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Project Title
For international students in need of financial aid in honor of Vartan Gregorian's 20th year serving as president of Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
On behalf of the Carnegie Corporation board of trustees, Chairman Thomas Kean and Vice Chair Janet Robinson considered several options on how best to honor Vartan Gregorian for his twenty years of service as president of the Corporation. They decided that since Dr. Gregorian’s leadership reached back decades across a number of institutions of higher education, and since his education was made possible through the generosity of international student fellowships, a Corporation grant to Brown University in support of international students would serve as an appropriate way to honor Dr. Gregorian and would will also tie into the core mission of Carnegie Corporation, to advance knowledge. With Corporation support, the University will continue to move forward on the initiative, The Brown Promise, which will allow students in need of financial aid access to funds that need not be repaid. In addition, the University will provide in international student aid packages a component that will include necessary health coverage and travel, thus eliminating the need for students to take on loan debt.
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For refining and scaling the Greenfield whole school model and diffusing Greenfield practices across the Achievement First Network
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
There is an emerging consensus that school designs that incorporate personalization, mastery, and positive youth development offer the kind of learning experiences necessary to prepare students for success in college, career, and life. Achievement First (AF) is a high-performing charter management organization well known for the rigor of its instructional model and its comprehensive teacher development strategies. With current Corporation support, AF piloted and expanded Greenfield, a new school model with a focus on supporting student mastery of rigorous academic content through technology-enabled personalization, and promoting positive youth development through socio-emotional and enrichment programming. Building on the successes of this grant and reflecting upon the lessons learned, AF will continue to develop the Greenfield model, including exporting certain elements of the model to other AF schools, while also undertaking crucial knowledge management and sharing activities.
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For refining and scaling the New Tech school model and diffusing best practices
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, the movement to create more robust learning environments has expanded significantly, with schools and districts across the country adopting models of learning that meet the needs of 21st century learners. But despite their promise, many aspects of these models have proven difficult to implement, and the potential for improved student outcomes has yet to be fully realized. New Tech Network (NTN) has developed a research-based, educator friendly model in which they partner with districts to transform schools through implementation of personalized, project-based, and mastery-based approaches. This grant will build on previous Corporation support to expand whole-school transformation by refining the NT Teams strategy, a low cost, low coaching approach to school-level change beginning with a single grade team. This grant will also allow NTN to develop an approach to scaling their model by partnering with districts outside of their network to implement proven aspects of their work.
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For strengthening organizational capacity to refine, deepen, and expand the Internationals Network
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Internationals Network for Public Schools (Internationals) is dedicated to ensuring that recent immigrant English Language Learner (ELL) students have access to a quality high school education that prepares them for college, career, and full participation in democratic society. With Corporation support, Internationals has engaged in a rigorous strategic planning process and developed a comprehensive five year plan for future growth. This grant will enable Internationals to advance the strategies articulated for the first two years of their strategic plan, enabling them to increase their capacity to design, support, and sustain schools and academies to close the achievement gap for ELL students nationwide. Specifically, this grant will support Internationals with strengthening the quality of implementation and deepening collaboration across their national network of schools and academies, as well as deepening and expanding their impact on ELL educator practice within and beyond their network.
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For a project to modify their program-specific model to a competency-based model that utilizes blended learning opportunities for school and district leaders
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
New Leaders is a leading national nonprofit focused on improving our education system by focusing on leadership. For seventeen years, New Leaders has selected, developed, and supported aspiring school leaders to transform underperforming schools and improve student outcomes in the nation’s highest-need communities. With prior Corporation support, the organization has evolved to now develop leaders at all levels: teacher leaders, assistant principals, aspiring principals, seated principals and their teams, and principal supervisors. Through this project the organization will work to shift their model, from a program-specific model to a competency-based model, intended to provide districts and charter management organizations with tailored, flexible, cost-effective leadership development opportunities that meet their evolving needs. New Leaders will also explore strategies to include new blended learning opportunities for their partners. Finally, the new program model will help increase the organization’s financial sustainability through its associated revised business model that will increase the amount of fee-for-service revenue.
