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As a one-time only grant for general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s (JALC) mission is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy. In alignment with Andrew Carnegie’s vision “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding,” JALC has built an international platform for America’s distinctive art form. Through its improvisation, encouraging individual expression and personal freedom, jazz is a metaphor for democracy, inspiring us to face adversity with persistent optimism. Due to Covid-19, JALC has lost an unprecedented amount of income with the cessation of public performances. With Corporation support, JALC will be able to continue and expand online programming while developing a 2021 concert season program.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In addition to terminating humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and attempting to suspend refugee resettlement efforts, the federal government has been making the legal immigration system more difficult to access. Moreover, federal stimulus packages aimed at alleviating the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has largely excluded immigrant communities, despite immigrants comprising an outsized share of the essential workforce. Founded in 1968 by leaders of the civil rights, labor, and anti-poverty movements, the Center for Community Change (“Community Change”) leads a national network of forty state-based organizations working to empower immigrant communities. With Corporation support, Community Change will provide training, capacity building, and opportunities for collaboration among state and local organizations working to increase civic participation among racial minorities, immigrants, and low-income people.
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For core support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Although immigration advocates are successfully advancing pro-immigrant policies at the state and local levels and challenging some of the harshest anti-immigrant measures, immigrants continue to be made targets of dangerous political rhetoric and discriminatory policies. In recent years, the Trump Administration has escalated immigration raids at courthouses and places of work, separated families, detained young immigrant children, and weakened the legal immigration, refugee and asylum systems to unprecedented levels. Established in 2003 with Corporation support, the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) is a donor collaborative housed at Neo Philanthropy supporting state-based and regional immigrant-serving coalitions across the country. FFF serves a hybrid role of convener, grantmaker, and strategist, connecting grassroots organizations with national immigration advocacy groups. With Corporation support, FFF will support state and regional organizations across the country through grants that build institutional capacity, promote strategic collaboration among peers, increase civic engagement, devise effective communications, and create intersectional alliances with diverse allies.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In the last several decades, both Republican and Democrat majorities in government have failed to enact their respective parties’ preferred vision of comprehensive immigration reform. In order to develop and implement necessary fixes to the country’s immigration system, policymakers will have to not only work across political aisles and sectors of society, but also obtain majority support from the general public. Founded in 2007, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a public policy organization committed to fostering bipartisan coalitions and combining the best ideas of both major political parties, with the goal of improving health, security, and opportunity outcomes in the United States. With Corporation support, BPC will provide critical analysis of new and existing immigration policies and develop commonsense policy recommendations for the nation’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed that immigrants are not only overrepresented among the nation’s frontline and “essential” workers, but also less likely than non-immigrants to have health insurance or an economic safety net to fall back on. Unsurprisingly, immigrants and other marginalized populations are shouldering a disproportionate share of the economic, social, and health-related consequences of the pandemic. Yet, during this period of heightened vulnerability, the federal government has further cracked down on immigrants and immigration policy, despite a groundswell of support for immigrants as part of the American response to COVID-19. Founded in 2010, the Partnership for a New American Economy (NAE) Research Fund has been making the socio-economic case for immigrant integration through rigorous research and convening local and state stakeholders around the issue. With Corporation support, the NAE Research Fund will produce original research on immigrants’ contributions to communities and key industries and support governmental and business leaders in conveying that immigrants are integral to the country’s social fabric.
