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Project Title
For a project to make Education Resource Strategies’ tools more accessible to a broader audience
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
11 months
Description
Innovation in the use of resources—time, staffing, technology, and money—is necessary to redesign schools such that all students are prepared for success. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) has developed a wide array of tools to help leaders redesign schools and systems through strategic allocation of resources, and many users are accessing and putting these resources to use. However, these tools are not reaching as many potential users as they could. Short term, this grant will enable ERS to partner with a user experience consultant to identify and prioritize opportunities to increase the reach and impact of ERS’ tools, and to make enhancements to ERS’s tools and resources. Long term, this project will help place ERS’ high-leverage tools into the hands of a much broader swath of practitioners and district decision-makers, including those not currently partnered with ERS. This one-time supplement to ERS’s board level grant directly supports one of the central goals of that grant: creating, improving, and expanding tools and resources to meet and grow demand for supports to organize resources differently.
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As a final grant for the Next Generation Science Standards learnings ratings
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
10 months
Description
With support from the Corporation, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were developed and published in April 2013 to address the poor performance of U.S. students in science and related subjects, as compared to their peers around the world. So far, eighteen states and D.C. have adopted the NGSS. But even in states that have not adopted the standards, there is grassroots enthusiasm among many science teachers to adapt their instruction to the NGSS. At this moment in U.S. STEM education, teachers are being asked to adapt to several transformations at once: they need to engage students in more rigorous and challenging science learning, they need to find high quality content to teach to the standards, and many need to integrate technology and other digital tools into their teaching. This is a lot to ask. With grants from the Corporation, Common Sense Media embarked on research to help teachers and schools combine the power of digital technology with implementation of the NGSS. Common Sense was able to launch an NGSS Explorer platform and built a robust library of content to help teachers understand how digital learning products can help them create the kind of investigative and hands-on science learning envisioned by the standards. With this renewal grant, they are requesting support to complete the final phase of this three year project to develop and reach a critical mass of product reviews, tools, and training content that they will be able to maintain in the future with periodic refreshes; and build awareness and grow the reach of the valuable STEM-related resources for educators in both formal and informal learning environments.
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For support of its Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship Program
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
Although immigrants have a right to representation by counsel in immigration court, the government is not obligated to provide representation for those who are unable to afford an attorney. According to a national study on access to counsel, only two percent of immigrants were able to obtain pro bono or low-cost representation from 2007-2012. Data analyzed during this study also demonstrated that represented immigrants fared far better in these proceedings than unrepresented immigrants. Represented immigrants were 5 times more likely to receive some form of relief from deportation than unrepresented immigrants. Equal Justice Works was established in 1986 by law students with the goal of expanding legal services to underrepresented people and increasing opportunities for law students and graduates to work in the public interest field. With Corporation support, Equal Justice Works’ Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship program will provide legal representation to immigrant children throughout the country.
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For the National Family Engagement Fellowship and development of an educator preparation strategy
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
21 months
Description
Currently in their eighth year of operation in Washington, D.C., Flamboyan Foundation, a private family foundation has been partnering with over fifty local public and charter schools, as well as several teacher and leader preparation programs to equip them with the confidence, knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively partner with families for student success. They have taken a multi-pronged approach to ensure teachers, school leaders, teacher preparation programs and districts have the capacity to plan, implement, and assess strategic family engagement efforts. Because of the results that their work in DC has achieved, the organizational learning they have done, and their commitment to ensuring that every educator in the United States practices effective family engagement, Flamboyan is strategically expanding their work nationally. With Corporation support, Flamboyan will work to build the capacity of local districts, charter management organizations, and non-profits to support effective family engagement through Flamboyan’s inaugural national fellowship; and build evidence through practice as well as field and academic research to influence educator preparation and expectations such that effective family engagement is introduced and supported as a key educational practice across the country.
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For the development and dissemination of instructional materials alignment resources and resources to support English Language Learners
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Significant gaps exist in the quality and alignment of instructional materials to support the instructional shifts in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. Founded in 2011, Student Achievement Partners (SAP) is dedicated to ensuring that teachers and students have access to instructional materials and assessments in mathematics and ELA that are high quality and aligned to college- and career- ready (CCR) standards. Through this grant, SAP will undertake three projects in pursuit of these goals: develop free, digital resources specific to two unaligned frequently used ELA/Math textbook series that provide practical daily support to teachers as they work to adapt these materials to align with CCR standards; co-develop and promote practitioner stories that model the use of high quality, CCR standards-aligned materials; and enhance the suite of current resources on its website to reflect practical supports for teachers working with English Language Learners (ELLs).
