federal budget reflects a balance between domestic and foreign policy priorities, including military expenditures. The 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA) stipulated that increases for social programs must run parallel to increases in Pentagon spending. The Congressional Progressive Caucus Center (CPCC) will examine the implications of the BCA’s expiration in 2021 on defense versus non-defense spending in the fiscal year 2022 congressional budget resolution. Specifically, the CPCC will undertake a quantitative analysis of the impact of reallocating 10% of the Pentagon’s current budget toward public health, education, economic recoveryand climate needs. The CPCC will engage its Policy and Research Council of over50 think tanks and its Movement Table of over 85 national and regional grassroots organizations to produce and disseminate white papers, op-eds, and other publications to policymakers and the public.
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For support to extend the College Connect Peer-to-Peer program into the summer before matriculation
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 2011 College Access: Research & Action (CARA) has ensured that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college. While students need opportunities to learn about college and career pathways, most New York City public schools and institutions of higher education are not structured to provide this assistance. One of CARA’s primary program models is the Peer-to-Peer Model that addresses the gap in college access and completion guidance by empowering a range of young people to work within their own institutions to support their peers through post-secondary exploration, the college application and matriculation processes, and/or through college. CARA intends to work in collaboration with The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Central Office of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, and a set of CUNY partner campuses on “CUNY College Connect” – a program that will implement a CUNY-wide peer-to-peer advisement system that will support students through matriculation, year one of college, and beyond. Corporation support will contribute to CUNY College Connect by providing funding for Peer Leader pay.
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For continued work to advance a learning systems approach in education
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
5 months
Description
EducationCounsel is a mission-driven education organization that works with leading nonprofits, foundations, and policymakers to help significantly improve education opportunity and outcomes. In 2019, they published a paper that made the case for why education needs a learning system approach and articulated a model for what such a system should look like. With Corporation support and substantive partnership, they produced a second paper that focuses on how to begin to make and accelerate these important shifts. They now propose three work strands designed to advance toward our shared learning system vision: (1) a set of activities continuing their work to advance the learning systems concept, with a primary focus on launching a Learning Systems Leaders Network; (2) beginning to execute the strategy to strengthen the research and development infrastructure; and (3) a set of activities capitalizing on new leadership and interest at the U.S. Department of Education to develop and advance a strategy to shift implementation toward more of a learning systems approach in multiple components of the agency’s work.
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For project support of a New York City-focused Community Hub for Postsecondary Pathways; Interview archive content from New York workforce leaders, Roadtrip Nation career exploration tools, and resources from NYC-focused nonprofits.
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Roadtrip Nation (RN) is an Emmy Award winning media / workforce development non-profit, whose mission is to empower youth to define their own roads in life. Each year, Roadtrip Nation selects topics to leverage its narrative-based storytelling model, focused on a more inclusive view of the future of work. Content from these “Roadtrips” is then disseminated across a wide range of workforce, education, and media channels. Core to RTN’s impact model is the RTN Interview Archive, a database of 8,000+ video assets showcasing the career stories of a diverse set of individuals from all walks of life. Each Roadtrip fuels new stories for this database in addition to the PBS, NPR, and other digital distribution work. Roadtrip Nation will build a New York focused Community Hub,that will includeRTN Interview Archive content from New York workforce leaders, newly produced videos with New York career professionals, RTNtools/resources and resources from NYC-focused nonprofits. The Community Hub will create an engagingexperience with tangible next steps for students and jobseekers across the city as they define their roads inlife.
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For the Education Equity Cabinet: Post-Secondary Success Planning project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Theimpacts of COVID-19, including learning loss, haveaffected all students and families across New York City. However, the disproportionate impact on students of color in neighborhoods where resources are historically limited has been staggering. Recognizing that summer 2021 represents a unique opportunity to reengage with students and families and to create a springboard to a “COVID Comeback” for the fall, United Way ofNew York City (UWNYC), as a backbone and convener of networks, will support the NYC Department of Education and school communities to convene a cross-industry cohort of partnersto develop an actionable plan that meets the urgent and pressing needs of students, families, teachers and school administrators. With support from the Corporation they will focus on: 1) academic acceleration, 2) meeting social emotional needs, 3) meeting health and wellness needs, 4) providing parent support, engagement and empowerment, 5) addressing the transitional grades needs, 6) creating an enriching and affirming experience that welcomes children and families back to school, and 7) supports planning for 21-22 academic year.
