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Project Title
For a project on managing global disorder
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Building on previously Corporation-funded work, the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) Center for Preventive Action (CPA) will launch a new Project on Managing Global Disorder. The project will focus on two areas: First, the project will explore how the major powers—with an initial focus on the United States, Russia, China, and the European Union (EU)—perceive current threats to world order, where they agree and disagree on matters of policy prescription, and what they can do individually and cooperatively to address these challenges. Second, the project will strengthen the CPA’s complementary public outreach work through its highly-regarded Preventive Priorities Survey, Global Conflict Tracker, and “Flashpoints” roundtable series on potential or ongoing crises.
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
North Korea’s nuclear and other weapons programs pose grave challenges to the global nonproliferation regime and the peace and security of Northeast Asia. Negotiation and engagement are essential to addressing these challenges. In the absence of government-to-government talks, the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project engages in Track II talks; unofficial contacts with non-officials, former officials, and officials acting in their unofficial capacity from North Korea and the United States, as well as from South Korea, Japan, China, and Russia. The meetings aim to explore ways to resume and sustain formal negotiations and to resolve nuclear, missile, and other security issues likely to arise in those negotiations.
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For the African Peacebuilding Network
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Building on its previous Corporation-supported work, the African Peacebuilding Network (APN), based at the Social Science Research Council, will continue its support and dissemination of theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded African research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions on the continent. The APN responds to the critical need for policy-relevant research on peacebuilding that is generated by, and reflects the knowledge of, locally-based scholars working in Africa by: supporting new research and analytical capacities; inserting evidence-based knowledge from Africa into regional and global debates and policies on peacebuilding, especially at the United Nations, African Union, and in Washington, D.C.; and facilitating the building of new networks among researchers, and between researchers and practitioners.
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For a project on strategies for policy relevant responses to emerging policy issues
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House—a new global policy research center advancing interdisciplinary research on the world’s most urgent challenges—is designed to provide policymakers, academics, and others with rigorous, policy-relevant insights, packaged in accessible formats. By bringing together relevant academics with leaders from the policy world, nongovernmental community, industry, and the media, the proposed project will help academics increase the policy relevance of their work, frame their research outputs in a way that is accessible or actionable for policymakers, and encourage policymakers to elicit academic knowledge to aid their decision-making processes.
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For training and research on the role of intelligence in responding to proliferation
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
This grant supports two streams of work of the Nonproliferation Education Center (NPEC). First is NPEC’s Nuclear Policy Education and Outreach Program, a forum where policy makers, military planners, academics, and analysts can engage with top experts on nuclear issues. NPEC will conduct a series of annual workshops to continue its development of a model curriculum on nuclear topics. Second, this grant allows NPEC to take its first steps on a project focused on tracking emerging Asian nuclear weapons doctrines. This project will assess potential changes within the nuclear weapons doctrines of India and China.
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For deepening public understanding of nuclear issues
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
This grant allows the Center for Public Integrity (the Center), a Pulitzer prize-winning investigative newsroom, to conduct a two-year probe of advanced military technologies and activities with the aim of publishing a series of attention-getting, revelatory articles in conjunction with major media partners. The U.S. and other militaries are developing advanced technologies that could undermine nuclear stability and create underappreciated risks. The Center’s articles will shine a bright light on what governments are doing, why they are doing it, and how they are doing it. It will provide authoritative new information of high value to analysts and policy advocates, and encourage wider debate and discussion of government programs.
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For support of the Nuclear Governance Group
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
The Partnership for Global Security (PGS) is a recognized international leader and innovator in the nuclear and transnational security policy area. It has also been a player in the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) process over the past eight years. With continued support from the Corporation, PGS will engage with both governments and industry to sustain the NSS momentum and focus attention on the risks of nuclear security. Leveraging its existing relationship with the Nuclear Energy Institute, PGS will convene an international and interdisciplinary Nuclear Governance Group to identify opportunities for more effective partnerships between nuclear industry, governments, and international organizations, which are essential to reducing the risks of global nuclear proliferation.