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For developing a new course on the Next Generation Science Standards for teachers and aligning existing course materials to support the Institute for Quality Science Teaching
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) put forth a vision for science teaching and learning that necessitates a fundamental shift in teacher practice. The Museum of Science and Industry’s (MSI) Institute for Quality Science Teaching (IQST) works to support teachers and administrators in Chicago-area schools to implement NGSS-aligned teaching practices through on-going teacher professional development. During this grant, MSI will 1) revise existing IQST course materials to ensure explicit connections between the NGSS and lessons that demonstrate three-dimensional learning in science; 2) develop a new NGSS course for past and current teachers and administrators aimed at increasing confidence using tools and processes to design and adapt instructional materials to support NGSS implementation; and 3) conduct and share an evaluation study measuring the impact of NGSS-aligned courses on teachers’ understanding of three-dimensional learning, their content knowledge, their attitudes toward the NGSS,
and changes in their teaching behaviors.
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For the development of tools and processes to select or adapt instructional materials to support the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards and general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) require an approach to science teaching and learning that is substantially more demanding than what is required by former science standards. Building on prior Corporation support, BSCS proposes to carry out two areas of related work: 1) an iterative process of developing, testing, and disseminating models for increasing awareness and use of the Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS into Classroom Instruction and Assessment (Five Tools) and 2) an iterative process to design, develop, and disseminate the Analyzing Instructional Materials Tools and Process (AIM) for Next Generation Science Standards (NextGen AIM). Additionally, BSCS will design processes to help professional development leaders construct learning activities and engage teachers in using these tools.
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For learning and sharing across and beyond the network as part of the KIPP:2020 plan, with a focus on KIPP Through College and External Impact.
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In our country today, if current statistics go unchanged, only one in ten students from low-income families will graduate from college. KIPP is a non-profit network of 200 college-preparatory, public charter schools in twenty states and the District of Columbia, educating nearly 80,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, that aims to change this picture. The network serves some of the nation’s most vulnerable students and has a twenty-year track record of preparing students in educationally underserved communities for success in college and life. KIPP is now embarking on an ambitious 2020 plan in which they will focus on how to scale a system of schools while remaining a learning organization; how to drive the adoption and integration of proven practices across diverse stakeholders; and how to maintain a culture of continuous improvement and create space for breakthrough innovation. This grant supports learning activities related to those areas of inquiry, with a particular focus on strengthening college success outcomes for underserved students.
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For training and technical assistance for nonprofits involved in policy advocacy
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Policy advocacy is a powerful tool for nonprofits and foundations working to achieve social change. However, the lack of understanding about what is possible and permissible effectively leaves the communities served by the nonprofit sector without representation in the policy decisions that directly affect their lives. Also too often, policy debates are dominated by those with the most resources to buy access and advertising. Established in 1979, Alliance for Justice (AFJ) helps foundations and other nonprofit organizations build their capacity to participate in the policymaking process while complying with legal restrictions on nonprofit advocacy. With Corporation support, AFJ will provide workshops, technical assistance, toolkits, and other publications to ensure nonprofits can fully contribute to the policymaking process.
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For the digitization and transcription of the John Torrey Papers at the Mertz Library
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In 1891, Andrew Carnegie and other civic leaders helped establish the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). Mr. Carnegie, who served as a founding Board Member and Vice President, worked to build the institution’s library, the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, and its status as a major international botanical and horticultural research center. Today, the institution is renowned as one of the largest, most comprehensive botanical libraries in the world. With Corporation support, the Mertz Library will begin the process of digitizing and transcribing the John Torrey Papers, which is the largest and most important collection in the United States of pioneering American botanist John Torrey’s correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and botanical illustrations.
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For the Global Family Research Project strengthening family engagement through public libraries
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
Global Family Research Project (formerly Harvard Family Research Project) promotes innovative, on the ground strategies in family and community engagement to achieve more equitable learning opportunities for children and youth. Despite five decades of research pointing to family, school, and community engagement as one of the most important predictors of student success, we find that how family, school, and community engagement is carried out in communities does not reflect what we know about its power. Over the past year, the GFRP has found enormous potential in public libraries in helping to build equitable, coherent, and strong pathways for family engagement and student learning. Based on this research, GFRP plans to work to increase libraries’ capacity to innovate and implement effective family, school, and community engagement practices. With support from the Corporation, GFRP will aim to spread and scale libraries’ family engagement practices by engaging in a variety of activities, including the creation of a Library Learning and Innovation Hub – a virtual portal that spurs innovation and challenges the field to work more intentionally towards effective family, school, and community engagement practices. They will raise up the important and ongoing efforts happening every day in libraries around the country and work in partnership with these libraries to promote new ideas and strategies.