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For communications related to and planning for the future of the Coherence Lab Fellowship, a project launched as part of the Corporation's Integration Design Consortium
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
3 months
Description
The Aspen Institute Education andSociety Program, the Council of Chief State School Officers and Education First partnered to design and implement the Coherence Lab Fellowship (CLF), a practical solution to fragmentation in state education agencies (SEAs), as part of the Corporation’s Integration Design Consortium. Over two cohorts with Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Colorado, they worked with over seventyFellows, representing leaders of SEAs, local education agencies and community organizations. Fellows learned how to analyze challenges from a coherence and equity lens, build focus on fewer priorities, create new structures for meaningfully engaging and understanding stakeholders to inform policy, collaborate more effectively across silos, prototype to solve problems and foster the adult learning necessary for scaling change. This grant supports planning for the next iteration of the CLF and the execution of a communications plan.
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As one-time funding for the Independent Climate Accounting Network as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "Reimagining Multilateralism"
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Addressing the challenges posed by climate change requires multilateral action. To increase international cooperation and accountability on climate agreements, the Independent Climate Accounting Network (ICAN) will work with multilateral institutions, national governments, and non-state actors in improving the efficiency of data collection and reporting, and enhancing trust and accountability in the Paris Agreement—the 2016 legally binding international treaty on climate change. The project will build on ICAN’s prior efforts and will involve collaboration among different institutions and experts in climate diplomacy, climate finance, international collaboration, and technology.
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For governance and local development in the Middle East and North Africa
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
There is a great deal of variation in governance and development outcomes across the Middle East andNorth Africa. The Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg will engage in a study to such fundamental questions as: why are some communities able to provide secure environments, good education, healthcare, and human development, while others fail to do so? With initial Corporation support, the project connected dozens of international scholars researching and communicating on decentralization, representation, reconciliation, and service delivery in Oman, Iraq, Tunisia, and other countries. The next phase will focus on capacity-building training through collaborative, policy-oriented reports and social science workshops, as well as an ongoing podcast series.
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For a by-students, for-students exploration of postsecondary access in New York City
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Student Voice is a national non-profit organization that equips students as storytellers, organizers, and institutional partners who advocate for student-driven solutions to educational inequity. Through direct civic action, Student Voice helps students hold their schools and surrounding communities accountable to a Student Bill of Rights developed by the organization and prepares them to become lifelong agents of social and political change. With support from the Corporation,Student Voice will amplify their campaign in New York toelevate the voices of high school students about their aspirations and opportunities for post-secondary pathways.
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For support of the digitization of the collections of the Library of Trinity College Dublin
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
45 months
Description
Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin houses a research library of international acclaim. The Library of Trinity College Dublin has initiated an ambitious program of conservation, modern curation, digitization, and advanced technological application in order to bring its invaluable collections into the digital age. In March 2021, the library launched an enhanced digital repository, featuring the newly digitized Winchcombe Psalter and the Life of St. Alban by Matthew Paris. With Corporation support, the Library of Trinity College Dublin will enhance its digital repository’s functional capabilities, as well as move to preserve and make available a second tranche of medieval manuscripts.
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For support of a nonpartisan commission dedicated to exploring continuity of government issues at the federal level
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness about the ways in which national emergencies can disrupt operations and governance at all levels of government. The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is developing a continuity of government commission, in order to help key institutions of government prepare for future emergencies. The nonpartisan commission will comprise members of diverse backgrounds with expertise on executive, legislative, and judicial institutions. With Corporation support, the continuity of government commission will identify opportunities to strengthen key federal institutions and elevate the initiative’s importance in the media and among key stakeholders.
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For support of the HyFlex learning initiative
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Baruch College, one of the 11 senior schools within the CUNY system andranked among the region’s and nation’s top colleges. The College is home to more than 18,000 students, who speak more than 100 languages and trace their heritage to more than 160 countries. In the fall of 2021, Baruch College open its campus at 50% capacity and will include online learning which will become a permanent part of its curriculum. This has been a benefitto the college community because students who could not attend classes because of jobs or family responsibility now have an opportunity to earn degrees in a virtual environment. With Corporation support, Baruch College will launch the HyFlex, an online learning initiative. This pilot program will provide a menu of tools for optimal modes of instruction including the integration of the campus network with a new AV management system.