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For the work of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (the Vienna Center) conducts research, education, outreach, public education, and networking activities to promote the development of independent expertise on disarmament and nonproliferation. Despite limited staff and budget, the Vienna Center has established itself as a unique platform for academic and research institutes to engage the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other Vienna-based international organizations. The Vienna Center works closely with numerous Corporation grantees to host events and tailor outreach to Vienna audiences. By all accounts, it has become a venue to discuss innovative ideas in support of the IAEA mission.
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For confronting the challenges to nuclear nonproliferation and reduction
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Nuclear security and nonproliferation challenges will test the leadership of the United States, its allies, and the broader global community. For three decades, the Arms Control Association (ACA) has played a key role as analyst, publisher, communicator, and convener on nuclear developments. With continued support from the Corporation, ACA will focus on building bipartisan understanding of critical nuclear weapons-relevant issues, including the future of current nuclear treaties, missile defense plans, options for avoiding U.S.-Russia nuclear competition, and policies on nuclear testing and modernization. ACA will continue to produce publications and hold events to bring its research to the attention of policymakers, the media, and the public.
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For research on deterring and controlling escalation of major power conflicts
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
44 months
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For training and research on nuclear and international security
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
As the central piece of U.S.-Russian relations, nuclear arms control has been largely dormant recently due to mistrust and antagonism. As the two countries hold the bulk of the global nuclear arsenal and continue their weapons modernization programs, better understanding of security objectives is critical. A project at the Center for Security Studies (CISSM) at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, has been working in a partnership with the Russian Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies to improve U.S.-Russian security understanding and relations. The project will continue analytical, training, and outreach efforts to manage shared risks associated with a wide range of dual-use technologies, including space and cybersecurity, and develop strategies to reduce political tensions among the United States, Europe, and Russia. An element of the grant will support U.S.-Russian student exchanges.
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For the Congressional Partnership Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) was founded by Lee Hamilton and Warren Rudman in an effort to help diminish the partisan gridlock that prevents Congress from doing its job. PSA’s Congressional Partnership Program helps senior congressional staffers build the skills, knowledge, and relationships needed for productive bipartisan action. The program creates opportunities for staffers from across the political spectrum to discuss important foreign policy and national security questions, develop consensus building skills, and participate in an alumni network that remains dedicated to cooperative action across party lines. PSA will organize events for staffers with policymakers, former officials, policy analysts, journalists, and experts. It will also provide travel opportunities to expand the staffers’ perspectives.
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For analysis and dissemination on critical global threats
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Established in 1989 with funding from the Corporation, the Henry L. Stimson Center (Stimson) is a nonpartisan policy research center working to help solve some of the world’s most significant threats to security and prosperity by taking pragmatic steps. Moving forward, Stimson envisions the development of a new approach to problem solving, and one that deliberately will seek to create a safe space for conversation, forge uncommon alliances across atypical partners, build upon shared interests, and help solve grand global challenges. With Corporation funding, it will begin piloting this new approach in the field of nuclear security, both globally and specifically on the Asian subcontinent, and in better understanding China’s role in these and other interconnected spaces.
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For a project on security challenges in Russia and Eurasia and U.S.-Russia relations
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The importance of U.S. relations with Russia has come into sharp focus with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The Russia-Eurasia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies has long been engaged in providing analytical assessments on Russia and U.S. policy toward Russia, and in promoting interactions between the U.S. and Russian expert communities. With a focus on mitigating risks and exploring shared objectives, the program will continue a set of policy-relevant research, outreach, publications, visiting appointments, and working group meetings. The program’s ultimate goal is to help improve the U.S. understanding of Russia, as well as the Russian understanding of the United States.
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For strengthening graduate training and research in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The field of Eurasian and East European studies has seen a steady decline in federal funding and scholarly interest since the early 1990s. As a result, the ranks of Russian analysts and speakers have fallen to levels that could take years to rebuild. Training at U.S. universities is needed to build up the national expertise on the region. The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) in Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service houses one of the nation’s preeminent training and research programs on Russia and Eurasia. With renewed Corporation, CERES will engage in a host of activities, including policy-relevant research, training, and public outreach to improve the U.S. understanding of the region.