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For engaging business leaders and parents on workplace readiness
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
As America’s business leaders, the members of the Committee on Economic Development (CED) housed at The Conference Board, Inc. are finding it hard to find American workers with the skills they need to maintain competitiveness and grow their businesses. Helping promote the importance of students completing high school and pursuing additional postsecondary education and training programs, CED members can help stimulate increased workplace readiness for students at the K-12 level. With support from the Corporation, CED proposes to conduct a series of roundtables between business leaders and parents in five to ten diverse cities that represent both urban and rural areas, including Memphis, TN; New York, NY; and Columbus, OH. The proposed Listening Tour will aim to inform and empower parents so that they can be the strongest advocates possible for their children’s success. CED’s members represent America’s most prominent companies and have an obvious stake in improving and aligning K-12 education with workforce needs. CED member commitment to making the case for increasing the skills and knowledge of students in communities across the country is directly aligned with the Corporation’s strategic approach to increasing public understanding that results in a quality K-12 system which prepares our students to succeed in school and the workplace.
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For a one time grant to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Women in International Security
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Women in International Security (WIIS) is a nongovernmental global membership organization established in 1987 and dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women working in the foreign policy and international security fields. To commemorate its thirtieth anniversary and recognize its recent establishment as a fully independent nonprofit organization, WIIS will launch a major international initiative focused on what it considers two of the most important challenges of the time: the full participation of women in the international peace and security arena and the promotion of gender equality. As part of the initiative, WIIS will rebrand and relaunch its professional development Summer Symposium series and reframe the discussion of security issues via a research and book project.
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For an event to be hosted by WGBH Educational Foundation to educate public media professionals and stakeholders about the role of parents and communities in their children's education
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
There are numerous and varied challenges around effectively engaging parents, families, and communities in education including lack of information on how parents and families can support their children’s learning, lack of parent and family information on school quality, and lack of integration of specific community needs into local education agendas. Research suggests that during the middle school years, in particular, these challenges take distinct forms as they come at a time when students are at moments in their academic, physical, and social emotional development that require special attention and support, yet this same critical developmental stage coincides with a well-documented decline in parent involvement in education. As the leading producer of multimedia content for public television, WGBH proposes to host a daylong Education Summit in September 2017 with Corporation support on issues surrounding parent, family, and community engagement at the middle school level. The goal of the Summit will be to present compelling, thought-provoking information, models, and impactful stories related to adult stakeholder engagement in the middle school years. The Summit’s target audience will include media producers, journalists, and education outreach professionals from WGBH, a selection of geographically diverse PBS member stations, and other independent media professionals, as well as representatives from the philanthropic community.
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For a documentary film about public libraries entitled "Free For All"
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
25 months
Description
Carnegie Corporation of New York’s founder, Andrew Carnegie, understood the value of public libraries in fostering a healthy democracy. He funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide, 1,687 of which were built in the United States. Today, public libraries are an important part of Mr. Carnegie’s philanthropic legacy, and continue to be central to communities across the country. Library use is at a record high in America, yet many public libraries are facing significant budget cuts or closures. With Corporation support, Video Veracity will oversee the production and editing of the documentary film “Free For All,” which will examine the importance of public libraries to American democracy and the challenges facing the public library system today.
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For the 2017 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
3 months
Description
Educators—practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and community leaders—have been actively pursuing educational reform for decades, and yet, with dispiriting regularity, a promising new reform idea emerges only to be implemented with very limited, if any, long-term impact. We will never meet our ever-rising aspirations for student achievement without a more responsive, agile approach to research and development, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if these educational leaders joined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its fourth annual Summit, bringing together hundreds of education leaders and stakeholders from around the country to catalyze and support a movement, connect like-minded leaders, and convene an improvement community aimed at expanding the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve. This grant provides support for the 2017 Summit.
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For investigative reporting on the federal oversight of campaign financing
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Federal Election Commission is a vital agency charged with regulating the financing of campaigns for federal office. But it has been largely defined by dysfunction in the decades since its founding in the wake of the Watergate scandal, beginning with the fact that its very design featuring equal numbers of partisan commissioners all but assures persistent gridlock. The Investigative Reporting Workshop, housed at American University, is a nonprofit professional newsroom founded by veteran journalist Charles Lewis. With Corporation support, the Investigative Reporting Workshop will investigate the dysfunction at the Federal Election Commission, analyze the various reforms that have been proposed for the agency, and evaluate the implications of its present ineffectiveness for U.S. democracy.