Project Title
For core support of its civic engagement program
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
While the largest racial minority group in the United States, the Latino community faces significant threats to realizing their full potential. This includes the recent rise in anti-immigrant hostility in political discourse and federal policies, and voter suppression efforts targeting Latinos and other people of color. Founded in 1990, the Hispanic Federation is among the largest Latino nonprofit membership and advocacy organizations in the country. With more than 150 community-based member agencies serving millions of Latino Americans, especially those who are low-income and/or immigrants, Hispanic Federation is committed to advancing the Latino community’s outcomes in education, employment, health, and civic engagement. With Corporation support, the Hispanic Federation will integrate civic engagement resources into its core social service programs and engage in rigorous campaigns to increase civic participation among eligible Latino voters.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In recent years, immigrant communities have been made targets of discriminatory policies that preclude their full integration into the United States. This includes the federal government’s new “public charge” regulations, which may result in up to 47 percent of noncitizens being made ineligible for green cards for accessing public benefits for which they are eligible. The government is also significantly increasing fees for select immigration requests, making permanent immigration status inaccessible to immigrants with limited financial resources. Founded in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is a legal advocacy organization dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants and their families. With Corporation support, NILC will continue to advocate for humane, commonsense policies that make it possible for immigrants to emerge from poverty and live with dignity, and also use litigation to defend the due process and civil rights of immigrants.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The American education system has long-standing issues largely embedded in socio-economic and racial inequities. For our most vulnerable communities across the nation, education does not allow them the same opportunities as their wealthier counterparts. Research continuously shows that when families are well equipped with the information and support to advocate for their children’s education and build better relationships with decision makers, student achievement improves. Launched in 2014 as an umbrella organization housed by Education Post, Brightbeam is a nonprofit network of education activists demanding a better education and a brighter future for every child. With support from the Corporation, Brightbeam will continue their work to embolden families and educators to lead change within their communities by equipping them with the necessary information, data, and resources to make the best possible arguments in support of their children’s education.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1970, National Public Radio (NPR) is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit multimedia organization with a network of more than 260 member stations. NPR provides high quality journalism and cultural programming to an audience of more than 60 million people per week, on both live broadcast and digital media. It maintains seventeen domestic bureaus and seventeen foreign bureaus, helping to provide American audiences with timely, on-the-ground reporting of events in the United States and around the globe. Its NPR Education Desk informs millions of weekly listeners and visitors about whether the nation’s education system is effectively serving its students in communities across the country. With Corporation support, NPR will continue to produce quality news programming on international affairs, immigration, elections, and education in the United States.
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For core support to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Since the 2005 United Nations’ World Summit unanimously adopted the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), its principles have become an established, albeit at times controversial, international norm. R2P calls for a political commitment to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. However, some states continue to commit mass atrocities with uneven and controversial responses from the international community. The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (The Global Centre) seeks to increase the practical implementation of R2P through analysis of emerging mass atrocity situations, mobilization of appropriate international actors, and building networks and interest groups at the state and civil society levels. The Global Centre will pursue this objective with its high-level access to both the United Nations community and international human rights organizations that address this persistent global issue.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic is drawing attention to the increasing need for the use of education technology (edtech), as hybrid and virtual settings are now central to most schools’ instructional plans. However, a central barrier to the effective selection and use of edtech has been that decision-makers responsible for selecting and deploying edtech generally do not have information about what affects its successful implementation in schools or districts like their own. Insights about what works in different contexts are not shared across classrooms, schools and districts. Jefferson Education Exchange, launched in 2018, aims to help teachers and education leaders make evidence-based decisions about education technology. With Corporation support, they have conducted research on the implementation variables most likely to affect the success of edtech initiatives. With continued support, they will build a platform that crowdsources such data directly from teachers and shares it among them, while preparing to launch a research center at the University of Virginia.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
This upcoming academic year, ensuring children’s academic success and well-being through high- quality digital resources and digital supports will be essential for families, students, and educators. Common Sense Media, the leading organization in the United States dedicated to building a digital world where children can learn and thrive, is uniquely positioned to support the continued education of students with a particular focus on helping parents become partners in their children’s learning during the pandemic, and to put in place the longer term infrastructure changes needed to ensure a more equitable future for all. Through this grant, Common Sense Media will (a) conduct and publish research on the needs of parents and educators during this unique time and the role that media and technology play in children’s learning and development; (b) continue to operate Wide Open School, disseminate digital learning and parent engagement tools and resources, and provide professional learning supports to teachers and school leaders; and (c) raise awareness about effective ways to close the digital divide by collaborating with policymakers and tech-related organizations.
