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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
Description
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
Description
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
Description
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has the opportunity to build on over a decade of reform efforts under the leadership of a 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, namely the allocation of funds, staff, and time across and within schools, as a key area 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 to transform 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 funding centered 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
Description
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
Description
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
Description
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 recommending options for pursuing them. Corporation support will contribute to this process with the aim of managing international risks and making effective resource allocation decisions. The work will entail research, publications, and convenings striving to benefit 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
Description
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
Description
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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For training and technical assistance for nonprofits involved in policy advocacy
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The 2020 election year provides a unique opportunity for nonprofits to elevate awareness of key issues that impact voters. Indeed, elections at all levels of government will have far-reaching impact on social programs, civil rights, and fundamental protections for workers, the environment, low-income people, and immigrant and LGBTQ communities. However, confusion and misinformation regarding acceptable programmatic activities are prevalent among nonprofits and funders. The Alliance for Justice has been offering a comprehensive program dedicated to helping nonprofits navigate legal guidelines around advocacy for more than twenty years. It works with nearly 2,000 nonprofits and foundations annually, helping thousands of their staff and trustees to better understand federal, state, and local laws around lobbying and election-related activities.
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For a project to analyze the fiscal and economic impact of state-level immigration policies
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In recent years, the federal government has advanced new rules to limit access to public benefits for immigrant families. Yet, studies have overwhelmingly revealed that immigrants contribute far more in taxes than they benefit from government programs. In fact, states and cities with pro-immigrant policies are significantly benefiting from the economic and labor contributions of immigrants, particularly in localities with declining populations and employment rates. The State Priorities Partnership (SPP), established by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), is a network of national and state-based fiscal policy institutes that provide analyses of the fiscal implications of state-level proposals and the state-level impact of national policy proposals. With Corporation support, CBPP and SPP members will continue to provide critical fiscal data to advocates and other groups working on state-level immigration policy issues.
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For a one-time only grant on advancing research and online education on non-violent conflict and resistance
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
33 months
Description
As the number of civil resistance movements rises worldwide, there are few educational opportunities for promoting research and knowledge development about civil resistance. The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is a leading organization focused on how civil movements build effectiveness and create social change. With Corporation support, the ICNC will produce research publications examining civil resistance in peacebuilding contexts, and will continue to conduct its free, six-week long online courses titled “The Study of Strategic Nonviolent Resistance” in partnership with Rutgers University.
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For the Orfaelea Center partnership with the Security in Context Network
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The Arab region is one of the main theaters in which the shifting geopolitical order is being shaped and contested. In response to these changing circumstances and with Corporation support, scholars have formed Security in Context (SiC), an interdisciplinary network of university nodes promoting collaborative research and policy analysis on key questions regarding peace and conflict, the political economy of security and insecurity, and international norms. The Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will serve as the SiC node in the Western United States. This node will advance international research collaboration on security studies and the social impact of data-driven technologies. Corporation funds will support working groups, publications, public events, and partnerships with Middle East North Africa (MENA) and Global South institutions.
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As a final grant for support of the Public Policy Hub
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The policy challenges confronting governments and societies across the Arab region are numerous, critical, and urgent. An initiative at the American University in Cairo has demonstrated success building policy research capacity by developing cadres of skilled analysts. The Public Policy Hub based at the School for Global Affairs and Public Policy combines experienced scholars with young, creative analysts, providing them with the necessary training and networks to craft rigorous policy solutions and communicate them to both policymakers and the general public. While the expertise is centered on Egypt, the issues tackled by the Hub include education, labor, public service reform, urban planning, and regional cooperation. Corporation funds will support staff costs, research, workshops, travel, publications, and online communication products.