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For support for Next Generation Journalism: PBS NewsHour News Assistant Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In the age of fake news, blurred lines between fact and fiction, unchecked sources, and clickbait headlines, it is crucial that the next generation of journalists are taught tenets of responsible reporting, such as sourcing, fact checking, and clear and factual writing. The PBS NewsHour (NewsHour), a nightly broadcast known for its high-quality, objective, and in-depth reporting, began a Desk Assistant program in 1991 that provides practical broadcast news experience to aspiring journalists. In 2015, with Corporation support, NewsHour rebranded it the “News Assistant” program, substantially increasing participants’ salaries and undertaking an extensive recruitment campaign to find the most qualified candidates. News Assistants work alongside experienced reporters who give them daily feedback and guidance. With further Corporation support, the NewsHour will continue to expand the program, hiring more News Assistants and increasing the length of the internships from six months to one or two years. NewsHour hopes these new reporters will spread journalistic best practices throughout the industry.
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As a final grant to support the creation and launch of a digital platform that will integrate support and knowledge sharing across Asia Society’s school networks
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Asia Society’s Center for Global Education works to ensure that that all youth, regardless of their background, have the competencies to prosper within a global economy, thrive amid diversity, and take on the world’s intractable problems. This renewal grant will support the creation of a digital platform that will enable knowledge sharing across Asia Society’s existing school networks, including two which the Corporation has previously supported: 1) the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), a learning community of school systems across Asia and North America; and 2) the International Studies Schools Network (ISSN), a network of schools working to develop global competencies among their students. By combining digital learning opportunities with its face-to-face work with educators, Asia Society will expand its reach and connect learning within, across, and beyond its networks.
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For support of its state immigration policy work
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite minimal federal attention to immigration reform in recent years, state legislatures introduce, on average, 1300 bills and enact 200 laws annually related to immigration and immigrants. State legislators believe immigration challenges require a national solution – but until that occurs, they must be responsive to constituent concerns and craft solutions where they can. The average turnover in state legislative seats is about 20 percent in each election, accounting for approximately 1400 new members who may be asked to learn and vote on immigration issues in their states. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is a bipartisan organization founded in 1975 to improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures and promote policy innovation and communication among state legislatures. With Corporation support, NCSL’s bipartisan immigration task force will provide education on federal immigration law and practice for new state legislators, as well as the role of states in managing immigration issues.
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For support of the Nudge4 Solutions Lab to develop targeted, technology-enabled solutions to reduce educational inequality, particularly around access to postsecondary opportunities, and to convene a community of practice to develop scalable solutions to
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
28 months
Description
Research suggests that there are specific practical obstacles—such as complicated processes and limited access to advisory resources—that deter college access and success for those students who need it most. Researchers have also demonstrated that low-cost, behaviorally informed interventions can substantially improve student outcomes. These low-touch interventions—“nudges”—are a specialty of the Nudge4 Solutions Lab (Nudge4), and have shown promising, large-scale results. High intensity interventions, such as college advising programs, have also been demonstrated to be effective for the students they reach, but have proven challenging to scale. With Corporation support, Nudge4 will combine the broad reach of low-touch interventions with the high impact of intensive college advising programs. Specifically, Nudge4 will: 1) Design scalable solutions to improve postsecondary outcomes for low income and non-traditional students; and 2) Convene and facilitate a learning community among college advising and outreach organizations to design two to three projects for scalable, high-quality advising models.
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For support of the 2017 Blended & Personalized Learning Conference
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
4 months
Description
Highlander Institute’s annual Blended and Personalized Learning Conference (BPLC) brings together the best classroom, school, and district implementers of personalized learning from across the nation to provide inspiration and guidance to educators at different stages and levels of personalized learning initiatives. Major themes for this year’s event include student agency, equity, and scaling promising practices, and the conference will offer participants the information, context, and resources needed to replicate programmatic and strategic elements in their own schools and districts. With Corporation support, experts will convene to design solutions to persistent implementation challenges, share their expertise with conference participants, and learn from their peers. Highlander Institute will also ensure that knowledge is shared beyond the conference through a summary document and featured presenter podcasts available online to conference participants and non-participants alike.
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For the Anxieties of Democracy program
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Democracies are dependent on a number of core institutions, such as elections, mass media, political parties, and legislatures. When these institutions do not operate effectively, democracy can fail. Through its Anxieties of Democracy program, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) conducts research on how democracies, and particularly the United States, can be strengthened to govern more capably and legitimately. The program’s activities include working groups, a media project, international partnerships, Democracy Fellows, a fellowship, and a communications strategy. Corporation funding will be used towards supporting the convening of the five working groups, comprised of some 70 academics, journalists, nonprofit leaders, and policymakers, focused on the following themes: institutions, participation, climate change, national security, and inequality and distribution.
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For the "National Summit on Competency-based Education 2017"
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
North American Council for Online Learning’s (iNACOL) National Summit on Competency-based Education will bring together diverse leaders 1) to discuss tough issues emerging in education systems moving toward competency-based models, aligned to the Opportunity by Design principle, Mastery of Rigorous Standards, and 2) address key issues to help build knowledge and capacity in the field. The Summit will convene 100 leading innovators to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a specific focus on equity and diversity. At the Summit, attendees will think through the following key issues: designing for equity; meeting students where they are; the systems and structures necessary for quality implementation; developing policy for the long-term; revising the definition of competency education; and identifying and discussing emerging issues. The Corporation’s support of the Summit will help iNACOL organize engaging discussions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the context of innovative, competency-based education.