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For a project to study the Blue Engine program model involving teaching assistants and mentor teachers to build an evidence base of its impact on instructional practices and student learning
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
Blue Engine has developed an innovative “team teaching” model to give teachers access to trained Teaching Apprentices (TAs) for an entire school year. Teams of one lead or mentor teacher and three TAs have the instructional bandwidth to build knowledge of and relationships with all students, teach a more rigorous academic curriculum, and differentiate instruction. By restructuring classrooms through a human capital model that utilizes teams of teachers the organization works to: (1) accelerate student learning; and (2) develop a local pipeline of diverse educators to enter the teaching profession to drive student growth in their own classrooms. With this project, Blue Engine aims to increase consistency in and deepen student outcomes and enhance the instructional practice of TAs and mentor teachers. It proposes to do this by rigorously understanding the impact of its model on the instructional practice of both TAs and mentor teachers. Through this grant the organization will conduct a correlational analysis of its draft leading indicators; implement its model in New York City with increased consistency; and build an evidence base of its impact on teacher instructional practice.
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For a project to increase access to digital open education resources (OER) and curriculum, expand Standards Institutes focused on implementation of OER curriculum, and improve local capacity through the development of leaders of professional learning
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
UnboundEd’s work is focused on overcoming the many challenges to effective implementation of more rigorous standards. Specifically, they are working to address the challenges related to the fact that current curriculum, tools, resources, and professional development do not enable educators to effectively meet the needs and rigorous standards for all students, especially students of color and below grade level students. Through this project they will develop and provide digitized open education resources (OER) curriculum and supports designed to allow teachers to effectively adapt customizable, high quality OER materials to meet the needs of all students while upholding the rigor of the Common Core and helping educators deliver equitable instruction. Additionally, they will expand their Standards Institute to support the effective implementation of the Common Core standards and aligned, equitable instruction. They will also prepare a cohort of educators to facilitate this work in school districts.
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For a project to develop deep partnerships with school districts to build capacity for district and school leaders to design and implement large-scale initiatives to improve instruction through distributed leadership and professional learning
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Leading Educators (LE) partners with schools and school districts to develop systems of professional learning that aim to strengthen teachers’ content knowledge and instructional skill. Through their partnership engagements, Leading Educators helps build the capacity of leaders at the district and school level to design and implement large-scale initiatives to improve instruction, while also improving the quality of instruction at the classroom level by developing the leadership, content, and pedagogical skills of teacher leaders. To date, the organization has helped schools and districts develop a culture of distributed leadership and professional learning through intensive job-embedded training, coaching, and other supports. This project will support the first twenty-four months of the organization’s growth plan that is focused on deep partnerships with districts (eight new districts by 2022, for an estimated reach to more than 400,000 students). Over the grant period, LE will establish a new partnership in Tulsa, OK in FY18, and two additional partnerships in FY19.
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For a project to strengthen leadership development through strengthening a core fellowship program and by activating a growing alumni network
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
Education Pioneers (EP) is a leading national nonprofit that focuses on developing leadership and management talent to solve outside-the-classroom-problems so students and teachers can thrive inside the classroom. In fourteen years, EP has selected and trained nearly 4,000 rising leaders to support 750+ total districts, charters, and support/governance organizations in over twenty cities. Prior Corporation support has focused on helping EP build this pipeline of talent and connect this talent to partner organizations (districts, charter management organizations, state agencies and nonprofits) in the education sector. With this grant, EP will focus on (1) strengthening its training and leadership development work for program participants (in its core fellowship program and also its program focused on human capital leadership); and (2) activating its growing alumni network.
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For a Lawrence Hall of Science project to develop and field-test a suite of open source end-of-unit summative assessments that align with middle school performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
33 months
Description
This project builds on twenty years of experience by the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Hall of Science team to develop, test, evaluate, and disseminate a classroom-based science assessment system, and also a recent National Science Foundation funded project to develop curriculum and assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The primary objectives of this proposal are to develop and test a complete set of model three-dimensional assessments and scoring rubrics that support the middle school earth, life, physical science, and engineering performance expectations in order to support implementation of the NGSS that can be used across schools or districts to monitor student performance. In addition to providing model assessments for the NGSS performance objectives across content areas, the project will make progress toward identifying indicators of high-quality three-dimensional assessments and the principles for identifying and scoring these assessments. By distilling these indicators and principles, the project will also be able to offer guidance to teachers and others on how to modify the assessments while still maintaining their quality.
