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Project Title
For Johnson's Russia List
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Russia’s relevance to key U.S. foreign policy priorities calls for in-depth understanding of Russia and its neighborhood. Johnson’s Russia List (JRL) is an internet-based newsletter of information, analysis, and opinion pieces about Russia’s domestic and foreign policy developments. JRL uses a variety of publications around the world as sources for its newsletter, which reaches thousands of users in governments, information agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private-sector entities in the United States and abroad. JRL is housed at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. In addition to regular newsletters, JRL offers archival and searchable data on Russia and the post-Soviet region.
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For international dialogues and outreach on security challenges in Northeast Asia
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing salience of Northeast Asia to regional and global security concerns has increased the need for dialogue between American and Asian experts and policymakers. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (the National Committee) has a proven ability to convene high-level dialogues with American, South Korean, Chinese, and Japanese experts, officials, former officials, and scholars, as well as, when circumstances permit, their North Korean counterparts. While never a substitute for official diplomacy, Track II and Track 1.5 (involving officials) dialogues have played an important role in helping the U.S. coordinate its strategy in Northeast Asia with key allies and partners in the region, and in keeping unofficial channels of communication open with North Korea, both when official talks with the U.S. government are ongoing and when they are not.
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
0 months
Description
North Korea’s nuclear program poses grave challenges to the global nonproliferation regime and the peace and security of Northeast Asia. Negotiation and engagement are essential for addressing these challenges. In support of government-to-government negotiations, the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project engages in unofficial Track II dialogues involving experts, former officials, and current officials acting in their unofficial capacities from North Korea and the United States, as well as from China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. The meetings explore ways to sustain the formal negotiation process and provide expert inputs on nuclear, missile, and other security issues arising in these discussions.
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For the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
The regional security environment in Northeast Asia is at a crossroads. Despite high-level summitry, North Korea continues to make progress in the development of its strategic weapons capabilities, the United States and China appear to be headed into an intensifying geo-strategic and geo-economic competition, and historical controversies remain a thorn in regional relations. In the absence of a formal regional security architecture, informal or quasi-formal mechanisms enable dialogue promotion and confidence-building. One of the longest and authoritative dialogue processes is the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a forum that straddles the official and non-official domains. NEACD is organized by the University of California-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation based at the University of California, San Diego. It brings together approximately fifty government officials, military officers, academics, and specialists from the United States, China, South Korea, Russia, Japan, and North Korea for regular discussions of regional security issues.
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For the China Power project
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Two Corporation-supported projects at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reflect the importance of China’s rapid transformation from a developing country to a global power. The first, launched in 2015 with Corporation support, is the award-winning website, ChinaPower. The project aggregates and elucidates data on Chinese power across five broad categories: economic, military, soft power, technological advancement, and social stability, to better inform the public discourse about the impacts of China’s increasing international involvement. The second is a Track II/1.5 project, which brings together American and Chinese experts and officials for dialogues on issues of the future global economic order. The project seeks to build mutual trust, enhance communication, identify emerging issues, and find opportunities for enhancing U.S.-China cooperation on a range of economic issues relevant to both countries and the world.
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For U.S.-China Dialogues on the Global Economic Order
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Two Corporation-supported projects at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reflect the importance of China’s rapid transformation from a developing country to a global power. The first, launched in 2015 with Corporation support, is the award-winning website, ChinaPower. The project aggregates and elucidates data on Chinese power across five broad categories: economic, military, soft power, technological advancement, and social stability, to better inform the public discourse about the impacts of China’s increasing international involvement. The second is a Track II/1.5 project, which brings together American and Chinese experts and officials for dialogues on issues of the future global economic order. The project seeks to build mutual trust, enhance communication, identify emerging issues, and find opportunities for enhancing U.S.-China cooperation on a range of economic issues relevant to both countries and the world.