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For the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As part of its mission, the Elliot School of The George Washington University (GWU) sponsors scholarship, training, and international linkages that advance an understanding of international problems and strengthens the capacity of the next generation of national and international leaders. Over the next two years and with support from the Corporation, the Elliot School will continue three interrelated projects: the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), an international network of scholars from the United States, Russia, and other countries in Eurasia; a research project at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS) to analyze current and future challenges of deterrence and escalation control between the United States and major powers; and a policy-oriented working group that encourages bipartisan consensus on a challenging nuclear security agenda.
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For a University Consortium on the relationship between Russia and the West
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Increasing political tensions between Russia and the United States/European Union, combined with a decline of Western expertise on Russia and Eurasia prompted the creation in 2015 of the University Consortium (the UC). The UC is an academic venture that pools the strength of partner universities, students, and professors to build professional networks among younger experts. Comprised of six universities in the United States, Europe, and Russia, it also serves to promote research, engagement, and policy outreach on Euro-Atlantic issues among upcoming academics and the policy communities. With continued support, the UC will extend its reach by increasing the number of accepted student fellows who will work to apply academic insight to policymaking for Euro-Atlantic cooperation.
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For the Woodrow Wilson Foreign Policy Fellowship Program for congressional staff education
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As the United States Congress has the power to declare war, allocate funding for diplomatic missions and military actions, and advise the Executive Branch on foreign policies, Congressional understanding of complex international issues is essential. The Foreign Policy Fellowship Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (the Center) helps to improve congressional staffers’ knowledge of foreign policy. The Center also strives to build bipartisanship by bringing together Republican and Democratic legislative staffers. The Center’s core activity is a six-week seminar that encourages fellows to debate key issues with some of the nation’s leading foreign policy thinkers and practitioners, including from among the 150 resident scholars housed at the Center. With continued support from the Corporation, the Center will sustain and expand the program.
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For competitive postdoctoral fellowships open to graduates of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa doctoral program
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
42 months
Description
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), begun in 2008 and hosted by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), aims to improve the quantity and quality of research leaders in fields relevant to population and public health. To date, 165 early-career researchers, selected from among faculty and research staff of the consortium’s nine universities and four research centers, have entered the four-year doctoral program, and more than thirty fellows have graduated.
With this grant, CARTA will intensify its postdoctoral program—referred to as “Securing the Future”—designed to help ease the transition of the graduates back into their university departments and allow them to continue to hone their research skills, even as they resumed their teaching and administrative responsibilities.
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For a competitive postdoctoral research support program
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
48 months
Description
The period immediately following completion of the doctoral degree is a critical time for an African academic. Little postdoctoral research support is available, while the pressures of teaching and university administration often distract the scholar from conducting and publishing additional research. The result, for some, is professional stagnation, while others depart for more conducive research environments. At Makerere University, eighty-one doctoral students—who have benefited from the university’s Next Generation of African Academics postgraduate program since its inception in 2010—will comprise the pool of eligible applicants for postdoctoral support. Through a competitive process, the university will select up to fifteen postdoctoral fellows, who will form teams to carry out a research project. These teams will include an additional early-career researcher, a master’s degree student, and a senior mentor. The teams will receive funds for research and dissemination of results and will benefit from training in a variety of research skills as well as in writing for public and policy audiences.
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For a fellowship program to promote doctoral research and writing on peacebuilidng by African social scientists
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
30 months
Description
The Social Science Research Council’s “Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Program” aims to increase the number of promising African university-based academics focusing on topics related to peacebuilding in Africa. The program provides competitively-awarded fellowships for dissertation proposal development, dissertation research, and dissertation writing. Fellows must be based in universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, or Uganda. The program also offers skill-building workshops and conference travel support, which contribute to expanding the fellows’ regional and international scholarly networks. Since the program’s inception in 2011, 150 early-career scholars have benefited from 187 fellowships, and fifty-one fellows have completed their doctoral degrees. This grant will support up to eighty-eight additional fellowships.