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For core support of Learning Heroes
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Due to school closures and the digital gap it is estimated that students could be a year behind in math and months behind in reading at the beginning of the new academic year. This loss is in addition to an already existing achievement gap, and 2019 PISA results that expose American education lagging behind comparable education systems globally. The gaps in information, understanding and resources have led to parents overestimating their child’s academic standing and the risks of this gap widening during the pandemic are high. Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization founded with Corporation support in 2016, is an expert on parent mindsets, listening to families to create content that engages them at a national scale. Learning Heroes’ core communications strategies inform and equip parents with actions they can take on behalf of their child’s academic success. Renewed support from the Corporation will allow Learning Heroes to build upon their current efforts and execute their core priorities and operations objectives in 2021.
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For core support of Seek Common Ground
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Seek Common Ground (SCG) serves independent state-and community-facing education advocacy efforts to promote coalition building that honors the power of local, authentic agenda setting to drive sustainable educational excellence and equity. SCG coalitions seek to empower those most impacted by education policies and practices—students, families and educators—with support from allies across a broad range of interests and identities. Renewed support from the Corporation will enable SCG to continue to support independent statewide and community-facing efforts in two critical ways: first, it will enable SCG to continue to incubate, support, and serve as a critical partner to advocates—to empower them to improve students’ educational prospects by supporting their core functions and provision of counsel, coaching, and connection. Second, it will enable SCG to continue their Community-led COVID-19 Recovery Action Accelerator for family and student engagement by starting a second round to enable statewide and community efforts to continue to transform what school looks like in this year of unprecedented challenges.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
With the education sector in turmoil for much of 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic, holding together and shoring up the fragile education journalism ecosystem has never been more essential. School as we know it was utterly upended in 2020, with consequences often falling hardest on Black, Latinx and Native American students and their families. How the education sector will be changed over the long term remains unclear. We however do know that into 2021 and beyond, the American public will remain in urgent need of accurate news and information about everything from remote preschool options to college admissions. Education journalists need to be the public’s guide to an uncertain future, providing the real-time information and analysis to help students, parents and the broader public emerge from the pandemic and its aftermath with a minimum of lasting damage. Founded in 1947, the Education Writers Association (EWA) has been working for more than 70 years to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public. EWA is a vibrant professional community of education journalists — reporters, editors, producers, and freelancers who work for online media, newspapers, radio and TV stations, and magazines. With renewed support from the Corporation. EWA will continue to provide its members access to high-quality resources to build their knowledge and skills, allow them to learn from one another, and remain inspired to do the work that is so essential to the future of our society?
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
TalkingPoints unlocks the potential of low-income, underserved families to support their children’s learning so that these students can graduate from high school on time, go to college, and become part of an inclusive, diverse workforce in America. Through their multilingual engagement platform powered by two-way translated messages and personalized support, families and teachers are able to connect using human and artificial intelligence, eliminating language, time limitations, and know-how as barriers to the school and family connection. This renewal grant will provide general operating support to (a) enable TalkingPoints to invest in their core platform, doubling its reach from 1.5 to 3 million families in 2021; (b) validate the TalkingPoints’ model through research and increased internal data measurement and evaluation capacity; and (c) build organizational infrastructure and technical capacity for scale.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
6 months
Description
Across the U.S., the relationships between teachers, students, and families typically looks like a line connecting teachers with students and students with families. On the teacher-student side, teachers are taught how to interact with their students but not their families. On the student-family side, schools invite families in for “involvement” events like volunteer events that have no impact on student learning. For effective family engagement, we must bend this line into a triangle where students, teachers, and families work together as a team. Now more than ever, families are being asked to play a much larger role in their children’s education given the disruptions to schooling that are occurring due to COVID-19. PowerMyLearning (PML), a national non-profit with 20 years of experience, substantiates a core theory: by giving teachers the know-how and tools to get families involved in their children’s learning, student’s academic outcomes can dramatically improve. With support from the Corporation, PML will continue to leverage their expertise working with family engagement and learning technologies to lead an equitable and inclusive recovery for our country’s students during this time of distance and hybrid learning.