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For the creation of the Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
48 months
Description
In an era of growing distrust of media, more than ever policymakers and the public need trusted, objective sources of information. This includes in the realms of science and technology, where debates continue over climate change, artificial intelligence, medicine, and more. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is a well-established and respected institution regularly looked to by political leaders and scholars. With Corporation support, AAAS will establish a new center, called the Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues, that will aim to provide the best-available scientific and technical evidence to decision-makers to help them devise more informed policy for the nation.
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For phase one of the OpenSciEd project.
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for an approach to science teaching and learning that is more demanding, and very different from the approach common in classrooms today. The NGSS are different in structure and character from previous science standards, in their focus on the three dimensions of science learning, in their emphasis on student engagement with phenomena and design challenges, and in their connections to math, English language arts, and other disciplinary standards. Although more than half the U.S. student population is in states that have either adopted the NGSS or adopted new standards influenced by the NGSS, educational systems are generally unprepared to implement the NGSS, in that they lack the curriculum plans, the instructional materials, and the classroom assessments that the implementation of new standards requires. As a result, it is critical now to focus on the implementation of the NGSS, most notably building the supply of and demand for high quality instructional materials, and support for their implementation. The OpenSciEd project will bring together a group of states, curriculum developers, and many national and state science education leaders to create a complete set of robust, research-based, open-source, K-12 science instructional materials and implementation supports.
Project Title
For the Congressional Foreign Policy Research Program on Russia and China
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
112 months
Description
At a time of changes and new challenges in the relationships between the United States and Russia and the United States and China, it is important that U.S. Congress members and staffers have an understanding of these countries that is grounded in culture and history, and draws on the most up-to-date information about their political, economic, and security developments. The Congressional Foreign Policy Research Program, a new project of the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress will bring senior scholars of Russia and China to Washington, D.C., for research and a series of targeted events. Beyond the events held at the library, the scholars will have opportunities to engage with policymakers and experts on these and other international issues.
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Project Title
For the web portal, "Russia Matters"
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The importance of U.S. policy toward Russia necessitates access to in-depth information about Russia’s domestic and foreign policies. The Russia Matters website was launched two years ago to serve as a platform for analyses, interpretations, factual data, and discussions about Russia and U.S.-Russian relations. With continued support, this website will expand content and dissemination outreach with the goal of providing reliable and objective information and analyses to a wide spectrum of audiences interested in the subject.
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For a project on building bipartisan consensus on managing nuclear operations in the 21st century
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
51 months
Description
As part of its mission, the Elliot School of The George Washington University (GWU) sponsors scholarship that advances an understanding of international problems and educates the next generation of national and international leaders. Over the next two years, support to the Elliot School will help it continue to solidify its reputation as the foremost place to develop knowledge needed for the study and conduct of policy. Three specific projects of the Elliot School are recommended: the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), an international network of scholars; a research project to analyze current and future challenges of deterrence and escalation control between the United States and major powers; and support to continue efforts to encourage bipartisan consensus on a challenging nuclear security agenda.
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For a final project to support consultations on the Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia report and to support the distribution of educational resources to universities in Afghanistan
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
37 months
Description
The Asia Foundation plans to build on the success of its signature foreign policy study, “Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia,” by convening follow-on events focused on “The Future of Asia.” Through a number of meetings and dialogues, Asia Foundation will bring together emerging experts from sub-regions of Asia to discuss development challenges across the region. The goal of this work is to identify the critical issues confronting younger populations in Asia. Additionally, another ongoing project supported by this grant involves the publication and delivery of training books for Afghan university students to twenty-two new Education Resource Centers throughout the country.
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Project Title
For an Alumni Diaspora Program
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
0 months
Description
In order to address the burden of supervision, teaching, and training in the growing higher education sector in Africa, the Corporation initiated a diaspora linkages initiative in 2013. Early results have shown progress in postgraduate supervision, use of laboratories and equipment, and access to research funding and collaboration. The University of Witwatersrand (Wits) alumni-diaspora program, supported by the Corporation since 2013, has grown into a collaborative research network between Wits Faculty of Health Sciences alumni worldwide and their peers at Wits, including twenty-five visits and nine return visits between 2014-2016. Partnerships have led to co-authoring of publications, submission of joint grant proposals, and provision of co-supervisors, lecturers, and laboratories. Continued support will provide thirty alumni diaspora visits, new research collaborations, and exchanges of postgraduate students.
