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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
From news to arts to children’s programming, public television and radio play a key role in educating and entertaining American audiences. For decades, viewers and listeners have looked to public television and radio programs ranging from PBS NewsHour to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as trusted, objective sources of in-depth journalism, while television’s most successful educational children’s shows, such as the enormously popular Sesame Street, were born from public television and public support. The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA) is among the best and best-known producers of public television and radio in the nation. Corporation support will help ensure that WETA has the resources to meet its challenges successfully, including the cost of increased reporting since the new administration came into office.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Social insurance helps workers and their families avoid loss of income, whether due to retirement, death, disability, or unemployment, and to maintain access to health care. In the United States, these include programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation, and Social Security–programs implemented over the past century to help lift or keep millions of Americans out of poverty. The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, promotes these safety net programs. In honor of NASI’s anniversary, the Corporation will support NASI in continuing its public education programs; conducting research and policy analyses; and developing new leaders in the social insurance field.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Studio in a School (Studio) engages children in the visual arts. Its mission is to foster the creative and intellectual development of children through quality programs directed by professional artists, and to collaborate with and enhance the capacity of those who support arts programming for children and youth. Since its founding in 1997, Studio, through its NYC Schools program, has served more than 900,000 pre-kindergarten to high school students in high-need communities. The Studio Institute generates in visual arts instruction, conducts arts education research, and develops professional learning programs and internships. The Institute identifies, documents, and devises best practices and leads field-wide conversations about strategies for instruction. Corporation support will enable the Studio to continue its work in visual arts education, helping to open the door for continued academic success, and eventually for full participation in the civic and economic life of their community.
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Project Title
For general support.
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act presents a new opportunity for states to rethink how state education agencies will meet the needs of all students with fewer constraints and greater opportunities to align initiatives to their state vision. This will require that chiefs and their agencies take on new roles or roles that agencies have struggled to take on in the past, and shift from a compliance orientation to one focused on fostering equity, accountability, innovation, data-driven decision-making and a service mindset. The demands on chiefs are great, and in many cases, states do not provide them with the time or resources to seek professional development opportunities, guidance and access to mentors. Chiefs need additional support to develop leadership skills. The Council on Chief State School Officers, the only membership organization responsible for supporting public officials who oversee K-12 public education, is uniquely positioned to provide counsel and resources to these leaders, and launched a Leadership Academy in 2014 as one of their strategies for doing so. This grant is for general support.
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For core support of the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
A confluence of factors make this a crucial inflection point in U.S. education: the significant shift toward more state autonomy and responsibility under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); persistent and substantial achievement and opportunity gaps; and an increasingly politically divisive context. As education reform aims to improve student outcomes in this environment, there is a need for a clear focus on systems, integration, coherence and whole-scale human capital improvement in order to avoid exacerbating the existing lack of coordination among programs, organizations and systems. The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program aims to address this in part by creating systemic approaches to professional learning, by (1) increasing the number of systems (districts, CMOs, and states) that have a clear vision, theory of action, and effective practices for building expertise among educators, (2) articulating a role for policy that advances high-quality, applied professional learning in schools, (3) forging an understanding of roles and responsibilities at all levels of education governance, and (4) establishing a clear relationship between high-quality, applied professional learning and curriculum and instructional materials. This grant is for general support for Aspen’s 2017-2020 strategic plan.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Ongoing criticisms of mainstream news media and the traction of “fake news” have generated widespread alarm since the 2016 presidential campaigns. It has led to the degradation of legitimate news organizations, the proliferation of unfounded conspiracy theories that damage reputations and provoke violence, and even attacks upon the idea of truth itself, giving “alternative facts” an unprecedented platform and audience. PEN America maintains an extensive history of advocating for press freedom, both internationally and in the United States. With Corporation support, PEN America will build upon its existing efforts to defend press freedom and pursue efforts to end the influence of fake news.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
Teacher quality is the single most important in-school factor in student achievement. Yet while policymakers and education leaders acknowledge the importance of teachers, their actual voices are consistently left out of policies that directly impact them and their ability to improve student learning. Motivated by a widespread desire to be heard in policy debates, Bronx teachers Sydney Morris and Evan Stone founded Educators for Excellence (E4E) in March 2010, an entirely teacher-led organization initiating bottom-up reform. The Corporation supported E4E in its early stages to create a comprehensive theory of change and growth strategy. E4E currently operates in six major cities and includes over 26,000 educators united in their mission to influence key policies, such as teacher evaluation, layoff, and tenure systems. Critical to E4E’s theory of change is the belief that union leadership inadequately represents the views of its members. With 86 percent of its members belonging to unions, E4E fills this representational void by training teacher-leaders and mobilizing their collective voice for change within unions and the broader public. The Corporation’s grant will enable E4E to develop its organizational capacity at national and local levels, scale its model, and support its activities.