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Blue Engine accelerates student learning so that all students graduate from high school college- and career-ready—regardless of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, language proficiency, or learning differences. Over the last ten years, Blue Engine has developed an evidence-based “team teaching” model that enables teachers working together on a team. With support and resources, “co-teachers” can shift their mindsets, improve teaching quality, and become better equipped to address the needs of all students, whether through in-person or virtual learning environment. Their work to help teachers create individualized learning experiences for students is especially pressing, as the K-12 education system deals with the unprecedented learning losses attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this general support grant, Blue Engine will: a) secure partnerships with districts and schools; b) design and implement partnerships; and c) develop a multi-year plan.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
As schools are developing reopening plans with remote, in-person, and hybrid instructional models, the long-term effects of the Spring 2020 school closures continue to impact the 2020-21 school year. Extensive testing, reteaching, and remediation at the expense of grade-level work will further jeopardize the academic success of students, particularly those with specialized learning needs. School leaders and curriculum advisors need to be equipped with the information needed to make grade-level work a priority. Student Achievement Partners (SAP) serves as a technical advisor and provides expert quality assurance to multiple education stakeholders that serve teachers and schools. Published in late June 2020, SAP’s Priority Instructional Content guidelines were designed to help publishers, designers of instructional materials, and instructional leaders find new efficiencies in their existing ELA and/or math curriculum to mitigate unfinished learning. Through this general support grant, SAP will: a) promote equitable K-12 grade-level instruction; b) provide technical support to stakeholders; and c) provide and pilot professional learning services.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1999, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) Foundation is a clearinghouse of state-level ballot measure information and expertise. Every year, the BISC Foundation trains hundreds of advocates on how to maximize their issue-based civic engagement campaigns and use the ballot initiative process, where appropriate, to promote more equitable and just governance structures. The BISC Foundation also conducts ongoing research on national and state-level trends regarding voter attitudes, opinions, concerns, and policy priorities on various issues. Some of the issues BISC Foundation has worked on in the past include voting rights, challenges to immigrant integration, and economic inequality. With Corporation support, the BISC Foundation will continue to help advocates across the country understand the power of ballot measures as effective tools to increase civic engagement, correct systemic inequalities, and promote positive social change.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Although parents and educators must work together to unlock approaches that promote educational equity and support all children, currently many educators and parents lack safe spaces to develop and share ideas. Kindred, a nonprofit organization founded in 2016 has found that creating separate spaces for educators and families to explore their identities, experiences with education and their effect on schooling is a critical first step before educators and families can partner in reimagining and co-designing equitable educational experiences for children. Through this renewal grant Kindred will (a) accelerate what’s working through the systemic integration of their model and direct service support to 14 schools to test model adaptations, (b) build a pipeline of parent leaders of color, (c) develop a collective well-being indicator that links the high-impact work of centering family voice in policy and practice with life outcomes for children, and (d) grow the Kindred Member Network by running a pilot in at least one site outside Washington DC and developing a strategy for further national expansion.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
9 months
Description
The global pandemic brought life and school to a halt across the U.S., forcing parents, teachers, and administrators to create makeshift learning environments that largely relied on improvisation and a reliable internet connection to reach quarantined students. Some school systems managed to get laptops into the hands of some students; seven months into the crisis, some are still trying. The impact on the nation’s students, their families and their teachers will most certainly be the defining education story of the next year and possibly beyond. With a five-year track record of leading a fact-based conversation about what was broken in American schools and about the innovators working to fix them, The 74, a nonprofit news organization mobilized to provide in-depth coverage of the pandemic deployed correspondents in five U.S. cities to present unique stories about the impact of the pandemic on education and how its disruption created disproportionate impacts in communities of color. With renewed support from the Corporation, The 74 will continue to build on the innovation in its newsroom operations and deepen the coverage of the pandemic and its impact on racial equity.
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For core support to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, formerly the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) is a U.S. graduate school within Middlebury College. Its James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) is known internationally as the premier institution of higher education for nonproliferation studies. CNS links students, diplomats, and other officials throughout the world as part of its education approach. With renewed support, CNS will continue its programs in the United States and abroad and will also continue expanding collaboration with King’s College London on alternative approaches to nuclear disarmament. CNS programs have educated hundreds of nonproliferation experts to date and have resulted in major publications.
