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Project Title
For developing a Public Policy Hub connecting social scientists with policymakers
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
30 months
Description
In response to a Request for Proposals on problem-solving applications of social sciences, American University in Cairo will engage in three projects housed respectively at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), the School of Humanities and Social Science (HUSS), and the Law and Society Research Unit (LSRU). At GAPP, a Public Policy Hub will develop a cadre of seasoned policy specialists while fostering creative solutions to challenges facing Egypt. At HUSS, a team of social scientists will collect and analyze data on the emergence of social movements in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings with a specific focus on Egypt and Jordan. At the LSRU, a project team led by an economist will examine current trends among religious and social actors.
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For a project on new technologies, new risks, and sea-launched nuclear weapons
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
45 months
Description
Prevailing wisdom holds that of all nuclear weapons platforms, submarines provide the greatest stability as a stealthy, survivable deterrent. Today, advances in networked sensors, data processing, machine learning, and undersea autonomous vehicles may start to call this assumption into question. Through this project, Australia National University (ANU) will assess technological developments to better understand whether increased ocean transparency might affect crisis stability or trigger a new arms race. ANU will focus on the Asia Pacific region and the implications of these changes for the United States, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and North Korea.
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For a project on the impact of emerging technologies on nuclear crises
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
29 months
Description
Situational awareness—especially the ability to discern attacks from false alarms—is fundamental to crises management. Unmanned vehicles, cyber surveillance, networked sensors, and machine learning are transforming the battlespace and can enhance situational awareness. However, each of these systems has its own inherent vulnerabilities. This project will bring together senior and next generation experts through the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) to examine how advances in platforms, sensing, and networks will affect strategic situational awareness during crises. The study will first assess how these technologies are likely to shape nuclear decision making and then recommend steps for managing risks.
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For a project on machine learning, autonomy, and strategic stability
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
30 months
Description
Machine learning and autonomy will lead to improvements in almost all dimensions of warfare, including missile defense, electronic warfare, and cyber warfare. Yet, there has been little analysis of how the continued integration of these capabilities into nuclear operations will affect strategic stability. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) will examine the extent to which machine learning and autonomy will be incorporated into future military modernization in the nuclear-armed states, and how this might affect nuclear risk. The project will leverage its extensive network of international and cross-disciplinary experts and will seek to develop recommendations for proactive crisis management.
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For an i3 matching grant to develop an innovative conceptual-based fourth-year high school math course
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
Math achievement is one of the most significant barriers to college completion faced by students. Many students enter college underprepared in math: for example, results from California’s 2015 Early Assessment Placement exams showed that only 6 percent of 11th grade students in Riverside County and 7 percent in San Bernardino County were fully “college prepared.” To address this gap, a cross-sectoral team of education agencies—including two county offices of education, numerous school districts, three California State University campuses, and University of California, Riverside—will work together to develop a Common Core-aligned, year-long fourth year high school math course that enables students who are college bound to develop the skills, conceptual knowledge, and habits of mind needed to succeed in college-level math without remediation. The project includes an intensive teacher training component and a rigorous evaluation. The project received a five-year, $3 million i3 developmental grant from the US Department of Education; the Corporation would provide $50,000 toward the required $450,000 match.
Project Title
As a one-time grant for a competitive postdoctoral research support program
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
49 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. In addition, early-career African researchers face the challenge of advancing their careers while also demonstrating their relevance to society. The University of Pretoria’s Future Africa program is designed to bring together researchers across fields and stages of professional development to tackle “wicked problems” facing the African continent. This grant will enable Future Africa to award postdoctoral fellowships to early-career African researchers on the theme of the bio-economy. While in residence, fellows will engage with senior researchers and postgraduate students, receive training in transdisciplinary research approaches, and get a seed grant to jumpstart their research project. Mentors from the University of Pretoria will also engage with the fellows’ home university departments to explore future collaboration.
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As a one-time grant for a competitive postdoctoral research support program
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
72 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. To avoid potential stagnation, the University of the Witwatersrand will implement a competitive postdoctoral research support program to benefit new doctoral graduates from the Global Change Institute and from the clinical medical research program. The fellowships will support salary or stipend, research grants, skills training, mentorship, and travel to academic conferences.