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For core support for Columbia Global Reports
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In 2013, Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, asked Nicholas Lemann, former dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, to start a journalistic venture at Columbia. Lemann and Bollinger decided to create Columbia Global Reports (CGR), an independent press that addresses underreported global issues with a non-academic audience in mind. CGR publishes six novella-length books a year based on original reporting and research, in affordable paperback and e-book editions. CGR stands apart from other trade book and nonprofit publishers in the short time from assignment to publication, about twelve to eighteen months, and in its policy of paying for authors’ reporting expenses. While CGR sells books directly to the public, sales do not cover all costs. With Corporation support, CGR will push back against the growing flood of misinformation by providing accessible reportorial journalism.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Standardized testing has become increasingly prevalent in American public schools. This comes with potential drawbacks for teachers, schools, and students, particularly children from underprivileged backgrounds. The National Center for Fair & Opening Testing (FairTest), the only national organization solely focused on testing reform, aims to prevent the overuse and misuse of such testing in schools and in college admissions. With Corporation support, FairTest will continue to organize national, state, and local reform campaigns; educate the public about testing and testing alternatives; and provide training and advice to parents, educators, students, and grassroots and civil rights organizations about issues related to standardized testing.
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For core support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Advocates nationwide have been doubling down on efforts to counter anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that continue to emerge following the 2016 election cycle. The numerous anti-immigrant actions taken by policymakers since the election and the emergence of anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, and anti-Muslim sentiments during the campaigns have opened a new chapter in the struggles of marginalized communities for full inclusion in society. Established in 2003 with Corporation support, the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) is a donor collaborative housed at Neo Philanthropy supporting state-based and regional immigrant-serving coalitions across the country. FFF serves a hybrid role of convener, grantmaker, and strategist, connecting grassroots organizations with national immigrant integration groups. With renewed Corporation support, FFF will continue to support state and regional groups across the country through grants that build institutional capacity, strategic collaboration among grantees, effective communications, and alliances with other constituencies.