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For a postdoctoral program in support of rising research leaders in science and engineering
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
108 months
Description
The period immediately following completion of the doctoral degree is a critical time for an African academic. Little postdoctoral research support is available, while the pressures of teaching and university administration often distract the scholar from conducting and publishing additional research. The result, for some, is professional stagnation, while others depart for more conducive research environments. Since its inception in 2008, eighty-three doctoral students have received support through the networks comprising the Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE). RISE doctoral graduates will form the pool of eligible applicants for postdoctoral support, which will be offered by the African Academy of Sciences’ Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA). Through a competitive process, AESA will select up to ten RISE postdoctoral fellows, who will receive research funding and a small stipend to replace foregone income from consultancies and administrative posts. Fellows will be assigned a senior African mentor and will be able to spend up to three months conducting research at a partner institution, such as Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Agora Foundation publishes Lapham’s Quarterly, aimed at fostering an understanding and a love of history in a new generation of readers. Four times a year, the editors of the quarterly choose an issue of national importance and assemble a wide range of texts—essays, letters, speeches, etc.—that put the issue in historical context. By maintaining a focus on a single theme in each issue, and by employing a rigorous editorial process, the quarterly brings together some of the most engaging pieces of literature, poetry, prose, and art. With renewed Corporation support, Lapham’s Quarterly will make a concerted effort to appeal to a younger audience, by expanding its social media presence, launching a podcast, and making the publication available through library databases and digital subscriptions.
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Project Title
For cultural and educational initiatives supporting human rights and pluralism
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
78 months
Description
A renewal is recommended in the frame of the new program area to explore programming which tackles religious education and networks of relevant academics, youth, and public figures in the region. The BA’s project activities fall under two areas of their initiative: “Changing Religious Discourse” and “Networks of Influential Opinion-Makers.” “Changing Religious Discourse” activates the historical texts and ideas supported by the Corporation’s past grants for “Reissuing the Classics of the Islamic Heritage.” The BA proposes holding special seminars with al-Azhar, presenting humanities courses at major universities in Egypt on Islam and Society and training future Imams. The BA also proposes a platform for a network of experts, activists and academics dedicated to human rights values.
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As a final grant for continued support of the Collaborative for Student Success, a foundation collaborative on strategic communications efforts on the Common Core State Standards
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Collaborative for Student Success (the Collaborative) was formed three years ago, made up of regional and national foundations committed to pooling their financial resources to support strategic communications efforts across states. The Collaborative’s goal is to help build public and political will, and create sustainable demand, for the successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards (Common Core) and related assessments through strategic and targeted communications support. Corporation support will continue to enable the Collaborative to address communications needs proactively as they arise in critical states and nationally over the next year. The Collaborative has emerged as the leading strategist and central communications hub, leveraging the capacity of state-based partners and providing direct support as needed to partners on the ground.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Complete College America (CCA) is a national nonprofit with a single mission: to work with states to significantly increase the number of Americans who attain college degrees or high-quality career certificates and to close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations of students. It is the only national organization specifically devoted to increasing college success by scaling proven-effective strategies through state higher-education systems, and to collecting unique progression and completion metrics and utilizing the data for systemic change. CCA has built a network of thirty-five states (and territories) whose governors or chief executives have committed to increase college completion rates, and implement evidence-based practices that have proven to dramatically increase college completion rates.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) plays a key role in driving international policy discussion on nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear terrorism. This two-year grant will include general support funding for NTI’s work to reduce the risk of nuclear war, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and nuclear terrorism. Their two-year organizational work plan includes facilitating a continued Global Dialogue on Nuclear Security Priorities, updating and disseminating the NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index, which includes cyber threats to nuclear facilities, updating deterrence concepts for today’s threat environment, reducing radiological threats that result from the easy availability of poorly disposed of industrial equipment, and promoting global capacity building around verification.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
In recent years, the immigration reform field has seen considerable progress, including state legislatures moving to adopt policies intended to help integrate immigrants and provide them access to services, and President Obama’s executive actions temporarily protecting certain undocumented immigrants from deportation and outlining new enforcement priorities. These victories require research and analysis from trusted policy organizations that can accurately assess the impact of proposed legislation—helping to inform policymakers and the public during debates. Their successful implementation also requires monitoring—and in some cases, litigation—by legal groups. The American Immigration Council works to change the immigration debate by providing accurate information about the role of immigrants and immigration policy on the country and by refuting myths and correcting misinformation. With Corporation support, the council will continue to shed light on laws and policies that are outdated, inhumane, and wasteful and advance policies that promote prosperity, family unity, and a fair process for newcomers to the country.