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For the Junior Academy Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions are increasingly valuable to the global economy, yet many students drop out of STEM programs at key points in their studies. The Global STEM Alliance, an initiative of the New York Academy of Science (NYAS), aims to encourage young people and underrepresented students from around the globe to pursue opportunities in the STEM fields through its Junior Academy. With Corporation support, the Junior Academy will bring together hundreds of youth to work in small teams, mentored by a STEM professional, to develop solutions to innovation challenges over a 10-week period. This work is conducted through an online community and culminates in a summit at which challenge finalists present their findings.
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As a one-time grant for a competitive postdoctoral research support program
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 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. To avoid potential stagnation, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a network of sixty-six African universities, will implement a competitive postdoctoral research support program to benefit new doctoral graduates, drawn from faculty at member universities. RUFORUM will select up to nineteen postdoctoral fellows—with a target of 35 percent women—who will receive stipends and research grants, supervise a postgraduate student, and be matched with a senior mentor. RUFORUM also will organize skill-building workshops and networking opportunities for the fellows.
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For support of civic engagement and naturalization work targeting Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are the fastest-growing racial group and immigrant group in the nation, yet many barriers continue to limit their ability to fully integrate into American society. In addition to language barriers and unfamiliarity with the voting process, which have been cited causes for discrimination at the polls, many AAPIs are unaware of financial resources and legal support available for naturalization. Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles has been empowering AAPIs and increasing AAPI engagement in the civic and electoral processes since 1983. With Corporation support, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-LA will increase awareness in the AAPI community of the benefits of and procedures for naturalization, lay the groundwork for AAPIs to effectively engage in the upcoming census and redistricting cycle, and expand its base of support through individual donors and others for its civic engagement work.
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For support of an initiative integrating nonpartisan student voter registration into university life
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine constitute 21 percent of the voting eligible population, yet young adult turnout is remarkably low. According to exit polls, 50 percent of eligible young adult voters did not vote in the general election and only 17 percent of university-age students cast ballots in the 2014 mid-term elections. In order for the democratic process to effectively serve the American people, the participation of the youngest generation of voters is critical. With strong academic expertise in electoral research, public opinion, and advocacy, the University of Michigan has a long tradition of student political engagement. With Corporation support, the university will research and implement innovative approaches to civic engagement in university life. The project, which features active collaboration among student groups, faculty, and the university administration, involves model-sharing with other universities, professional societies, foundations, and higher education organizations.
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For the generation of policy-relevant and multipolar solutions to global challenges
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
32 months
Description
Today’s global challenges require multinational responses. The Atlantic Council, together with Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow, and counterparts from institutions in Europe, China, and India, will develop a series of recommended policy responses to global challenges identified by a joint Atlantic Council-IMEMO long-term strategic forecasting report released last year. The project will culminate with a series of media and policy workshops in participant countries, as well as the publication of a complete report consolidating all the agreed upon recommendations.
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For a project on new directions in Russian studies
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The study of Russia and the former Soviet Union is at an inflection point in the United States. At the same time, opportunities and resources for training younger regional experts is declining and exposure to the issues posed by the region are diminishing. Yale University’s Project on New Approaches to Russian Studies seeks to contribute to the field of Russian studies with new analysis, scholarship, and methodologies that draw on a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences. With renewed funding, the project will develop more robust programming and opportunities for Yale students, faculty, and scholars on the campus and in Russia; encourage academic exchanges with Russia; and reinforce the institutional foundation for the long-term sustainability of Russian studies at the university.
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As a one-time only grant in support of the Markle Foundation, Skillful National Collective
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Nearly seven out of ten American adults do not have a college degree nor the necessary skills that employers seek in today’s highly specialized skills-based labor market. Jobseekers in fact do not know which skills are relevant, and employers find it difficult to recruit qualified labor that is needed to compete in a global market. In 2014, the Markle Foundation launched the Skillful National Collective in Colorado to help coordinate efforts among stakeholders – educators, employers and job seekers alike – to better align job training with work opportunities for more meaningful and sustained employment. With Corporation support, the Collective will build on the Colorado initiative in an effort to scale their work to a national scale. Core elements of the Skillful approach include community outreach; using automation, technology and a networked world as tools for access and engagement; and data sharing.