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For core support of its immigration policy program
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past year, the United States has experienced a dramatic shift in federal positions on immigration. Many landmark, pro-immigrant efforts are being scaled back or terminated. The current Administration has been pushing an expanded enforcement agenda, as well as advocating for new policies that would restrict legal immigration, discontinue asylum programs, and reduce employment opportunities for immigrant workers. The groundbreaking immigration policies of the Obama Administration were not the result of a president’s nor a single party’s whims, but the sustained efforts of national and regional organizations over many years. Among the organizations working to advance positive, state and federal immigration policies is the Center for American Progress (CAP). CAP is a respected resource for policymakers, a hub for high-quality research on immigration, and a coordinating entity for research, communications, and policy work. With renewed Corporation support, CAP will continue to drive the immigration policy debate through research, analysis, and collaboration with key players.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Corporation has long promoted sustained, nonpartisan civic engagement, with the belief that an engaged citizenry is essential to keeping a democracy healthy and accountable for its constituents. And while recent social movements have galvanized entire populations around important social and political issues, voting continues to be the most critical method of influencing policy and institutionalizing change. Established in 2004, State Voices is a national network that helps grassroots organizations engage in shared policy and civic engagement campaigns. By providing access to sophisticated voter engagement tools and capacity building opportunities, State Voices brings together groups involved in a wide range of issues, from immigration and the environment to health care and economic development, among others, to strengthen their impact on individual policy areas and civic engagement overall. With renewed Corporation support, State Voices will continue to grow and strengthen its network, as well as support partners’ efforts to increase civic and voter engagement in advance of the 2018 elections.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent years have challenged civil rights advocates and the disenfranchised communities they work to represent. Jurisdictions nationwide are proposing discriminatory electoral changes quicker than the courts can strike them down; the Census Bureau faces deep funding cuts that jeopardize the accuracy of the decennial census, which helps determine congressional representation and allocate federal resources; and the current Administration has raised unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, casting serious doubt on U.S. electoral processes. As the leading expert on civil rights research and education, the Leadership Conference Education Fund builds public will for federal policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the U.S. With renewed Corporation support, the education fund will continue to draw attention to a wide range of pressing civil rights issues, including voting rights, an accurate 2020 census, immigration, and a fair, independent judiciary.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
The Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) is a national, nonpartisan policy and advocacy organization that promotes high school transformation such that all secondary students, particularly those who are most at-risk, graduate high school prepared for college and career. While the Alliance has historically operated in the national policy realm, it also provides state, local, and district level policy and implementation support. With current Corporation support, it has contributed to the adoption of federal policies that incorporate a broader definition of student success; assisted states in revising accountability systems and implementing high standards; and supported state and district leaders to introduce policies and practices that support deeper learning. Through this work, the Alliance has established itself as a hub for the sharing of best practices and for networking among practitioners. Building on the current grant, the Alliance proposes to simultaneously continue its policy work at the state and federal levels, while deepening its support to district leaders.
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For core support of the Collaborative for Student Success
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) marks a watershed moment in education policy. States now are solely responsible for setting standards, defining proficiency rates, establishing teacher evaluation systems and school accountability systems. While the scope of ESSA is wide ranging, the Collaborative for Student Success, an eight foundation partnership formed to be a nimble, fast-moving communications operation, will act and react to situations as they present themselves, both on the national stage and at the state level in education. The Collaborative will focus specifically on accountability systems as the important third leg of the education reform stool (standards, assessments, accountability) in ESSA communications. Corporation funding will continue to support the work of the Collaborative to proactively address communication needs around the following issues: framing the narrative and supporting state partners around the accountability provisions in ESSA; communicating the importance of high-quality assessments aligned to high standards; and continuing to defend the high standards (Common Core) by providing state-based support to partners on the ground where necessary.
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As a final grant for core support for the national expansion of the community college pathways programs
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Nearly 45 percent of the nation’s undergraduate population is served by community colleges. Unfortunately, transfer and completion rates at these vital institutions are almost uniformly low, in part because so many students fail to earn required mathematics credit. In 2009, with significant support from the Corporation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching launched two programs entitled, Statway and Quantway. These programs have been designed to transform developmental mathematics in community colleges and enable significantly more students to achieve college completion and success by enabling students to fulfill their developmental math requirement and earn a college-level math credit in a single year.
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For core support of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
An extensive body of research shows that socio-emotional skills are essential for students to thrive in school, career, and life. While momentum for socio-emotional learning (SEL) has been increasing, efforts to innovate and build knowledge in response have played out in isolation. Over the past year, in response to this challenge, the New Designs team has made a targeted set of programmatic investments to spur instructional innovation around socio-emotional development across a range of contexts and practices. The work of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (the Commission) complements those investments by providing a national framework for policy, practice, and research. With Corporation support, the Commission will establish a shared understanding of what integrated social, emotional, and academic development in K-12 education means, and lay the foundation for a community-driven movement among educators, families, out-of-school providers, and other stakeholders.
