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For a project to build digital content, gamification and individualized support to help young people demand and access quality education and find success in early career
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
First-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students too often lack the resources, information, and networks necessary for their educational success. Given their lack of access to adequate college counseling, limited networks, and the ambiguity surrounding the relationship between college attendance and future career success, many of these intrinsically capable youth either do not attend college, or do not persist beyond their first semester. In partnership with Viacom, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation founded Get Schooled in 2010 to help young people thrive in high school, college, and early career jobs through a unique blend of compelling digital content and personalized guidance. With Corporation support, Get Schooled will provide compelling educational content and one to one support through three journeys: to college, persisting in the first year of college, and finding success in first jobs.
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For a Chinese Language Fellowship Program and a research project on China's Strategic Advance in Africa
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s global rise increasingly attracts the attention of international relations experts, practitioners, and world leaders. Tensions with the United States—exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic—have increased the salience of U.S.-China relations and their implications for peace and security in the 21st Century. A grant to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) encompasses two initiatives addressing important aspects of America’s engagement with China. The first initiative seeks to expand and enhance the Chinese Language Fellowship Program to improve the Chinese language skills of American Ph.D. students. The second initiative, involving international convenings, research and analysis, and policy outreach, investigates China’s strategic inroads on the African continent and what these actions and policies mean for the United States and its allies. The Corporation will support a continuation of the first initiative and provide new funding for the second.
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For the N Square Incubation/Acceleration Project
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
23 months
Description
Problem solvers in the nuclear security sector generally lack experience with business model development, making it hard to scale promising initiatives. This grant will support New Venture Fund’s efforts to accelerate projects emerging from the N Square Innovators Network. The Innovators Network is a community of cross-sector leaders working to pilot new approaches to address the nuclear threat. Members include, among others, data scientists, designers, screenwriters, entrepreneurs, and global security experts. This investmentwill accelerate pilot projects that have not yet received significant philanthropic funding. Priority will be given to initiatives that have committed leadership, a plausible path to sustainability, and that can raise matching resources.
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For the project Kids, Technology, and Learning: Building Public Understanding and the School-Home Connection: Phase IV
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
9 months
Description
Although digital media and technology have transformed and enhanced how children learn and interact socially, the overwhelming presence of technology can affect every aspect of children’s learning and development. As the world has shifted to the digital space, the rise of fake news floods media channels with fictitious information meant to create confusion. Common Sense Media, a leading nonprofit organization working to help all children thrive in the world of media and technology, believes that digital citizenship skills are central so students will participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life. With continued support, Common Sense Media will: (a) conduct an update of their research report, Kids and America’s News; (b) refine their School-Home Connection program to support schools in engaging families; (c) partner with districts in select regions across the country to provide deep support and build educators’ capacity to effectively engage families around media/tech; and (d) create and disseminate best practices for family engagement as well as high-quality materials and information that enable parent and community engagement around digital citizenship and news literacy.
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For a project to develop micro-credential standards and model policies for North Carolina and other states
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
16 months
Description
Teachers must develop and master new skills throughout their career in order to stay current and improve their teaching. Traditionally, the primary means of certifying this process has been through the accrual of continuing education units (CEUs) when teachers attend a workshop or participate in a training. This system often lacks mechanisms to measure whether teachers actually learned the content or, more importantly, whether they built the skills needed in order to actually change how they teach in the classroom. Micro-credentials have emerged over the past several years as a way to move from certifying the time teachers spend on professional development to providing credentials as teachers demonstrate mastery of specific skills or competencies. However, while there are multiple organizations offering micro-credentials, there is a lack of clarity regarding their level of rigor, the market value for teachers, and their impact on student achievement. digiLEARN, a non-profit organization founded by former Governor Bev Perdue, proposes developing a partnership to ensure model micro-credential standards, criteria for credentialing agencies, and model policy in North Carolina.
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For a project by JerseyCAN to develop a comprehensive report on the state of the New Jersey educator workforce
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
A challenge in ensuring that every student has the teacher they need is that current educator supply and demand cycles are not necessarily informed by district needs. For example, there is often a surplus of certified teachers in some areas (eg, physical education) and fewer than required in other crucial areas (eg, English Language Learners). Both schools of education and alternative teacher certification providers need to be more effectively connected and responsive to the needs of schools. JerseyCAN plans to tackle this challenge by developing a comprehensive “State of New Jersey Educator Workforce Report” to focus attention on this issue in New Jersey. This report will detail the state of the current supply and demand for K-12 educators; forecast future supply and demand trends; review current recruitment, preparation, and retention strategies; make policy recommendations; and set forth a vision for the ideal future state of the educator workforce pipeline. This work will serve both as a catalyst for change in the New Jersey and, through the 50CAN network, as a model for other states around the country.
