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Project Title
For the production and launch of The New Agenda: The Quest for Stability in U.S.-Russia Relations
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
The relationship between the United States and Russia—the world’s largest nuclear powers—is critical to global security. Continuing an ongoing Corporation-supported effort, a team of video producers and experts on Russia will create a digital portal that explores the changing dynamics in the U.S.-Russia relationship. The portal will be made available for use both as an educational resource and as a source of information and data. Included will be lessons related to the influence of security, economics, history, and culture on U.S.-Russia relations.
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As a one-time grant for support of the Puerto Rico Community Recovery Fund in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1985, The Puerto Rico Community Foundation’s (PRCF) mission is to develop the capacities of the communities in Puerto Rico to achieve their social and economic transformation, stimulating philanthropic investment and maximizing the yield of each contribution. In the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria, the PRCF responded to this crisis by providing immediate relief by providing water purifiers and energy generators. The PRCF future recovery efforts will look at long-term solutions in support of the various communities across Puerto Rico. With Corporation support, the PRCF will focus on challenges in including: providing potable drinking water to at least five communities, hydroponic farming, operating health centers, and promoting strategies to control flooding.
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For Puerto Rican and U.S. Virgin Islands students displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
5 months
Description
Six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, residents are still struggling to repair the damage wrought by the storm. Not only were schools, businesses, and countless homes destroyed, but the life trajectories of citizens were thrown drastically off course. In hopes of continuing their education uninterrupted, college students have come by the thousands to Florida. St. Thomas University (STU), a not-for-profit Catholic institution in Miami, has extended services to displaced students in the region. As a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution, STU is well equipped to ensure that arriving students are given the tools to succeed. STU’s commitment to creating educational access and opportunity for talented young people aligns with the Corporation’s mission of promoting the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. With Corporation support, STU will help subsidize tuition and basic living expenses for displaced Puerto Rican and USVI students.
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For support publishing Roadmap for the Future of Public Education and associated convening
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
13 months
Description
Over the last twenty-five years, The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington has provided thought leadership and direct support for city-based school reform through their approach to creating a system of autonomous and accountable schools, known as a portfolio strategy. While their portfolio strategy has taken hold in dozens of cities, resulting in greater diversity in schooling options and providers for families, scaling this work will require a ‘next generation’ version of the portfolio strategy that reflects the complex needs of today’s public-school system. With Corporation support, CRPE will 1) Commission a series of papers on critical topics, published as the Roadmap for the Future of Public Education, that will serve as the platform for their renewed research agenda and 2) Host a convening to launch their new strategy that brings together thought leaders from across the sector to spur action in the community, moving forward their new body of work.
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For a project titled, "Helping Young Americans Know the World Better"
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
10 months
Description
Launched in 2016, DailyChatter is an international daily newsletter principally owned and operated by Philip Balboni, the founder and former CEO of the international news website GlobalPost, and Alex Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times and the former director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. With a mission of helping its subscribers understand the world better, the newsletter aims to be objective, clear, and concise, to allow subscribers to stay informed despite busy lives. Each day, a staff of experienced journalists based in Europe, Asia, and the United States research an extensive array of global news sources and craft a summary. In the age of fake news, it is crucial that the next generation learns to identify factual reporting. Providing college students, especially those in fields unrelated to journalism, with a trusted source of news that makes complex world affairs accessible will help combat the effect of misinformation on our democracy. With Corporation support, DailyChatter will offer free subscriptions to students at participating colleges and universities.
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For a conference on research methods and quantitative techniques for development
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
11 months
Description
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, otherwise known as the Library of Alexandria (the Library), is a world-famous repository of scholarship and knowledge. It is also an excellent space for convenings, with a large complex that includes a conference center as well as specialized libraries and museums. Led by its Founding Director, Ismail Serageldin, the Library will, with Corporation support, host a special conference on research methods and quantitative techniques for development. The gathering will bring together the leading quantitative analysts in Egypt and elsewhere in Africa to discuss socio-economic development, including project evaluation. Ultimately, the grantee hopes that the conference will serve as a starting point for a future network of quantitative analysts in Egypt.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
The importance of U.S.-Russia relations suggests the need for a comprehensive understanding of Russian domestic and foreign policies within the United States. Likewise, there is a need for better understanding of the United States in Russia. Universities and academic institutions with relevant programs play an important role in building up expert capacity. The Wisconsin Russia Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (UW) is among the Corporation-supported institutions that aim to deepen the U.S. expertise on Russia while also exposing the Russian academics to American thinking. With continued support, the UW will focus on improving social science research and PhD-level training on Russia by establishing research assistant positions and doctoral fellowships, facilitating PhD-level academic exchanges, promoting faculty initiatives, and hosting a Young Scholars Conference. Some of the activities will result in publications.