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For core support of the Student Success Network
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—an extensive body of research indicates that students’ socio-emotional and metacognitive skills are key to their lifelong well-being. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction, particularly at the high school level. Launched in 2013, The Student Success Network (SSN) is a practitioner-led network of 50 youth development and education organizations committed to empowering New York City’s low-income middle- and high-school students with the SEL competencies they need to succeed in college and career. SSN plays a unique role in building its members’ capacity for self-improvement through data collection and analysis, improvement science training, and self-selected learning communities centered on specific problems of practice. With Corporation support, SSN will deepen continuous improvement cycles, innovate SEL measurement and analysis, and grow locally and engage nationally.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1989, Reach Out and Read was established by a group of medical doctors to improve literacy in young children, particularly those from low-income households. They adopted a simple model of prescribing books and reading aloud as a means of fostering the language-rich interactions between parents and their young children that stimulate early brain development. Reach Out and Read now serves 4.7 million young children and their families, delivering 6.5 million books through a nationwide network of 5,800 program sites each year, including one in four children living in poverty in this country. With Corporation support, Reach Out and Read will continue its work in selecting and distributing books, training medical providers, creating support resources for providers and families, and the development of new programs.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
While federal policy provides a framework for education reform, only 10-14 percent of federal resources reach schools. States are the primary leaders in education reform. In a time of innovation and policy change, concerted efforts by state groups are even more vital for ensuring sustainable progress within individual states. By working on complex policy issues through a network of likeminded organizations, reformers can build relationships that amplify their resources around reform. Founded in 2011, the PIE Network creates such connections between state organizations and provides support for leaders by building a constituency that collectively advances policy reform. While not directly advocating for particular policies itself, the PIE Network is therefore able to support organizations along the ideological spectrum, particularly through convenings and the dissemination of evidence-based policy resources. With Corporation support, the PIE Network will continue to strengthen its core capacity for advocacy, build leadership skills through a Leadership Institute, drive strategic initiatives including the elevation of stakeholder voice, and host its annual Building Bridges Summit to connect state-level strategists.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
With the expansion of school choice, data proliferation on assessments and achievement, and dynamic changes in our national K-12 system, parents are asking for access to concise and accurate information on schools to help inform their choices. GreatSchools, a national nonprofit providing parents with information on K-12 schools for nearly nineteen years, reaches forty-six million users, an audience that includes half of U.S. parents with school-aged children, 40 percent of whom identify as low-income. With the Corporation’s support, GreatSchools will enhance and expand its school quality and equity information, disseminate parenting guidance content, provide actionable information for stakeholders to improve and advocate for educational opportunities, and measure the impact of their work through surveys on parents’ attitudes and behaviors. In the long-term, the general support to GreatSchools aims to cultivate a national conversation about school quality and inspire low-income parents to take actions that improve their local schools.
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Georgia State University President Mark Becker's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
45 months
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Case Western Reserve University President Barbara Snyder's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded by world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, Silkroad brings together musicians from a range of countries and artistic traditions to create original musical collaborations, all with the goal of spreading tolerance, understanding, and art appreciation. The Silkroad Ensemble is composed of dozens of artists and performs in a range of venues. In addition, Silkroad musicians teach in and produce various residency, workshop, and educational programs. With Corporation support, during the grant period Silkroad will commission new music as part of its Heroes Project and operate a residency program with Rice University in Houston, among other activities.