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As one-time funding for a project on building an "intermestic" policy agenda as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "The Domestic-International Connection"
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
23 months
Description
Foreign Policy for America Foundation (FPAF) is a national organization working to promote informed foreign policy decision-making by engaging diverse local audiences and elevating voices for diplomacy through research, briefings, production of a well-respected legislative scorecard, and engagements with Congress. Since the onset of COVID-19, FPAF has expanded virtual public discussions of its NextGen Foreign Policy Initiative, a volunteer-led cohort of about 300 diverse young experts committed to advancing principled foreign policy. FPAF will continue its events and will produce a report on a set of “intermestic” issues that crosscut the traditional boundaries of international and domestic policy, such as climate, trade, immigration, and human rights.
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For reducing nuclear risks through research, policy analysis, training, and engagement
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
30 months
Description
Technical expertise on nuclear weapons and materials is essential for preventing nuclear weapons use and proliferation. The Program on Science and Global Security (PSGS) at Princeton University is home to some of the leading independent analysts on nuclear security issues. With Corporation support, the program will continue to train doctoral students and conduct rigorous policy-relevant research on verification, proliferation, force posture, and ballistic missile defense. PSGS also serves as the secretariat of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, a coalition of global experts that analyzes the technical basis for efforts to secure, consolidate, and reduce stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium.
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For support of the design and implementation of postsecondary access programming
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
17 months
Description
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources and targeted tools to support students’ college access and success are insufficient. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges facing students on their paths to and through college and accelerated the need for programs that meet the shifting needs of students, families, and educators. The Queens Public Library (QPL) has been a community resource and information hub for Queens residents throughout its 125-year history, providing access to books and media, educational programming, and services for English language learners and new immigrants. QPL is currently focused on helping the residents of Queens recover and rebuild from the pandemic, particularly young people who face barriers getting into and graduating from college. Corporation support will enable QPL to participate in the Corporation’s Focus NYC initiative and design and launch a college access program, Branches to Success, that will provide guidance to Queens students and families on college admissions, career exploration, and financial assistance.
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For the launch of the MIT Systems Awareness Lab
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
11 months
Description
There is a renewed and urgent call for foundational change in education systems. Emerging communities of educators and policy makers are leading the response, working together in new ways to design more equitable, just, healthy, sustainable and effective educational systems. MIT, together with the Center for Systems Awareness, have been an important part of this effort, in developing a capacity among educators and key stakeholders to approach these challenges and opportunities through a systems thinking orientation that attends holistically to the wellbeing and achievement of children and adults within systems of education. There is now an opportunity to develop and carry out rigorous study of these systems change processes across large education systems.This grant would support the official launch of the Systems Awareness Lab at MIT, which aims to document, measure, and analyze how such change processes appear and grow over time through small local and large-scale change efforts across individuals, small groups, large organizations, and state-wide and global systems.
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For a pilot program on supplementing the New York State assessment system and graduation requirements with performance-based assessments
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
43 months
Description
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) operates a state assessment program that is used as the basis for many consequential decisions about students and schools, but it also tends to drive the way that instruction is done. Because NYSED’s 3-8 and Regents assessments are primarily paper-and-pencil and fairly traditional in design, they tend to incentivize a “seat-time” model of instruction. By contrast, performance assessments ask students to produce a product or carry out a performance that more authentically measures what students know and can do, while also providing a learning opportunity for students and signaling the types of instructional tasks that many would like to see in classrooms. The Board of Regents’ aim is to move their assessment program in a direction that supports competency-based and project-based instruction. They plan to engage experts to help design and implement a pilot program to demonstrate the feasibility of supplementing their assessment system and graduation requirements with performance-based assessments.
