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For general support and the Boulder Fund
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization founded in 2016 that is dedicated to elevating the leadership, voices, and influence of people of color in education and to leading more inclusive and sustainable efforts to improve education. Their mission is to dramatically increase the number of effective, values-aligned, third-way Black and Latino leaders in high-level positions in education and adjacent fields where they can be a transformative force in the lives of children, families and communities. Their priorities are to (1) advance leaders; (2) align members with EdLoC’s values and policy priorities; and (3) channel financial and other support to members’ work through their philanthropic arm, the Boulder Fund. Their membership includes 350 leaders representing 40 states and counting. Prior Corporation funding provided general support to launch the organization and targeted funding to launch the Boulder Fund; this grant renews support for both.
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For a project on restoring the social contract between education and society
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
27 months
Description
The Aspen Education & Society Program (Aspen Education) advances equity for students of color and students from low-income families by inspiring, informing, and influencing education leaders across policy and practice. They provide off-the-record venues for authentic learning and honest dialogue among education leaders and produce a range of resources and tools. This project will use their convening and publishing platforms for a series of conversations about renewing the social contract of education as the great equalizer in America. Aspen Education will identify the issues and tensions that are most important to address, raise the voices of established and emergent leaders, and develop frameworks and recommendations that move the field forward. Their goal is to assist state policymakers and system leaders in making concrete changes to their strategies and resource-allocation decisions that advance a richer vision of student success in service of the social contract.
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For support of a convening of artists, scholars, and activists to raise awareness around global displacement and its accompanying humanitarian challenges
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
28 months
Description
According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), 70.8 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Displaced children experience unique hardships emerging from family separation and socioeconomic deprivation in the communities that receive them. They are often found relocated in places without access to basic healthcare, adequate nutrition or education, consigning them to lives of limited opportunity. Founded in 1997, the Institute for Art and Civic Dialogue at New York University convenes artists, scholars, and activists to generate opportunities for raising global consciousness around social issues. With Corporation support, the institute will convene leading artists and thought leaders from around the world to explore ways to represent the myriad humanitarian challenges affecting displaced persons and refugee children, through art.
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For support of outreach and public education around the importance of a fair and accurate count of young children in the 2020 Census
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The United States Constitution mandates a full enumeration of all people residing in the country, every ten years. The data from the decennial census is used to determine not only political representation, but also federal funding for a variety of core state programs, including public schools, childcare, foster care, and school lunch programs. In 2010, two million children between ages 0-5 were miscounted or left out in the census. Such errors most heavily impact marginalized communities, including immigrants, racial minorities, and low-income persons, whose families are often in critical need of political representation and adequate public funding. Simply Put is a nonprofit publishing and programming organization that produces family-centered books, training, and educational materials. With Corporation support, Simply Put will promote a fully illustrated counting book, in multiple languages, that can encourage families to participate in the 2020 Census and ensure that their young children are accurately counted. The book will be widely disseminated to community leaders, including educators, childcare and health practitioners, religious leaders, and others who can advance community education around the census.
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For research on African philanthropy by early-career African scholars
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2016, the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) was established at the University of Witwatersrand business school, primarily in response to the dearth of knowledge, data, and research on African philanthropy, and with the aim to develop a new narrative of African philanthropy informed and driven by a new cohort of African scholars and researchers. As CAPSI enters its third year, with fourteen affiliated doctoral students and ten more to be enrolled by 2021, it will continue to focus on the development of the next generation of researchers in African philanthropy. Targeting doctoral students and junior researchers, the grant will support research, conference attendance, methodology seminars, and publication of an academic journal.
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For support to the Senior Fellows Program
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
31 months
Description
The Arab region is a locus of internationalized armed conflicts and foreign policy interventions that require analysis and communication from the affected countries. The Center for International Policy’s (CIP) Senior Fellows Program is designed to engage a diverse group of accomplished scholars overseas in policy analysis to enrich and inform U.S. foreign policy discourse. With Corporation support, CIP will recruit a cohort of Senior Fellows from the Arab region and beyond, produce policy-relevant research and publications on foreign policy towards the region, and provide valuable professional development opportunities to the Fellows. Corporation funds will also allow CIP to recruit a director of studies to support the advancement of the Senior Fellows program, as well as dissemination efforts by CIP’s Security Assistance Monitor (SAM).