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As a final grant for a project on the implications of quantum theory and its application for international peace and security
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
51 months
Description
Quantum theory, the most accurately tested theory in modern science, is used in a vast array of everyday applications, from lasers to MRI scanners to cell phones, and was fundamental to the development of the atom bomb. Yet, its core principles remain difficult to grasp. The renewal grant will support a final phase of an innovative, interdisciplinary “Project Q” at the University of Sydney’s Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) that teases out the implications of new and poorly comprehended developments in this highly complicated field. The project will continue bringing together an eclectic mix of scientists, philosophers, diplomats, soldiers, scholars, writers, artists, and futurists to explore the origins, elements, and outcomes of a quantum age. Through films, podcasts, e-books, traditional scholarly volumes, journal articles, and trade publications, the project will remain focused on the central question: To what extent will quantum be a technology for peace or war?
Project Title
For the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Africa continues to be home to the world’s longest and deadliest conflicts. Over the past twenty years, a major critique of conflict resolution and security initiatives across the continent has been that these conflicts are externally-configured, -led, and –implemented. To increase and elevate African voices, agency, and leadership in the peacebuilding field, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) created the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) projects with initial funding from the Corporation. Together, the projects support the pipeline of African scholars based on the continent producing rigorous and relevant research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions. Research is made available to the academic community, as well as packaged in digestible and useful ways for the international and African policy communities. Renewed support will enable the continuation of the two projects.
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For a project on managing global disorder
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Geopolitical rivalry among the major powers is growing, with potentially profound implications for global order. Global security is being undermined by localized disputes with the potential to become dangerous flashpoints. Increasing mistrust, if not outright hostility, among the major powers will also hinder cooperation on a range of common security concerns—including the proliferation of highly dangerous technologies, the threat of deadly pandemics, and the complex cluster of challenges associated with global climate change. Building on previous Corporation-funded work, the Council on Foreign Relation’s Center for Preventive Action will assess the scope of future major power cooperation on these common security concerns and potential sources of regional disorder, while continuing to monitor and raise public awareness of ongoing threats to international peace and stability. The work will result in a publication.
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For the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Few tenured political scientists focused on peace and security issues have experience working in government, while few government officials working on foreign and national security policy closely follow academic research. As a result, academic work is usually not informed by the constraints and demands faced by policymakers, while policymakers typically operate without the benefit of systematic scholarly research. With initial Corporation support, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) began to address this gap by a variant of its successful International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) program, which is aimed primarily at junior academics, to focus on tenured faculty members. With renewed support, the program will continue to place academic fellows in U.S. government agencies or international governmental organizations to gain valuable hands-on experience in the foreign policymaking field.
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As a final grant to disseminate research findings on bridging the gap between scholarship and policy related to international peace and security
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
48 months
Description
In 2015, the Corporation funded a project at the University of Notre Dame to help bridge the gap between scholarship and policy related to international peace and security. The project concentrated its efforts on countering the growing “cult of the irrelevant”—the privileging of analytical technique over substantive findings—in academic political science and its subfield of international relations. It developed a number of timely inputs into academic and policy thinking on bridging the gap, including surveys of academics and policymakers on the effectiveness and relevance of different bridging practices; high visibility publications aimed at policy audiences; and the book, The Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security. This grant facilitates the further dissemination and discussion of the project’s findings and outputs.
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For a project on policy-relevant responses to emerging policy issues
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite some notable progress in advancing efforts to bridge the gap between academia and the policy world—from the rise of a generation of faculty members committed to engaging critical global policy issues to new media outlets that help academics reach out to a broader audience—further work remains to be done. Specifically, this involves consolidating the progress made to date in the international relations community, devising mechanisms for more productive engagement between scholars and policymakers, and continuing to connect new ideas derived from academic work to the policy world. To help meet these challenges, the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House (PWH) was launched three years ago with Corporation support. PWH will continue bringing together scholars, policymakers, and other key constituencies to advance debates, conversations, and policy processes on topics with critical relevance to international peace and security.
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For support of a digital publication that covers the United Nations
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
PassBlue is an independent digital publication covering the United Nations (UN). The UN’s size and bureaucracy hinder a broader public understanding of the international organization’s operations, politics, and programs. This leads to misunderstanding by politicians, practitioners, and the general public. In response to this, PassBlue reports on the UN’s wide-ranging work from breaking news to long-form journalism and multimedia products. With Corporation support, PassBlue will continue to increase its readership, social media exposure, and dissemination partnerships. It will also aim to produce more investigative, exclusive stories, and data-driven articles on the UN’s global operations by broadening its base of international contributors.