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For a project to develop a system of teacher and leader development for deeper, more equitable learning and whole child education for South Carolina
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
13 months
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The University of South Carolina (UofSC) and its College of Education (COE) have a long history of advancing teacher education reform in the state. More recently, as South Carolina continues to face growing teacher (and administrator) shortages, the COE has launched a number of innovative approaches to teacher and school leader development. This includes a mentoring program for early career teachers, a rural teacher residency pilot for career changers, a competency-based alternative preparation collaborative, an effort to use improvement science to advance professional learning for administrators, and an online professional learning delivery platform. More recently, the university has made a major commitment to support transformation and equity through a campus-wide strategy to support community schooling and whole child education. This project proposes building upon seven current (and semi-coordinated) innovations in teacher and school leader development within the COE to establish an integrated educator development system for whole child education and deeper, more equitable student learning outcomes for the state. This grant supports the research and development phase of the work.
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For the Center for Educational Equity's continued work on civics education and equity.
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
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Readying young people for their civic responsibilities in a democracy has historically been an essential role of U.S. schools; today it is more important than ever. Yet, one of the many harmful effects of ongoing race- and class-based educational inequities is that large numbers of students, particularly students in poverty and students of color, leave high school without the knowledge, skills, experience, and dispositions to engage effectively in political and civic life. Founded in 2005, the Center for Educational Equity (CEE) is a nonprofit policy and research center at Teachers College, Columbia University. This project continues CEE’s work to promote systemic change to (1) improve the capacity of all New York schools to prepare their students for civic participation and (2) increase the capacity of New York students and parents to understand and advocate for the fulfillment of students’ right to a meaningful educational opportunity that prepares them for civic participation, as well as college and careers.
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For the project, The Economy She Deserves: Toward a Women-Centered Recovery
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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The mission of Wellesley College is to provide an exceptionalliberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women in terms of job losses and economic inequality, and women of color and single mothers have been most affected. Thiswork is most closely aligned with the Carnegie Corporation’s focus on education and democracy, specifically in the realms of the future of learning and work, family and community engagement, and citizenship.With Corporation support, the project will survey young women (ages 18-30) entering the workforce to more fully understand the impact that the pandemic has had on their economic stability, careers and job choices, and ambitions for both work and family.
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As a final grant for the annual librarian awards program honoring exemplary performance by public, academic, and school librarians
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
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In 2008, the Corporation partnered with the American Library Association (ALA) and The New York Times to reinstate and expand the awards program under the administration of the ALA. Every year since then, the I Love My Librarian Awards have recognized ten exceptional public, academic, or school librarians who have improved the lives of the people in their communities. According to recipients, the awards have raised the profile of library services and librarians within their communities, and they have been celebrated by local mayors, city councils, and school districts in addition to print, radio, television, and online media. These awards are aimed at drawing attention to the key roles librarians play in promoting literacy and education, creating lifelong learners, and developing an informed electorate to sustain democratic traditions. Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ALA celebrated the award winners virtually, with nearly 3,000 viewers livestreaming the event. With Corporation support, the ALA will continue to award cash prizes to the winners, hold the popular annual award ceremony, and increase support for libraries and librarians through national media outreach.
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As a final grant for support of the Lincoln Center Education program
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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Founded in 1959, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was envisioned by founder John D. Rockefeller as a place where “the arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many.” Guided by this goal, Lincoln Center Education (LCE) aims to remove barriers to participation in the arts for children and families from all five boroughs of New York City, who might not otherwise have access to arts programming. Arts education has been proven to improve academic outcomes for students living in poverty. A 2012 study by the National Endowment for the Arts found that low-income students who received arts education performed better in science and writing and had overall higher GPAs than those who did not. LCE offers arts classes in New York City K-12 schools, community engagement programs on the Lincoln Center campus, and professional development for teaching artists and public-school teachers. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lincoln Center was one of the first cultural organizations to offer online educational programming for children and resources for educators, including on-demand arts classes and a series of family-friendly concerts. The ninety-three episodes of Pop-Up Classroom garnered more than 860,000 viewers and the eighty #ConcertsforKids performances attracted nearly two million viewers. As coronavirus restrictions ease, Lincoln Center plans to continue to provide virtual programming while also resuming in-person events. With Corporation support, LCE will continue to provide high-quality arts education to students in the New York metropolitan area as well as online.