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For project support of the United Parent Leaders Action Network National Convening 2020
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
6 months
Description
An effective way to build public demand for quality education is to support parents at the policy-making table. A key challenge though, is creating a strong constituency of organized parents at the district as well as the state and national levels. United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN) represents over thirty parent leadership and organizing nonprofit organizations serving 700,000 parents and empowering them to lead policy action campaigns. Since its inception in 2015, UPLAN has focused on building parent leadership initiatives, such as convenings and trainings, and developing collaborative relationships between its members and important groups like the US Department of Education. With support from the Corporation, UPLAN will host a national convening of its members in 2020 where they will offer learning exchange sessions, workshops and facilitated dialogues on parent-led strategies to strengthen home-school partnerships focused on improving academic outcomes for low income children of color.
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For support of programs that train and develop effective community organizers and parent leaders
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
There is a growing momentum in the field that community organizing, and parent advocacy are critical to achieving significant change in our education system. Innovate Public Schools, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015, is working towards filling this particular demand by developing the leadership skills, communication abilities, and organizing capacities of parent leaders from local organizations so that families themselves drive the movement toward school improvement. Innovate’s flagship programs, the Community Organizing Training Program and Parent Leadership Institute have trained over 650 parents, providing them with the professional training needed to lead reform efforts and advocate for equitable policies and practices in their communities. With renewed support from the Corporation, Innovate will continue building their National Organizing program in 2020, focused on training education organizations to build their capacity to organize parents with the goal to develop effective parent leaders and advance grassroot strategies and sustainable school reform efforts in communities across the country.
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For a project to support Youth Truth's student, family, and staff surveys
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
9 months
Description
YouthTruth, a national survey project operated by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, harnesses student and stakeholder feedback to help school leaders and education funders make better decisions that lead to better outcomes for students. Too often, the voices of students – those at the very center of our education system – are missing from the conversations that most impact their educational experience. YouthTruth sought to respond to this problem by bringing rigorously collected and comparatively presented views of students to education funders, as well as to the leaders of their grantee schools and districts. With continued support from the Corporation, YouthTruth will broaden and deepen their engagement with schools and districts in order to amplify the voices of students, family, and staff members; develop their products and services to support their clients in interpreting and acting on feedback from multiple stakeholder groups; and sharetheir learnings with the field to increase public understanding of the perspectives of these important stakeholders on issues of school experience and improvement.
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For project support for the RISE Inspired Leaders & Communities residency program
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
RISE Colorado is founded on the belief that families are crucial to student and school success. RISEColorado works to educate, engage, and empower low-income families and families of color to RISE as change agents for educational equity in our public-school system. Often low-income families and families of color do not feel welcomed in schools and are not yet prepared with the necessary mindsets, skills, and strategies to lead change within the system. Equally, education system leaders are not yet effective in working side-by-side with families to co-create solutions for increased student learning and achievement. In order to create a truly equitable education system, family, community, and education leaders within the educational ecosystem must develop the mindsets, skills, and strategies needed for greater collective impact. With support from the Corporation, RISE Colorado plans to research and design a two-year, multiracial, multilingual and multi-experiential leadership fellowship model for family, community, and education system leaders from diverse educational and regional contexts.
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For support of the development of a mobile app to improve family engagement in literacy
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Children spend most of their waking hours outside of the classroom and for underserved families this valuable time is not often spent augmenting the child’s literacy skills. When considering strategies to develop strong readers, parents, especially those from marginalized communities, are an underutilized resource. Parents do not lack the desire to help but do lack the necessary tools and support to cultivate and sustain literacy habits at home. Founded in 2012, Springboard Collaborative has helped close the literacy gap for nearly 10,000 students across thirteen cities by facilitating collaborations between parents and teachers and equipping parents with the necessary resources to help them supplement their child’s daily educational experience. With support from the Corporation, Springboard will develop a mobile app to provide families accurate, real-time insight into their child’s reading progress and pair these insights with actionable strategies to further mobilize family engagement in our education system.