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For a series of confidence building dialogues between select American and Russian experts
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
19 months
Description
Deconfliction hotlines between the militaries of the United States and Russia are among the most important communications in the world today. With high-level military-military strategic discussions between the two countries on hold since the annexation of Crimea, the risks posed by inadvertent escalation or miscommunication have become acute. Such risks call for developing contacts between American and Russian experts. Drawing on their decades of experience operating in both countries, the EastWest Institute will begin a dialogue between American and Russian retired experts to promote understanding and generate potential confidence building measures.
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For support of a project to enhance and expand an online citizenship application platform
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Naturalization offers immigrants and refugees an opportunity to more fully integrate and contribute to the communities where they already live, work, and raise their families. Yet, only 10 percent of nearly 9 million eligible legal permanent residents in the United States pursue citizenship every year. Barriers to naturalization include high legal fees for private attorneys, limited capacities of nonprofit providers, language, location (e.g. living in rural and other hard-to-reach communities), and more. Created by the Immigration Advocates Network based at Pro Bono Net, Citizenshipworks is a technological platform that aims to make the naturalization process more accessible to eligible legal permanent residents. Citizenshipworks makes it easy for anyone to go online, screen for eligibility, complete their forms, and connect to virtual or in-person legal assistance. With Corporation support, the Immigration Advocates Network will continue to reduce barriers to citizenship for immigrants and improve user accessibility for immigrants living in hard to reach areas.
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For a project on transnational trends in citizenship and authoritarianism
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Today, polities globally confront the related problems of eroded citizenship and authoritarianism. This project will build on The Century Foundation’s (TCF) initiative on citizenship and its discontents in the Middle East. Building on TCF’s existing network focused on the Arab region, the project’s next phase will focus on expanding connections between scholars working on transnational trends in citizenship in the Arab region and Europe/North America. The project will convene a research group to facilitate collaborative learning on issues that transcend regional boundaries and will result in policy-relevant publications.
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For support of a public education campaign to secure and defend election integrity
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
15 months
Description
In 2016, the United States faced unfounded charges of mass voter fraud in national elections. Although these claims were easily debunked using data and scientific analysis, they served as an important reminder that maintaining public confidence in elections is critical to preserving a strong democracy. Founded in 2007, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a nonpartisan think tank that believes a strong, inclusive democracy is necessary to meet the country’s most pressing challenges. With Corporation support, BPC will launch a national bipartisan partnership with leading state-based election officials, former members of Congress, and leaders in civil society to educate the American public about the principles of election legitimacy. BPC will organize multiple roundtables and state-based media events to explain misunderstood electoral processes and to restore trust in electoral outcomes.
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For support of a nonpartisan effort to engage and educate voters with disabilities
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Sixty-one million Americans have a disability, yet electoral candidates often fail to engage voters with disabilities or incorporate disability issues into their policy agenda. Campaign events continue to be held in inaccessible buildings without American Sign Language interpreters and other accommodations, campaign videos are being shared without captions for those who are hard of hearing, and much more. Founded in 2013, RespectAbility works to reduce implicit bias against people with disabilities and advance their opportunities in workplaces and in American democracy. Beginning in 2015, RespectAbility has helped to elevate disability issues in employment, education, and immigration to the foreground of political discourse. With Corporation support, RespectAbility will produce nonpartisan electoral resources for voters with disabilities in all fifty states, advance a disability lens in policy discussions, and implement targeted Get-Out-the-Vote efforts in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, California, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
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For a project to develop and pilot professional learning content for state regional service centers, district leaders, and teachers, and document enabling conditions for high-quality instructional materials and professional learning
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
15 months
Description
Teaching Lab partners with teachers, schools, districts, and states to integrate curriculum, professional learning, and teacher leadership initiatives and build local capacity for continuous improvement in instructional practices. With a mission to achieve educational equity through instructional improvement, Teaching Lab aims to change professional learning through a research-based model with teacher-led cycles of inquiry focused on the implementation of high-quality curricula. Through this grant Teaching Lab will develop and pilot professional learning content for state regional service centers and districts leaders to support curriculum-based professional learning for teachers. They will also develop and test high-quality professional learning cycles that help teachers meet the needs of students with unfinished learning, and document progress and challenges in shifting state-level enabling conditions.