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For building a new generation of African peacebuilding scholars
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
28 months
Description
The Corporation began supporting King’s College London (King’s) in July 2009 to offer master’s degree fellowships to young African scholars of peace, security, and development. The vehicle through which fellows are identified and nurtured is the African Leadership Centre (ALC). ALC celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2016, and, through its various programs, has supported 103 students. More recently, a related doctoral program at King’s produced its first graduate last year with additional doctoral students in the pipeline. The ALC is also the locus of a research agenda, which examines the nexus of peacebuilding and leadership, focusing in both practice and theme on next generation leaders. ALC’s alumni network connects African universities and policy bodies, opening organic linkages where high-quality field research can reach an interested policymaking audience.
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For the doctoral program in social studies at the Makerere Institute for Social Research
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
48 months
Description
The doctoral program in social studies at the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR), launched in 2012, uses a rigorous coursework-based, interdisciplinary, five-year curriculum to provide contextually-relevant training to students from across the continent. Each year, up to ten students enter the program, where they spend their first two years taking seminars—categorized into political, historical, and cultural studies and political economy—and their third year participating in a research colloquium, taking a comprehensive exam, beginning their proposal, and, acting as a tutorial assistant in Makerere’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Students spend the last two years on dissertation research and writing. Students also join one of three research groups active at MISR. Corporation support will provide sixty one-year fellowships over the three-year period to a mix of MPhil and PhD students. Support will also contribute to the costs of the Beyond Criminal Justice and Land research groups.
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For a series of public convenings to explore what it means to be American
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
19 months
Description
As the United States becomes more diverse and fragmented, Americans are faced with a challenge to create a new and inclusive American identity that is greater than the sum of its parts. To address this challenge, the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship & American Identity program has launched a project called What Every American Should Know, which is creating a common base of civic and cultural knowledge that one needs to participate fully in society. With Corporation support, Aspen will convene community-based public events on this topic, with immigrants at the center, and then publish unique content that emerges from these sessions. Participants will address not only historical knowledge, but also practical knowledge required to “make it” as an aspiring American. The outcomes of the sessions, including the perspectives of immigrants, will be shared with non-immigrant communities, including policymakers, practitioners, thought leaders and the public.
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For a project to help shape U.S.-Russia long-term policy options
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (the Endowment) has been working to chart a new course for U.S.-Russian relations now that the U.S. presidential election results and the arrival of a new administration introduce the possibility of a significant shift. The Endowment has designed a project to identify expectations for a reasonable and productive relationship; help preserve space where the United States and Russia could work together; improve the effectiveness of practical policy approaches; and supplement government-to-government dialogue through a series of informal conversations with Russian officials and experts. Through major policy papers, teams of researchers will highlight the continued significance of the U.S.-Russian relationship and draw attention to concrete areas where the U.S. and Russian policymakers have been able to cooperate.
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For strategic planning for Educators for Excellence and activities designed to increase teacher voice
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
10 months
Description
Abundant research shows that teacher quality is the single most important in-school factor in student achievement, and we know that by raising the quality of the teaching profession, we will positively impact student outcomes. Yet for far too long, education policy has been created without a critical voice at the table – the voice of classroom teachers, leading to a culture of distrust or “reform fatigue” amongst current classroom teachers and a lack of educator ownership that limits the long-term effectiveness of reforms. Educators for Excellence (E4E), a teacher-led organization, is changing this dynamic by placing the voices of teachers at the forefront of the conversations that shape our classrooms and the teaching profession. This grant supports strategic planning for E4E, in addition to their core programmatic work in on-the-ground organizing, training teacher leaders, creating and publicizing policy recommendations, and scaling their model.
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For Johnson's Russia List
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Because Russia is central to key U.S. foreign policy priorities, news on and about Russia and its near neighbors remains important. Johnson’s Russia List (JRL) is an Internet-based newsletter of daily news, analysis, and opinion about Russia gathered from sources both within and outside the country and made available to numerous users, including governments, information agencies, NGOs, intelligence agencies, and civil society in the United States and throughout the world. Housed at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, JRL provides information and highlights current events in and around Russia. Beyond the West, JRL is distributed in Russia and other post-Soviet Eurasian states among citizens, experts, and leaders who use it to gain a sense of how Russia is perceived abroad, as well as a more objective understanding of what is happening domestically.