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For combating the proliferation of weapon of mass destruction in the Indo-Pacific and promoting regional security
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
27 months
Description
The reduction of nuclear risks in the Asia Pacific region is crucial for promoting regional and global security. The Pacific Forum will facilitate several dialogues to advance this objective. The first program, the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), will bring together security leaders from twenty-seven countries in East and Southeast Asia to discuss regional nonproliferation and disarmament issues. In a parallel effort, Pacific Forum will support the next generation of specialists in the United States and abroad through the Young Leader’s Program, aimed at expanding the global capacity to address security challenges. Pacific Forum will also continue Track II dialogues that build on longstanding engagement with scholars and officials in China and North Korea, as well as their trilateral meetings among the United States, Russia, and China on common interests and approaches to North Korea.
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For support of a project to promote immigration and voting rights issues in rural media
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Many rural Americans do not have a balanced media ecosystem from which they can access accurate information about how issues like immigration affect their daily life. Local news companies are shuttering across the country, and 57 percent of adults in rural communities say that even their limited local news options are mostly concerned with areas other than their own. Since 2001, the Center for Rural Strategies has been building bridges between urban and rural communities through strategic communications. The center works to give policymakers, journalists, and advocates access to stories from diverse, multi-layered rural America, as well as create for rural Americans a media environment in which their economic and social concerns are addressed respectfully. With Corporation support, the Center for Rural Strategies will develop a platform to engage rural Americans on a range of issues, including immigration policy and the importance of voting through high-quality media content, effective dissemination, and audience development.
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For support of the Global Dispatches podcast to feature African expertise on peace and security topics
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Although African expertise is readily available on peace and security topics of regional and global importance, it is rarely included in global policy discussions and public discourse. At the same time, critical peace and security, and financial decisions impacting African countries are made primarily outside the continent. To amplify local analysis and raise its profile beyond Africa, Global Dispatches, an interview-based podcast reaching a broad audience of researchers, policymakers, and the informed public, is highlighting African perspectives on a host of critical issues.
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As a final grant to select sustainable residency-based teacher preparation programs in New York State
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
17 months
Description
All teachers need hands-on instructional practice and pedagogical knowledge before entering the classroom to have a positive impact on student outcomes. Prepared To Teach, a program at the Bank Street College of Education, partners with teacher preparation programs and school districts to develop sustainably funded teacher residencies. The mission of Prepared To Teach is to tightly align teacher preparation and district human resources systems to create high-quality teacher residency pathways that are accessible to all aspiring teachers. Through this final grant, Prepared to Teach will continue their work in New York state through: (a) selection of four partnership sites; (b) creation of partnership advisory groups; (c) development of online communities of practice for partners; and (d) promotion of investments in teacher residencies by supporting the New York P-20, a formal state-wide coalition of committed higher education and district leaders.
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For project support for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates joint Barnard College and American Museum of Natural History site
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
23 months
Description
The STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program, operating out of Vassar College since 2013 is designed to tackle: 1. The national shortage of high-quality STEM teachers, and 2. The lack of opportunities for students from under-represented groups to participate in STEM enrichment activities during the summer. The TEU program has developed and tested a model of a summer STEM program that effectively addresses both of these issues. The model offers an opportunity for undergraduate STEM majors to explore and deepen their interest in teaching with a like-minded cohort of peers through an immersive experience that integrates a discipline-specific pedagogy course with a teaching practicum on STEM enrichment for predominantly high-need secondary students. This project will fund a TEU site, based in New York City, to be developed through a partnership between the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Barnard College.
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As a one-time only grant for support of a digital project resulting from the film "In My Mother's House"
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
In 2017, Lina Fruzzetti, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University and her collaborator, Ákos Östör, produced the film, In My Mother’s House about the turbulent life and heritage of Lucia Tesba, Professor Fruzzetti’s Eritrean mother. The film follows Professor Fruzzetti’s decade-long quest to understand a family divided against the backdrop of colonial rule, war, and emigration. With corporation support, the project will continue with an interactive multimedia study of a biracial family in Eritrea and Italy in the wider context of political and social transformation. Archival materials collected while making the film will be melded into digitized educational pieces that will serve as a compendium to research scholars and university academics.
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For a project called "The Chicago Story: Lessons for Building an Educational Improvement Infrastructure," which seeks to capture and share lessons from Chicago's educational improvement over the past three decades
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
20 months
Description
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching seeks to elucidate and communicate the development of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure over the past thirty years. They propose to convene key architects and actors responsible for infrastructure development to document how they initiated their respective strands of work, navigated barriers and challenges over multiple reform “eras”, and operated at multiple levels from academic and civic elites to parent and community stakeholders and coalitions. They also seek to better understand the current state of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure and identify strategies for strengthening these supports over the next thirty years. Finally, and arguably most importantly, they seek to distill key lessons from Chicago’s work that can be used by leaders in other metropolitan regions to develop an educational improvement infrastructure that serves millions of students across the United States. The story of Chicago can serve as both a clarion call and a blueprint for collective action and civic commitment for public education.