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For support of the Advancing Research on Conflict Consortium
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
45 months
Description
Understanding and preparing for adverse conditions during scholarly fieldwork in conflict contexts is integral to honoring the principle of “do no harm.” However, conventional academic training in the social sciences often leaves scholars under-prepared for research in volatile and violence-affected spaces. The Advancing Research in Conflict (ARC) Consortium was founded in 2018 to directly address this dearth of practical, methodological, and psychological resources available to social scientists working in these challenging environments. ARC runs a week-long, faculty-led residential summer training program for graduate students and early-career scholars that includes advanced field methods and ethics training.
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For a project on international order and war
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
36 months
Description
At a time when geopolitical rivalry and global events are challenging current conceptions of the international order, scholars and practitioners have surprisingly little to contribute on the relationship between order and war. Much of their attention has focused on relations among states within international orders, not on the interactions among states within orders and states outside of them. Because most international orders are partial and exclude rival states, the literature on this subject is incomplete in responding to some of the most important questions facing the world, such as how best to design an international order or orders to promote future peace and stability. To fill this gap, the Modeling Emergent Social Order Lab (MESO) at The Ohio State University will examine this subject with new datasets and quantitative modeling methods. From the project’s findings, MESO will produce policy briefs, publish in key policy-focused journals and blogs, such as The Monkey Cage, and produce datasets that will be made available to the broader scholarly and policy communities.
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For U.S.- Russia meetings on nuclear safety
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
7 months
Description
As the possessors of over ninety percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, the United States and Russia play a critical role in ensuring global nuclear security. The disruption of U.S.-Russian relations has put on hold nuclear weapons negotiations at a time when a host of emerging technologies and geopolitical pressures threaten global strategic stability. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has been facilitating Vatican-hosted nuclear security dialogues among American, Russian, and international experts and religious representatives. With previous Corporation support, two meetings in Rome focused on nuclear arsenals and safety. The additional grant would enable an international meeting in Moscow to explore approaches to reducing the risks posed by nuclear weapons.
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For Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 7
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
WETA (Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.) uses the power of media to educate, inform, entertain and inspire, and by doing it seeks to strengthen the nation. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has become a major figure in America’s cultural landscape, and his show Finding Your Roots is currently one of the highest-rated series on PBS. The show is a humanistic endeavor that finds a new way to communicate the complexities of American history through personal stories that trace the family trees of well-known Americans. With Carnegie Corporation support, Dr. Gates will host and write Season 7 of Finding Your Roots, producing compelling television, filled with emotional moments that enrich our national discussion on race, ethnicity, and identity.
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For online dialogues about America's role in the world
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
America’s foreign policy appears to be at an inflection point. While there is a growing consensus that foreign policy decisions have led to mixed outcomes, multiple views are vying with each other over what paradigm might lead to better outcomes. As this competition unfolds, Nonzero Foundation, an organization that fosters the dissemination of knowledge from diverse perspectives, will use online video dialogues and audio podcasts to engage both traditional and non-traditional experts in considering a range of alternative foreign policy paradigms in understandable and accessible ways. In addition, this project will integrate the views of international actors to further inform the ongoing debate in U.S. policy circles.
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As a one-time only grant for the Pittsburgh Global Anti-Hate Conference
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1912, The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh (the “Federation”) was established to build a thriving, vibrant and engaged Jewish Community by raising and allocating funds and building community locally, in Israel, and around the world. On October 27, 2018, a mass shooting took place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States. With Corporation support, the Federation will host a two-day anti-hate conference which to share best practices in the use of rule-of-law solutions; increase the visibility of this work so that greater numbers of victims are encouraged to seek help from the justice system; maintain broad public vigilance against hate crimes by highlighting the diversity of its victims; and to create focused working groups that will team between annual conferences to develop specific solutions.