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For one-time support of a research and publication project on Iran
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
The Islamic Republic of Iran has now been in power for four decades and is integral to numerous U.S. foreign policy and national security concerns, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation, cyber-security, terrorism, and energy security. Yet the nature of the Iranian regime and its foreign policy pursuits remains poorly understood among U.S. policymakers and the general public. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Fellow Karim Sadjadpour will lead a research effort to examine Iran, and U.S. policy toward Iran, through a historic, cultural, and comparative lens. The research will consider what lessons have been learned from the last four decades of U.S. policy toward Iran and what lessons can be drawn from the history of U.S. policy toward other major powers who have sought to challenge American primacy. The project will result in a widely disseminated publication.
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For support of the nXu program
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
17 months
Description
In addition to academic rigor, research suggests that a sense of purpose, and support to identify and pursue that purpose, is necessary to enable students to reach their full potential. According to the Higher Education Research Institute, 79 percent of young people in America report that they are searching for meaning and purpose in their lives, and numerous studies confirm that a sense of purpose is linked to positive physical, mental, and emotional health outcomes. Yet, there is a lack of high-quality learning experiences that support adolescents to engage in purpose development. Uncommon Knowledge and Achievement’s (UKA) nXu program fills this gap, supporting and enabling high school students to explore, articulate, and pursue their goals. With prior Corporation support, nXu successfully completed a strategic planning process and implemented a pilot program with a cohort of twenty-four students. Continued support will enable the iteration, improvement, and expansion of this program to serve more students.
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For Puerto Rican students displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, residents are still struggling to repair the damage wrought by the storm. Not only were schools, businesses, and countless homes destroyed, but the life trajectories of Puerto Ricans were thrown drastically off course. In hopes of continuing their education uninterrupted, college students have come by the thousands to Florida. Miami Dade College (MDC), as the largest Hispanic-serving institution of higher education in the United States, is well equipped to ensure that arriving students are given the tools to succeed. Extending services to displaced students directly aligns with MDC’s mission of changing lives through accessible, high-quality teaching and learning experiences. Florida Governor Rick Scott approved waiving out-of-state tuition rates for Puerto Rican students, reducing tuition costs and increasing the impact of donated funds. With Corporation support, Miami Dade College will cover tuition and basic living expenses for displaced Puerto Rican students in the Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 semesters.
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For the Media and National Security Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Public understanding of defense and international security issues is essential to the democratic process. Through its Project for Media and National Security, George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs fosters relationships between the media and foreign policy communities to encourage knowledgeable journalism on these issues. With renewed funding, the project will continue to hold expert panels, public conferences, and other events linking journalists, policymakers, scholars, students, and the public. It will also hold sessions of the Defense Writers Group, an association of correspondents that brings journalists together with American national security officials and experts to discuss current events and emerging foreign policy issues.
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For the National Agenda for the Future of Syria (NAFS) Programme Phase II
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
51 months
Description
The escalation of the Syrian crisis over the past seven years has disintegrated national unity and the Syrian state. The United Nation’s National Agenda for the Future of Syria (NAFS) program is a multi-year technical political dialogue that is focused on the transition from conflict toward reconstruction in Syria. It is a lead provider of content and position papers to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Building on the content produced with Corporation support in Phase I, the NAFS program will emphasize a scaling up of communication and outreach efforts in Phase II. It will increase communication activities through traditional media, social media, and the NAFS website, and will expand visibility by organizing media events and international partners meetings. The NAFS program will also hold capacity-building workshops to develop organizational and outreach skills.
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For support of Houston-area schools recovering from Hurricane Harvey
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Six months after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, teachers are still struggling with the impact of closed schools and displaced families. Many educators lack support in rebuilding their classrooms and providing their students with the resources and materials they need to succeed. As a crowdfunding platform with over 2 million donors, DonorsChoose.org has engaged the public in directly funding classroom projects with a focus on high poverty regions. The organization’s partners and donors have raised over $3 million for classrooms in affected areas, representing over 3,400 projects at 537 schools. With support from the Corporation, DonorsChoose.org will enable teachers in hurricane-affected areas in Houston to receive a dollar-for-dollar match on their classroom projects. The matching grant would inspire $300,000 in donations from the public, double recovery efforts, and more effectively improve the lives of students and their communities.