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For the Project on Middle East Political Science
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) is increasing the public impact and policy relevance of political science specialists on the Middle East. POMEPS responds to intellectual and policy challenges of the Middle East, which have grown more urgent with the proliferation of failed states, struggling popular movements, and unresolved governance issues. Having grown significantly since its launch in 2010 with Corporation support, POMEPS has developed a distinctive model combining a network of junior and senior scholars, events and workshops, career development activities, and successful publication platforms. With renewed support, it will expand work with early-career political scientists inside the region.
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For support for the Shared Sacred Sites project
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Shared Sacred Sites is a collaborative project that seeks to develop a rubric for the description, classification, analysis, and publication of work relating to spaces and locations used by multiple, disparate communities for religious purposes. In 2015, the first exhibition was presented at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseille and met with wide acclaim. In 2016, it opened at the Bardo Museum in Tunis. With Corporation support, the project’s presentation and research will be expanded in the New York presentation. Across its four venues in New York, the exhibition will include films and photographs of sites, pilgrims, and practices, as well as contemporary artwork. The project will also produce an English language catalog and teacher’s guide. A variety of educational programs ranging from informal talks to conferences will allow interested audience members to learn more about interfaith locales and symbols and will create space for the academic community to learn about and respond to the program.
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For a workshop on the design, selection and implementation of instructional materials for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
The Board on Science Education (BOSE), which is a unit within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, provides national leadership in science education both in and out of school through major synthesis studies, evidence-based guides for practitioners, public meetings, and outreach to leaders in science education and education policy. Through this grant, BOSE plans to convene a public workshop focused on the development, selection, and implementation of high quality instructional materials that reflect the principles of the Framework and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The workshop will bring together individuals and organizations that have developed or are developing tools for selection and design of instructional materials as well as curriculum developers and researchers who are designing materials aligned to the NGSS. BOSE will produce a workshop summary that highlights practical, concrete examples and includes input from experts about recommended actions for key stakeholder groups in the field.
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For support of the online publication, Al-Fanar Media
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
With Corporation support, the Alexandria Trust (the Trust) founded Al-Fanar Media in 2013. An online, bilingual publication, Al-Fanar Media remains the only independent news organization dedicated to covering Arab higher education and academic freedom issues in the region. Funding from the Corporation will support continued investment in high-quality, independent journalism and the training of Arab journalists, strengthening their capacity to leverage their work to influence policy-making, support research, and drive the improvement of educational quality and access in the region.
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For support of an integrated approach to innovative school design and redesign, and related knowledge sharing activities
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
For fifteen years, CityBridge Foundation has focused on launching and supporting innovative, next generation schools in Washington, D.C. Now, CityBridge Education (CityBridge) is building on its strong track record and aims to launch twenty-five high-quality, new or redesigned schools in the next five years through an integrated strategy that combines school design, network support, knowledge building, and talent development. With Corporation support, CityBridge Education will deepen its activities in the first three of those areas: designing and launching new schools and redesigning existing schools; providing support and networked improvement to existing CityBridge schools; and undertaking knowledge sharing activities geared toward multiple audiences – educators, school leaders, and district managers.
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For the development of a project to eliminate silos at a state education agency to better serve students with disrupted education, and the creation of resources related to the use of human-centered design in policy development (as one of the five projects
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
More than 5 million youth in the U.S. today experience education disruption related to traumatic life events such as incarceration, homelessness, frequent mobility, pregnancy, or severe mental health crises, and have some of the lowest educational outcomes of any student group. While they are served by multiple, overlapping systems, their needs are still not fully met, due in part to the deep silos that exist between systems of care in this country. Bellwether Education Partners aims to address this fragmentation in service provision by leveraging their capacity in policy analysis and strategic advising – and using human-centered design to inform policy recommendations – to lead a wholesale rethinking of the ways in which social service agencies interact with one another and with the children in their care. Their model includes the creation of a statewide agency for education transitions, streamlined data-sharing, collection of appropriate data, and support for the culture shifts that embed coordination and communication across agencies. With the support of this grant, they will identify a pilot state in which to conduct needs assessment and implementation planning for this model, in addition to creating a human-centered design policy resource kit that can be shared with the field.