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As a one-time only grant to support the 2020 Catholic Partnership Summit
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Established in 2005, Leadership Roundtable offers leadership, best practices, and managerial expertise to Catholic pastoral leaders. Recognizing that relationships and networks are key to transformational change, Leadership Roundtable has honed its capacity to serve as conveners of leaders in the Church, Fortune 500 companies,philanthropists, and academics with the aim of effecting cultural transformation. With Corporation support, the Leadership Roundtable will invite religious and thought leaders to the 2020 Catholic Partnership Summit, From Crisis to Co-Responsibility: Creating a New Culture of Leadership. The summit will highlight the values of accountability, transparency, and co-responsibility. The summit will also include a session for young Catholics, addressing such topics as welcoming diversity across all cultures.
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For promoting congressional arms control engagement
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
21 months
Description
A Congressional role in arms control is key to forging sustainable international agreements. However, other priorities on the legislative agenda prevent members of Congress from getting involved in arms control and related strategic stability issues. To remedy this, the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress (CSPC) will launch a series of salon dinners that bring together current Congressional leaders with former government officials and elected representatives with experience in diplomacy, arms control negotiations, and agreement ratification. Through these dialogues, and accompanying research by CSPC staff, this project will seek to reengage Congress in arms control measures, while also examining its formal and informal roles in foreign policy related to arms control, and applying historical lessons of Congressional leadership to responding to today’s challenges.
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For school support and development of district tools for school improvement
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In order to improve learning experiences and outcomes for all students, we must transform existing schools and build the district capacity necessary to support and sustain them. The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (the Partnership) was founded in 2007 to turnaround a group of historically low-performing schools in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The network is now comprised of eighteen schools that serve 13,500 students across TK-12, 94 percent of whom qualify for free- or reduced-price lunch. The Partnership provides capacity building support for school and teacher leaders at each of these schools, and it works with LAUSD to catalyze district-wide innovations that impact all 500,000 LAUSD students. Further, the Partnership has harnessed the power of its network of schools, not only to share best practices and continuously improve, but also to collectively leverage influence and inform district policy. Current Corporation support has also enabled the Partnership to undertake activities to spread its transformation model beyond LAUSD.
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For knowledge building and technical assistance to accelerate strategic school and system redesign
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
36 months
Description
In order to equitably expand student access to high quality learning experiences, we need to augment the capacity of districts to support schools and manage change. This is precisely the work of Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a national nonprofit tackling the challenge of transforming how urban schools and systems organize resources—people, time, and money—so that every school is designed to serve every student. Through their innovative partnerships with districts, schools, and state leaders, ERS enables districts to develop and implement comprehensive improvement strategies that support strong schools with an integrated data analysis, design, and implementation model. With Corporation support, ERS will continue working in deep partnership with districts and build the field’s capacity to spread strategic systems that support all students.
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For support of the Edmond J. Safra Center’s role in developing and piloting renewed civics education curriculum
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
In 2012, the United States Department of Education acknowledged that civic learning and democratic engagement in the United States have become “add-ons” rather than “essential parts of the core academic missions” of schools. Housed at Harvard University, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is incubating a national initiative for renewed civic education at all levels of schooling, including K-12, higher education, continuing education, and teacher professional development. With Corporation support, the center will further develop its programming for students and educators, expand its network of partner school districts in Massachusetts, and promote its model in additional states.
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For a project to strengthen the pipeline between K-12 and community colleges, and local employers through cross-sector professional learning for educators
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
27 months
Description
Community colleges must continue to find ways to be nimble in response to their students’ needs. Community Colleges provide social services, professional development for individuals transitioning careers, post-secondary education, employment, policy advocacy as well as developing human capital for the local workforce. Successful colleges who understand this challenge center their students’ experience towards completion and economic mobility. For the past fifteen years, Achieving the Dream (ATD) has provided tools, services, and supports for colleges to meet the ever-changing demand and role in the community and to help community colleges increase outcomes for low-income students and close achievement gaps.
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For the diffusion of the Bard High School Early College model
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Preparing all students for success in college and career requires greater alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences. Bard College has developed a best-in-class early college high school model that bridges the gap between high school and college for primarily first generation and low-income students. Bard currently operates eight early college high schools across the country after twenty years of successfully serving students in New York City. With Corporation support, Bard codified its pedagogical resources and undertook critical policy work to promote broader application of the early college model around the country. Continued support will enable Bard to build on this work with a strategic communications campaign aimed at increasing awareness of and demand for early college in underserved communities.