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For field-building to increase the use of improvement science at institutions of higher education, and a planning project to explore using improvement science in program evaluation
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
There remains a paucity of rich, deep, and meaningful opportunities for interaction and engagement between the post-secondary and K-12 sectors to prepare teachers and administrators to nimbly navigate and productively contribute to success in K-12 systems. Rather than developing the skills and capabilities for improvement that could be used to strengthen the systems they will work in, future educators get doses of theory and methods that are related to, but often decontextualized and decoupled from, practice. Now, led in large part by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), there is increasing interest in the promise of improvement science principles, enacted through Networked Improvement Communities, to meet the need for a more productive relationship between research and practice. This grant supports CFAT in two strategies to accomplish this: (1) field-building to increase the use of improvement science in educator preparation, through engagement with practical challenges in local education agencies; and (2) to explore with philanthropic and evaluation partners the use of improvement science in program evaluation.
Project Title
For support of a public engagement campaign for a documentary exploring the continuum of principles and beliefs defining the American identity
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In the wake of an extraordinarily divisive general election and presidential transition, many Americans are struggling to identify unifying values that would define the American identity. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy are working together to explore these values with Americans across the country in the forthcoming public television documentary, AMERICAN CREED, produced by Citizen Film, Inc. Citizen Film is an independent, nonprofit production company that creates and disseminates film projects that promote active engagement in civic and cultural life. With Corporation support, Citizen Film will maximize the impact of the film’s national release through a rigorous public engagement campaign. Citizen Film will build a robust web presence for AMERICAN CREED, market it across traditional and emerging media, and directly engage local and regional communities in open dialogue using the film.
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As a one-time grant for the State of Rhode Island, Office of Innovation, Studio Rhode Initiative
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
14 months
Description
There are more than 16,000 public libraries in the United States providing critical access to information, training and education. For those living in more economically challenged communities, their libraries may provide limited or no access for increasing knowledge through technology, exacerbating an already widening opportunity gap, creating a “digital divide”. The Rhode Island Office of Innovation, launched The Studio Rhode Challenge and will work with libraries on designing a model for how libraries across Rhode Island can reimagine their services with new technology to serve their patrons in more meaningful ways. With Corporation support, beginning in the summer of 2017, two libraries will develop a next-generation library toolkit to share lessons learned and work to engage libraries across the state and also support at least one library to test and iterate upon this new set of lessons learned.
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For a convening to develop a research agenda on micro-credentials for organizing teacher learning in education
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Interest in the use of micro-credentials (MCs) to certify that teachers have acquired targeted professional knowledge and skill is on the rise. States and districts are beginning to develop MCs oriented to a range of purposes and competencies in teaching. An important aspect for this innovation will be a robust inquiry process to explore what features and circumstances of this idea contribute to positive outcomes. Proposed is a working conference that brings together practitioners and researchers to formulate an agenda for the kinds of inquiry to support the development of MCs, considering both the design features of MC and their potential uses in policy and administrative systems. The long range goal will be to engage stakeholders in the launch of studies that provide empirical or evidence-based support for the development of micro-credentials for teachers.
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For examining current trends among religious and social actors in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In response to a Request for Proposals on problem-solving applications of social sciences, American University in Cairo will engage in three projects housed respectively at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), the School of Humanities and Social Science (HUSS), and the Law and Society Research Unit (LSRU). At GAPP, a Public Policy Hub will develop a cadre of seasoned policy specialists while fostering creative solutions to challenges facing Egypt. At HUSS, a team of social scientists will collect and analyze data on the emergence of social movements in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings with a specific focus on Egypt and Jordan. At the LSRU, a project team led by an economist will examine current trends among religious and social actors.
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For assessing social movements in Egypt and Jordan
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
In response to a Request for Proposals on problem-solving applications of social sciences, American University in Cairo will engage in three projects housed respectively at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), the School of Humanities and Social Science (HUSS), and the Law and Society Research Unit (LSRU). At GAPP, a Public Policy Hub will develop a cadre of seasoned policy specialists while fostering creative solutions to challenges facing Egypt. At HUSS, a team of social scientists will collect and analyze data on the emergence of social movements in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings with a specific focus on Egypt and Jordan. At the LSRU, a project team led by an economist will examine current trends among religious and social actors.