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For a pilot study on data collection in conflict-affected countries
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
58 months
Description
The scarcity of qualitative and quantitative data owned and collected by Africans with African-led methods contributes to major inequalities in knowledge production informing peacebuilding research in Africa. In response to a request for proposals, the Centre de Recherché et D’Action Pour la Paix (CERAP) and the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley) will compare low-cost data collection methodologies in Cote d’Ivoire to analyze their effectiveness in generating specific forms of data on violent events. CERAP and Berkeley will conduct this pilot project to better capture a range of dynamics during violence, such as what forms it takes, where it occurs, and who is targeted. In addition, CERAP will conduct a peacebuilding program to train local leaders in conflict prevention strategies.
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For a pilot study on data collection in conflict-affected countries
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
27 months
Description
The scarcity of qualitative and quantitative data owned and collected by Africans with African-led methods contributes to major inequalities in knowledge production informing peacebuilding research in Africa. In response to a request for proposals, the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy (EISA) and the University of Michigan’s (Michigan) will leverage electoral observer missions and local election result reporting to gather information about security arrangements, incidents of political violence, and public infrastructure and services in individual polling stations in various African elections. EISA and Michigan will develop an open-source dataset allowing academics and practitioners to analyze how local conditions affect the relationship between elections and violence.
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For support of a public education campaign around immigrant families
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Faith communities are playing a critically important role in educating and engaging the public on immigration issues, across the political spectrum. Most faith leaders and congregations are rejecting anti-immigrant rhetoric and promoting positions that protect and support immigrants, refugees, and Muslim communities. Sojourners is a national, nonpartisan Christian organization using strategic communications to promote balanced and nuanced national narratives on immigrants and immigration policies. Sojourners supports the advocacy and communications capacity of faith-based organizations, to lift up immigrant voices and to shed light on the many benefits of humane immigration reform. With Corporation support, Sojourners will work with faith leaders across the country on a public education campaign to bridge divisive political debates around immigration, including those on undocumented youth and the legal immigration system.
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For support of a public engagement campaign for a documentary on civic engagement and voting rights
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Although young people are increasingly engaging in contemporary social and political movements—in some cases leading them—the youth share of the electorate has historically demonstrated some of the lowest turnout in both general and midterm elections. Capturing the Flag, a documentary film by Emmy Award-winning director Anne de Mare, highlights citizen action around voting rights during the 2016 general election. With Corporation support, the International Documentary Association will fiscally sponsor a public education campaign using Capturing the Flag as a vehicle for discussion on the importance of youth civic engagement. The campaign will partner with local and national civic engagement organizations to coordinate nationwide screenings at college campuses and to disseminate educational materials for young voters.
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For support of an adult civic education initiative
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
Beginning in the 1970s, civic education was sidelined across many curricula and state standards. As a result, many American adults today do not understand their systems of government, lack trust in government institutions, and demonstrate general apathy for elections and politics. In fact, three in four adults cannot name the three branches of United States government or name a single Supreme Court justice. Founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics is committed to ensuring that all young citizens receive the high-quality civic education they need for full participation in American democracy. Since 2009, iCivics has been using innovations in technology to make high-quality civic learning available and accessible to schools. Approximately, 84,000 teachers now reliably use the iCivics video game platform in their classrooms every year. With Corporation support, iCivics will extend its services to expand adult civic learning and promote parent-student civic education.
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For the 2018 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
3 months
Description
We will never meet our ever-rising aspirations for student achievement without a more responsive, agile approach to research and development, 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 might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its fifth annual Summit, bringing together over a thousand education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve. This grant provides support for the 2018 Summit.
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For the Yale Child Study Center's celebration and symposium for the Comer School Development Program 50th Anniversary
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
9 months
Description
Research provides strong evidence that development and learning are inextricably linked and that students whose school experiences integrate development and academic learning fare best. The Comer School Development Program (SDP) of the Yale Child Study Center was an early pioneer of this insight, which has gained recognition in recent years with renewed interest in social emotional learning. The SDP launched fifty years ago and has helped more than 1,000 schools in the United States and abroad to integrate child development to improve school outcomes. The Comer model focuses on parent and family engagement; school teams to address organization, management, and student support; and comprehensive school planning. This grant supports a celebration and symposium to mark the program’s 50th anniversary and contribute historical perspective and add momentum to the movement to ground schooling in the science of development.