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For the development and implementation of a high school program focused on college preparation and socio-emotional growth
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Research shows that students’ socio-emotional skills are key to their lifelong success, yet there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academics, particularly at the high school level. Valor Collegiate Academies (Valor) is a charter management organization operating three successful schools that incorporate SEL into the core of their school design through a standalone curriculum called Compass. Valor has ranked in the top 5 percent for overall student achievement and student growth in Tennessee since its founding in 2014, with achievement and growth scores consistent across diverse sub-groups of students. With prior support from the Corporation, Valor expanded to the high school level and trained fifty-two school partners in the Compass approach, serving over 18,000 students around the country. Continued support will allow Valor to finalize critical components of the high school model, including college and career programming and a refined Compass curriculum for eleventh and twelfth grade students at Valor, which will graduate its first class of seniors in 2021, and its partner schools.
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For the Social Impact Exchange Learning Community on Scaled Impact in Education
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The effectiveness of any single intervention in education reform is often diminished because many organizations work in isolation, and because there are few mechanisms to facilitate and ensure coordinated approaches that spread effective, complimentary practices and solutions. As a result, the achievement of broad, population-level impact in education has been elusive. The Social Impact Exchange (SIE) at Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) seeks to minimize these missed opportunities, inefficiencies, and decreased impact by creating a system in the social sector to consistently scale promising practices and effective interventions. This grant supports SIE’s ongoing education working group, the Learning Community on Scaled Impact, which seeks to strengthen and deepen the learning and knowledge about the most current thinking and research for achieving large-scale impact in education.
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For a project to design and pilot school coaching programs focused on tiered supports for differentiated literacy and math curricula and data systems to assess impact
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Schools are struggling to help their students meet grade-level expectations with college and career-ready standards, while also providing students with the necessary individualized supports. Building an in-depth understanding of the standards and effectively diagnosing and addressing students’ unfinished learning requires cohesive and sustained support for educators. Achievement Network partners with schools by providing professional learning opportunities for school leaders and teachers, as well as helping schools more fully implement high-quality standards-aligned instructional materials. Through this project, Achievement Network will build their capacity to support educators in partner schools through: (a) supporting foundational literacy skills, (b) supporting aligned and differentiated math instruction, and (c) updating their data systems.
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For a project to develop new Standards for Professional Learning with associated tools and resources
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
36 months
Description
Educators across the country do not have the same level of access to professional learning and teacher supports required to meet the needs of the students they serve. Many school districts are working to develop a shared vision and framework for improving teaching and learning at scale. Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning address both scale and equity by establishing a shared vision and defining the elements of and conditions for professional learning that result in changes in teacher and school leader practice, leading to improved outcomes for students. These professional learning standards were last revised in 2011, and a revision is needed to address current issues, such as standards-aligned curriculum-based professional learning. Through this grant, Learning Forward will: (a) develop and revise the Standards for Professional Learning, (b) engage a Standards Advisory Council and associated work teams, and (c) develop and release implementation tools to support use of the revised Standards for Professional Learning.
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For a project to design and pilot a district-based professional learning program and facilitator credentialing program based on the Standards Institute
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
21 months
Description
The adoption and implementation of college and career-ready state standards focuses on improving outcomes for all students. Educators need resources to translate standards-aligned curricula into effective and rigorous classroom practices, while also confronting biased beliefs about how to implement equitable instruction. UnboundEd addresses this need by building teachers’ abilities and skills to plan and adapt grade-level, affirming, and meaningful lessons through their triannual Standards Institute. Through this renewal grant, UnboundEd will meet systems’ demand for high-quality professional learning programs at the district level by: designing, developing, piloting, and refining a (a) local professional development program for teachers and (b) facilitator credentialing program; as well as (c) improving and scaling the professional learning and facilitator credentialing programs.