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For a project to redesign and pilot Relay’s Master of Arts in Teaching program with disciplinary content and pedagogy courses integrated with high-quality K-12 instructional materials
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
21 months
Description
The Relay Graduate School of Education, a national accredited institution of higher education that offers teacher preparation programs for every grade level and nearly every subject area, is prepared to redesign its Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program so novice teachers can learn to use high-quality standards-aligned instructional materials. This grant will support Relay to integrate the use of high-quality K-12 instructional materials reviewed by EdReports, beginning with their online MAT elementary and secondary math courses; develop program faculty who teach these courses; pilot redesigned math courses; collect data to assess the impact of redesigned courses, and submit materials to obtain regulatory program approval.
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Project Title
For research on conventional deterrence of nuclear powers
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
32 months
Description
Nuclear and conventional deterrence are poorly integrated in U.S. operational doctrine and national military strategy. This is accentuated by standalone exercises like the Nuclear Posture Review, which encourage policymakers to see nuclear deterrence in isolation from other deterrent tools. This project will draw insights from commanders outside the nuclear community to establish a more balanced understanding of the interplay between nuclear and conventional deterrence. The research will pair interviews and traditional research methods with a peer-reviewed wargame designed to test responses to limited nuclear use. The study will result in policy articles, briefings, and op-eds aimed at better integrating conventional and nuclear deterrence planning.
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For a new season of "Things that Go Boom"
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
13 months
Description
A well-functioning democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Citizens in turn benefit from media that is anchored in journalism, strengthened with diverse voices, and amplified by innovative technology. Through a recent merger with longtime grantee Public Radio International, cutting-edge media creator Public Radio Exchange is expanding its programming portfolio, including through the podcast “Things That Go Boom” (TTGB), which seeks to make national security issues relatable to the general public. Hosted by security analyst Laicie Heeley, TTGB’s early seasons reached over 600,000 listeners across platforms. This grant will provide critical editorial and production support toward the podcast’s third season, which will explore the military, diplomatic, economic, and security implications of the new great power competition among the United States, Russia, and China.
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For understanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states obligations regarding nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
26 months
Description
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has further illuminated rifts between states on disarmament issues and highlighted the fundamental disagreements that threaten the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). These tensions have emerged even within Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance. Through this grant, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) will conduct a study aimed at understanding the obligations of NATO member states regarding nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. The project will entail policy-relevant research and discussions between supporters and opponents of the TPNW in advance of the NPT 2020 Review Conference, with the goal of narrowing the differences and increasing the likelihood of a successful NPT review.
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For follow-up research and outreach of the study on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Missile Defense
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
The 2019 Missile Defense Review has renewed debate over the role and architecture of missile defenses in Europe. This project, which builds on previous Corporation-supported work by King’s College London (KCL), will use wargaming methodology to better understand likely implications, including unintended consequences, of U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) missile defense postures. Fresh thinking about the costs and benefits of various approaches will enrich policy debates over missile defense strategy and force structure in the U.S. and Europe. This project will be housed at the School of Security Studies at KCL, but will engage experts from other institutions. The project team will present their findings at major missile defense conferences and promote their research through policy articles and opinion pieces.
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For a congressional education project on international security
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Members of Congress play a central role in helping to determine U.S. foreign and national security policy, including during a crisis. This responsibility necessitates knowledge of foreign policy tools and options available to American decision-makers that range from diplomacy, to negotiations, to other forms of deterrence. The Global Institute at Long Island University, in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace seeks to expand this knowledge among members of Congress by inviting a small bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to take part in a “Peace Games” simulation. Participating members, who would be drawn from relevant committees and include established and newly-elected lawmakers, will engage with regional and subject-matter experts in discussing and assessing policy choices in the context of posed scenarios.