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For Developing Emerging Academic Leaders through postdoctoral support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
54 months
Description
It takes approximately ten years for a recent doctoral graduate to become a principle investigator capable of leading a research initiative supported by external funding. Postdoctoral positions help to acclimate and retain doctoral graduates in an academic research setting. Earlier investments in the University of Cape Town (UCT) have produced a cohort of 117 academics, including women and people of color in the fields of infectious diseases, civil engineering and economics. These academics form a pool for competitively selected postdoctoral fellowships. With Corporation support, UCT will offer twenty-two postdoctoral and four early-career research fellowships to the best alumni of previous support. The fellowships will aim to further strengthen their academic capacity and research outputs, and increase their ability to secure appointments at African universities.
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For a national conference to engage college students in civic life
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Project Pericles encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include social responsibility and participatory citizenship as essential elements of their educational programs. Founded in 2001 by philanthropist Eugene M. Lang, Project Pericles works directly with its member institutions, called Pericleans, as they individually and collaboratively develop model civic engagement programs in their classrooms, on their campuses, and in their communities. With Corporation support, Project Pericles will host the Debating for Democracy National Conference. At the conference, student leaders from Periclean campuses across the country are joined by college presidents, faculty, members of the media, and foundation, government, and community leaders to participate in a series of panels and workshops with leading experts. The conference is designed to provide students with concrete steps they can take to move their issues forward. Student delegates are encouraged and expected to return to their campuses to advance civic and political engagement among their classmates.
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For a forum on the future of higher education
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Yakima Valley of Washington State is a diverse region, home to a large Native American community, consisting of fourteen unique tribes; a varied community of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans; and others of European decent. Heritage University, housed in the Yakima Valley, serves diverse, first-generation students in the area almost exclusively. With Corporation support, Heritage University will host a two-day forum on higher education, exploring key issues that affect trends particularly for first-generation students and students of color, both nationally and in Washington State.
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For a conference of rectors, vice-chancellors and presidents of African universities
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
The Association of African Universities (AAU) will be celebrating its Jubilee (fiftieth) year at its next Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP) which is convened every two years and will take place June 5-8, 2017 in Accra, Ghana. This event is an opportunity for AAU’s 250 member universities to deliberate on the contributions of AAU to higher education and the continent’s development for the past fifty years as well as AAU’s future role in five key areas: promoting science, technology and innovation through higher education; curriculum reform as key to graduate employability and entrepreneurship; the role of higher education in managing the environment; higher education as a tool for promoting democratic governance; and mobilizing resources for higher education in Africa. The AAU is requesting $50,000 to cover the cost of conference travel and participation of sixteen scholar presenters and a keynote speaker.
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For "The Scots Who Built New York"
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1956, The American Scottish Foundation (ASF) seeks to establish links and strengthen ties between Scotland and the United States, through the pursuit of contemporary social, cultural, educational, environmental, community and business activities. With Corporation support, ASF will continue their work in the project, “The Scots Who Built New York,” spotlighting the contributions of Scottish-Americans in the fields of architecture, engineering, and design. This second phase will include the design and development of a mobile application and accompanying printed guide scheduled to be launched in April 2017. The app and guide are designed to share information with the public about immigrant contributions to New York City; specifically, Scottish-American architects who contributed to the building of some of the city’s most iconic buildings.
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For support of the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In the current political climate between the United States and Russia, promoting engagements between academics and specialists can help narrow some differences. The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), aimed at strengthening the study of this region in the United States, creates opportunities for Russian academics to establish relationships with their American colleagues. ASEEES’ main event is an annual convention, which represents the premier scholarly venue for the field. Corporation support will enable ASEEES to seek the participation of scholars from Russia by awarding sixteen travel grants for each of the 2017 and 2018 conventions. Priority will be given to junior scholars presenting research papers and those in need of travel support.
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For support of Education Redesign Lab's ‘By All Means’ initiative and related research, policy, and knowledge-building activities
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
Addressing the widening achievement and opportunity gaps between poor children and their more affluent counterparts will require solutions that extend beyond the school building and consider students’ socio-emotional development alongside their academic growth. The Education Redesign Lab (ERL) at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is working with multi-agency city teams to develop cross-functional solutions offering students high-quality schools options and the kinds of enrichment, tutoring, and extra-curricular opportunities that middle and upper class families enjoy. With support from the Corporation, ERL will partner with city leaders to design integrated systems of support for high-poverty children in each of the six cities included in the By All Means initiative—Newton, Somerville, and Salem, MA, Providence, RI, Oakland, CA, and Louisville, KY—and undertake related research, policy, and dissemination activities to benefit a national audience.