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For the 2017 EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
3 months
Description
For too long, education technology decision-making has been driven by marketing rather than merit. There is precious little evidence that presents how and when technology impacts teaching or learning, and much of the research that purports to inform policy or practice fails to consider the diversity and complexity of educational institutions and school districts. The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education Foundation, Digital Promise, and the Jefferson Education Accelerator aim to address this issue by hosting an Academic Symposium on Education Technology Efficacy, which will bring together key stakeholders as the culmination of a year-long collaboration to critically examine what is working in education technology, and consider the role and relevance of efficacy research in enabling its promise. This grant provides support for the 2017 Symposium.
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For a conference entitled "The New Nationalism and Universities: Global Perspectives on Politics and Policy and the Future of Higher Education"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
47 months
Description
A grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York helped establish the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)–the first academic research center in the the world devoted to the study of higher education–at the University of California, Berkeley sixty years ago. Since that time, CSHE has served an important role providing a comparative perspective on higher education across the globe. To mark its 60th anniversary and with Corporation support, this year CSHE will host an international conference that will explore how rising nationalism in many parts of the world is impacting policy and politics related to higher education. The conference will include the commissioning of several papers for possible publication in a single volume.
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For support of the nXu pilot project.
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
8 months
Description
A growing body of evidence suggests that academic rigor, while necessary, is alone insufficient to prepare students for success in a 21st century economy. Students also require socio-emotional supports to reach their full potential as individuals and as leaders. Uncommon Knowledge and Achievement’s (UKA) nXu initiative is a newly designed program for high school students centered around a set of character-building standards, called Compass Standards, that support and enable young people to explore, articulate, and pursue their goals. With Corporation support, UKA will pilot the nXu approach, bringing together a diverse group of twenty-four New York City students from district, charter, and private schools to create new and life-changing learning opportunities that transcend conventional boundaries of the school building and school day. Specifically, Corporation support will enable the nXu Summer Immersive experience in July 2017 and multiple Compass Team cohort experiences during Fall 2017.
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For archival programs on U.S.- Russia relations, nuclear security and cooperative threat reduction
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Evidence-based public debates are core principles of open societies. The National Security Archive (the Archive) has spent close to thirty years working for more open government at home and abroad, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to spur release of previously unavailable U.S. government documentation. It also analyzes and curates collections for the public. Now, the Archive will apply its approach to create permanent, universally accessible historical records regarding U.S relations with Russia on nuclear nonproliferation, including the Cooperative Threat Reduction (known as the Nunn-Lugar Program), and other policy decisions. It also will also organize a major networking exercise with alums of the Archive’s multi-year Summer School program.
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For the Congressional Program
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The United States Congress has the power to declare war; fund diplomacy, development, military action, and intelligence; and provide advice and consent to the Executive Branch. Therefore, it is essential that members of Congress be well-versed in the complex issues of foreign policy and be familiar with how to access resources and expertise when they require it. The long-standing Aspen Institute Congressional Program (Congressional Program) provides a neutral forum for bipartisan discussion of international security issues and creates opportunities for Senators and Representatives to delve into complex foreign and public policy matters with internationally recognized experts. Nearly five hundred members of Congress have participated in Aspen’s regular breakfast meetings and annual conferences.
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For support of the Reach Higher campaign
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Our educational system is producing far too few college graduates, especially among underserved youth, even though the benefits of earning a college degree have never been more evident. Reach Higher, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative, was launched in 2014 to inspire every student across the country to pursue and complete a postsecondary degree, whether at a traditional four-year college, a two-year school, a community college, or through an industry recognized certificate or degree. With Corporation support, Reach Higher will continue to focus on improving college completion rates for low-income and minority youth by raising awareness regarding the importance and value of a postsecondary education; mobilizing students to apply for financial aid that can make college affordability a reality; keeping students engaged during the summer and reducing the impact of “summer melt”; and supporting high school counselors who can help more low-income students get into college.
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For an interactive series on U.S. - Russia relations
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
4 months
Description
The relationship between the United States and Russia—the world’s largest nuclear powers—is critical to global security. While there have been periods of improved relations and cooperation on key global challenges since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia currently view each other as main adversaries and position their policies accordingly. A team of video producers and Russia experts will create a digital portal that will explore the changing dynamics in the relationship. The portal will be used as an educational resource as well as a source of information and data. Included will be lessons related to the influence of security, economics, history, and culture in U.S.-Russia relations. The portal will be possible to update to reflect future events relevant to U.S.-Russia relations.