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For a follow-up forum on state-led improvements in high school-to-postsecondary mathematics pathways
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
26 months
Description
Mathematics acts as a barrier for many students attempting to navigate the transition from high school to postsecondary education. The disadvantages are magnified when K-12 mathematics education does not align well with the expectations of two-year colleges or public universities, or with admissions policies or placement procedures, which are often counterproductive. The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), in collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and Achieve, is working at the state level to address these issues. With Corporation support, they hosted a successful Forum on High School to College Mathematics Pathways in May 2019 and are now planning a follow-up forum for October 2020. This meeting will bring together leadership teams from twenty-three states that are working across their state’s K-12, two-year college, and university systems to ease the transition from high school to postsecondary mathematics.
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As a one-time only grant for research and policy development on international law and conflict in the Arab region
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
The intensification of the Syrian crisis over the pastnineyears has haddevastating consequences for the Arab region. AsSyria became a focal point for competing geopolitical interests, parties to the conflict continueto commit human rights abuses andviolations of international law.The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University is an academic center committed to to the study of human rights and the promotion of dialogue between scholars and practitioners throughlectures, conferences, and capacity building activities. This project will monitor conditions, raise awareness about human rights abuses, and recommend policy solutions to policy-makers in the United States, Europe, and elsewhereto enhance peace prospects in Syriathrough better informed and more effective mediation. Corporation support will contribute to conferences, policy briefings,staff costs, and travel.
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For support of Remake Learning Days Across America in 2020 and associated family and community engagement activities
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
For most families across the country, opportunities to engage in new designs for learning are few and far between, especially for families in low-income communities. While schools are struggling to close the opportunity gap, the accelerating pace of technological change can make it even more difficult for families to experience the future of learning. Remake Learning, established in 2007, is a network of over 500 organizations igniting relevant, engaging, and equitable learning practices to help all learners thrive. With previous support from the Corporation, Remake Learning partnered with national leaders like PBS and Common Sense Media to develop a toolkit for regions across the country to implement Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA), a series of multi-generational events for families to take an active part in the future of learning within all spaces that kids learn. With continued support, Remake Learning will expand the reach of their RLDAA festival to four new states to provide in-person opportunities for parents, families and caregivers to actively engage in their local communities.
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As a final grant in support of the Rochambeau Dialogue
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
33 months
Description
The Rochambeau Dialogue fulfills a vital role in in the preservation and strengthening of the Franco-American alliance. Through a series of convenings, the Dialogue focuses on identifying common areas of shared interests, building a core network of policy experts, enhancing mutual understanding and increased defense cooperation at a time of severe transatlantic turmoil. With Carnegie Corporation support, the Dialogue will continue to provide Track 1.5 conversations that are substantive and comprehensive; building a bipartisan group of conference attendees, supplemented by younger, gender-balanced cohort of future experts while working to “bridge the gap” between academics and policymakers; and foster a greater public awareness of the enduring importance of the Franco-American Alliance, which dates back to our country’s founding.
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For continuing to digitize Carnegie Corporation of New York's historical records and making them accessible to the public via the Corporation's Digital Archive
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
38 months
Description
In 2015, the Corporation made a grant to Columbia University todigitize the historical records related to the inceptionand early years of Carnegie Corporation of New York, further develop tools and technology to receive and permanently preserve digital materials,and to make the materials accessible to the public via a newly createddigital archive. In 2020, we will continue with the next phase of the digitization project bydigitizingthe Corporation’s board-related materials, including sixty-threebound volumes of board meetingminutes, seventy-onebound volumes of agenda books, and 147 linear feet of related archival materials. These materials will also be added to the Corporation Corporationof New York’sDigital Archive and available to the public after an applicable embargo time.
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For support for the Security Studies Program
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
With support for the field of security studies on the decline, tomorrow’s scholars and practitioners have fewer opportunities to develop the interdisciplinary skills needed to address complex challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Security Studies Program (SSP) is a research group and graduate-level educational center with a dual mission of improving public understanding of national security and training future scholars, teachers, and analysts. SSP’s work is rigorous, policy-relevant, and interdisciplinary, combining political science, history, and the physical sciences. Corporation support will allow SSP scholars to continue their research, training, and policy outreach activities.