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For a pilot program in one community to build educational leader capacity in systems thinking, Collective Impact and equity frameworks, in order to enhance school governance, implementation and educational outcomes (as one of the five projects in the Corp
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite the efforts of thousands of dedicated professionals in school districts and supporting community-based organizations, the U.S. education system remains fragmented and dysfunctional in an entrenched way. For too long the field has focused on solving educational challenges through individual content reform initiatives, rather than examining the interplay of deeper sources of problems steeped in power, race, and equity. FSG, a mission-driven consulting firm supporting leaders in creating large-scale, lasting social change, aims to partner with PolicyLink and the Society for Organizational Learning to transform the relationships among people and organizations that shape education systems, by combining the discipline of Systems Thinking with the structure and process of Collective Impact and an Equity frame of reference. They are planning to pilot this approach in one school community and build capacity through: (1) a leadership workshop; (2) community engagement and support and (3) ongoing research, evaluation and learning. They will also plan for how the tools and resources developed during the pilot could be shared in an open-source format. This grant supports a pilot in one community and planning for open-source resources that can be shared with the field.
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For a project to build the capacity of district, community and school-level stakeholders in one place to work in an integrated way to design and launch new learning models to solve local education challenges (as one of the five projects in the Corporation
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
While many stakeholders increasingly recognize the need to develop more innovative learning models and systems that prepare students with the full breadth of knowledge, skills and dispositions they will need to be successful, educators and communities often lack the capacity and readiness to engage in the complex work of transforming schools and systems. Fragmentation – in the form of the lack of a common vision or language, misaligned incentives, and the challenges of complex systems in flux – makes this work even more difficult. Founded in 2008, 2Revolutions is a national education design lab that supports schools, districts and states in envisioning the ‘future of learning’ that they want for their students, and then helping them rapidly design and test approaches to high-priority problems that catalyze the transformation of policy and practice towards that vision. With the support of this grant, 2Revolutions will support one community through this process, with a focus on working within an ‘integrative frame’ that incentivizes integrative behaviors, reduces transaction costs, and democratizes the problem.
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For a national convening on civic education
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
11 months
Description
In recent decades, an increasing number of Americans have disengaged from traditional civic and political institutions, including religious congregations, community-based organizations, and other volunteer-driven organizations. These associations had historically provided citizens with a personal connection to current and local events of the day, ensuring that they remained engaged and active. The result has been especially profound among youth, who are now less likely than their older counterparts and previous generations of young people to vote or to be interested in public policy issues. A major obstacle for those working to increase Americans’ civic knowledge is resources. As the public’s interest in civics has declined, so too has the funding community’s. Throughout the 2016 campaign season, however, public interest in civic education grew significantly. There is now a unique opportunity to reopen public discourse on the need for civic education. With Corporation support, iCivics will convene funders and civic leaders in an effort to increase awareness of the need for civic learning and engage new funders in this work.
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For support of the World War I Centennial Project
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Hospital of Paris was founded in 1906 by a group of Americans who wanted to provide American-style medical care to the large numbers of Americans living in or visiting France. Today, the Hospital has grown to 185 beds and nearly 350 physicians, representing most medical specialties and treating thousands of patients each year from all over the world. With Corporation support, on the eve of the centennial of the end of the First World War, the Hospital intends to create a wider understanding of the historical significance of the hospital and its role in helping to shape a more favorable U.S. public opinion for the entering the war.
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For development of flexible learning models and general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
The New York City Leadership Academy (NYCLA) is a national organization that focuses on preparing educational leaders to support all children for college, career, and life success. In particular, NYCLA aims to engage school and district leaders and assist them in designing, adapting, and implementing programs aimed at promoting equity and social justice for racial/ethnic minorities and children from low income families. This grant provides general operating support and support for NYCLA to design, develop, and market a complement of new services and tools that will allow the organization to scale its offerings more broadly and establish a more cost effective delivery structure. This includes virtual Executive Coaching, a New Principal On-boarding Leadership Institute, and a suite of Equity Leadership Simulations. The Wallace Foundation will join the Corporation in supporting this work.
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For a book project titled "The Haqqani Network (HN) in the greater Middle East."
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Jere Van Dyk is a correspondent, journalist and author who since the 1980s has been direct communication with the leadership of the Haqqani Network, considered the oldest and most powerful terrorist organization in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2008, Mr. Van Dyk was captured and imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days and wrote about that ordeal. From 2013 to 2015, the author, traveled throughout the greater Middle East, and twice to South Asia, and was able to interview Ibrahim Haqqani, the diplomatic head of the Haqqanis. The author has kept the U.S. government informed of these conversations, including the fact that several American and Canadian hostages are being held by the Haqqanis. With Corporation support, Mr. Van Dyk will return to the Middle East to finish his research for a book on the Haqqanis, providing insight into this terrorist organization, including its mission and its links to other terrorist networks, including al-Qaeda and the ISIL.