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For the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship Program
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in honor of former Carnegie Corporation president, the John Gardner Fellowship Program was established at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in 1985 to encourage the universities’ best students to enter public service. The program trains young leaders by placing four to six students each year with mentors working in government and at nonprofit organizations. With Corporation support, the John Gardner Fellowship Program will continue to prepare future generations of distinguished individuals for public service.
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For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As higher education enrollment in sub-Saharan Africa grows at eight percent annually, new and expanding institutions require resources to train academic staff and seek fresh means to catalyze systemic change. In this context, the academic diaspora represents a large intellectual resource. Since 2013, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP), a partnership of The Institute of International Education (IIE) and United States International University-Africa has supported 274 diaspora fellowships at 102 institutions in participating African countries. With continued support from the Corporation, CADFP will offer approximately 123 new fellowships and provide opportunities to additional academics to participate in conferences, workshops, and field work.
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For organizing a series of convenings for African higher education leaders and policymakers on implementing plans for strengthening higher education in Africa
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) focuses primarily on supporting graduate education and research in agricultural sciences, working through its membership of sixty-five African universities across the continent. Over the years, RUFORUM has built relationships with ministers of agriculture and higher education as well as African Union Commission (AUC) leaders. At a RUFORUM conference in October 2016, the chairperson of the AUC announced the appointment of ten heads of state as champions of African higher education. RUFORUM has been invited by the Government of Malawi, whose president is one of the champions, to participate in planning the first meeting of the champions in mid-2017. This grant will enable RUFORUM to engage leaders of higher education networks and associations in the planning of, and follow-up to, this meeting.
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As a one-time grant for commemorative concerts for the 30th anniversary of the 1987 Central American Peace Accords
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
5 months
Description
In 1987, five Central American presidents, led by Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias, brokered the historic Esquipulas II Accords that promoted regional economic cooperation and a framework for peaceful conflict resolution. In subsequent years, the peace accords ushered in stability, development, growth, and safety, to a region long plagued by drug wars, poverty, and corruption. In celebration of the accords thirtieth anniversary, the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress is planning a series of lectures and events throughout Costa Rica and Central America. The events will promote a message of continued peace, specifically focusing on anti-arms and anti-violence messages. As part of the event series, the Arias Foundation is coordinating a number of commemorative concerts by the Central American Youth Orchestra.
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For support of the John C. Whitehead Fellows Program
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1918, The Foreign Policy Association (FPA), a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding, and informed opinion on U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Through its balanced and nonpartisan programs and publications, the FPA is committed to bringing along future generations of leaders in the public and private sectors, who are well-versed in world affairs. Launched by the FPA in 2005, the John C. Whitehead Fellows Program, a post-graduate program, gives young leaders from the United States and abroad access to all FPA Fellows programming. Support from the Corporation will enable the FPA to continue to provide some fifty young Fellows the opportunity to participate in discussion groups with their peers throughout the city.
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For a project to make Education Resource Strategies’ tools more accessible to a broader audience
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
11 months
Description
Innovation in the use of resources—time, staffing, technology, and money—is necessary to redesign schools such that all students are prepared for success. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) has developed a wide array of tools to help leaders redesign schools and systems through strategic allocation of resources, and many users are accessing and putting these resources to use. However, these tools are not reaching as many potential users as they could. Short term, this grant will enable ERS to partner with a user experience consultant to identify and prioritize opportunities to increase the reach and impact of ERS’ tools, and to make enhancements to ERS’s tools and resources. Long term, this project will help place ERS’ high-leverage tools into the hands of a much broader swath of practitioners and district decision-makers, including those not currently partnered with ERS. This one-time supplement to ERS’s board level grant directly supports one of the central goals of that grant: creating, improving, and expanding tools and resources to meet and grow demand for supports to organize resources differently.