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For a roundtable on military cyber stability
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
20 months
Description
At a time of rising geopolitical tension among major powers, a long-standing project formerly housed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will seek to enhance military cyber stability by identifying mechanisms of instability and developing international, cooperative risk mitigation strategies for them. With support to transfer the administration of the project from MIT to founding project member, Igarape Institute, the Roundtable on Military Crisis Stability will continue to organize non-governmental and open-source roundtable discussions on topics relevant to cyber stability, insecurity dilemmas, crisis stability, misperception and miscalculation, and international security architectures. It will involve practitioners and experts from the United States, Russia, and China, and will result in published reports and briefings.
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For a project to inform the OpenSciEd initiative through a landscape analysis of the elementary and high school science curriculum market
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
3 months
Description
The early success of OpenSciEd’s middle school science curriculum has begun a discussion on the merits of expanding their resources into elementary or high school. However, there is not a full factbase from which leadership and partners can understand, engage with, and make decisions about tradeoffs to either approach. Bellwether Education Partners plans to collaborate with OpenSciEd to inform the initiative’s goal to improve the supply of and demand for high-quality science instructional materials in the elementary and high school grades. This project will help the Corporation and other key stakeholders in science education determine which direction to expand its science strategy funding support beyond middle school through market information and the grantee’s expertise in the field. Through this grant, Bellwether will: (a) develop an assessment report; (b) design the research process; (c) conduct focused research; (d) gather key stakeholder input; (e) and facilitate informative discussions.
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For a project on knowledge, publics and crisis in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Gaps in the knowledge sector underlie key issues of governance, citizen participation, and unemployment in the Arab region. The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is an independent professional organization dedicated to strengthening social science research to address key challenges in the Arab region. With support from the Corporation and other funders, ACSS fosters a new generation of social scientists, integrates them into regional networks, and facilitates their policy-relevant research. With renewed support, ACSS will continue itsgrowthas an effective field-building institution. The grant will enable ACSS to offer early career fellowships, promote research and publications, organize issue-oriented working groups, andmaintaina lecture series in honor of the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi.
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For support of the Gerhard Casper Fellowship
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) was founded in 1994 at the initiative of Richard Holbrooke, then the American ambassador to Germany. Independent, nonpartisan, and privately funded, the Academy is committed to sustaining and enhancing the long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany. The fellowship program has been at the core of the Academy’s activities, creating understanding and critical, substantive debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A new fellowship has been established in honor of Gerhard Casper, trustee and former president of the Academy for his commitment to transatlantic exchange. With Corporation support one Gerhard Casper fellow will be awarded each year for two years to a scholar from the humanities, social sciences, or political theory. The fellowship will focus on dealing with issues beyond day-to-day politics and by addressing the question: “What does it mean to be human?”. Their work will be shared with their colleagues, audiences at lectures, readings, discussions, concerts, and film screenings, which form the core of the Academy’s rich program of public events.
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For transregional research on private sector development, digitization and disruptive technologies.
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
35 months
Description
Most of today’s issues are not confined to one country or region and require a broader scope of analysis.In 2020, the Corporation issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) responding to the rise in multidisciplinary and multiregional research on critical challenges that are appearing across traditionally defined regions. This multi-institutional project will convene two international clusters of scholars to produce critical research on futuristic topics of global consequence and impact: state-business relations; and disruptive technologies. The project will be hosted by the Economic Research Forum (ERF), a leading economic policy think tank in Cairo founded by the World Bank in 1993. The first research cluster will examine the nature of state-business relations and the role of the private sector in Algeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia. The second research cluster will address implications of digitalization and disruptive technologies for sustainable and inclusive growth, women, and youth in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Corporation funds will support research and publications, workshops, policy conferences, and multimedia dissemination platforms.
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For a final grant to support the Mosaic Project
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
23 months
Description
In September 2018, Carnegie Corporation provided funding for the launch of the Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) podcast series, Mosaic. Through powerful, personal storytelling, the first thirty episodes recountstheAmerican immigration experience of southern New Englandersover a 350-year period. A second Corporation grant will help the Mosaic team with the development of new content for twelveadditional podcast episodes; work with area school systems on the distribution of Mosaicas education modules; develop partnerships with an arts and culture organizations to open up new public engagement opportunities; build an online digital engagement presence for ongoing community conversations; and design and implement a fully-integrated marketing strategy that highlights access points tothe material and raises awareness of its availability.
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For support of a project to explore policy opportunities that would expand voter participation in the United States
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
In 2018, more than 118 million people turned out to vote in the United States midterm elections. While it was the highest turnout for any midterm election since 1914—at which point women had not yet won the right to vote—it represented only 53.4 percent of eligible voters, leaving the voices of nearly half of the voting-eligible population unheard. Based at Harvard University, the Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation is partnering with the Brookings Institution to explore innovative reforms to the country’s voting systems and voting culture. With Corporation support, the Ash Center will engage with voting rights leaders, scholars, election officials, policymakers, and organizers around key issues in American democracy. The center will also produce a report on potential solutions to help increase voter participation in the United States.