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For a project to increase smart demand for high quality science instructional materials, perform K-12 science market research, and research expansion into high school science review
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Given the successful adoption of new science standards across the U.S., over 80 percent of students attend schools that aim to teach science in ways that reflect the innovations and vision of the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Standards aligned instructional materials provide the best chance to move the implementation of the Framework and NGSS forward. Yet, the complex nature of all curricular innovations has resulted in confusion in the field on what is high-quality. This creates a need for an arbiter to carry out an independent third-party evaluation to help discern between high-quality NGSS instructional materials and those not in alignment with the NGSS. EdReports is a national leader providing evidence-rich reviews of full-course curricula. The independent non-profit publishes free, educator-led reviews of materials claiming alignment to college and career ready standards. This project will: (a) shape smart demand in K-8 science; (b) support research into the K-12 science materials market; and (c) conduct a review on all fifty states’ high school science policies to be shared with the field.
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For a project to support a fifty-state convening focused on the OpenSciEd initiative
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
41 months
Description
Twenty states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and twenty-four additional states have adopted science standards influenced by the NGSS, creating a demand for high-quality science instructional materials and curriculum. Both the Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) and OpenSciEd are dedicated to supporting teachers with NGSS-aligned instructional materials and curriculum. Through this grant, CSSS will organize OpenSciEd50, a convening bringing science leaders and influencers from all fifty states to: (a) hear from colleagues who have created regional supports for districts in selecting and implementing the OpenSciEd science curriculum; (b) engage with learning scientists and curriculum designers to learn how current research informs instructional material design and coherence; (c) consider how professional learning that is anchored in high-quality materials supports teacher growth in science instruction; and (d) develop regional plans to increase awareness and interest in OpenSciEd curriculum and professional learning materials.
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For a planning grant to work with Detroit Public Schools
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
6 months
Description
Coherence and standards alignment between curriculum and interim assessments results in efficient teacher learning, use of planning time, and classroom impact. CenterPoint Education Solutions, a developer of formative assessments, EL Education, a curriculum developer and professional development provider, and Detroit Public Community Schools are collaborating to plan the design of professional learning experiences that will connect their resources to improve teacher use of assessment data to make curriculum-based instructional decisions that will increase student learning. Through this planning grant, CenterPoint will: (a) kickstart a partnership to align their curriculum and assessments; (b) assign project managers to the project; (c) collaborate with Detroit education leaders to execute this professional learning model; (d) finalize the vision for resources needed to maximize implementation of an aligned system; and (e) draft a proposal to engage funders.
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For a project for the evaluation of the Board on Science Education
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
11 months
Description
The Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides guidance to the nation on a range of issues in science learning and education for both schools and informal learning environments. At its fifteenth year, BOSE is undertaking an evaluation of its activities that will inform their strategy for the next decade and produce reports for key funders and other stakeholders. Education Development Center (EDC) will conduct the third-party evaluation of BOSE and the role it plays in science education research, policy, and practice landscape. The evaluation will help BOSE understand: 1) their impact, value, and position as an independent, standing body for increasing impact in the field; 2) their most valuable contributions to the field and why; 3) their current ties and connections to audiences across the STEM field and where they can strengthen those relationships to extend their reach and impact; and 4) how to better leverage the current, national attention to the importance of STEM education.
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For a project on emerging Anti-Satellite (ASAT) threats to U.S. nuclear Command, Control and Communications (C3) space assets
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
30 months
Description
A consensus is now emerging in the U.S. defense community that Chinese and Russian anti-satellite (ASAT) capabilities pose dangers to U.S. nuclear early-warning and command, control, and communications (C3) assets. However, the scope and scale of these risks remain unclear. This project will culminate in a detailed technical evaluation of the vulnerability of nuclear early-warning and C3 satellites to ASAT attacks. The research will also explore options that U.S. policymakers might take to mitigate the impact of such attacks.
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For a scenario exercise to anticipate nuclear dangers
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
41 months
Description
The nuclear dangers the United States will face in twenty or twenty-five years may differ significantly from those it faces today, but few attempts have been made to investigate these possible futures or understand their implications. New America Foundation will engage thirty-five Weapons of Mass Destruction experts in an intensive, scenario-based exercise that uses multiple visions of the future to challenge perceptions of the present and understand options. This project will help participants to question their assumptions and gain a set of tools for thinking about future possibilities, and will yield a report that encapsulates and makes accessible the findings.