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For improving the communications capacity of the arms control and disarmament sector
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
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The United States faces connected challenges on nuclear policy in Iran, North Korea, nuclear modernization, and U.S.-Russia relations. Yet the constituency concerned with nuclear weapons has steadily diminished over the past two decades. Recent developments, while daunting, have increased the salience of nuclear issues and created new opportunities for renewed public conversation about nuclear risk. ReThink Media provides assistance to the nongovernment community working on these challenges. It helps its partners with resources, advice, and technical assistance to better understand where the public stands on these issues and to more effectively reach their target audiences.
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For U.S.-Russian Track II dialogues on strategic stability
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
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With arms control between the United States and Russia at a halt, there is need for a dialogue between nongovernmental security experts in the two countries. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have provided such a forum for the past few decades. With renewed funding from the Corporation, the academies will continue discussions through bilateral Track II meetings involving technical and policy experts to investigate current problems and identify mutually acceptable approaches to them. With a focus on strategic stability, arms control, and technological change, these interactions aim to help build technical and analytical foundations for policy considerations.
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For rebuilding the national security workforce through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
The new U.S.administration inherited a range of complex crises. From COVID-19 to the economy, the United States and the world at large will remain beset by both existing and newly-emergent challenges. To restoreU.S. leadership abroad, the United States must repair its national securityworkforce at home, which faces departures, retirements, and slowing recruitment. This workforce is also under-resourced and unrepresentative of America’s diversity. The Truman Center for National Policy—a nationwide membership organization of next generation national security leaders—is committed to shaping and advocating for smart national security solutions through strengthening national expertise. With support from the Corporation, it will pursue a set of activities to train, track, recruit, and rebuild a more vibrant and diverse national security workforce, while also showcasing to policymakers how diversifying this workforce can be a strategic asset.
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As a final grant for the Bodleian Libraries’ Digital Archives project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
48 months
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Each year, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford serves over 65,000 registered readers, at least 40 per cent of whom are from beyond the University, and receives over 2 million research visits. The Bodleian’s goal is to preserve the inheritance of the past, while engaging new generations to come. It aims to provide the best possible materials to support the highest level of scholarship within the University and by visiting scholars. In an effort to do this they want to continue and finish the work they began with a Corporation grant in 2016 —digitizing and cataloguing their collections in order to be more widely accessible. With Corporation support the Bodleian will be able to continue theirdigitization andcataloguing work on their archival and specialcollections
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For support for a conference entitled, "The Writer’s Role in Imagining Racial and Ethnic Identity"
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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Earlier this year, William J. Connell, the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies atSeton Hall University and 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, received a tip that a previously unknown recording of a famous 1962 literary symposium held at Yeshiva University was buried in the university’s Special Collections. The event included authors Philip Roth, Ralph Ellison, and Pietro di Donato discussing whether minority writers of fiction have special obligations in depicting members of their own religious, cultural, or ethnic groups, and whether stereotypical representations should be avoided. The Yeshiva symposium is legendary, in large part because Roth attributed his success as a writer to the fierce interrogation of his work at the convening, also stating that the discussion helped him solidify his attitudes about religion and ethnicity. Connell, having contacts at each of the three authors estates, arranged for the recording to be made public for the first time. Because the issues that were memorably and eloquently discussed in 1962 hold great relevance in 2021, Newark Public Library will hold a conference where distinguished scholars examine and critique the ideas expressed at the symposium fifty-nine years ago and juxtapose them with modern thoughts on race and ethnicity. Connell will serve as moderator. With Corporation support, Newark Public Library will host a large-scale public event that advances our nation’s conversation about the role of race and identity in literature and our society at large.
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For a project on policy relevant research at the Global Research Institute
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
33 months
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The many challenges facing the United States and the world could be addressed more effectively if they were grounded in logic and sound evidence. However, bringing academic research findings to bear on these challenges requires clear understandings of the pathways through which scholarly research can shape policy. The College of William & Mary’s (W&M) Global Research Institute (GRI) will institutionalize its efforts to bridge the academic-policy divide and increase scholars’ ability to engage in applied policy research. In addition to continuing the Corporation-funded Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project that conducts surveys of scholars and practitioners on how academic products are utilized, GRI will promote more collaboration between these sectors through post-doctoral fellowships for academic diversity and investments in strategic communications targeting policy and practitioner audiences.
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