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For core support of Project Evident
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based education programming has grown over the past several years—among nonprofits, funders, and policy-makers alike—siloes within the education sector have resulted in a persistent gap between research and practice. Funders and nonprofits have different evidence priorities, nonprofits lack evaluative capacity, and third-party evaluators don’t fully meet nonprofit needs. Project Evident (PE) was created earlier this year to remove barriers to the creation and improvement of evidence-based practices such that nonprofits can more readily implement programs supported by research, and so that the students they serve can thrive. With Corporation support, PE will: 1) Pioneer a scalable new model for strategic, continuous evidence building in partnership with nonprofit clients through the Learning and Evaluation Support Center; and 2) Pioneer a scalable new model for supporting nonprofit organizations to use low-cost, high-quality data and evaluation tools through the Research and Development (R&D) Lab.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Technology holds great promise to deliver on the potential of personalized learning for all students, yet systemic policy barriers inhibit the realization of this potential. The Digital Learning Institute (digiLEARN) was founded by former North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue to build on that state’s success in engendering bipartisan stakeholder support for digital learning, and to create enabling conditions for personalized learning across the southeastern United States. Prior Corporation support helped to launch digiLEARN in 2014, to grow the organization into an important convener of state policymakers, and to undertake a case study to establish a model for developing sustainable and bipartisan policy in individual states. With general support from the Corporation, digiLEARN will: 1) Convene a network of state-level stakeholder teams to support policy innovation; 2) Build teacher capacity to implement personalized learning through the Digital Scholars Initiative; and 3) Develop and implement a communications strategy in support of these efforts.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
This general support grant will provide TNTP with resources to implement their 2018-19 strategic plan. Specifically, this one-year grant will enable them to: (1) expand school systems’ access to high-quality talent by building diverse and effective educator pipelines; (2) increase students’ access to rigorous college and career-focused content and high-quality, student-centered instruction; (3) develop supportive environments through authentic community engagement and policy change and move toward transformational change with the implementation of new school models; (4) continue to work towards their goal of significantly improving learning outcomes for 100,000 students by the end of 2020 and millions more indirectly; and (5) publish their next signature research project, which will capture the quality of in-school experiences of thousands of students and analyze the relationship between the quality of their experiences, how they spend their time, the quality of the work they do, how they are taught, and their engagement and achievement.
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For a project to support smarter implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards focused on greater supply and increased demand for high-quality aligned science instructional materials
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Achieve played a significant role in developing and supporting the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), in partnership with many other stakeholders. Developing the NGSS was just the first step. The next is implementing and enacting them in K-12 classrooms across the nation. The lack of high-quality, aligned instructional materials readily available to teachers and students poses a significant threat to sustainable progress toward better science education for all students. Through this proposal Achieve will address all of these issues. Specifically, it will (1) ensure that a greater supply of high-quality NGSS-aligned instructional materials becomes available; (2) increase demand for high-quality, NGSS-aligned instructional materials from teachers, schools, districts, and states; (3) strengthen the implementation of science standards at the state level; and (4) help unify the science education and education reform fields around NGSS implementation.
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For core support of Bottom Line New York
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite increasing high school graduation rates, persistence through college and successful transition to the workforce remain insurmountable obstacles to a majority of students. Bottom Line (BL) is a college access and success organization that provides one-on-one services to help low-income, first-generation students get into and graduate from college. With current Corporation support, Bottom Line New York (BLNY) has increased the number of students it serves by 35 percent in the 2016-2017 academic year, working with 425 high school seniors and 1,735 college students. After the spring 2017 semester, 86 percent of BLNY college students had graduated or were on track to graduate in six years or less. With Corporation support, BLNY will continue to operate its college access and success programs while also expanding its offerings to 1) provide employability supports to students and 2) forge college partnerships that will foster greater college persistence as well as contribute to BLNY’s sustainability.