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For core support of Scholars at Risk Network
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Scholars at Risk Network is rooted in the principle of academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Around the world, scholars are attacked because of their words, their ideas and their place in society. Scholars at Risk (SAR) responds to these attacks by protecting scholars suffering grave threats to their lives, liberty and well-being, primarily by arranging positions of sanctuary at universities, colleges and research centers in a safe country. With Corporation support, SAR will continue their role as a catalyst, advocate and convener, advancing a vision of higher education which is accessible, high quality, values-based, and publicly-engaged. Specifically to (1) to protect more scholars, (2) defend higher education communities and values through data-driven advocacy, (3) empower individuals through research and training to protect socially-engaged higher education, and (4) increase outreach to institutions and individuals, especially in Africa and the Middle East.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund (PNAE) supports the educational efforts of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan coalition of more than 500 CEOs and mayors from all fifty states. It was founded in 2010 by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, to make the economic case for the value of immigration to the United States. By pushing the immigration debate to the center, both political parties will have a strong economic rationale to break through the political impasse and fix the broken immigration system. With renewed Corporation support, PNAE will scale its current state and local immigrant integration initiatives, produce original research demonstrating the economic benefits of immigration to critical U.S. sectors and industries, and amplify its message to educate lawmakers, the media, advocates, its membership, and the public on the contributions of immigrants across the country and the critical need for reform.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Established in 2008 with Corporation support, America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) works with state, local, and national advocacy organizations to project a unified voice that informs and shapes the immigration debate. With renewed Corporation support, AVEF will create powerful narrative themes and persuasive messages for proponents of immigrants and immigration reforms; ramp up the volume and velocity of key messages and diverse spokespeople in English-language, Spanish-language, and ethnic and new media; and raise the visibility of select campaigns—locally and nationally—that help drive the media narrative and create the public will for policy changes.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
According to a 2015 Gallup poll, 78 percent of American adults report that religion is very or fairly important in their lives. Religious leaders can play a powerful role in shaping public opinion on important policy issues, including immigration. Given the strong influence religion has on shaping the values of many Americans, faith coalitions play an important role in educating the public about the moral and practical failures of current immigration policy and the need for federal immigration reform. Faith in Public Life (FPL) is a communications strategy center for the faith community, amplifying the faith voice on a range of public policy issues. FPL maximizes the faith community’s ability to impact public debates by creating innovative communications and advocacy campaigns, capitalizing on rapid-response opportunities, and equipping faith leaders with tools to successfully engage public leaders and the media. With Corporation support, Faith in Public Life will amplify faith voices around the moral imperative for immigration reform and implement a faith-driven civic engagement strategy to mobilize Latino voters.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
11 months
Description
As highly mobile, nontraditional residents, young adults face unique challenges when it comes to registering and voting. They move more frequently than members of other age groups and must re-register to vote each time. Political campaigns are also less likely to contact youth voters or focus on issues that resonate with them. Coupled with a lack of trust in government and policymakers, these factors resulted in the youth voter turnout rate plummeting in 2014 to its lowest level in history–just 20 percent. Established in 1966, the Andrew Goodman Foundation works on college campuses to engage students in civic life and train them to educate their fellow students so that they can effectively address policy issues that matter to them. With Corporation support, the Andrew Goodman Foundation will register, educate, and engage college students on campuses across the country.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of data and insight to enable higher-performing funders. CEP’s mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic foundations can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness. With Corporation support, the Center for Effective Philanthropy will conduct research and evaluations, offer training sessions, and provide advisory services to advance its goal of helping funders improve their effectiveness.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
More than ever, reading, writing, and math skills are necessary to navigate adult life in the United States–steady employment, home management, civic participation, and more are dependent on these abilities. Yet in Detroit and across Michigan, thousands of adults lack these skills, a problem that not only impacts them, but their families and communities. Reading Works seeks to combat illiteracy and innumeracy in Michigan through instruction, advocacy, and human services, with the broader mission of aiding in the state’s economic recovery. With Corporation support, Reading Works will scale up its work, with a goal of enrolling 20,000 learners by the end of 2020.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1975, the New York Council for the Humanities is the sole statewide proponent of public access to the humanities. The Council’s vision is to create a vibrant, growing, public humanities community that engages all New Yorkers in civic participation, volunteerism, philanthropy, and community involvement. Through strategic partnerships, advocacy, grants, and programs that foster critical thinking and cultural understanding in the public arena, the Council provides leadership and support across the state’s intellectual and cultural sectors. With Corporation support, the Council will continue its work in a number of initiatives including their thematic grants program, which awards approximately 150 grants per year; the Community Conversations project which encourages participation in civic engagement; and the Democratic Dialogue Project, which addresses global issues that disproportionately affect local communities.
