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Project Title
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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Project Title
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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Project Title
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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Project Title
For the Project Q symposium on peace and security in a quantum age
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
27 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.”
Project Title
For a consortium on evaluation and adaptive learning for peacebuilding
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
31 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.
Project Title
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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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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