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For a workshop and fellowships for reporters to investigate nuclear challenges
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Atomic Reporters will provide educational opportunities for journalists to learn more about new technologies and nuclear risks. Atomic Reporters will hold a workshop for journalists around the anniversary of the January 2018 false alarm in Hawaii, an incident in which human and technical error created widespread anxiety. Atomic Reporters will also support reporting fellowships on these themes. The project will allow journalists to develop a better understanding of how changes in technology and geopolitics have affected nuclear risk, and to share these insights with the broader public.
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For support of NewSchools Venture Fund Summit 2018
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
5 months
Description
Newschools Venture Fund’s (NSVF) Summit is an annual, invitation-only gathering that offers a diverse community of over 1,000 education practitioners, leaders, policymakers, and funders an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and share ideas about education innovation. The sessions and panels at Summit 2018 will feature content directly relevant to the Corporation’s program interests in school design, equity, civic education, and the future of work. As such, the Summit is an important opportunity for innovative thought leaders to network and collaborate around a range of pressing issues highly aligned to Corporation interests, and these discussions are a key way in which many issues and organizations gain greater exposure within the education community. With Corporation support of this year’s Summit, NSVF will organize engaging discussions around the education innovation that is necessary to prepare all students for success within the context of an evolving democracy and career landscape.
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For support of the Center for Effective Career and Technical Education
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
New models of career and technical education (CTE) can prepare students for twenty-first century success by helping them navigate and continually adapt to an increasingly complex labor market. However, the renewed interest in CTE has come largely without the benefit of a strong evidence base about the efficacy of next generation CTE models. MDRC, a social policy research organization with a two-decade history of developing and evaluating CTE programs, is partnering with over a dozen CTE programs to build evidence and inform CTE policy and practice. With Corporation support, MDRC will launch the Center for Effective Career and Technical Education, a hub for building and synthesizing evidence on CTE effectiveness, incubating new ideas, synthesizing findings and lessons learned, disseminating these to policymakers and practitioners, and advancing the field overall so that expansion and scale-up is informed by a growing evidence base.
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For support of an international conference for strengthening democratic societies
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
Current trends point towards a global regression in democratic values and norms. Values such as peaceful transfers of power, open civic space, and free media are being challenged in formidable ways. Responding to these trends, the World Movement for Democracy, for which the National Endowment for Democracy serves as the Secretariat, will bring together 400 leaders from various sectors, in Dakar, Senegal, to develop and strengthen collective responses. The conference will deliberate over issues and approaches, and will make recommendations for government-civil society engagements that could potentially lead to strengthening democracies around the world.
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For a project examining the United States legal immigration system
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite overwhelming evidence that immigrants contribute far more to the United States economy and society, writ large, than they cost in government expenditures, nativist forces both inside and outside of government have been working to dramatically reduce legal immigration. Efforts to reduce legal immigration pose a serious threat to the country’s economic health and its ability to compete in today’s globalized world. Not only do more than half of the billion-dollar startups in America have at least one immigrant founder, five out of six of the student finalists at the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants. Founded in 2003, the National Foundation for American Policy is a nonpartisan policy institute dedicated to immigration, the economy, and international trade. With Corporation support, the National Foundation for American Policy will produce quality research on the legal immigration system and the contributions immigrants have made to American society.
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For the project, Because it Works: Reclaiming the American Capacity to Solve
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1947, the World Affairs Council of Northern California (World Affairs) seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy and private enterprise through open, balanced, and non-partisan discourse. With Corporation support, World Affairs will launch an initiative to explore causes and consequences of the global decline in citizen trust and the role that civil society can play in countering it. The initiative will include outreach across the public, private, and citizen sectors in order to build social capital through a deeper understanding of the democratic process. The initiative will include a book project and forums for encouraging collaboration and problem solving, will promote pluralism by emphasizing immigrant participation in U.S. democracy, and will illuminate the role that philanthropy and volunteerism plays is strengthening democracies.