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As a one-time only grant for research on Russia's Political Economy
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
19 months
Description
The Russian Political Economy Project will seek to examine assumptions and premises about the Russian economy so as to shed light on both the challenges and the opportunities of economic relations between the United States and Russia. The project will commission a series of expert analyses from leading specialists on such themes as Russian political economy, Russia’s economic ties with Asia, the development of Russia’s technology sector, and the Russian approach to inflation. The commissioned research will result in publications of use to both the policy community and the informed public and will be widely disseminated. The research reports will also be disseminated through presentations and briefings to relevant communities in Washington D.C.
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For a media series on US-Russia relations
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
The challenging relationship between the United States and Russia is among the most important ones in today’s international arena. To provide access to high-quality information and analysis about the relationship, a project of the Eurasia Group Foundation (EGF) will create, host, and disseminate a series of videos on U.S.-Russia relations and their implications for global peace and security. Using informative interviews with leading American and Russian researchers and experts, and relying on its engaged Facebook and social media following, EGF will provide input toward a more comprehensive discussion about the history, intricacies, and the far-reaching dynamic of U.S.-Russia relations.
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For the Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship to support women in nonproliferation
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite progress in improving the representation of women in the international security field, a gender gap remains in the nuclear security arena.Providing women with the appropriate tools, resources, and training encourages their presence and participation in this critical field. The Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship (RCMF) provides young women leaders the opportunity to participate in a multi-faceted, year-long nuclear security fellowship to gain greater knowledge in nuclear security. It also fosters a network of women leaders who promote nuclear security and builds linkages among professionals. This grant will provide the recipient of the 2018 RCMF with an internship at a U.S. university, a three-month internship at a leading U.S. nonproliferation institution, and funds to complete a capstone project.
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For support for digitization of Gladstone's correspondence
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
68 months
Description
William Ewart Gladstone, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1868 to 1894, endowed a library to ensure that his personal collection would be accessible to the public in perpetuity. While the Gladstone Library has grown to include more than 150,000 books, journals, and pamphlets since its founding in 1894, the heart of the collection is Gladstone’s 15,000 letters and 5,390 annotated books. These documents provide insight into the thinking of one of England’s most renowned statesmen, a man Andrew Carnegie once called “the world’s greatest citizen.” As Gladstone is known for his progressive thinking on human rights, democracy, and religious tolerance, his correspondence and annotations are of great value to anyone studying nineteenth-century social and political history. However, these materials are only available by special appointment to patrons who are able to visit the library in person. To prevent deterioration, Gladstone’s correspondence is stored in archive boxes in a fireproof and climate-controlled strong room. The restrictions placed on the materials significantly limits their use. With Corporation support, these books and letters will be digitally preserved and made accessible online to a global audience.
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For a national citizenship initiative
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Naturalization is a foundational component of immigrant civic integration. It brings significant social, economic, and civic benefits not only to newcomers and their families, but also to communities, states, and the country as a whole. Today, nearly 9 million legal permanent residents (LPR) across the United States qualify for citizenship, but less than 10 percent of eligible people apply each year, for reasons ranging from lack of information to misperceptions about requirements and concerns about costs. Since 2011, the New Americans Campaign (NAC) has been increasing the number of LPRs applying for citizenship through cutting-edge research, advocacy, outreach and communications, services, and innovative approaches and technologies. With Corporation support, the NAC will continue to engage legal permanent residents about the importance of naturalization and strengthen the capacity of local and national organizations to provide naturalization and legal services to immigrant constituencies.
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For the Global Learning Lab
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
Insufficient progress in schools, classrooms, and systems has been made to ensure that all children can thrive, regardless of the circumstances of their birth – in part because the purposes, strategies, and outcomes of schools are not aligned to the children they serve and the future those children will face. The vision for the purpose of education and the systemic reform needed to achieve that is rarely is informed directly by these students’ and communities’ assets, needs and futures, and the outcomes the system is currently designed to produce are exceedingly narrow. The research is weak around how to develop teachers to teach to broader student outcomes and solicit community input on vision, and the ability of the education sector to share learning is limited. The Global Learning Lab (GLL) of Teach for All, launched in October 2016 with Corporation support, aims explore the multifaceted challenge described above, and to undertake research and sharing that addresses the research limitations that exacerbate that challenge. The Lab leverages insights from a network of forty-five partner organizations to develop hypotheses about what systemic changes are needed; test these insights in a variety of contexts worldwide; learn quickly; and support network partners and other stakeholders to act on the latest insights.