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As an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic for general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
7 months
Description
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, overnight, millions of parents became their child’s primary teacher. Most families across the nation, especially in under-resourced communities, were facing a new challenge, unprepared and with little guidance. During this time many have also learned that their children are far behind grade-level and struggling in different subject areas. Innovate Public Schools, a Corporation grantee whose mission is to build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students and students of color, seeks support to advance their mission during this important time in education. With support from the Corporation Innovate will continue their parent organizing, research and policy, schools and national training work. In response to the global pandemic, this will also include developing a new program that adapts the “promotores” model, people who are well-connected in their local communities, a go-to tech-savvy resource to support parents navigating remote learning.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Millennials are the largest voting bloc in the country, yet young voters consistently vote at lower rates than other age groups. In 2018, when voter participation was unusually high, only 36 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 turned out to vote, compared to the national rate of 53.4 percent. Low turnout among young voters can be explained in part by exclusionary voting laws that reduce access to the franchise, including the rejection of student residency as a voting qualification, removal of on-campus polling sites, gerrymandered campuses, and restricted absentee and provisional ballots. The Andrew Goodman Foundation works to strengthen American democracy by training students to advocate for electoral reforms that promote student voting and remove barriers to the polls. Working alongside students, faculty, administrators, and campus partners, the organization engages in year-round organizing, advocacy, and litigation in twenty-five states and Washington D.C. With Corporation support, the Andrew Goodman Foundation will provide student leaders with valuable skills to protect and extend voting rights across the country.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
With nearly 60 million people in the United States who can trace their heritage to Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and Europe, Latinos are the largest minority group in the country. Nearly 4 out of 5 Latinos in the U.S. are American citizens, and more than 50 percent of the Latino population are eligible to vote. Founded in 2005, the Voto Latino Foundation is a nonpartisan organization committed to engaging young Latino Americans around the political process using digital media, technology, and culture. With Corporation support, the Voto Latino Foundation aims to register, educate, and mobilize Latino voters around the 2020 elections using diverse digital engagement strategies. It will create a range of online content that unpacks complex policy issues and encourage eligible voters in the Latino community to have their voices heard in the political process.
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For general support during the COVID-19 pandemic
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., was founded in 1981 to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The appeal of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island is timeless, attracting millions of visitors each year to experience these American treasures. As our nation faces one of its greatest challenges, maintaining the Ellis Island archives, online educational tools and services, the technology in the National Museum of Immigration, and continuing restoration on the islands are of utmost importance. With Corporation support the Foundation will be able to retain existing staff, continue to serve audiences remotely, and ensure both Liberty and Ellis Islands are ready to receive visitors again when it is time to reopen.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Challenges to global peace and security are expanding today, even as the threat posed by intensifying and prolonged conflicts persists. Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is a leading operational peacebuilding organization with programs in thirty countries. In the coming years, SFCG will support governments and communities in order to generate conflict-sensitive responses, spread peacebuilding approaches beyond their current scope, and launch a program that enables colleges across the United States to form healthy, cohesive campus communities. Corporation support will contribute to core operations of the organization.
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For core support of Managing the Atom
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Policymakers require new approaches and analysis on the many nuclear security challenges facing the United States and the world, from North Korea’s nuclear program to the deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations that impacts the nuclear policies of the two major nuclear powers. Harvard University’s Managing the Atom (MTA) project has a track record of identifying, incubating, and advancing solutions. This core support grant will allow MTA to adapt its research and outreach efforts to the highest priority challenges in the nuclear security field, and to engage with U.S. and international partners to promote practical risk reduction steps.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1886, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) aims to turn Jewish scholarship into transformative action. JTS works to achieve its mission by training thoughtful, innovative leaders—rabbis, cantors, educators, lay leaders, and scholars— as well as by providing lifelong learning and professional development to alumni, adult learners, and Jewish communities in the United States, Israel, and around the world. JTS includes an undergraduate college; a rabbinical and cantorial school; a graduate school of education; a graduate school for Jewish studies; centers for pastoral education, spiritual arts, interreligious dialogue, and immersive programs; and a program in social entrepreneurship. Each year, more than 50,000 children are taught by JTS-trained teachers and administrators and more than 100,000 Jewish students live on college campuses with Hillels led by JTS alumni. In response to the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak and New York Stater’s shelter-in-place directive, JTS has transitioned to virtual classes and meetings as well as video holiday and weekly prayer services. JTS has continued to provide its students with library resources and has increased tuition assistance for those who need it. With Corporation support, JTS will continue to mentor the next generation of Jewish leaders who will bring creativity and innovation to schools, congregations, nonprofit organizations, and communities.