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As a one-time grant to build a database for mapping of African policy expertise
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
22 months
Description
African-based research is critical to solving major systemic challenges in education, agriculture, and healthcare across the continent. Yet due to infrastructure and communications constraints, African governments, policymakers, and researchers are not always aware of expertise that is generated locally and among peers. Greater visibility of African-generated research for development projects, including those being framed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, is reliant on identifying and creating a community of policy experts. With Corporation support, AfricaWorks will develop a mapping of policy expertise across the agriculture and education sectors in select countries in Africa, and pilot a comprehensive online database of expertise for use by government officials, policymakers, donors, and the private sector.
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For a project to review middle school science curricula and determine the alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
EdReports is an independent nonprofit organization whose goal is to help improve K-12 education through free, educator-led reviews of instructional materials claiming alignment to college and career ready standards. They seek to increase the capacity of teachers and leaders to identify and demand the highest quality instructional materials. This grant will build upon the successful track record EdReports has produced in shaping smart demand in math and English language arts (ELA) to support expansion into reviews of science instructional materials. With the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) adopted or adapted in thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia, educators are grappling with how to translate the three dimensions of science learning into their practice. As EdReports found in its reviews of math and ELA materials, claiming alignment does not necessarily result in materials that address the instructional shifts necessary to support students. Providing comprehensive, evidence-rich reviews of new and retrofitted materials will be essential to ensuring districts do not invest in or continue to use instructional materials that do not facilitate the science learning that students need.
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For the diffusion of the Bard High School Early College model
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Education program staff seek to create alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences such that all students are prepared for success. Early college high schools are an important way we can help students bridge the gap between high school and college, and Bard College has developed an early college model that exemplifies the type of innovative, intellectually-rigorous learning experiences we seek to promote. With current Corporation support, Bard has codified practices and developed resources, as well as undertaken important policy work, so that its proven approach can be utilized in other school environments beyond Bard and the early college field. The proposed scope of work builds on the success of these efforts through: 1) Creating policy conditions, including alternative teacher certification pathways and recruitment strategies, for broader application of early college pedagogies and 2) Launching technical assistance partnerships with school networks and districts in order to diffuse Bard practices in other contexts.
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For general support and the William J. Perry Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
In a world facing multiple perils, the risks of nuclear war, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and nuclear terrorism remain among the gravest threats to international peace and security. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) plays a key role in driving international policy discussions on these issues. With renewed support, NTI will continue to provide analysis, facilitate international dialogues, and promote efforts to reduce threats from nuclear weapons and radiological materials at medical facilities. The grant will also support NTI’s efforts to expand global capacity for verification of nuclear weapons-related activities. Finally, the grant will support the William J. Perry project, an initiative to stimulate an informed and broadly-inclusive public conversation about the role of nuclear weapons in today’s world.
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As a one-time grant for support of the Commission on Civility and Effective Governance
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress (CSPC) was founded in 1965 at the behest of former President Dwight Eisenhower to study the lessons of American political history and convene together leaders from government and the private sector. With Corporation support, the CSPC will form a bi-partisan Commission on Civility and Effective Governance to examine what are the drivers behind dysfunction in American politics including incivility in political discourse, campaign and election systems, the role of money in politics, gerrymandering, voter access, and media and voter information. CSPC commission members include thought leaders in public service, the private sector, and academia who are experts in their respective fields and will be tasked, through a series of roundtable discussions, to help identify roadblocks, propose solutions to removing those roadblocks, and to find consensus-based solutions to remedy political dysfunction.
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For support of the Innovative Schools, Education Technology, and Diverse Leaders investment portfolios, as well as related knowledge-building activities, including the 2019 national Summit.
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
In order to realize a vision in which all students are prepared for postsecondary success, the New Designs portfolio supports innovative school models and new educational tools that personalize student learning experiences, as well as the capacity-building of adults and systems in support of these efforts. NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is an important partner in advancing work in each of these areas. Founded in 1998, NSVF sources, vets, and invests in high-quality school models and educational technologies, as well as the educational leaders necessary to the success of those efforts. With Corporation support since 2015, NSVF has supported the planning and/or launch of seventy-four new schools, twenty school redesign efforts, six model providers, and seventy-three education technology ventures, in addition to playing an important thought leadership and convening role. With Corporation support, NSVF will develop and scale: new school models, educational technologies, and organizations led by diverse education leaders. NSVF will also undertake thought leadership, research, and learning activities in each of these areas.