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For a project of the nonprofit initiative The Teachers Guild (housed at Riverdale), supporting the launch of in-person Teachers Guild chapters in three districts and the design and launch of a teacher fellowship on innovation and integration (as one of th
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Amidst the plethora of current innovations in education, teachers lament that many such innovations are created outside of the classroom—that is, with teachers as recipients rather than authors. Teachers are designing creative ways to engage and inspire their students on a daily basis, but with limited pathways to integrate beyond the classroom walls, their creative leadership often goes unseen, their expertise goes unrecognized, and the potential impact of teacher-driven innovations is reduced. The Teachers Guild, incubated in IDEO’s Design for Learning studio and now operating as a nonprofit initiative under the aegis of Riverdale Country School and Plussed LLC, was formed in 2015 to overcome these barriers, launching a member-led community of teachers. The Guild provides an online platform and facilitated creative leadership experiences to support teachers in designing better solutions for students’ evolving needs, creating systemic change for and from their classrooms. With the support of this grant, the Guild will pursue two strands of work: (1) partner with local school districts to complement the Guild’s online platform with in-person experiences through three local Guild chapters; and (2) design and launch a teacher Fellowship that links teachers, principals, and district leaders around the adoption of promising innovations and helps top-rated teacher-innovators expand the reach of their solutions.
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For a U.S.-Japan Security and Defense Dialogue Series
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S.-Asia Security Initiative (the Initiative) led by Ambassador Karl Eikenberry at Stanford University facilitates interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, research emphasizing security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. In May 2016, the Initiative held its inaugural workshop in Tokyo, convening experts and government officials from the United States and Japan. This grant builds on the success of the inaugural workshop to establish an ongoing dialogue series between American and Japanese security experts and officials on an annual basis.
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For a U.S.-Russia Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism in Afghanistan
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
40 months
Description
Two of the most problematic casualties of tense relations between Russia and the United States are engagement on terrorism, including in Afghanistan, and on Afghanistan more broadly. A project of the EastWest Institute (EWI) seeks to help address the situation by establishing a U.S.-Russia Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism in Afghanistan. The project will create a conduit for sustained engagement between the two countries, aiming at identifying critical challenges and possible approaches to them. The project will build on EWI’s earlier U.S.-Russia Joint Working Group on Afghan Narco-Trafficking, which brought together well-credentialed U.S. and Russian experts to assess threats and propose solutions. EWI will use the previous template as a model to produce a high-quality threat assessment, with analysis and recommendations aimed at policy officials in both countries.
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For a project to promote new research and build a community of experts on the Russian military
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S. understanding of Russian military strategy, capabilities, and intentions has declined following the end of the Cold War. The need for such knowledge has become acutely apparent as the United States and Russia have reentered a period of adversarial relations. The growing risks of U.S.-Russian military tensions and confrontations calls for in-depth understanding, assessments, and interpretations of the Russia military. It also calls for developing contacts between the U.S. and Russian military analytical communities within the realm of possibilities in the political climate of the two countries. The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) intends to strengthen the field of Russian military studies in the United States through policy-relevant research, outreach, publications, and working group meetings.
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For a project on Russia and the West
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Relations between Russia and the West are important, but difficult. A project of the European Leadership Network (ELN) has been working to help mitigate the challenges to the relationship by bringing a European perspective to foreign and security policy issues. Building on a previous Corporation-supported project, ELN will continue to develop practical and sustainable recommendations for reducing nuclear risks and work with partners in Europe, Russia, and the United States to advocate policy steps to help manage the Russia-Europe-U.S. security triangle. With its high-level leadership, ELN has the capacity to formulate inclusive ideas for Euro-Atlantic stability and prosperity, and a powerful voice with which to promote those ideas. ELN’s product are widely disseminated in print and on-line.
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For a project on U.S. perspectives toward Russia
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S. policy toward Russia is challenged by Russia’s involvement in the U.S. presidential elections, but is further complicated by political divisions within the United States. Yet it is an important relationship as the two countries are major players in many of today’s global hotspots and together possess over ninety percent of world’s nuclear weapons. Relying on its long history of bridging differences in perspectives through engagements, the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue will use its skills, expertise, and a bipartisan network of experts and policy officials, to identify and assess views and approaches toward Russia. The project will entail meetings, briefings, and publications.
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For support for a panel discussion entitled, "Their America: The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World Post-Election"
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Center for Public Scholarship, housed at the New School for Social Research, aims to deepen public understanding of pressing social issues and make scholarship and expertise accessible. In 1988, the center established the social research conference series, intended to enhance public understanding of and influence ongoing debates on current social issues. With Corporation support, the center will host a panel discussion entitled, “Their America: The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World Post-Election,” to examine the effects of the divisive 2016 presidential election on the perception of the U.S. internationally. The panel will consist of Jerome Cohen (New York University), Oz Frankel (The New School), Alma Guillermoprieto (author), Nina Khrushcheva (The New School), Laura Secor (author), and moderator Aryeh Neier (Open Society Foundations).