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As a final grant for the Next Generation Science Standards learnings ratings
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
10 months
Description
With support from the Corporation, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were developed and published in April 2013 to address the poor performance of U.S. students in science and related subjects, as compared to their peers around the world. So far, eighteen states and D.C. have adopted the NGSS. But even in states that have not adopted the standards, there is grassroots enthusiasm among many science teachers to adapt their instruction to the NGSS. At this moment in U.S. STEM education, teachers are being asked to adapt to several transformations at once: they need to engage students in more rigorous and challenging science learning, they need to find high quality content to teach to the standards, and many need to integrate technology and other digital tools into their teaching. This is a lot to ask. With grants from the Corporation, Common Sense Media embarked on research to help teachers and schools combine the power of digital technology with implementation of the NGSS. Common Sense was able to launch an NGSS Explorer platform and built a robust library of content to help teachers understand how digital learning products can help them create the kind of investigative and hands-on science learning envisioned by the standards. With this renewal grant, they are requesting support to complete the final phase of this three year project to develop and reach a critical mass of product reviews, tools, and training content that they will be able to maintain in the future with periodic refreshes; and build awareness and grow the reach of the valuable STEM-related resources for educators in both formal and informal learning environments.
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For support of its Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship Program
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
18 months
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Although immigrants have a right to representation by counsel in immigration court, the government is not obligated to provide representation for those who are unable to afford an attorney. According to a national study on access to counsel, only two percent of immigrants were able to obtain pro bono or low-cost representation from 2007-2012. Data analyzed during this study also demonstrated that represented immigrants fared far better in these proceedings than unrepresented immigrants. Represented immigrants were 5 times more likely to receive some form of relief from deportation than unrepresented immigrants. Equal Justice Works was established in 1986 by law students with the goal of expanding legal services to underrepresented people and increasing opportunities for law students and graduates to work in the public interest field. With Corporation support, Equal Justice Works’ Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship program will provide legal representation to immigrant children throughout the country.
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For the National Family Engagement Fellowship and development of an educator preparation strategy
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
21 months
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Currently in their eighth year of operation in Washington, D.C., Flamboyan Foundation, a private family foundation has been partnering with over fifty local public and charter schools, as well as several teacher and leader preparation programs to equip them with the confidence, knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively partner with families for student success. They have taken a multi-pronged approach to ensure teachers, school leaders, teacher preparation programs and districts have the capacity to plan, implement, and assess strategic family engagement efforts. Because of the results that their work in DC has achieved, the organizational learning they have done, and their commitment to ensuring that every educator in the United States practices effective family engagement, Flamboyan is strategically expanding their work nationally. With Corporation support, Flamboyan will work to build the capacity of local districts, charter management organizations, and non-profits to support effective family engagement through Flamboyan’s inaugural national fellowship; and build evidence through practice as well as field and academic research to influence educator preparation and expectations such that effective family engagement is introduced and supported as a key educational practice across the country.
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For the development and dissemination of instructional materials alignment resources and resources to support English Language Learners
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
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Significant gaps exist in the quality and alignment of instructional materials to support the instructional shifts in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. Founded in 2011, Student Achievement Partners (SAP) is dedicated to ensuring that teachers and students have access to instructional materials and assessments in mathematics and ELA that are high quality and aligned to college- and career- ready (CCR) standards. Through this grant, SAP will undertake three projects in pursuit of these goals: develop free, digital resources specific to two unaligned frequently used ELA/Math textbook series that provide practical daily support to teachers as they work to adapt these materials to align with CCR standards; co-develop and promote practitioner stories that model the use of high quality, CCR standards-aligned materials; and enhance the suite of current resources on its website to reflect practical supports for teachers working with English Language Learners (ELLs).
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For developing a new course on the Next Generation Science Standards for teachers and aligning existing course materials to support the Institute for Quality Science Teaching
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) put forth a vision for science teaching and learning that necessitates a fundamental shift in teacher practice. The Museum of Science and Industry’s (MSI) Institute for Quality Science Teaching (IQST) works to support teachers and administrators in Chicago-area schools to implement NGSS-aligned teaching practices through on-going teacher professional development. During this grant, MSI will 1) revise existing IQST course materials to ensure explicit connections between the NGSS and lessons that demonstrate three-dimensional learning in science; 2) develop a new NGSS course for past and current teachers and administrators aimed at increasing confidence using tools and processes to design and adapt instructional materials to support NGSS implementation; and 3) conduct and share an evaluation study measuring the impact of NGSS-aligned courses on teachers’ understanding of three-dimensional learning, their content knowledge, their attitudes toward the NGSS,
and changes in their teaching behaviors.