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For participation of African early-career academics in the association's annual meetings and skills-enhancement workshops
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1957, the African Studies Association (ASA) encourages production and dissemination of interdisciplinary knowledge about African societies. With close to 2,000 participants, ASA’s annual meetings provide a platform for emerging scholars to engage with the wider scholarly community. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ASA has elected to host a virtual 2020 meeting. This format will enable a significant increase in participation of Corporation-supported scholars in the 2020 meeting. At present, the 2021 meeting will revert to the traditional format. In both cases, fellows will take part in scholarly panels, present papers, and benefit from mentorship and leadership training as well as intensive workshops on scholarly writing. The grant will support fellows’ digital or in-person participation, other conference expenses, and workshops.
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As a one-time only grant to support the Boosting the Signal project
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
16 months
Description
Founded in 1949, The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just and equitable society, affecting change through dialogue, leadership and action to help solve the most important challenges around the world. With Corporation support, The Aspen Attention & Democracy Initiative will cultivate market incentives for the production of responsible and engaging electoral content through a certification, amplification and sponsorship system. This could empower citizens to be more informed and engaged voters and enable candidates to earn the attention they need to compete, so there is a more diverse pool of viable candidates.
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For support of a project on immigration and national security
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
National security is frequently touted by anti-immigrant voices as a reason for restrictionest policies that reduce or prevent the integration of newcomers. However, the country’s national security interests are best served by advancing immigration policies that are humane, rules-based, and which seek to provide legal avenues for entry to increase U.S. economic competitiveness. The Truman Center for National Policy is a nationwide membership of diverse leaders, many from national security and military backgrounds, committed to shaping and advocating for tough, smart national security solutions. Truman is driven by the belief that America is strongest when it stands with its allies to lead, support, and defend a growing global community of free people and just societies. With Corporation support, the Truman center will use its nationwide network of members with immigration expertise and broader national security bonafides to offer an authoritative national security voice in support of pro-immigrant policies at the state and federal levels.
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For support of an initiative to elevate the disability community’s participation in the democratic process
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
14 months
Description
Despite 25 percent of the United States population having a disability, the United States Government Accountability Office reports that between 60-80 percent of all polling sites in the past three presidential elections were inaccessible for individuals with disabilities. Unfortunately, national movements for more inclusive voting reforms often inadequately consider the implications that their policy proposals would have on the disability community. Founded in 2003, the Center for American Progress is a nationally acclaimed think tank that produces high-quality, nonpartisan research on policy solutions and ideas that span a wide range of issues. With Corporation support, the center’s Disability Justice Initiative will produce a series of briefs and infographics aimed at increasing the interest of the disability community in topics around voting rights and access, with the goal of increasing the community’s participation in upcoming elections.
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For support of the Lincoln Center Education program
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1959, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was envisioned by founder John D. Rockefeller as a place where “the arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many.” Guided by this goal, Lincoln Center Education (LCE) aims to remove barriers to participation in the arts for children and families from all five boroughs of New York City, who might not otherwise have access to arts programming. Arts education has been proven to improve academic outcomes for students living in poverty. A 2012 study by the National Endowment for the Arts found that low-income students who received arts education performed better in science and writing and had overall higher GPAs than those who did not. LCE offers arts classes in New York City K-12 schools, community engagement programs on the Lincoln Center campus, and professional development for teaching artists and public school teachers. In response to the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak and New York Stater’s shelter-in-place directive, LCE has rapidly made programming for children and families available online. Each weekday, Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom releases a lesson demonstrating how to use common household goods to create art. With Corporation support, LCE will continue to provide high-quality arts programming to students in the New York metropolitan area.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the New Congressional Staff Partnership Program
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
35 months
Description
To build collegial working relationships across the aisle and improve the efficacy of Congress as a policymaking and oversight body, the Partnership for a Secure America designed the New Congressional Staff Partnership Program for incoming Congressional staffers. The program will address the issue of division between parties and the legislative and executive branches of government by connecting new Hill staff with bipartisan congressional staff mentors and counterparts at the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The program will focus on practical ways to help improve interactions, restore trust, and build better communication and understanding between the two branches of government.