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For general support of the New York City Fire Museum
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The origins of the New York City Fire Museum date back to 1934, when its original collections were located in the Fire College Museum in Long Island City. Today the Museum is housed in the former quarters of Engine Company No. 30, a 1904 Beaux-Arts firehouse on Spring Street in Manhattan. It includes the largest collection of fire related artifacts in the world, 90 percent which has been digitized and accessible for use by researchers worldwide. With Corporation support, the Museum will continue its mission to collect, preserve and present the history and cultural heritage of the fire service of New York, and to provide fire prevention and safety education to the public, especially school children, ages K–12. Indeed, its current priorities include updating its fire safety program, upgrading its on-sight classroom incorporating educational technology, engaging a broader community, and creating new exhibits.
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For support for the PBS NewsHour
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA) is among the best and best-known producers of public television in the nation. For decades, viewers and listeners have relied on public television for outstanding educational children’s shows, such as the enormously popular Sesame Street, as well as for objective journalism ranging from Morning Edition to PBS NewsHour (NewsHour), one of the most trusted sources of objective, in-depth reporting. Owing to the NewsHour’s exceptional reporting and the need for high-quality public programming in general, we are recommending both renewed support to the NewsHour as well as general support for WETA as a whole. With this support, through its many television and online productions, WETA will continue to provide its audiences with excellent content, coverage, and educational media. The NewsHour will continue its coverage of critical issues, create extra segments focusing on the 2016 Presidential primary and general elections, and, for the first time, put a full-time correspondent overseas.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA) is among the best and best-known producers of public television in the nation. For decades, viewers and listeners have relied on public television for outstanding educational children’s shows, such as the enormously popular Sesame Street, as well as for objective journalism ranging from Morning Edition to PBS NewsHour (NewsHour), one of the most trusted sources of objective, in-depth reporting. Owing to the NewsHour’s exceptional reporting and the need for high-quality public programming in general, we are recommending both renewed support to the NewsHour as well as general support for WETA as a whole. With this support, through its many television and online productions, WETA will continue to provide its audiences with excellent content, coverage, and educational media. The NewsHour will continue its coverage of critical issues, create extra segments focusing on the 2016 Presidential primary and general elections, and, for the first time, put a full-time correspondent overseas.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2007, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization which aims to advance an informed understanding of military affairs through reliable research, trusted analysis, and innovative education. Additionally, the ISW educates and trains the next generation of security leaders to better understand conflicts, military operations, and strategy through three educational programs: Hertog War Studies Program, an internship program, and an analyst program. Corporation support will help the ISW build capacity within their organization to help tackle some of the most difficult challenges in the current geostrategic environment, new threats and dangerous interconnectedness between them. ISW looks at the increasing pace with which crisis occur that could potentially undermine the basis of international peace around the world. In particular, the ISW will concentrate on the implications of the rise of ISIS and military affairs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
15 months
Description
Although it began in 2011, the large number of unaccompanied children fleeing violence in Central America and seeking refuge in the United States did not catch the attention of journalists, policymakers, and the public until 2014. Rather than responding to this crisis by offering asylum to migrant children, the Obama Administration has sought to limit opportunities for these children to make their case for asylum in accordance with U.S. law and has instead expedited the removal process. Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) provides advocacy, legal services, and strategic communications aimed at assisting unaccompanied immigrant children seeking refuge in the United States. With Corporation support, KIND will continue to offer legal aid for children in deportation proceedings, well-informed and comprehensive media coverage, and pragmatic policy recommendations in response to this ongoing crisis.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Ballot measures affect many important public policy issues. But for years, regressive efforts have dominated the ballot-measure process—including those aimed at obstructing immigrant integration. The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) Foundation is committed to reversing this trend, and helping national and state groups understand the importance of ballot initiatives in engaging underrepresented communities. With Corporation support, BISC will continue to conduct research and experiments to better understand how ballot measures can be used to increase civic engagement among underrepresented groups.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