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As a one-time only grant for general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Through arts and educational programming, New 42 reaches young people and family audiences by partnering with public schools and program sites across New York City to offer subsidized tickets to New Victory Theater performances. New 42’s work aligns with Carnegie’s commitment to a public education that prepares students to fully participate in democracy and the global economy, which includes a pathway of employment and mentorship from high school through college. With Corporation support, New 42 will be able to offset the severe impact of COVID-19 by offering a free, weekly web-based arts program, New Victory Arts Break, that can be accessed from home for students, parents, and teachers and includes virtual classrooms through the end of the school year. New 42 is also committed to continued employment of their workforce.
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For general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1915, the mission of the Near East Foundation’s (NEF) is to help build more sustainable, prosperous, and inclusive communities in the Middle East, Africa, and Caucasus through education, community organizing, and economic development initiatives. NEF’s operates through three core program areas to improve the lives of conflict-affected and vulnerable people: Inclusive Economic Development, Peacebuilding and Stabilization, and Climate Resilient Development. The economic and programmatic challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the implementation and delivery of their work putting an already vulnerable population in great jeopardy. Corporation support will help close the NEF funding gap enabling its staff to adapt new tools including experimenting with distance learning, conducting local economic assessments to assess the short- and long-term impact of the virus on those most vulnerable, and planning for local economic recovery after the pandemic.
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For general support in recognition of its 150th anniversary
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s most renowned natural history museums, with a mission “to discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and education—knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted their 150th anniversary plans and the Museum remains closed, a committed team at the Museum will use this time to reimagine a future museum that will address current and future needs of the staff, communities, and audiences. A Corporation grant will help ensure that the Museum continues to fulfill its dual scientific and educational mission and provide extensive services to the children, families, and schools during this extraordinarily difficult time. In addition, the Museum’s scientific research continues remotely and will leverage its data science infrastructure to help study and understand the evolution and spread of COVID-19.
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For general support in recognition of the New York Public Library's 125th anniversary
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1895, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has been improving lives, communities, and our civil society though learning, thinking, and reading, serving more than 45 million patrons each year. Carnegie Corporation of New York has provided support for educational programming as well as for increasing and maintaining its collections since the Corporation’s founding in 1911. A Corporation grant will enable a dedicated Library staff to create special anniversary programming and will help to expand its core mission offering free access to knowledge, promoting scholarship, increasing school programming and other public services, at their library branches and through their online books and other digital collections. Other anniversary activities include the opening of two major exhibitions; special programs at branches across the city; a major ecumenical event at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; all culminating with a major gala later in the year.
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For core support of the University Innovation Alliance
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing gaps in degree attainment in higher education between white students and students of color, and between low-income students and their more affluent peers, mirrors the distressing outcome disparities in K-12 education. Launched in 2014, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a leading national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States. In 2014, the eleven member institutions set a public goal to collectively award an additional 68,000 undergraduate degrees above baseline over ten years, with half of these awarded to students from underrepresented backgrounds. Today, the UIA has already granted 53,200 additional degrees in only six years and is on-track to exceed its original ten-year goal by 90 percent. This grant is for core support.
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For core support of the Center on Reinventing Public Education
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Myriad individual school and program models that support personalized and mastery-based learning have emerged over the past decade. However, our school systems are often not designed to support these models with the requisite levels of embedded innovation and continuous improvement. The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington addresses this challenge by supporting system leaders and policymakers to affect data-driven change. For almost thirty years, CRPE has been at the forefront of school system redesign, providing both thought leadership and academic research to support cities doing the challenging work of transforming their education systems. CRPE’s vast network and expertise positioned them to play a critical leadership role in the sector’s response to COVID-19. With core support from the Corporation, CRPE will continue to play this role, making sense of complex trends and data, communicating new possibilities for system change, and providing guidance to support that change.