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For research, dissemination, and international engagement activities of the Russia and Eurasia Program
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
21 months
Description
For the last several years, U.S.-Russia relations have been in a period of turbulence, punctuated by occasional crises. A balanced and factual understanding of Russia and its role in the world is critical to shaping effective U.S. policy toward Russia. The Russia and Eurasia Program (REP) of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is engaged in a variety of policy-relevant research, publications, dissemination, and public events on Russia, its neighborhood, and U.S.-Russia relations. With renewed support, the REP will continue its activities with a focus on Euro-Atlantic security, strategic stability in U.S.-Russian relations, Russia’s relations with major powers, Russian domestic politics, and the role of sanctions in U.S. policy toward Russia.
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For expanding the field of Russian military studies
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
American understanding of Russian military strategy, capabilities, and intentions declined following the end of the Cold War. The need for such knowledge has become acutely apparent as the United States and Russia have entered a period of declared strategic competition. The growing risks of U.S.-Russian military tensions and confrontations calls for in-depth understanding, assessments, and interpretations of the Russia military. The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) intends to strengthen the field of Russian military studies in the United States through policy-relevant research, publications, public events, and engagement with the Russian analytical community.
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For a fellowship program for early career scholars on China and Asia
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
33 months
Description
China’s role in shaping economic, political, social, and security developments in Asia and beyond is having profound implications on global peace and stability. From its far-ranging economic reach through the Belt and Road Initiative to its expanding military power, China’s increasing global presence is likely to continue having significant geopolitical impact as the 21st century unfolds. To increase understanding of China’s evolving global role and its relations with the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is launching a fellowship program aimed at expanding the range of current American scholarship on China and, where appropriate, challenging conventional wisdom. The program will support forty early career scholars and will also include a policy outreach dimension to expose fellows and their work to the policymaking community in Washington, D.C.
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For research and public education on government spending for border security
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite broad, bipartisan consensus on the need for comprehensive immigration reform, policymakers and the media often focus on the singular issue of border security. Yet, illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are at historically low levels, and policy analysts have long declared that most undocumented immigrants arrive in the United States through legal channels. Taxpayers for Common Sense is a nonpartisan budget watchdog group that has been educating policymakers and the general public about excessive and ineffective border security spending, in order to promote substantive dialogue about efficient border security and meaningful immigration reform. With Corporation support, Taxpayers for Common Sense will monitor border spending proposals, produce a suite of educational materials using existing and original research on the true costs of border policies, and directly engage congressional offices using this research. Taxpayers for Common Sense will work with constituent groups, fiscal conservatives, and the media to share findings with a broad audience.
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For a legislative working group on the role of Congress in foreign affairs
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
13 months
Description
Congress has an important role to play in U.S. foreign and national security policy. The congressional staff responsible for crafting legislation need to have a clear understanding of the legal and constitutional factors that guide and constrain Congress’s action in these areas. A new project at the Brookings Institution will convene a series of working group meetings with congressional staff from Democratic and Republican offices in both the House and Senate, as well as committee staff, and legal experts. The working group will be a venue for sustained dialogue on these legal considerations and appropriate relevant tools. After each session, Brookings experts will write a summary of the key findings to be published on Brookings-affiliated outlets, such as the Lawfare blog, as a resource for congressional staff and the interested public.
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As a final grant for President David Dooley's 21st Century Fund for Excellence
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
38 months
Description
The University of Rhode Island (URI) is the only public institution in Rhode Island that offers students the distinctive educational opportunities of a major research university. With Corporation support President Dooley will continue to invest in the President’s Transformational Goals for the 21st Century initiative helping prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be active participants in a robust democracy and to be successful in the global economy. The initiative includes creating a 21st century 24/7 learning environment; increasing the magnitude, prominence, and impact of research, scholarship, and creative work; internationalizing the University; and building a community that values and embraces equity and diversity. Achievable outcomes include a university that is highly adaptable to student needs; that offers a broad selection of internships and experiential learning opportunities; has an expanded funding base; and draws in more talented students and faculty who make contributions to the international community and also the local Rhode Island economy.
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For a project on gathering and using data to strengthen nuclear security
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
7 months
Description
While nuclear weapons pose a grave threat, much of the information related to their proliferation and potential use is siloed, unsorted, and difficult to analyze. Today, new analytic tools and an explosion of available data, from commercial satellite imagery to trade data, create opportunities for better analysis, transparency, and accountability. This grant provides seed funding for a working prototype that will facilitate information sharing and analysis.