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For core support of College Summit New York
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite increasing high school graduation rates, persistence through college and successful transition to the workforce remain insurmountable obstacles to a majority of students. College Summit (CS) is a leading college access and success organization, with over twenty years of experience leveraging the power of peer influence to boost college-going outcomes among low-income students. Although CS students come from low-income households, they persist in college at the same rate as students from all economic backgrounds. With current Corporation support, CS developed and implemented the PeerForward program to activate youth voice, training teams of high school students as Peer Leaders who drive schoolwide campaigns to boost college enrollment and persistence. Corporation support will enable CS New York to train, deploy, and coach Peer Leader teams in twenty-one New York City high schools, impacting over 11,000 students.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The relationships in a young person’s life, particularly relationships with positive and caring adults, have a critical impact on their ability to access educational, employment, and civic engagement opportunities vital to their development and our nation’s economy. Yet sixteen million of America’s forty-six million young people do not have a trusted adult in their lives whom they believe they can turn to for guidance outside of their family or home (Civic Enterprises, 2014). National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) seeks to build out a national mentoring infrastructure so that every student in the United States has a quality mentor that provides the support they need growing up. This general support grant will enable MENTOR to advance the national mentoring movement by supporting work in three key areas: 1) affiliate network support and development; 2) capacity building; and 3) public awareness and mobilization.
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For core support of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
A lack of dialogue and understanding is an enduring problem in many regions of the world, especially where diplomatic efforts have fallen short. This problem has become particularly acute in parts of the Middle East and South Asia as people’s fates have become deeply entwined with the actions of national leaders, violent non-governmental actors, and outside parties. Today’s urgent and interrelated global challenges call for greater engagement across dividing lines, increased appreciation for differing threat perceptions, and, above all, efforts to find non-violent solutions to conflicts where nuclear risks are present. With a proven track record and international credibility, the Pugwash Conferences on World Affairs (Pugwash) has been one of the leading organizations filling this important gap in the Middle East and South Asia through) long-standing intraregional and multinational Track II dialogues.
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For national organizing work, including the Community Organizer Training Program and the Parent Leader Institute
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The education reform movement has created new opportunities for many children and high-quality schools, but for low-income families in underserved communities, the pace of transformation has been slow. There is a growing recognition that community organizing and parent leadership are essential to achieving significant change, including opening and sustaining high-quality schools and systemic changes within districts and states. Innovate Public Schools (Innovate) fills this particular demand by developing the technical abilities, public speaking skills, and community organizing capacities of parent leaders so that the families themselves collectively advocate for better schools. Professional training has been critical to Innovate’s mission. Its flagship Community Organizing Training Program (COTP) and Parent Leadership Institutes (PLIs) develop the leadership of parents in the Bay Area since 2015. The Corporation’s grant will enable Innovate to scale its programs nationally, train 150 parent leaders, and support leading organizations including KIPP and Navigator Schools on effective community organizing for school reform.
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For U.S.-China collaborative research on the domestic roots of Chinese foreign policy
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
China’s domestic, regional, and global conduct will be among the key determinants of international peace and security in this century. Deepening U.S. understanding of the sources of China’s behavior, including its evolving political system, is critical to managing China’s potential impact. The University of California, San Diego’s 21st Century China Program is among the leading research, training, and outreach programs focusing on China in the United States. It plans to continue and expand its activities, including by deepening its network of Chinese and American social scientists who study internal Chinese politics. The network and other program activities will emphasize data collection and data-driven collaborative, U.S.-China research projects, aimed at providing evidence-based and policy-relevant assessments of trends within China.
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For the Carnegie International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
The failure of American higher education to prepare current and prospective policymakers to perform at a high-level and the irrelevance of much academic research to real-world problems remain core challenges in the International Peace and Security Program’s (IPS) Bridging the Gap initiative. The proposed project will continue efforts to train better-prepared policymakers who can understand high-quality research and apply it in practice; and better academics who can prepare practitioners and conduct research they can use. During the next phase of this project, its institutional base–which manages a collaboration among five universities, about to expand to eight — will transition from Syracuse University to Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and its new Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins-SAIS (HKC) whose mission is closely aligned with this project.