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For support of an initiative to expand student voter engagement
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Young Americans are actively advocating for social change across the country, leading national advocacy campaigns around issues like gun violence, immigration reform, and climate change. In 2018, 38 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 participated in the midterm elections, the highest midterm participation of this age group in twenty-five years. Yet, only 19 percent of millennials have trust in the government, despite 70 percent believing that government should play a larger role in solving societal problems. Founded in 1987, the Roosevelt Institute houses both a nationally renowned economic policy think tank and a network of diverse, emerging policy leaders. The Roosevelt Network actively recruits and trains ambitious student leaders who can work with policymakers and community leaders to develop and implement innovative policy solutions for the local communities they serve. With Corporation support, the Roosevelt Network will continue to connect students to broader civic infrastructure and empower young people to become powerful civic actors that strengthen American democracy.
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For transregional research on port infrastructures and international politics from the Arabian Gulf to the Horn of Africa
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
42 months
Description
In 2020, the Corporation issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) responding to the rise in multidisciplinary and multiregional research exposing critical challenges that are appearing across traditionally defined regions. This multi-institutional project, based at the University of Birmingham, will produce critical research on transregional relationships in the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa, with a particular focus on port infrastructures in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. In collaboration with the University of Hargeisa, Puntland State University, and Durham University, the project will build an international network of scholars across academic communities and generate primary data and analysis on fusions of economic and political competition in the Horn of Africa. Corporation funds will support research, academic workshops, a public lecture series, policy roundtables, a website, data visualization tools, and publications.
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For international dialogues on Arab region security
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
48 months
Description
Internationalized conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and other parts in the Arab region continue with devastating human consequences. In complementarity to official diplomatic efforts, Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues offer a means of identifying pathways toward conflict de-escalation and regional cooperation. The Middle East Dialogue promotes such discussions among stakeholder officials, advisors, and experts from the United States, the Arab region and beyond. Through a set of regular meetings, participants grapple with current political and security dynamics and explore conflict mitigation and prevention mechanisms. In the next two years, this initiative will focus its efforts on promoting conflict de-escalation in the Iran-Gulf Cooperation Council space, and tackling the proxy dimensions of conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Iraq. Renewed support will enable the continuation of these discussions and the dissemination of their key findings through meetings, policy briefings, and publications.
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For transregional research on decentralization, inclusive citizenship and governing elites in Africa and the Arab region
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
41 months
Description
Most of today’s issues are not confined to one country or region and require a broader scope of analysis.In 2020, the Corporation issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) responding to the rise in multidisciplinary and multiregional research on critical challenges that are appearing across traditionally defined regions. This collaborative project based at the University of Nairobi brings together scholars in Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe to advance new research on decentralization and service provision in North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa. All four states are taking measures to address inequalities among localities within each country. A network of researchers will examine the conditions under which elites constrain or support reforms in the provision of public goods in contexts of decentralization. Corporation funds will support research and publications,including policy briefs, reports, and articles, as well as graduate student fellowships and workshops.
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For advancing changes in education policy and practice
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
High variability of student performance and learning styles necessitatesstudent-centered models that customize learning for each student. New Classrooms Innovation Partners (New Classrooms) addresses this challenge by creating personalized instructional programs that transform the way teaching and learning happens. New Classrooms has illustrated its effectiveness in amplifying learning and achievement in middle school mathematics through its Teach to One: Math (TTO) model, with the most recent study showing that students in schools using TTO for three years saw 23 percent greater gains than students nationally on the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress assessment. Prior Corporation investments enabled New Classrooms to refine the TTO model, enter the K-12 policy field, and produce and disseminate a white paper focused on the tension between grade level expectations and meeting individual student needs. Continued support from the Corporation will allow New Classrooms to continue refining the TTO model through rigorous data analytics and pursue a more expansive body of work translating findings on innovative learning models to state and federal policy.