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For a project to design a Family Engagement Playbook
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Research reveals a lack of family involvement in the early years, especially with respect to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, and few organizations serving families specifically support family engagement in STEM despite its importance. Envision Excellence in STEM Education proposes a design project to convene and compile field experts in Family Engagement from within their STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice (SLECoP) to collaboratively research, design and launch a Family Engagement Playbook. With support from the Corporation, Envision Excellence will convene members to create a framework for the playbook based on research and best practices, kick-off the development and design phase, and disseminate the playbook for organizations in the field.
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For the Hamilton Project
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Launched in 2006 and housed within Economic Studies at Brookings, The Hamilton Project provides a platform for a broad range of leading economic thinkers to inject innovative and pragmatic policy options into the national debate. The Hamilton Project’s strives to strengthen independent scholarship, bridging the gap between academia and policy, deepening congressional knowledge, and responding to special challenges and opportunities affecting economic security ranging from training to education to labor and competition policy. With Corporation support, The Hamilton Project will continue its work toward developing and promulgating evidence-based policy proposals and research, with the goal of promoting inclusive economic growth.
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As a one-time only grant for support of fellowships for immigrant artists
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1907, The MacDowell Colony is one of the original centers of creative ideas, artistic experimentation, and collaboration in America. It is the first multidisciplinary artist residency program in the United States and one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations. The MacDowell Colony has been committed to diversity since its institutional infancy and is a leader in removing barriers for artists to pursue their work and careers. Its mission is to nurture artists, facilitate the production of art, and increase appreciation for the value of the arts in the United States and beyond. The MacDowell community is comprised of artists from at least 108 different countries, including those who are subject to political pressures and vulnerabilities at home. With Corporation support, MacDowell will provide fellowships for five outstanding immigrant artists over two years which includes access to private studio space and library, meals, community engagement in local schools and public spaces, and opportunities for artistic exchange and collaboration with their peers.
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As a final grant in support of education programming
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s mission is to educate, inspire, and empower people through design and is achieved through exhibitions and innovative education programs, publications, and online resources that demonstrate the impact of design on daily life. Their education programs provide dynamic learning experiences that explore design concepts while engaging the public with the museum’s vast resources. With Carnegie Corporation support, Cooper Hewitt’s DesignAccess project will advance its goal to embed the ideals of accessibility and inclusion throughout the institution, including direct design education programming that supports the diverse learning styles of visitors across abilities; improve access services offered during education programs; broaden access to the museum’s exhibitions for audiences with disabilities; and provide training for Cooper Hewitt staff, across all departments, to ensure a positive, welcoming experience for all visitors.
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For a project on mapping Russia’s economic leverage
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Understanding the political relevance of Russia’s economic relations with its neighbors and the West is important but complicated. It requires analysis through both an economic and foreign policy lenses. The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) will use both of those perspectives to examine Russia’s use of economic leverage for the attainment of its foreign policy objectives. The project, to be carried out through a series of case studies, will assess Russia’s approaches, actions, and their outcomes. It will result in papers that will be disseminated through publications, multi-media venues, and launch events.
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For bringing state education leaders together
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
The 2018 midterm elections resulted in a slate of changes to state education leadership, including as many as eight to ten chiefs, twenty governors, twenty-one state board of educations and many new state legislators. With so many new policymakers assuming office in 2019, convening them in the early days of their tenure and providing them with the necessary tools and support to work together to drive system coherence in their states is timely and crucial. This will help to buffer the norm on the ground in states, where the “crisis of the day” often consumes time and attention and where partisanship and political rancor can create barriers to collaboration, developing a shared vision for student outcomes and a common understanding of how state policy, when properly implemented, removes those barriers. Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) proposes engaging with other national organizations to develop a set of supports for targeted state policymakers expected to transition into office in early 2019, and to convene a cohort of new state teams to facilitate them in the co-creation of a vision and education policy agenda for their states.