A rich body of literature points to teacher leadership as key to elevating teacher effectiveness, increasing student achievement, and fostering a healthy future for the teaching profession. However, teachers currently have few opportunities to lead and influence policies and programs, and to develop and strengthen the skills and mindsets needed to assume greater leadership responsibilities in their schools. Leading Educators is a national program that exclusively supports mid-career teachers to develop the leadership and management skills needed to become teacher leaders. Through its flagship two-year fellowship, partnerships and strategic consulting engagements with districts, and thought leadership, Leading Educators is both preparing teachers to become impactful leaders and transforming schools and districts to create opportunities for teachers to learn and lead. This grant provides general support for Leading Educators to strengthen its team and implement its strategic plan.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Institute on Money in State Politics is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to expose the impact of lobbyists on fair elections and public policy issues. The institute, which was founded with Corporation support, collects political contribution reports, creates online access to data and publishes reports in order to foster greater transparency and accountability. With Corporation support, the institute will continue to offer a uniform, open access, searchable database documenting the sources and extent of political donations in state elections.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Urban Teacher Center (Urban Teachers) aims to re-invent the urban teacher workforce by providing school districts with pipelines of high-performing teachers capable of accelerating student achievement and committed to teaching and remaining in the nation’s highest-need schools. At the core of its work is a comprehensive four-year teacher preparation program that features a one-year residency followed by a three-year teaching commitment that includes two years of rigorous clinically-based coursework leading to a master’s degree from John Hopkins University and side-by-side coaching even after the residency year. Currently in Baltimore and Washington D.C., and expanding to Dallas in school year 2016-17, this grant provides general operating support needed to help Urban Teachers implement its strategic growth plan, and develop the people, processes, and technology infrastructure needed across all its sites to sustain growth and grow its applicant pool to increase its impact.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
New Leaders is one of the country’s largest and most effective principal training organizations. Since its founding in 2000, New Leaders has trained more than 1,800 school leaders in district and charter schools throughout the country. External evaluations of the organization’s work have found that students in schools led by principals trained through New Leaders’ flagship program, Aspiring Principals (APP), outperform their peers specifically because they have a New Leader Principal. Since 2011, New Leaders has evolved from offering only new principal training to providing a variety of programs to support educators along the leadership continuum, from teachers to principal supervisors. This grant will provide general operating support for New Leaders to implement activities related to its 2020 Vision and to support the organization’s growth from 1,800 school leaders at the end of 2015 to over 3,000 school leaders by the end of 2020, all working to prepare children for success in college, careers, and citizenship.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Today’s industrial model schools are not preparing all students for success in a global economy and participation in a robust democracy. To set students up for success in the 21st century, new school designs are needed that enable all students to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to succeed in today’s ever-changing world. Among the many barriers to change is the education field’s lack of research and development (R&D) capacity to imagine, build, iterate upon, codify, and spread new school models. Transcend was created to partner with visionary school operators to fill this gap in the field and, in so doing, build a force of R&D talent for the field and an open-source knowledge base on effective new models to support their growth and adoption. This grant will support Transcend as they continue to build their organizational capacity, develop partnerships with visionary school operators, and codify their learnings to be shared with the field.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Students’ race and family income often predict their access to excellent educators (United States Department of Education 2014). Low income students and high needs schools tend to have teachers who are less experienced, have fewer credentials, and lack a track record of success. Urban Teacher Center (Urban Teachers) aims to re-invent the urban teacher workforce by providing school districts with pipelines of high-performing teachers capable of accelerating student achievement and committed to teaching and remaining in the nation’s highest-need schools. At the core of its work is a four-year teacher preparation program that features a one-year residency followed by a three-year teaching commitment and two years of rigorous coursework leading to a Masters degree. Currently in Baltimore and Washington D.C., and expanding to Dallas in school year 2016-17, this grant provides funds to support Urban Teachers’ strategic growth.