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For a project to connect scholars and practitioners of international relations
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
49 months
Description
The Intersect Project makes scholarly expertise more accessible to policymakers by connecting international security scholars with practitioners in the U.S. government. The project produces quarterly email compendiums with short summaries and commentary highlighting the most timely and relevant scholarly books and articles in the field. The project also organizes monthly roundtables featuring scholars who present their current research to policymakers. These roundtables are hosted by government agencies, including the Department of State and the Department of Defense, and are open to all other interested agencies. With Corporation support, this project will bring scholarly research on international security issues directly to the attention of practitioners.
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For support of the National Agenda for the Future of Syria (Phase II)
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The escalation of the Syrian crisis over the past five years has disintegrated national unity and the Syrian state. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia’s (UNESCWA) National Agenda for the Future of Syria Program is a multi-year technical dialogue on the transition from local wartime governing councils to wider governance structures in Syria. Working with over one hundred Syrian social scientists and experts, mostly in diaspora, UNESCWA is working to build post-conflict governance and economic structures, moving from local to wider levels within Syrian political structures. The process entails substantive discussions of a negotiated 500-page Agenda document on the future course of the country, and its implementation toward a sustainable, decentralized political solution.
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For enhancing and promoting scholarship on and in the Arab region
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
GMU is devoted to raising the profile and increasing the capacity of academics in the Arab region. Working with regional and international partners, the project will expand its work increasing the quality, quantity, and accessibility of locally produced knowledge and build networks and capacity. Shifting toward an increased emphasis on short-format policy documents, GMU aims to enhance the relationship between social science scholarship, legal scholarship, and the policy community, boosting citizen empowerment in the Arab world by creating connections between them. The project will convene workshops and conferences in the Arab region, allow scholars to present their research to the public, and place research in reputable academic journals and innovative online publishing platforms. They will increase efforts to raise the visibility of individual social scientists and their work.
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For professional development of political scientists from the Arab region
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
This renewal is recommended in light of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA MENA) commitment to capacity building and enhancing scholarly networks of early-career political science faculty in the region. APSA MENA will expand its work to generate institutional-level impact through departmental collaborations with Arab universities. Supporting cohorts of young political scientists has been essential to the professionalization of political and social science in the region. In the next phase, services to program alumni will expand. And to compliment action at individual level, APSA MENA will begin to provide additional resources and support to political science departments at selected public universities in the region in order to create longer-term institutional impact.
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For assessing the impact of social movements in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will bring together policy experts and practitioners who are working to build civil society solutions where governance and social services are lacking. Researchers will document social movements that are playing vital roles in five countries, share successful practices, and develop education materials. Secondly, a project led by an AUB sociologist will work with religious studies departments, which are part of the structure of numerous universities in the region, and connect these departments with their peers in the social sciences. The project will conduct workshops, research and publications jointly between religious scholars and social scientists on issues of shared interest.
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For enhancing capacity, building collaborations, and contributing to solutions on marginalized communities in the Arab region
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
60 months
Description
Gaps in the knowledge sector underlie key security and governance challenges of unemployment, citizen participation, and education in the Arab region. Grounded in longstanding work in the region, the University of Michigan will collaborate with Princeton University to expand the use of quantitative methods with emphasis on Arab region political science. Working with Arab region scholars and institutions, the collaborative project will strengthen the ability of faculty in the Arab region to design research and policy prescriptions for issues affecting the majority of the region’s population, including youth and women. Corporation funds will support four workshops for junior faculty from Arab region universities, a major policy conference, and development of the “Arab Pulse” website.
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For a project on inclusive governance and gender policies
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
This collaborative project by teams of social scientists in the Arab region fosters regional research networks advancing gender equity in family laws and the inclusion of communities within the context of a pluralistic state. Lebanese American University’s Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution (ISJCR) and Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) will build on current research and establish networks of experts in Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, and Lebanon to examine diverse national practices and instigate policy reforms in partnership with key stakeholders. The project will bring together policymakers, legal experts, and scholars from across the region to address these long-term challenges.