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For project support of the Parenting Minutes video series which focuses on developing tools and resources to help parents understand and support the learning progress of their children
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
17 months
Description
With the goal of serving parents, caregivers and students in underserved communities in New York City, WNET created Parenting Minutes, a series of short videos providing important information to help parents become more aware of issues, opportunities, and strategies for fostering the growth of young children. Parenting Minutes is the culmination of eight parenting workshops, two focus groups with parents, and an extensive collaboration with partners across the city including nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Each Parenting Minute presents a key topic that supports an important early childhood educational development skill, provides helpful tips on parenting, or offers valuable information about raising children. With Corporation support, WNET plans to expand the reach and impact of the series by collaborating with two other PBS stations to produce four new videos in English and Spanish; create discussion and workshop guides to accompany the videos; and conduct a series of Parenting Meetups – workshops for parents and school-based family engagement specialists.
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As a one-time grant to strengthen staff capacity in the social sciences and humanities
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
38 months
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African research leadership in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) is critical for informing the global knowledge base and for providing African policymakers with contextually relevant data and advice. While African research in some fields, such as health and agricultural sciences, is on the increase, SSH research continues to lag. The African Academy of Sciences (AAS), which aims to mobilize researchers to contribute to solving Africa’sdevelopmental challenges, has been successful in supporting development of research leaders in some scientific disciplines but recognizes that it lacks capacity to provide the same services for SSH researchers. This grant enables AAS to start the process of developing programs that will strengthen research leadership in these critical disciplines.
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For support for a strategic plan
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
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A growing body of research shows that meaningful family engagement supports greater student achievement and relationships between educators and parents is critical to this engagement. However, schools are often disconnected from their students’ families, while families often feel uncomfortable engaging with schools. Started by a group of parents in 1998, Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) has been supporting teachers and parents in developing productive relationships for sharing information that in turn supports student growth. Based on decades of experience developing their relational model of home visits, PTHV commissioned Johns Hopkins University to conduct a three-part evaluation of their work in four school districts across the nation. This research provided compelling evidence on the powerful impact of PTHV’s model. With support from the Corporation, PTHV will develop a clear strategic plan with priorities and goals to scale PTHV’s impact into more school districts across the U.S.
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For support of election reporting and analysis that centers on the experiences of underrepresented communities
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
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According to a 2018 survey of the American Society of News Editors, only 22.6 percent of the workforce in newsrooms are people of color. Unsurprisingly, newsrooms are often criticized for lacking the cultural competence to speak directly to a broad cross-section of voters and leaving voices from marginalized communities out of mainstream political reporting. Founded in 2010, the Futuro Media Group is an independent, nonprofit media organization that uses multimedia journalism to give voice to underrepresented communities and spotlight the nuances of their lived experience. With Corporation support, Futuro Media Group will investigate numerous issues of concern that marginalized voters find overlooked in election coverage.
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For support of the digitization of the collections of the Library of Trinity College Dublin
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
18 months
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Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin houses a research library of international acclaim. Among its collections are culturally significant medieval manuscripts and artifacts, including the Winchcombe Psalter and the Life of St. Alban by Matthew Paris. 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. With Corporation support, the Library of Trinity College Dublin will invest in the skilled personnel and state-of-the-art technology necessary to advance its digitization goals. The library will also collaborate with the university’s new MPhil program in Medieval Studies to explore ways in which the digitization efforts can advance new research opportunities for medieval scholars around the world.
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For developing a model for school funding in the District of Columbia Public Schools
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
9 months
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The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has the opportunity to build on over a decade of reform efforts under the leadership ofa newly appointed Chancellor, Dr. Lewis Ferebee, and a strategic plan focused on excellence and equity for every child. While previous efforts related to curriculum and professional development have generated progress in student outcomes, opportunity gaps persist. Dr. Ferebee has identified school resourcing, namelythe allocation of funds, staff, and time across and within schools, as a keyarea for potential transformation. With previous Corporation support, Dr. Ferebee worked with expert partner and current Corporation grantee, Education Resource Strategies (ERS), to conduct an analysis of current practices and explore student-based budgeting as a way to ensure equitable learning opportunities for all students. Support to this project advances the Corporation’s other investments in DC schools and interest in building the capacity of districts totransform school systems. With Corporation support to its fiscal sponsor D.C. Public Education Fund, DCPS will continue to partner with ERS to develop and prepare for the implementation of a new model for school fundingcentered on equity, transparency, and flexibility.
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For support of a national public education campaign to inform parents of young children about participating in the 2020 Census
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Every ten years the United States Constitution mandates a full enumeration of all people living in the country. The data from the decennial census is used to determine not only political representation, but also the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding for a variety of core state programs, including public schools, childcare, foster care, and school lunch programs. Yet, in 2010, two million children between ages 0-5 were miscounted or left out of the census, resulting in significant underfunding for communities with young children. Founded in 1969, Sesame Workshop produces educational content that reaches millions of children and families around the world. Its diverse programming provides crucial lessons on health, social-emotional development, and social tolerance. With Corporation support, Sesame Workshop will partner with the Ad Council to broadcast a series of bilingual public service announcements to encourage nationwide participation in the 2020 Census, with an emphasis on young children and other hard to count populations.