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For engaging and activating the U.S. physics community in nuclear threat reduction
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
42 months
Description
Physicists have long played a special role in nuclear threat reduction but are less engaged with these issues today. In partnership with the American Physical Society, Princeton University seeks to reconnect with physics communities across the country about the threat posed by nuclear weapons. The joint effort will entail a variety of activities, including lectures, discussions, and workshops designed to highlight risks and identify practical threat-reduction measures. This effort will also generate outreach materials to further increase awareness among physicists and concerned citizens about nuclear threats, and the steps that can be taken to mitigate them.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the Edinburgh International Culture Summit 2022
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2012, The Edinburgh International Culture Summit (EICS) provides one of a very few global platforms for the purposes of exploring the contributions made by arts and culture to overall society. This biennial event brings together culture ministers, artists, and arts leaders from around the world to share ideas, expertise, and best practices, with a view to inspiring positive change in cultural policy and investment. The Summit will focus on three central themes: culture and education, culture and social cohesion, and culture and infrastructure. With Corporation support the EICS seeks to expand its international outreach, engaging with a wider number of countries who might not otherwise be able to access the Summit, thus increasing the reach and impact of our global conversation.
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For project support to conduct a feasibility study on the role of New York City community colleges around career education
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Opportunity America is a Washington-based nonprofit promoting economic mobility for low-income and working families. The organization’s principal activities are research, policy development, dissemination of policy ideas and working to build consensus around policy proposals. One of the organization’s primary interests is community college workforce education. Opportunity America will conduct a feasibility study on the role New York City community colleges should play in career education. The project will explore labor market demand in growing industries; build in the perspective of college-age and older students; and identify existing strengths and obstacles within The City University of New York (CUNY) as it revamps its workforce offerings. Ultimately the project aims to build support among New Yorkers – employers, educators, policymakers and CUNY faculty and staff – for a far-reaching reform agenda.
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For project support of the Young People’s Campaign for Education 2020
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Students in underserved communities are often left out of the national conversation about education policy and reform issues that continuously affect their lives. These students often seek opportunities to utilize their voice and leverage their civic leadership to advance social justice and racial equity in their communities. Students for Education Reform (SFER), founded by a college student in 2009, provides students the opportunity to play a significant role in developing public narratives around effective solutions for education equity. SFER coalitions help identify and prepare college students with the tools and strategies for successful grassroot organizing to advance educational reform in their communities. With continued support from the Corporation, SFER will launch the Young People’s Campaign for Education 2020, which will be informed by national polling and focus groups to improve education centered messaging in national and local conversations to encourage public debate and policy change. The campaign will also feature compelling student stories to shape a narrative around education equity that transcends divisions and polarizations of the past.
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For refining and disseminating school district change management strategies
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
28 months
Description
Many visionary school operators have begun to forge paths to new models, yielding proof points of what is possible through school-based innovation. However, scaling these models to the system level continues to be a challenge. With current Corporation support, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) has begun to address this challenge through the development of a framework entitled Transformation Science, a new approach to school district change management. Specifically, NGLC has conducted deep research into the design and practice of change management from across sectors, and has worked with six exemplar school districts and leading experts in educational change to build a foundational set of next generation change management constructs, strategies, tools, and resources. With continued support, NGLC will partner with a greater number of districts to implement this new approach, testing and verifying whether it is an effective and scalable strategy to support district-level change.
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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 investment will 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 share their 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. RISE Colorado 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
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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 past nine years has had devastating consequences for the Arab region. As Syria became a focal point for competing geopolitical interests, parties to the conflict continue to commit human rights abuses and violations 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 through lectures, 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 elsewhere to enhance peace prospects in Syria through 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 to digitize the historical records related to the inception and 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 created digital archive. In 2020, we will continue with the next phase of the digitization project by digitizing the Corporation’s board-related materials, including sixty-three bound volumes of board meeting minutes, seventy-one bound volumes of agenda books, and 147 linear feet of related archival materials. These materials will also be added to the Corporation Corporation of New York’s Digital 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 its growth as an effective field-building institution. The grant will enable ACSS to offer early career fellowships, promote research and publications, organize issue-oriented working groups, and maintain a lecture series in honor of the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi.
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