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For the development of tools and processes to select or adapt instructional materials to support the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards and general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) require an approach to science teaching and learning that is substantially more demanding than what is required by former science standards. Building on prior Corporation support, BSCS proposes to carry out two areas of related work: 1) an iterative process of developing, testing, and disseminating models for increasing awareness and use of the Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS into Classroom Instruction and Assessment (Five Tools) and 2) an iterative process to design, develop, and disseminate the Analyzing Instructional Materials Tools and Process (AIM) for Next Generation Science Standards (NextGen AIM). Additionally, BSCS will design processes to help professional development leaders construct learning activities and engage teachers in using these tools.
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For learning and sharing across and beyond the network as part of the KIPP:2020 plan, with a focus on KIPP Through College and External Impact.
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
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In our country today, if current statistics go unchanged, only one in ten students from low-income families will graduate from college. KIPP is a non-profit network of 200 college-preparatory, public charter schools in twenty states and the District of Columbia, educating nearly 80,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, that aims to change this picture. The network serves some of the nation’s most vulnerable students and has a twenty-year track record of preparing students in educationally underserved communities for success in college and life. KIPP is now embarking on an ambitious 2020 plan in which they will focus on how to scale a system of schools while remaining a learning organization; how to drive the adoption and integration of proven practices across diverse stakeholders; and how to maintain a culture of continuous improvement and create space for breakthrough innovation. This grant supports learning activities related to those areas of inquiry, with a particular focus on strengthening college success outcomes for underserved students.
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For training and technical assistance for nonprofits involved in policy advocacy
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Policy advocacy is a powerful tool for nonprofits and foundations working to achieve social change. However, the lack of understanding about what is possible and permissible effectively leaves the communities served by the nonprofit sector without representation in the policy decisions that directly affect their lives. Also too often, policy debates are dominated by those with the most resources to buy access and advertising. Established in 1979, Alliance for Justice (AFJ) helps foundations and other nonprofit organizations build their capacity to participate in the policymaking process while complying with legal restrictions on nonprofit advocacy. With Corporation support, AFJ will provide workshops, technical assistance, toolkits, and other publications to ensure nonprofits can fully contribute to the policymaking process.
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For the digitization and transcription of the John Torrey Papers at the Mertz Library
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In 1891, Andrew Carnegie and other civic leaders helped establish the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). Mr. Carnegie, who served as a founding Board Member and Vice President, worked to build the institution’s library, the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, and its status as a major international botanical and horticultural research center. Today, the institution is renowned as one of the largest, most comprehensive botanical libraries in the world. With Corporation support, the Mertz Library will begin the process of digitizing and transcribing the John Torrey Papers, which is the largest and most important collection in the United States of pioneering American botanist John Torrey’s correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and botanical illustrations.
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For the Global Family Research Project strengthening family engagement through public libraries
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
18 months
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Global Family Research Project (formerly Harvard Family Research Project) promotes innovative, on the ground strategies in family and community engagement to achieve more equitable learning opportunities for children and youth. Despite five decades of research pointing to family, school, and community engagement as one of the most important predictors of student success, we find that how family, school, and community engagement is carried out in communities does not reflect what we know about its power. Over the past year, the GFRP has found enormous potential in public libraries in helping to build equitable, coherent, and strong pathways for family engagement and student learning. Based on this research, GFRP plans to work to increase libraries’ capacity to innovate and implement effective family, school, and community engagement practices. With support from the Corporation, GFRP will aim to spread and scale libraries’ family engagement practices by engaging in a variety of activities, including the creation of a Library Learning and Innovation Hub – a virtual portal that spurs innovation and challenges the field to work more intentionally towards effective family, school, and community engagement practices. They will raise up the important and ongoing efforts happening every day in libraries around the country and work in partnership with these libraries to promote new ideas and strategies.
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