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For a project on 1979 and the impact of the Saudi-Iran rivalry on the culture of the region
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
16 months
Description
BBC correspondent Kim Ghattas will undertake a research and writing project illuminating trends in the broader Middle East since the pivotal events of 1979. The Islamic revolution of Iran, the siege of Mecca, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan marked a turning point in the region’s history. Interstate rivalries over the next forty years would dramatically transform both the geopolitics and the cultural life of the region. Support from the Corporation will allow Ghattas to devote time to this project over the course of a year and fund the research and travel required for the field reporting.
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For support of the Research@Work and Education Innovation Clusters initiatives
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
While innovative programs have emerged to harness the power of technology in service of personalized, competency-based learning, they vary in quality and often operate in isolation. With Corporation support, Digital Promise has developed two initiatives to facilitate the realization of technology’s promise to provide all students with the learning experiences required for success in the 21st century. Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) seeks to break down siloes across key actors – educators, researchers, education technology entrepreneurs, funders, and other education stakeholders – and facilitate collaboration to promote the design, implementation, and dissemination of promising learning tools and practices. Research@Work builds educator capacity to apply research-based strategies by increasing practitioner access to usable education and learning science research. Corporation support will enable Digital Promise to deepen and expand its impact across these two initiatives.
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For codification and expansion of the Resilient Scholars Program, an evidence-based socio-emotional learning model for high school students.
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—an extensive body of research indicates that students’ socio-emotional and metacognitive skills are key to their lifelong well-being. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction, particularly at the high school level. The Urban Assembly (UA), operating in New York City for over fifteen years and currently serving over 9,000 students, has had consistent success in sending high numbers of low-income students to college. In recognition of that fact that college persistence requires more than academic preparation, UA created the Resilient Scholars (RS) program, an evidence-based model for implementing socio-emotional learning. With Corporation support, the RS program was adopted by nine high schools, with promising early indicators of success. Now, UA will complete expansion of the RS program across the UA network in New York City and pilot the program in Los Angeles, determining program efficacy in diverse contexts.
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For the Learning Community on Scaled Impact in Education and the Planning Phase of the Education Systems Transformation in Massachusetts
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
There remains a very large gap between taking what we ‘know’ works well in education and making sure that the appropriate, integrated set of initiatives (practices, policy, communications, etc.) are available to all students, families and communities who need them. As a result, the achievement of broad, population-level impact in education has been elusive. The Social Impact Exchange (SIE) at Growth Philanthropy Network exists to address these gaps through the development of collaborative, cross-sector networks that work in concert to achieve systems transformation and scaled outcomes on specific issues. This grant supports two related projects: (1) SIE’s ongoing Learning Community on Scaled Impact, which seeks to strengthen and deepen the learning and knowledge about the most current thinking and research for achieving large-scale impact in education; and (2) the planning phase for a project that aims to reduce the poverty achievement gap in Massachusetts (which ranked first nationally in achievement gains in 2017 but 34th on the poverty achievement gap) by establishing a place-based, cross-sector collaborative network that implements a common strategy to transform the MA education system.
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For strategic planning around creating stronger linkages between education and career/economic opportunities
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
The economy is in the midst of one of the most significant and rapid shifts in global history, with good jobs increasingly requiring a postsecondary credential and a more comprehensive set of skills and qualities. However, a lack of deep, systemic engagement between K-12 education, postsecondary education, and business/industry has resulted in structural separation of these sectors; as a result, youth have limited awareness of job and career opportunities, aspects of many educational programs are irrelevant, and adults lack retraining options that are industry-aligned, timely and affordable. As much of the country experiences a growing mismatch between their or their children’s education and skills and their ability to secure good jobs, confidence in the American dream is eroding. America Achieves seeks to address these challenges, and is updating its strategy and theory of change to harness the collective power of networks, entrepreneurship and innovative ideas across sectors as the most promising way to improve education and economic opportunities and to protect and strengthen the nation’s democracy. This grant supports the development of an actionable strategic plan for 2018-2020.