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As a one-time only grant for general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Current events are testing the international system’s capacity to address pressing issues. In particular, larger and wealthier states are often able to control the agenda at the expense of smaller states and non-governmental actors. Independent Diplomat (ID) is a non-profit diplomatic advisory group that strives to create more inclusive, just, effective, and lasting peace processes by building the diplomatic capacity of marginalized groups and resource- and capacity-strapped democratic governments. ID delivers advice and assistance to political groups, NGOs, and governments on issues related to political strategy, international law, and public diplomacy. Corporation support ensures ongoing engagement with those representing the most-affected by conflict and crises.
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For core support to the Africa program
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
As African countries continue to face major security and humanitarian crises, exacerbated by the still unfolding COVID-19 problems, detailed and well-researched commentary from the continent directed at Europe and the United States remains minimal. International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) has established itself as a go-to actor for open source analyses and policy recommendations on potential and current conflicts in Africa and beyond. Its Africa program works to address the root causes of the political, social, security, and humanitarian crises perpetuating conflict on the continent, with the aim of facilitating peaceful, durable solutions. Building on the work it conducted with previous Corporation support, Crisis Group will continue its detailed analytical work, informed by local expertise, while increasing its policy focus, government engagement, and international outreach.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (CCEIA) is a leading organization in the United States and globally focusing on the issues reflected in its title. Having recently undertaken a major strategic review, CCEIA plans to address ethical issues relevant to international affairs in five key areas: climate altering technologies; artificial intelligence; genetic privacy; wide-area surveillance; and international mobility. The general support grant will enable CCEIA to engage in research and public outreach activities with the aim of amplifying the urgency of these topics and their relevance to emergent national and international affairs. The resulting outputs and products will seek to create new ethics-driven rules to address the posed challenges.
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For core support of the Nuclear Policy Program
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
24 months
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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s (CEIP) Nuclear Policy Program (“NPP”) is one of the leading voices globally on nuclear issues. NPP’s team includes experts from many nationalities and deep expertise on nuclear issues ranging from nuclear safeguards and export controls to regional challenges in North Korea, South Asia, and Iran. This core support grant will allow NPP to continue its interdisciplinary work on deterrence, disarmament, nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear energy. NPP’s analyses, international gatherings, and outreach activities will lead to policy-relevant recommendations and publications.
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As a one-time only general support grant
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (CMP ) is a family of four distinctive museums: the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Science Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum. In honor of their 125th anniversary, a Carnegie Corporation grant will support their continuing work in educational programming, exhibition content creation, and the planning of a number of special anniversary events in and around the greater Pittsburgh region including open house events, special exhibitions, and a new teen membership program.
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For continued development of Mann UCLA Community School and associated knowledge building
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
72 months
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Transformation of historically low-performing schools is necessary to affect change for all students. For the last three years, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has addressed this need by bringing UCLA’s resources to bear in service of transforming the Horace Mann Middle School into the Mann UCLA Community School (Mann UCLA). After facing years of plummeting enrollment and now serving a disproportionate number of high-need students, Mann UCLA is on its way to reassuming its former role as a valuable community resource and site of academic excellence for local families. This represents not only a substantial, long-term commitment by UCLA to its local community, but also an important opportunity to model for the nation the role that a public university can play in K-12 education. With renewed Corporation support, UCLA will continue its work to transform Mann UCLA through teacher capacity building and wrap-around student services, and it will also share this work more broadly to impact practice in other contexts.