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As a one-time grant for congressional programs on national security
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
When the 117th United States Congress meets in January 2021, a basic need for new Capitol Hill staffers will be concise, competent nonpartisan information on foreign policy and national security issues. To help provide that, and experiences by which congressional staff can build relationships across party lines, the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) has designed a series of private seminars with bipartisan congressional staff, Executive Branch staff, and informed former officials. The seminars will examine existing national security classification review laws and security procedures, including whether and how to reform them. NPEC also will educate congressional staff and members on nuclear threats by engaging staffers in nuclear war simulations, which could provide a template for simulations with members.
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For a book project on the past, present, and future of the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
27 months
Description
The National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), launched in 1964 as a result of Corporation support for the Exploratory Committee for the Assessment of Progress in Education, is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects. NAEP has become an essential tool for education policymakers, analysts, and practitioners to monitor changes in student achievement over time and to identify where improvement might be made. Yet, for all its importance, few understand NAEP’s workings, its history, its ability to provide timely and actionable data—and the limits on its capacity. Chester Finn, distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, proposes to write a book NAEP’s past, present and future, including its issues and controversies; challenges and constraints; how it has navigated political, technical and fiscal minefields; and what the future may hold for it.
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For a project to integrate the use of high-quality instructional materials into teacher residency programs that partner with school districts to prepare new teachers
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials and curriculum are well-positioned to contribute to instructional change. However, many new teachers struggle to find instructional materials that are high-quality and aligned with new college and career-ready standards. The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) has launched and sustained teacher residency programs for the past ten years, improving the quality of new teachers for students in high-need schools and districts. This project will begin to build a coherent experience between teacher residency programs and district partners in which coursework and clinical experiences reinforce teachers’ mindsets about the use of high-quality instructional materials. Through this planning grant, NCTR will: (a) design a series of three workshops for teams of teacher educators and district leaders, (b) engage with organizational partners and workshop teams to transition towards a focus on curriculum literacy, and (c) produce a handbook for teacher preparation providers based on these workshops.
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For a project to expand the Curriculum Matters Professional Learning Network
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
6 months
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As high-quality, standards-aligned curricula become more available, strategies for professional learning are shifting towards a curriculum-focused perspective. Many school districts are facing significant instructional challenges and need models of how to implement new curricula with professional learning in their school contexts. Through their highly successful Curriculum Matters media campaign and blog site, StandardsWork has shared features of a high-quality curriculum, promoted positive school experiences with new curricula, and written articles and blogs on the topic. The Curriculum Matters Professional Learning Network (PLN) provides communication support to chief academic officers in school districts around the country as they call for more professional learning supports for educators teaching with high-quality curricula. Through this grant, StandardsWork will: (a) elevate educator voices by enhancing their website and growing their social media and public communication operations and (b) expand collaboration opportunities in their Curriculum Matters PLN through convenings, webinars, and other efforts focused on best practices in curriculum-based professional learning.
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For planning of the Adolescent Learning Technical Assistance Center
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
There is a growing body of neuroscience and cognitive science research focused on how students learn during their formative adolescent years. The science of adolescent learning and development illuminates key lessons for how to craft developmentally responsive learning environments that more effectively support student success, such as the importance of fostering sustained positive relationships and scaffolding instructional practices. However, this knowledge has not yet been broadly disseminated into the education field nor translated into practical recommendations that educators and leaders can enact. American Institutes of Research (AIR) is partnering with the Forum for Youth Investment to plan the Adolescent Learning Technical Assistance Center (ALTAC) to support educators to apply the science of adolescent learning and development at the state, district, and school levels. With Corporation support, AIR will convene the ALTAC advisory group, develop long-term implementation and funding plans for the center, and conduct a scan of relevant existing resources related to the science of adolescent learning and development.