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For the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) to support school district reform through a systems-level network of educational leaders and academic research
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
30 months
Description
An emerging evidence base suggests that personalized and mastery-based learning experiences are beneficial to long-term student success, and many individual school and program models have emerged that incorporate these design principles. However, despite the existence of strong school models, more must be done to explore the system-level shifts and policies necessary to ensure personalization for all students. Over the last twenty-five years, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington has been at the forefront of school system redesign, providing both thought leadership and academic research to support cities doing the challenging work of transforming their education systems. Building upon their expertise in this area, CRPE is embarking on a new chapter focused on building schools and school systems where policies, resources, and school options are aligned to ensure personalized student support. With Corporation support, CRPE will 1) Convene a network of best-in-class state and district leaders to develop systems-level strategies for making the shift toward student-level personalization and 2) Build the evidence base for issues relevant to personalization and system redesign.
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For planning and early work related to launching a design challenge related to improving the parent-teacher connection
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
7 months
Description
The recent Learning Heroes report, Parents 2017: Unleashing Their Power and Potential (funded by the Corporation), highlighted the disconnects between school and parent expectations for students and their learning experiences, and the extent to which gaps in communication, perception and partnership between educators and parents result in unmet student needs. The report underscored the importance of understanding parents’ goals, interests, emotions, and perceptions so that educators and schools can be true partners in raising children to be happy and productive adults. However, parents and teachers have very little opportunity to create ideas together for how to better meet student needs. The Teachers Guild aims to provide the community, coaching and tools to make the Learning Heroes research actionable, by creating a program that unites teachers and parents to co-create solutions that better meet student needs. They propose accomplishing this by running a year-long Parent-Teacher Collaboration design challenge to activate educators and parents in designing new ideas for better connecting parents and teachers, which schools and districts can then test. This grant is for implementation planning for the design challenge.
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For a project to develop a mentoring community to support the development of new math and science teachers
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Trellis, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 to ensure all California students have exceptional science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers, is pioneering a research-based solution to the demand for math and science teachers. Trellis supports teacher preparation providers and partner school districts to create cohesive pathways for preparing, developing, and retaining successful mathematics and science teachers over a six-year trajectory. With Corporation support, Trellis started a community of Mentor Fellows who provide specific mentoring support to early-career teachers. This renewal grant builds on that work and will support Trellis to support early career secondary math and science teachers, begin formative evaluation work, deepen partnerships with districts, and strengthen Trellis’s capacity by increasing its leadership team.
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For a project to support a new cohort in the School Systems Leaders Fellowship
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Improving school systems across the country to deliver on the promise of providing an excellent education for every student requires the right leaders. Currently, the education sector suffers from a deficit of instructionally focused, cabinet-level leaders. The School Systems Leaders Fellowship (SSLF), a project of Cambiar Education, is focused on solving this human capital need. The Fellowship’s primary goal is to prepare high-potential education leaders to take on instructionally focused cabinet-level roles by exposing fellows to leaders in the field and key content to help them develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and opportunities to be effective cabinet-level leaders. With Corporation support, SSLF has grown the program to serve more Fellows over four cohorts. This renewal grant will support SSLF to build on this success and deepen the instructional leadership component of the program and further diversify the make-up of future cohorts.
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For a project to promote the use of tools and professional learning to evaluate instructional materials
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
After the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia adopted the NGSS or adopted new science standards influenced by the NGSS. At the core of these new standards is a focus on three-dimensional instruction, which integrates key scientific ideas with science and engineering practices while highlighting the themes that cut across the major science disciplines. Three-dimensional learning requires teachers to shift their approach and to do this, they need high-quality instructional materials and professional learning supports. The National Science Teacher Association (NSTA), an organization with a membership of 55,000 educators, is uniquely positioned to aid the science education community in understanding these shifts. With Corporation support, NSTA built a substantial communication infrastructure to support NGSS. Through this grant, NSTA will help build demand for high-quality instructional units reviewed by Achieve and expand their professional learning offerings to support NGSS implementation using existing Corporation supported tools like NextGen TIME and the Five Tools for NGSS, in an effort to inform and build demand for more high-quality science instructional materials.
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As a one-time only grant in support of the Mosaic Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) has the potential reach of more than 1 million households in Rhode Island and its surrounding communities. Their mission is to provide programming from various sources including National Public Radio, American Public Media, and Public Radio International. In addition, RIPR creates original journalistic content around politics, education, democracy, health, and the environment. With Corporation support, RIPR will create Mosaic, a limited podcast series as well as listening events addressing civic integration and the immigrant experience. The series, through storytelling, will focus on community specific issues, highlighting how differences in cultures can strengthen rather than divide people. RIPR endeavors to spur people and institutions to start their own conversations on immigrant integration in order to strengthen local community development.