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For a project to develop and field-test open source end-of-unit summative assessments that align with middle school performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
72 months
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With forty-four states and the District of Columbia having adopted new science standards, there are critical resources needed to support teachers, schools, and districts as they work toward implementing high-quality science instructional materials in classrooms. Building on the 20 years of experience in curriculum development, the Lawrence Hall of Science will develop and field test a comprehensive suite of benchmark end-of-unit summative assessments to align with all fifty-nine middle school performance expectations of the Next Generation Science Standards. Through this renewal grant, they will: (a) complete work from their Phase I work to test, externally review, and revise item sets for thirty performance expectations; (b) develop, review, and test assessments for the remaining twenty-nine performance expectations; (c) obtain a summative external review of assessments; (d) develop implementation support materials for teachers to use the assessments; and (e) widely disseminate the assessment items to the field.
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For an initiative to build deeper trust and community among next generation leaders in nuclear policy
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
33 months
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An effective nuclear risk-reduction sector requires attention to sustainability and alignment around common policy goals.This project will connect a cohort of mid-career professionals to advance these two goals. Global Zero will develop and facilitate a program to clarify priorities, deepen relationships, and provide leadership development. Through a series of virtual and in-person structured conversations this initiative will foster a more inclusive, collaborative, and effective field.
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For the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
27 months
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An advanced degree in the social sciences reflects an extraordinary investment by the student and supporting institutions, as well as the larger society. However, there is a gap between the ivory tower and the policy world, especially in fields devoted to international affairs. Since its inception in 2015, the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON), housed within the Henry Kissinger Center for Global Affairs (HKC) at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, has carried out a series of pilot programs that address and close the divide between the worlds of ideas and action in global affairs. Building on lessons learned during the pilot phase, IPSCON plans to continue its programming while diversifying the participation of Ph.D. students and institutions, encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives, promoting co-authorship between junior and senior scholars, and increasing opportunities to workshop and disseminate student scholarship.
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For a project on capacity building and training in communications for nuclear security experts
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
30 months
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With concern over nuclear weapons and the threat of military action once again on the minds of Americans, there are opportunities for scholars and analysts to contribute to the conversation. Through this grant, Spitfire Strategies (Spitfire) will help organizations create and implement more effective communications strategies to reach their most important audiences. Spitfire’s learning program will use webinars and tailored one-on-one coaching sessions to equip organizations with the tools and strategies they will need to move an agenda that addresses today’s nuclear threats
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For the Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) oral history project
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) process, which ran from 1992 to 1995, remains the only official multilateral security dialogue in the Middle East on Weapons of Mass Destruction, but there is no authoritative documentation of these negotiations. This lack of documentation poses a problem to future negotiators, as well as to scholars and those who wish to understand regional proliferation and disarmament dynamics. Through this project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will gather for the first time the ACRS Working Group participants’ commentaries, recollections, perspectives, interpretations, and accounts of events and experiences during the negotiations. This effort will capture insights for future negotiators, and identify areas requiring special consideration in future negotiations.
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For the SRB Podcast
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
30 months
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Despite rich scholarship being conducted on Russia and Eurasia, public discussion on the region is often limited to a narrow scope of issues and perspectives. Sean’s Russia Blog (SRB), a project housed at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES), seeks to connect that scholarship with broader audiences to offer a more comprehensive view of Eurasian history, politics, and culture, and underscore the interconnectedness of Eurasia and its individual states with the wider world. Over the course of the grant, SRB will continue its flagship weekly podcast with experts from diverse fields, host a speaker series, and produce two audio documentaries examining Russia’s historical engagement with the United States.
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For support of competitive early-career fellowships
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
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 125 African universities, will implement a competitive program comprised of multiple interventions targeting postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, drawn from member universities. RUFORUM will award up to 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 strengthening research and writing capacity of early-career African social scientists and linking them to global scholarly communities
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
38 months
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Early-career social scientists based at African institutions are faced with limited professional opportunities to network globally and to publish in established international academic outlets. The Project on African Social Research, a pilot global network of leading scholars based on the successful model adopted by the Project on Middle Eastern Political Science, aims to address this gap by providing opportunities for mentoring and research collaboration for early-career African scholars as well as access to international networks that can facilitate publication in leading journals and media outlets. With support, the network will recruit a prominent board to guide transdisciplinary and transregional social science research, host two initial Africa-based workshops for junior and senior scholars, and provide publication support.
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