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For project support of season 2 and 3 of Notes from the Backpack: A PTA Podcast
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
9 months
Description
Although research shows that family engagement is a major factor in student success and school improvement, most public schools across the nation are missing out on this connection and still apply the same family engagement practices used many decades ago. Currently, the information-sharing about home-school partnerships is mostly geared towards educators rather than directly to families and given the school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this communication exchange is more important than ever. The National Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the largest child advocacy organization in the United States with over 3.5 million members, established the Center for Family Engagement in 2018 to take a deliberate and focused approach to reimagine family engagement practices and policies for greater equity and effectiveness. The PTA’s podcast, Notes from the Backpack, is one of the core tools for this approach. With Corporation support, the PTA will complete and disseminate thirteen new podcast episodes; develop and implement an audience analysis plan to gauge their listeners’ needs and develop a new strategic marketing plan to further reach their target audiences.
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For support of the national television program, GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
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The GZERO World with Ian Bremmer seeks to promote awareness and understanding of geopolitical, security, and humanitarian developments threatening global stability. The show is based on a premise that many of today’s global trends present obstacles in addressing major challenges of climate change, data privacy, nuclear proliferation, migration, health pandemics, and others. GZERO World aims to educate and inform the public about international issues by offering fresh and non-ideological conversations with informed guests from around the world. Corporation support will contribute to the production of Season 3, which will examine global issues in the context of COVID-19.
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For research, writing, and dissemination on the future of U.S.-Iran relations
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
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Iran is central to such U.S. and global security challenges as nuclear proliferation, Islamist radicalism, cybersecurity, and conflicts in the Middle East. At the same time, Iran is facing uncertainty due to the grave economic situation, the outbreak of COVID-19, and both internal and external political pressures. Understanding Iran’s domestic and foreign policies is critical to developing a non-partisan Iran strategy. A leading Iran expert at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Karim Sadjadpour, will engage in research, analyses, and writings on Iran and related issues with outreach components that would include articles, briefing papers, media appearances, and a podcast series.
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For a special commission on social science research in the Middle East and North Africa
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
36 months
Description
The landscape for social science research in the Arab region today is complex and rapidly evolving. The structural context of research in the region is of critical concern as it shapes topics and methods, career opportunities, and prospects for dissemination and impact of outputs. With an overall aim to improve the quality of social science research on and in the Arab region, the Middle East Institute at Columbia University has joined a collaborative effort among the Columbia Global Centers, the American University in Cairo, the Rabat Social Studies Institute, and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences to establish a Special Commission on Social Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa. The purpose of the Commission is to assess the “big picture” factors that shape decisions about research, propose long-term strategies for addressing impediments, and recommend mechanisms for greater cooperation among social science communities within and beyond the region. Corporation funds will support the Commission’s work, including a set of guidelines for ethical international research in the region, regional workshops, digital outputs, and publications.
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For a cross-site process evaluation on the Promising Pathways program
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
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The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was founded in 1916 and represents 1.7 million members nationwide. In 2016 the AFT implemented Promising Pathways, a multi-city initiative on Career and Technical Education (CTE) and workforce development. Corporation support will allow the AFT do conduct a site-based evaluation to include two to three sites: Peoria, Pittsburgh, and/or San Francisco. AFT staff will work with an external evaluator to develop the process evaluation. AFT will share learnings, both at the local level and across sites to reveal promising practices in terms how to fund, support, and implement varied workforce efforts in local labor and community-based contexts. Dissemination will be multi-channeled, with the AFT relying on its networks of local affiliate leaders and partners (districts, community-based partnerships, area labor councils, etc.), to share the evaluation and equip local communities in making the case for CTE and Career Pathways to be more broadly incorporated into their school systems
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