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For analysis and dissemination on the rise and impact of non-state armed groups in the Arab region
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
A renewal is recommended to build upon Chatham House’s previous work on the regional implications of the Syrian crisis. To complement this work, Chatham House will focus its activity on developments within Syria in partnership with local researchers. The project will create a consortium of region-based researchers and Europe-based counterparts to present analysis of the evolving relationships between armed groups, civilian communities, and state and non-state institutions in Syria. This international project will bring cutting edge policy analysis from Arab region scholars to high-level policymakers, and international non-governmental stakeholders. Research will also investigate the aspirations of armed groups to become governance providers.
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For international dialogues on the challenges posed by North Korea
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (the National Committee) is one of the core grantees in the International Peace and Security (IPS) program’s North Korea Track II cluster, with a proven ability to convene high-level dialogue with American experts, officials and former officials; and scholars in the U.S., South Korea, China and Japan, as well as with 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 keeping channels of communication open with North Korea, which currently has no diplomatic relations with the United States. With Corporation support, the National Committee’s authoritative network has made an important contribution to the policy process, as current and former officials attest.
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For the Project Q symposium on peace and security in a quantum age
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
0 months
Description
This proposed renewal grant builds on an initial investment that can best be categorized as “over the horizon,” philanthropic venture capital. It involves continued support for a bold, interdisciplinary effort at the University of Sydney’s Centre for International Security Studies to tease out the implications for international peace and security of new and poorly comprehended developments in the highly complex field of quantum mechanics. Harkening back to Albert Einstein’s admonition at the beginning of the atomic age that “everything has changed, except our way of thinking,” this project will continue to bring 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.”
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For a consortium on evaluation and adaptive learning for peacebuilding
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
39 months
Description
The Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC)–composed of the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), Mercy Corps, Search for Common Ground, and CDA Collaborative—proposes to build on six years of work aimed at increasing the ability of the peacebuilding field to demonstrate impact and effectiveness. During this follow-on phase, PEC will shift its focus from the development of rigorous monitoring and evaluation (M&E) resources to a strategy to ensure that these tools are embraced, tested, and endorsed by a wide range of peacebuilding program leaders—and not siloed with technical M&E experts. PEC will also analyze the emerging substantive results of evaluations to inform better peacebuilding practices by working with NGOs, private foundations, intergovernmental organizations, bilateral donors, academics, and professional consulting firms to strengthen the uptake of peacebuilding M&E.
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For the China Power project
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) seeks renewal support for two China-related projects. The first aggregates and elucidates data on Chinese power across five broad categories: economic, military, “soft power,” technological advancement, and social stability. Launched with Corporation support, this award-winning project deciphers the complexity of these issues via the interactive website, “ChinaPower,” drawing on information from multiple sources to better inform the public discourse over the consequences of China’s rise. The second is a Track II/1.5 project bringing together American and Chinese experts and officials for frank, constructive, dialogue on issues related to the global economic order. It 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 dialogue on the global economic order
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) seeks renewal support for two China-related projects. The first aggregates and elucidates data on Chinese power across five broad categories: economic, military, “soft power,” technological advancement, and social stability. Launched with Corporation support, this award-winning project deciphers the complexity of these issues via the interactive website, “ChinaPower,” drawing on information from multiple sources to better inform the public discourse over the consequences of China’s rise. The second is a Track II/1.5 project bringing together American and Chinese experts and officials for frank, constructive, dialogue on issues related to the global economic order. It 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 a U.S-China dialogue on Afghanistan
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States continues to face a daunting challenge in Afghanistan. Beyond political and military complications, the surrounding region is undergoing a dynamic transformation associated with China’s ambitious and far-ranging Belt and Road Initiative. The Afghanistan Regional Project at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) seeks renewal support for a series of unofficial, high-level U.S.-China dialogues on Afghanistan involving experts and policy officials from the United States and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Continued funding from the Corporation will help generate concrete policy recommendations for consideration by the United States, China, and other stakeholders involved in Afghanistan.
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