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For planning the City of New York Early Entry program
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
10 months
Description
Four-year graduation rates in New York City’s public high schools are at an all-time high of 74 percent, and the City University of New York (CUNY) has also made progress in improving college graduation rates across its campuses. However, too many public school graduates continue to enter the CUNY system unprepared, and more work remains to be done such that college readiness and completion can keep pace with high school graduation. Since approximately 60 percent of New York City public school graduates who go on to attend college enroll at CUNY, there is a unique opportunity for the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) and CUNY to work together to improve outcomes for these students. With Corporation support, CUNY will plan to launch an experimental program, CUNY Early Entry, that will deliver customized messages and guidance to NYCDOE eleventh and twelfth graders with the goal of helping them take specific actions to enhance their likelihood of success in college.
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For the 2019 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement Education
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
4 months
Description
We will never meet our rising aspirations for student achievement without building capacities across the education field for a robust national improvement infrastructure, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement in education might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its sixth annual Summit, bringing together well over a thousand education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve – this year with a specific focus on increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of attendees. This grant provides support for the 2019 Summit.
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For developing and promoting an equity-focused Future of Work agenda
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
10 months
Description
Our educational and training systems are failing to meet the needs of students, workers, or businesses, at the same time that a confluence of factors is changing the workplace and leaving too many American workers behind. The Center for American Progress (CAP), an independent nonpartisan policy institute dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans, proposes exploring policy solutions to these problems that cut across the distinct systems of K-12, postsecondary, and workplace training, with an equity lens to ensure that no segment of our society is left behind. With the support of this grant, they plan to: (1) organize progressive organizations and individuals to infuse a robust equity-centered approach to job training into the national and state legislative and administrative processes that are likely to proceed in 2019; and (2) lay the groundwork for a multi-year effort to rethink how we train people in America, breaking down silos between secondary, postsecondary and adult training, including retraining programs for displaced workers.
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For work on college and career access and success and the launch of the Charter Management Organizations Alumni Success Collaborative
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
KIPP, a high-performing charter management organization (CMO), has been serving low-income and minority students with groundbreaking success, proving that those children can achieve at high levels and can graduate from college at unprecedented rates. Now serving about 100,000 students in 224 schools, KIPP seeks to substantially improve student outcomes, reach more students, and find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni on to college and career, all the while sharing practices to benefit others. Under a prior Corporation grant, KIPP built out their college access and success strategies, codified and scaled them across the network, and shared them with other CMOs and districts. This grant builds on and continues to improve that successful work; supports the launch of a new collaboration with other CMOs to drive collective alumni success; and starts more intensive exploration, development, and implementation of career supports for their students and alumni.
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For the Hunt-Kean Leadership Fellows program
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
26 months
Description
Governors hold enormous influence over education policy in their states, yet these officials often lack any substantive background in education. As a result, candidates adopt positions while on the campaign trail without fully understanding their implications, then feel a sense of commitment to their promises after taking office. The Hunt-Kean Leadership Fellows Program, named for Governor Hunt and former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, provides up-and-coming elected officials from around the country with a firm grounding in today’s education needs and policy debates. Since the program launched five years ago, five Fellows have become governors and one a U.S. senator, and alumni of the program continue to enter gubernatorial and senate races. With Corporation support, the Institute will run the fifth, sixth and seventh cohorts of the Fellows Program, which includes convenings, site visits, and in-state sessions.
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For support of the Inclusive America Project
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
The United States is the most religiously diverse country in the world, yet over the past few years the country has seen numerous highly-visible hate crimes, including racially-motivated violence and attacks on religious sites and congregations. Of the 1,679 religion bias crimes reported in 2017 alone, 58 percent were anti-Jewish and 18.6 percent were anti-Muslim. Since 2011, the Aspen Institute’s Inclusive America Project has been bringing together people from across the political spectrum to build partnerships across different faiths. With Corporation support, the Aspen Institute will convene with funders, practitioners, and academics to develop a clear, compelling, and shared strategy for engaging funders, in order that the philanthropic sector may recognize the importance of supporting religious pluralism in their grantmaking.