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For a project to launch a content-based coaching program
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
11 months
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Learning Forward is an organization solely focused on supporting and improving professional learning for educators leading to improved teaching and learning for students. As Learning Forward begins to revise their “Standards of Professional Learning” to emphasize the importance of content-based professional learning, they have partnered with Student Achievement Partners to develop a content-based coaching program for master coaches who will work with school and district-based coaches. Through this project, Learning Forward will: 1) recruit and train twenty master coaches so they can provide content-based professional learning to school and district coaches; 2) pilot and evaluate the content-based coaching program at their Summer Institute; 3) implement a train-the-trainer model to build the capacity of additional consultants; and 4) develop a marketing strategy to introduce the content-based coaching service to new and existing partners.
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For support of educational programming
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Founded in 1923, the Museum of the City of New York serves the people of New York and visitors from around the world through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications, and collections. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city’s past, present, and future. With Corporation support, the Museum will expand its reach beyond the galleries by offering educational programming framed by its exhibitions on critical issues that New York City students, educators, and families are facing across the boroughs including transit and displacement, immigration status, accessibility, community building, and more.
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As a one-time only grant for support of technology upgrade and community outreach
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
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The Cuttyhunk Public library, built in 1892, was established to serve the year round and summer communities of Cuttyhunk Island. Friends of the Cuttyhunk Library is a volunteer organization created in 2016 to help transition the Cuttyhunk Public Library into a modern and relevant meeting space, providing technological resources and increasing educational outreach to the community. The organization’s goals include providing internet service for the first time to both the Library staff and patrons. With Corporation support, the library will be able to fulfill this primary need of internet service as well as digitizing its entire collection –both current and new acquisitions–, establishing a library website, and creating educational outreach opportunities by inviting authors and others to speak about their books and expertise.
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For a project on U.S. foreign policy
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Changing global dynamics are impacting U.S. national and international security. The nongovernmental expert community has long been engaged in assessing policy directions and recommendingoptions for pursuing them. Corporation support will contribute to this process with the aim ofmanaginginternationalrisks and makingeffective resource allocation decisions. The work will entail research, publications, and convenings striving tobenefit the U.S. foreign policymaking establishment and relevant audiences.
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As a final grant for the Nuclear Risk Reduction Project
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
23 months
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Despite the dangers associated with the nuclear arsenals of the great powers, cooperation between them has declined. The Nuclear Risk Reduction project of the Center for International Security and Cooperation works to help reduce risks from proliferation and terrorism, the possibility of an arms race, and potential accidents in military or civilian nuclear systems. It also aims to increase cooperation among the next generation of nuclear professionals in Russia and in China and to help reduce the nuclear threat posed by North Korea. Over the next year, the project will engage in studies and analyses focusing on the benefits of nuclear cooperation between American and Russian nuclear laboratories, China’s nonproliferation and nuclear security efforts, and North Korea’s nuclear program.
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For support of a nonpartisan media campaign on Native American census participation and voter engagement
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Native Americans face significant legal, logistical, and cultural barriers to the United States’ core democratic institutions. They are the most undercounted of any ethnic group in the nation, which has resulted in inadequate political representation and federal funding for housing, healthcare, and public safety, among other items. Their participation in electoral politics is also severely stymied by discriminatory laws that reduce access to voting, including voter identification laws that require standard home addresses, which many voters on reservations do not have. Founded in 1992, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KBC) is a nonprofit Native American media production and distribution center that reaches more than 400 public radio stations and translators throughout North America. With Corporation support, KBC will create and distribute in-depth coverage about Native issues and voting, as well as promote nonpartisan messages encouraging participation in the 2020 Census and upcoming elections.
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For support of educational programming on the founding principles of American democracy
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
19 months
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Federal Hall National Memorial marks the site of the United States’ first capitol building and the birthplace of the Bill of Rights. Founded in 2005 as the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service and its twenty-four sites along New York Harbor, the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy is engaged in a major initiative dedicated to transforming Federal Hall into a public destination rich with civic and educational programming. With Corporation support, the conservancy will launch a slate of public engagement projects dedicated to exploring the founding principles of American democracy. This includes a series of intellectual forums featuring prominent journalists, civic leaders and acclaimed activists, a robust art installation inspired by Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series, and a theatric production that explores the historical context in which the Bill of Rights was written.
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