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For support of the United Parent Leaders Action Network to develop a three-year strategic plan
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
An effective way to build public demand for quality education is to support parents at the policy-making table. A key challenge though is creating a strong constituency of organized parents at both the district as well as the state and national levels. United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN) represents thirty parent leadership and organizing nonprofit organizations serving 500,000 parents and empowering them to lead policy action campaigns. Since its inception in 2015, UPLAN has focused on building parent leadership initiatives, such as convenings and trainings, and developing collaborative relationships between its members and important groups such as the US Department of Education. With support from the Corporation, UPLAN will design a comprehensive three-year strategy that will maximize its impact as a grassroots network for parents. Through its strategic plan, UPLAN will be able to facilitate collective policy action by parents and families across the country.
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As a one-time only grant for the documentary project, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Under the auspices of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Oren Rudavsky Productions will produce a documentary, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, examining Pulitzer’s public and personal life and his notion of journalistic integrity as integral to a strong and robust democracy. The documentary, will be aired through the PBS broadcast of American Masters in the spring of 2019, around the awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes, with preview screenings held at a number institutions which have stakes in journalism or the history of journalism such as PEN, the Newseum, and the schools of journalism at Columbia and the University of Missouri. With corporation support, the documentary team will focus on post-production projects, including film editing, screenings, and the creation of publicity and outreach materials, targeting audiences such as adult public and educational groups.
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For international dialogues on Arab region security
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and other parts in the Arab region continue the humanitarian crisis and the ensuing devastation. In the absence of effective progress through official diplomatic efforts, unofficial communications offer a path to identifying possible pathways toward stability. The Middle East Dialogue promotes such communications among stakeholder officials, advisors, and experts from the Arab region and internationally. Through a set of regular meetings, the participants grapple with current political and security dynamic and explore conflict de-escalation mechanisms. Renewed support will enable the continuation of these discussions and the dissemination of their key findings through policy briefings and publications.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the Pakistan Youth Initiative
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
11 months
Description
Since early 2014, the World Bank has been working with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan Information Technology Board and civic sector stakeholders to foster inclusion of its youth in the digital economy through initiatives such as the Digital Youth Summit (DYS). With a population of around 16 million under the age of thirty, KP is facing a demographic transition. If included in the work force, KP’s youth could help drive significant economic gains in the coming decades. On the other hand, this youth bulge also has the potential to devolve into social unrest if not effectively engaged. With Corporation support, the World Bank, in partnership with the Government of KP, will organize a 2018 DYS, creating a platform for engaging youth to learn and network, thus promoting and supporting their aspirations, inclusion, and economic empowerment in conflict areas.
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As a one-time only grant to support the African Studies Center's University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) program
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Faculty members at African universities face myriad challenges in advancing their careers. Substantial administrative and teaching duties hinder professors who are conducting research or writing books, and prevent faculty who are pursuing doctoral degrees while teaching from attaining them. For this reason, few faculty members at African universities hold PhDs. In many African countries, government funding for education has been redirected to primary schools at the expense of higher education. Founded in 2008, the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan is dedicated to creating scholarly and educational partnerships between American and African institutions. The Center’s African Presidential Scholars initiative offers on-campus residencies to early-career faculty at African universities. These residencies free African professors from teaching and administrative work, allowing them to focus exclusively on writing and research. Scholars also benefit from network-building and research collaboration with American professors. Carnegie Corporation support will fund a four to six-month residency at the University of Michigan for an African scholar.
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For support of the educational and outreach programming for the exhibition "Armenia!"
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (The Met) core mission is to collect, study, conserve, and present significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas, and education remains a core priority. With Corporation support, the Museum will curate and present the exhibition, Armenia!, the first exhibition of its kind, highlighting Armenia’s artistic achievements and its distinctive visual culture based on their early conversion to Christianity. The exhibition includes artifacts from collections in the Armenia, Jerusalem, and Venice. Educational programming includes an international symposium, an evening lecture, family programs, tours, a concert and a film screening, teen programs, and access to new scholarship in the field of Armenian studies. Beyond the exhibition, The Met hopes to generate interest and thereby establish standards for future Armenia studies in the United States.