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For a public engagement project on immigration
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
As immigration has become an increasingly partisan issue, nurturing a strong, moderate middle is increasingly important. Identifying and supporting leaders that have the trust of moderate and conservative Americans and are willing to engage in the immigration debate is crucial to the success of immigration reform over time. Linda Chavez, who formerly served as Director of the Office of Public Liaison under President Reagan, is a conservative leader who has earned the respect of conservatives and has continually advocated for sensible immigration reform. With Corporation support, Chavez will work with the Niskanen Center to produce op-eds and appear in major radio and television media outlets, public debates, and social media to engage conservatives on immigration reform and immigrant integration. Chavez is a senior fellow with the Niskanen Center.
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For the creation and launch of innovative new schools
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, the Corporation has played a significant role in expanding access to student-centered learning opportunities, and we continue to believe that the proliferation of innovative school models is a necessary catalyst for system-level transformation. We also believe that new school models are most effective when developed in partnership with the communities that they serve. CityBridge Education (CityBridge) is a local portfolio organization uniquely positioned to incubate and support grassroots, new school development in Washington, D.C. Through this work, CityBridge not only creates high-quality learning opportunities for the students served directly by its schools, but also builds the pipeline of local education talent and influences the education landscape in Washington, D.C. Renewed support will enable CityBridge to: build a robust pipeline of education entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C.; support the development of new school models; and engage local stakeholders in support of education transformation in their local context.
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For support of a public engagement campaign for a documentary on the impact of Asian immigration to the history and culture of the United States
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
Although Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, the demographic has long been regarded as statistically insignificant and marginal to major events in American history. However, from the Chinese Exclusion Acts, to the internment of Japanese Americans and viral fears of Asian communist insurgents post-World War II, Asian American history has been consequential to the development of modern American identity. Founded in 1961, the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA) is one of the leading producing stations in the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) system and is the flagship broadcaster in the nation’s capital. With Corporation support, WETA and its partners will deploy a wide-reaching series of public education and outreach activities around The Asian Americans, a documentary film series chronicling an era of American culture and politics through the eyes of prominent Asian American figures.
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For building system capacity to support socio-emotional learning
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
While the literature indicates a positive relationship between socio-emotional learning (SEL) and long-term life outcomes, there remains a dearth of program models and readily available tools that enable educators to marry SEL with academic instruction. In its sixteen-year history, Turnaround for Children (Turnaround) has both contributed to this research base and helped translate it into practice in schools. During that time, Turnaround has partnered with educators in over 100 school environments serving high-needs populations, resulting in improved student perceptions of school safety, quality of relationships with teachers, classroom belonging, and classroom engagement. Turnaround has also actively worked to build awareness of the impact of adversity on a child’s ability to learn, including significant research and dissemination activities. With renewed Corporation support, Turnaround will build upon this work through continued tool development, innovative measurement approaches, and a diverse set of service delivery models that build practitioner capacity.
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For a project to design, implement, and evaluate Leadership Networks of school districts
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
With increased efforts to move college and career-ready standards into high-quality implementation, often the role of district leaders and school principals is ignored. New Leaders thinks that aligned leadership and instructional practices built through coherent and consistent professional learning are critical to improving student outcomes. Through this grant, New Leaders proposes to implement Leadership Networks of school districts that will provide integrated, consistent, and evidence-based leadership support at the school and system level. Through these Leadership Networks, New Leaders will work with principal supervisors, principals, and teacher leaders to align instructional leadership language, structures, and practices across clusters of schools in districts.
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For support of a toolkit and the expansion of the family leadership model
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
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Achieving systems change in the American public education system requires community leadership as well as partnerships with families, educators, and community allies. Building a base of strong grassroots leadership however has often been overlooked in the movement toward educational equity and access. GO Public Schools is a nonprofit organization working with families and communities to expand access to quality education in historically underserved communities. GO Public Schools’ network spans three of California’s most historically underserved communities — Oakland, West Contra Costa, and Fresno — and impacts systems and schools that shape the lives of approximately 150,000 students. With support from the Corporation, GO Public Schools will build on its Advocacy Campaign Framework to create a paper and toolkit for use by community-led advocacy organizations nationwide. By disseminating the paper and toolkit to the field, GO Public Schools will thereby inform future campaigns for systems change.