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For support for a project titled, "Public Works New York"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1954, The Public Theater (The Public) is a New York-based arts organization known for staging productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Central Park that are free to the public, as well as plays and musicals from promising contemporary playwrights, including A Chorus Line and Hamilton. In 2012, the Public Theater launched Public Works, an initiative that seeks to include diverse groups of New Yorkers in theater productions as creators, not just spectators. The Public partnered with community organizations in all five boroughs, including DreamYard in the Bronx and the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, to design classes, workshops, and full-scale productions for community members to perform in alongside professional actors. In developing Public Works, The Public did not begin by offering programs to partner organizations, but rather by asking how The Public could best serve its partners. From these conversations, activities were created that were tailored to each community. With Corporation support, The Public will expand the program to include three new partners—Military Resilience Project, Casita Maria, and Center for Family Life in Sunset Park—as well as continuing its high level of engagement with its existing partners.
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For two advanced courses on the impact of new and emerging technologies on the nuclear risk
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
This project will support two Isodarco residential advanced courses on the impact of new technologies on international security, with particular focus on crisis and arms race stability. The project will bring experts together in a week-long seminar on how technological innovation in the civilian and military fields will effect nuclear risk. Participants will include early and mid-career experts, with particular attention to young researchers and doctorate students. Each course will be involve twelve to sixteen invited lecturers and thirty to sixty participants from the United States, Europe, Russia, and Asia.
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For assessing, planning and helping to create an innovating International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)/ Program of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) fundraising initiative in the United States
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is increasingly looking for public-private partnerships to complement member state funding in a time of resource constraints. Through this grant, Global Impact will partner with the IAEA’s Technical Cooperation Department to build capacity for communications and fundraising and explore public-private partnerships. Global Impact will work with the IAEA to increase awareness of the organization’s sustainable development activities and identify new sources of funding.
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For support of a task force on U.S.-China policy
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Asia Society’s U.S.-China Task Force (the Task Force), a bipartisan group of leading American experts on China, was launched in 2015 to assess how America’s strategy toward China has demonstrated both strengths and weaknesses, how China has changed over the last four decades, and how American policy can adapt to current circumstances. The Task Force’s report was widely covered in leading global media outlets, and shared with relevant government officials. Given China’s increasing global importance and reach, the Task Force will stay intact to provide insights on U.S.-China policy for the U.S. administration and Congress, and to foster public discussion about the U.S.-China relationship through events and media engagement.
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For mapping public and elite opinion on nuclear weapons issues
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
20 months
Description
Public perception of nuclear issues is in flux. ReThink Media Inc. will lead an opinion and message research process to learn more about where the public stands on nuclear weapons issues today. Initially, ReThink will convene conversations among the nuclear security community to scope and shape the inquiry and to bring in end-users from the outset. ReThink will then engage with one or more research firms and will manage the research process to produce new polling and messaging. Once the research is complete, ReThink will work with Corporation grantees and their partners to improve understanding of what the data show and how to adapt their communications to the new landscape. The ultimate goal is to facilitate more effective messages based on the latest research about where the public stands and which messages resonate.
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For a series on parenting minutes focused on providing information to help parents foster the growth of their children
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
14 months
Description
With the goal of serving parents and caregivers of young learners and students in underserved communities in New York City, WNET created New York Parenting Minutes, a series of short videos providing important information to help parents become more aware of issues, opportunities, and strategies for fostering the growth of young children. The Parenting Minutes is the culmination of eight parenting workshops, two focus groups with parents, and an extensive collaboration with partners across the city including nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Each New York Parenting Minute presents a key topic that supports an important early childhood educational development skill, provides helpful tips on parenting, or offers valuable information about raising children. The existing videos are currently available in four languages spoken by New York City parents and selected in consultation with the New York City Department of Education—English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Bengali. With Corporation support, WNET seeks to expand these minutes into the early grades of elementary school to address challenges parents face to support school preparedness. The new series of Parenting Minutes will engage parents in questions of student preparedness and achievement by exploring topics such as bridging school and home; preparing for school; resources available to parents at school; and preventing the summer slide.
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For a project to broaden understanding of Russia’s foreign policy
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Understanding what drives Russia’s foreign policy and how it is pursued through the use of diplomacy, coercion, and force is critical to developing sound and effective U.S. policies toward Russia. The proposed project will attempt to analyze general trends in motivation, rhetoric, and behavior (principles, strategy, action) associated with Russia’s approach to exercising international power and influence across time, domains (military, information, energy, international institutions/governance), and regions (the United States, European Union, Ukraine, and the Middle East).
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