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For a practitioner network on learning and action for parent empowerment and leadership in education
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In order to sustain enduring change in education systems, we need to build the national capacity of local actors to inform, organize, and empower parents and families to be driving forces for change in education in their communities. While there are bright spots demonstrating the potential to achieve this, these efforts are often very local and siloed. With Corporation support, New Profit, a nonprofit venture philanthropy fund, proposes to create a practitioner network on parent organizing and leadership in education that brings together a diverse set of existing and emerging practitioners. This network of practitioners would work together to build their own capacity through sharing and co-problem solving; identify sector-wide solutions that build an infrastructure of impact and lower the barriers for more actors to enter this space; and create an effective pipeline for more practitioners of color who lead this work. New Profit plans to launch this network by developing a common language and framework for how to measure and manage performance across a continuum of parent organizing strategies.
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For the book, "We Beg to Differ: The Unsung Gatekeepers of Media Credibility"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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The World Policy Institute (WPI) engages a global network of thinkers and writers around the world capturing perspectives and innovations from new players and locales, testing them against current research, expert analysis, and best practices in business and policy, and helping to bring this new work toward implementation. Under the auspices of the WPI, Karl Ernest Meyer will author what may well be the first book for general readers on the role, growth, and future of editorial boards and opinion journalism. Two key areas will be explored: the future of the journalism in the realm of social media; and the role editorial boards can and should play in providing public opinions, especially through digital media. Meyer will draw from his own experience as an editorial writer at both The New York Times and Washington Post, chronicling the distinction between opinion and facts, the birth and rebirth of Op-Ed pages, and the deepening challenge created by the Internet.
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For parent engagement projects
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
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Research shows that when parents are involved in their children’s education, often by harnessing a network of educators, student academic achievement improves. In the current landscape of new standards, methods, and terminology, as well as possible shifts in national and local funding, families are often left uninformed and disconnected from their children’s education. Through a set of 200 parent engagement events, DonorsChoose.org will meet this parental demand by directly joining families with educators in partnerships to support their children’s learning. Over the past seventeen years, more than 400,000 teachers at three-quarters of public schools (overwhelmingly within high poverty regions) created project requests on DonorsChoose.org, and more than 2 million citizen donors have contributed to projects. To incubate venues for parent engagement, DonorsChoose.org will invite public school teachers nationwide to create projects requesting materials for family engagement events. The Corporation will bolster their efforts in two ways: (1) provide $200,000 in matching gifts to double citizen donor impact and (2) enable at least 2,000 parents (identified by respective teachers) to contribute $300,000 worth of gifts to their children’s classrooms. The Corporation’s support will both proliferate face-to-face engagement, and support parental ownership and decision-making power within schools.
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For support of the implementation, learning agenda, creation of resources and storytelling and dissemination related to the Corporation's Integration Design Consortium.
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
27 months
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To effectively leverage the immense passion, wisdom, and resources invested in education reform efforts, the field must develop strategies that acknowledge and address that each of the important strands of work being undertaken are parts of the same systems and as such have significant interdependencies. Raising awareness of the need for this integration in the field, and catalyzing new ways of working that take these mindsets and practices into account, starts with helping the field develop greater sophistication around the questions related to this challenge. The Corporation’s Integration Design Consortium (IDC), launched in 2016, aims to explore these questions through five place-based approaches to integrating different parts of the system. The Business Innovation Factory aims to amplify the impact of these five projects by ensuring the capture, analysis and sharing of learnings related to the key questions that these projects are investigating. Through this support, they hope to catalyze and equip others in the field to take action around the challenge of integration.
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For research and writing on Russia
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
75 months
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With Corporation funding, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) at Duke University has been increasing its focus on Russia with lectures, conferences, and courses on international diplomacy and leadership. Moving forward, that work will continue with some of the courses analyzing case studies dealing with events of particular international importance. Others will concentrate on leadership in international relations and the end of the Cold War and beyond. Continuing his association with faculty and students at CSEEES during this time will be former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock. As a career diplomat who served on the front lines of U.S. diplomacy during the Cold War, Matlock is an expert on how the Cold War ended and how to apply those lessons to public policy today.