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As a one-time grant for the film project, The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
22 months
Description
Cove Pictures is a television company currently working on a number of titles for television for the United States, the United Kingdom, and other international. With Corporation support, Cove Pictures will produce a film, The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu, which will recount the 10-month period when a small band of scholars smuggle 400,000 books and manuscripts of immense, historical, literary and cultural significance out from under the noses of their jailers and transported them to safety across 500 miles of war-torn Sahara desert.
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For a project to review grades K-8 science curricula and determine the alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
With the creation and adoption of the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics there was an increase in curricula on the market claiming alignment to these higher standards. EdReports, an independent nonprofit, seeks to improve K-12 education by providing free, educator-led reviews of instructional materials to college and career-ready standards. EdReports supports states, districts, and educators as they make decisions about curriculum adoption. This grant will support EdReports’ recent expansion to reviewing science curricula to aid the nearly forty states who have adopted new science standards based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In this grant, EdReports proposes to 1) continue to review middle school science materials; 2) expand their reviews to include K-5 science materials; and 3) promote their science reviews.
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For continued support of sustainable residency-based teacher preparation programs and coherent improvement strategies in school districts.
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Over the past century, the Bank Street College of Education has earned a reputation for effective educator development. With this renewal grant, their Education Center will continue to implement two projects that tackle human capital challenges: the absence of coherent supports for district-wide instructional improvement, and the lack of sustainable funding for clinical teacher preparation programs. The School System Partnerships Program (SSPP) will design a plan for financial sustainability that diversifies funding sources for its intervention model work with school districts. Prepared to Teach will support six district/teacher preparation partnerships in New York State to continue to plan for long-term sustainability of residencies and will grow the movement by identifying sites that will host workshops to grow interest in sustainable funding of residencies in New York State.
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For project support to scale and analyze YouthTruth surveys
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
The voices of students, those who are at the center of the public education system, are largely missing from conversations around improving education outcomes and experiences. YouthTruth, a project of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) began in 2000 with a mission to rigorously collect and comparatively present the views of students, as well as their family members and school staff so that school and district leaders can respond to their needs. To date, YouthTruth has surveyed over 906,000 students and 66,000 family and staff members across thirty-eight states. With renewed support from the Corporation, YouthTruth will broaden and deepen its engagement with schools and districts in order to amplify the voices of increasing numbers of students, family, and staff members; develop their products and services to support the interpretation of feedback; and share their learnings from student and family and staff surveys to inform the field about the experience of students and areas for improvement.
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For writing and dissemination of policy papers based on findings from Teacher Preparation for Deeper Learning (TPDL) and Leader Preparation for Deeper Learning (LPDL) studies
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
This is a propitious moment for teacher policy as thirty-three of the thirty-nine new governors taking office in 2019, and many incoming state legislators, have pledged to work on teacher supply and quality issues. Learning Policy Institute (LPI) proposes translating the findings from their recent Corporation-funded studies Teacher Preparation for Deeper Learning and Leader Preparation for Deeper Learning into accessible policy briefs, tools and other resources to support state policymakers to transform teacher and leader preparation in their states. LPI will then engage in strategic efforts to disseminate the framework and agenda in actionable ways to state and federal policymakers, with an emphasis on state governors’ offices, legislatures, and departments of education that are planning to address educator quality and shortage issues in the new year. They will also provide the support needed to implement the recommendations. This work will also be relevant to reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which may advance in Congress in 2019.
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For support of the Reach Higher campaign
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
While the benefits of earning a college degree are evident, the American public school system is failing to produce enough college graduates, particularly among low-income student populations. Reach Higher, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative, focuses on first-generation, minority, and low-income youth, using targeted communications and events to support students on the path to and through college. By becoming a part of The Common Application, a non-profit organization committed to ensuring equitable access in the college admission process, Reach Higher has gained access to about two million students and their families every year. With support for the Corporation, Reach Higher will raise awareness regarding the importance of postsecondary education with students who have opened a Common Application account, mobilize them to apply for financial aid, and use direct communications to help students and their families stay on track in the college application process.
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