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) serves teachers, school leaders, and systems leaders nationwide, focusing on deepening and assessing the impact of teacher leadership on learning, advancing school designs for teacher leadership and student learning, and developing and marketing a system to spread teachers’ knowledge and skills as leaders of their profession. CTQ cultivates and elevates the skills and expertise of teachers to become professional leaders, utilizes that expertise across its network to incubate and implement new solutions in education, and then disseminates information on those successes to show how teacher leadership benefits schools and students. This grant provides general support for CTQ to advance its five-year strategy, which includes developing competency-based microcredentials and tools to support teacher learning and leadership and partnering with states and districts to demonstrate how those resources fit into a comprehensive human capital strategy.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism (the Coalition) is a movement which seeks to work with institutions around the world in their efforts to make capitalism an engine for broadly shared prosperity. Inclusive Capitalism embraces the best practices of CEOs that demonstrate the ethics of stewardship, stakeholder engagement and responsibility. By incorporating Inclusive Capitalism practices in business operations, business leaders can become a force for good in society, improve social well being and strengthen communities and families. With Corporation support, the Coalition will convene their annual conference; the theme for this year is a “Commitment to the Future.” The Coalition will also continue their global efforts to restore capitalism as an engine of broadly shared prosperity.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
For more than thirty years, Human Rights First (HRF) has earned a reputation for pragmatic, results-oriented advocacy backed by sophisticated legal and policy analysis. With Corporation support, HRF will continue to focus its energies where its approach and strength can have the greatest impact on pressing global human rights challenges, including building durable human rights reforms in the Middle East, reversing the deteriorating environment in which human rights defenders operate in many countries, strengthening the rule of law in the United States, and improving state responses to terrorism and other threats to national security.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The mission of the Aga Khan Museum is to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions that Muslim civilizations have made to world heritage. Through education, research, and collaboration, the Museum fosters dialogue and promotes tolerance and mutual understanding among people. The Museum’s permanent collection contains more than 1,000 objects made in countries spanning the Islamic world, over fourteen centuries from Spain to China. It also produces a number of print and digital products designed to enhance the exhibition and education experience that cater to a broad range of audiences and interests within the arts. With Corporation support, the Aga Khan Museum will be continue to provide educational programming for children and adults, including lectures, guided tours, teacher education guidebooks, the performing arts, after-school programs and camps.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Paul Volcker, the renowned former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, established the Volcker Alliance in 2013 to help rebuild public trust in government. Mr. Volcker and the Volcker Alliance believe that through partnerships with organizations in academia, government, and business, they can improve the efficiency and accountability of government at the local, state, and federal levels. With Corporation support, the Volcker Alliance will continue these efforts through a variety of ongoing initiatives, including its Public Service Excellence Program, which seeks to improve public policy and administration education; its Financial Regulation Program, which focuses on the legal and administrative structures for financial regulators and supervisors; and its State and Local Program, which aims to address the challenges state and local governments face in effectively executing public policies.
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For core support of the President's Strategic Initiative Fund in honor of the Brookings centennial
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
35 months
Description
One hundred years ago, the Brookings Institution (Brookings) was established as the world’s first independent organization devoted to public-policy research. Since then, the research produced by Brookings scholars has led to new ideas for solving problems facing society at local, national, and global level. As today’s issues become more complex and interconnected, the scholars are called upon to analyze and bring their depth and breadth of expertise to finding solutions through deeper engagement with political and business leaders across the globe. To help enable those experts to react nimbly to breaking news, respond quickly to new developments, or to seed timely projects, Brookings has established the President’s Strategic Initiative Fund to provide flexible funding for program and institutional priorities. Among the goals are promoting a culture of collaboration within the institution, and advancing diversity and inclusion
In honor of Brookings celebrating its centennial and beginning a new century, this grant will help support the funds.
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