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For the Andrew Carnegie Distinguished Lectures in Honor of David Hamburg
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1918, the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) continues to host influential global thinkers at meetings, conferences, and lectures each year. Launched in 2012, the Carnegie Distinguished Lectures in Honor of David Hamburg (DAH) are designed to deepen policymakers’ understanding of the causes and consequences of violent conflict and advance national and international discourse on preventing conflict, on building political will for conflict prevention, and on strengthening public advocacy for prevention and peaceful response to situations of conflict. With corporation support, FPA will continue host a number of the DAH lectures continuing as a key resource for the FPA’s programs to encourage broad-based civic engagement in foreign policy decision making and, therefore, to strengthen the U.S. democracy.
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For continued development of Parent University and the Parent Ambassador Program to help strengthen school-community bonds
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
Communities are strengthened by the educational institutions in their neighborhoods, including museums and science centers. Founded in 1964, The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens, New York is the city’s home for interactive science. Co-designed with educators, parents and school leaders in 2017, NYSCI Neighbors is a comprehensive, community engagement initiative focused on providing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational opportunities to local communities, largely comprised of immigrant families. With support from the Corporation, NYSCI developed Parent University within NYSCI Neighbors. Using a two-generation approach where both parents and children are engaged in hands-on exploration, Parent University builds families’ awareness of STEM career opportunities for their children and provides resources to parents for helping their children achieve greater academic success. With continued support from the Corporation, NYSCI will streamline its Parent University programs, broaden its Parent Ambassador program, and begin building a community of practice with museums and science centers across the country using similar, hyper-local STEM programming to expand opportunities for families.
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For a project on artificial intelligence and international security
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
The past few years have seen rapid improvements in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). AI systems are being applied to problems in transportation, finance, health care, and intelligence. Despite calls from prominent scientists to avoid militarizing AI, these tools will also inevitably be used in warfare. With Corporation support, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will conduct interdisciplinary work on AI’s role in shaping international security and stability. The project will build a community of experts from sectors that do not often intersect: academia, business, and the policy world. The project seeks to lay the foundations for a field of study on AI and international security, and to develop policy recommendations for how to capitalize on the benefits of AI while avoiding the pitfalls.
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For continuation of the Dana Center math pathways work
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
27 months
Description
The Dana Center has become a leading force in modernizing introductory college mathematics and enabling student success. The Center’s mathematics pathways project, which began as a partnership with all fifty Texas community college districts, is now working actively with more than a dozen states and key national higher education organizations and mathematics professional societies. This reflects a novel innovation by which community colleges are increasing students’ access to and completion of rigorous and relevant math pathways. This grant will enable the Dana Center to provide the technical assistance support and resources needed to establish full implementation and normative practice of mathematics pathways in one state, with in-depth support for one region. In addition, the Center plans to lay the foundation for the next innovation in pathways work — the redesign of the pathway to Calculus — and amplify its influence in the field.
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For continuation of the iLEAD project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
27 months
Description
There is a need for more productive relationships between research and practice in educational leadership programs. Rather than developing the skills and capabilities for improvement that could be used to strengthen the systems they will work in, future educators often get doses of theory and methods that are related to, but often decontextualized and decoupled from, practice. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s iLEAD (Improvement Leadership Education and Development) project, launched in 2017 with Corporation support, is a human-resource development strategy that brings together institutions of higher education (IHEs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to better prepare teacher- and administrative-leaders to nimbly navigate and productively contribute to success in K-12 systems. iLEAD supports teams of IHE faculty and LEA leaders to integrate improvement science into leadership development programs, with the long-term goal of building leadership capabilities for making progress on persistent problems of practice in schools and school systems. This grant is for continuation of the iLEAD network.
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For planning and launch of the Educator Preparation Innovation Center
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Educator preparation has been widely criticized as failing to prepare educators who are equipped for the challenges of teaching and leading in schools today. As K-12 education shifts toward more personalized, experiential and deeper learning, teacher and leader preparation programs need to evolve to ensure that educators are learning new pedagogies and instructional strategies and developing the skills, knowledge and dispositions they need to support deeper learning for all students. This grant supports Learning Policy Institute (LPI) in launching an Educator Preparation Innovation Center (EPIC) that will build the collaborative capacity of educator preparation programs, school districts, and state policy makers to strengthen the policy and practice of educator preparation in the United States. EPIC will (1) build a learning community of educator preparation programs and school district leaders (led by Bank Street College of Education); (2) conduct and disseminate research on models of practice and their outcomes; and (3) strengthen the capacity of policymakers in order to inform federal, state and local policy development.
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