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For a project to set up a new digital platform and design a challenge for outreach to schools to empower students and elevate their voice as stakeholders in their communities
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
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Peace First, a nonprofit organization, increases opportunities to elevate student voices in their communities and prepare them for leadership. With support from the Corporation, Peace First will launch its new Peace First Challenge – imagined as a “science fair” for social innovation – by engaging tens of thousands of young people across America in civic engagement projects that would impact its student participants and their communities. In a pilot implemented in early 2017, student leaders tackled critical social issues such as school bullying, food poverty, and education disparities. The Peace First Challenge across America will equip young people to understand education issues in their communities, design and implement solutions, and share their insights through a digital community of young change-makers.
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For workshops and seminars on technological change and nuclear risk
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
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New weapons systems, driven by technological advances, have the potential to undermine strategic stability and increase nuclear risk. This project of the RAND Corporation (RAND) will seek to strengthen the nascent community of non-governmental experts focused on these challenges. Through workshops and speaker events, RAND will help distribute relevant research and tools and facilitate new channels for engaging policymakers. In addition to meetings to connect researchers with one another and with defense and diplomatic practitioners in Washington, D.C., RAND will also conduct a two-day intensive “boot camp” for graduate students and junior scholars to teach analytical tools and strengthen the field. Finally, RAND will hold panel discussions targeted at a defense policy audience. The overarching goal is to foster discussion of new technologies and stability among scholars, analysts, and policy practitioners.
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For analysis of nuclear weapons policy options
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
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The United States faces difficult choices related to nuclear modernization and the pending Nuclear Posture Review. Through this grant, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will respond to these challenges and, as necessary, provide alternative policy options. In addition to supporting analysis, the project will convene experts and policymakers from U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, media, and academia. The overarching goal is to ensure the United States remains in the strongest possible position to lead global efforts on nonproliferation and disarmament. Particular areas of focus include the size and modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, U.S. nuclear policy in light of the pending Nuclear Posture Review, and the relationship between the nascent nuclear ban treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) system.
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For a public information project entitled "America Asks: Science Answers"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
32 months
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As partisan rhetoric increasingly takes precedent over facts, the nation is in need of more objective sources of information. Americans’ trust in media continues to fall, however, leaving a gap in institutions on which to rely for news and data. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) proposes to step into that gap with a new public engagement initiative, entitled “America Asks: Science Answers,” which will aim to identify the scientific questions Americans ask most and then provide answers to those questions in clear, easily digestible formats. With Corporation support, using research conducted by top scientists and experts, NAS will address some of the most common and contested scientific questions of today, including those related to climate change, evolution, genetically modified organisms, and vaccines.
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For a project analyzing how scholarly knowledge shapes the views of the public, the media, and policy practitioners
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
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In recent years, there has been growing demand from the media, scholars, and policy practitioners, for systematic quantitative data on experts’ views on contemporary international issues. The Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) project at the College of William and Mary has responded by conducting large-scale surveys and establishing itself as a hub for this data. TRIP has also collected baseline data on public opinion of foreign policy issues and academic expertise. The data show that a sizable gap remains on how expert knowledge on the theory and practice of international relations affects the public, and on the media’s role in transmitting expert opinion to the public and policy officials. With renewed support, the project seeks to better understand this “theory-practice gap,” and to identify the conditions under which expert knowledge can shape the views of the public, the media, and policy practitioners.
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For support of the Korean Nuclear Security Initiative
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Korean peninsula—perhaps more than any other region of the world—has become central to efforts at building a strong international nonproliferation regime and, most recently, to avoiding nuclear war. However, the increased pace of North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests have highlighted the international community’s failure to halt this growing threat. Given the critical implications of these developments for regional and international peace and security, a well-informed public and policy debate is essential. To address this need, the U.S.-Korea Institute (the Institute) at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) seeks to engage policy circles, the media, and the broader public through increasing both the content and accessibility of information and analysis on North Korea on its authoritative website, 38 North. Additionally, when appropriate and feasible, the Institute will facilitate engagement between the United States and North Korea.
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For technical innovation in nonproliferation verification
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
There are too few independent analysts with deep technical proficiency working on evolving challenges in verification and deterrence. Through this project, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will train graduate student in order to develop future researchers in the field of nuclear security, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. Students will focus on the implications of advances in tracking mobile missile systems and in precision guidance. The grant will also support a doctoral student to complete work on studying how advances in information theory could be applied to nuclear-warhead verification. This project advances the Corporation’s work on technological change and nuclear risk.
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