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Project Title
For the book, "We Beg to Differ: The Unsung Gatekeepers of Media Credibility"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The World Policy Institute (WPI) engages a global network of thinkers and writers around the world capturing perspectives and innovations from new players and locales, testing them against current research, expert analysis, and best practices in business and policy, and helping to bring this new work toward implementation. Under the auspices of the WPI, Karl Ernest Meyer will author what may well be the first book for general readers on the role, growth, and future of editorial boards and opinion journalism. Two key areas will be explored: the future of the journalism in the realm of social media; and the role editorial boards can and should play in providing public opinions, especially through digital media. Meyer will draw from his own experience as an editorial writer at both The New York Times and Washington Post, chronicling the distinction between opinion and facts, the birth and rebirth of Op-Ed pages, and the deepening challenge created by the Internet.
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For parent engagement projects
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
Research shows that when parents are involved in their children’s education, often by harnessing a network of educators, student academic achievement improves. In the current landscape of new standards, methods, and terminology, as well as possible shifts in national and local funding, families are often left uninformed and disconnected from their children’s education. Through a set of 200 parent engagement events, DonorsChoose.org will meet this parental demand by directly joining families with educators in partnerships to support their children’s learning. Over the past seventeen years, more than 400,000 teachers at three-quarters of public schools (overwhelmingly within high poverty regions) created project requests on DonorsChoose.org, and more than 2 million citizen donors have contributed to projects. To incubate venues for parent engagement, DonorsChoose.org will invite public school teachers nationwide to create projects requesting materials for family engagement events. The Corporation will bolster their efforts in two ways: (1) provide $200,000 in matching gifts to double citizen donor impact and (2) enable at least 2,000 parents (identified by respective teachers) to contribute $300,000 worth of gifts to their children’s classrooms. The Corporation’s support will both proliferate face-to-face engagement, and support parental ownership and decision-making power within schools.
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For support of the implementation, learning agenda, creation of resources and storytelling and dissemination related to the Corporation's Integration Design Consortium.
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
To effectively leverage the immense passion, wisdom, and resources invested in education reform efforts, the field must develop strategies that acknowledge and address that each of the important strands of work being undertaken are parts of the same systems and as such have significant interdependencies. Raising awareness of the need for this integration in the field, and catalyzing new ways of working that take these mindsets and practices into account, starts with helping the field develop greater sophistication around the questions related to this challenge. The Corporation’s Integration Design Consortium (IDC), launched in 2016, aims to explore these questions through five place-based approaches to integrating different parts of the system. The Business Innovation Factory aims to amplify the impact of these five projects by ensuring the capture, analysis and sharing of learnings related to the key questions that these projects are investigating. Through this support, they hope to catalyze and equip others in the field to take action around the challenge of integration.
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For research and writing on Russia
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
75 months
Description
With Corporation funding, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) at Duke University has been increasing its focus on Russia with lectures, conferences, and courses on international diplomacy and leadership. Moving forward, that work will continue with some of the courses analyzing case studies dealing with events of particular international importance. Others will concentrate on leadership in international relations and the end of the Cold War and beyond. Continuing his association with faculty and students at CSEEES during this time will be former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock. As a career diplomat who served on the front lines of U.S. diplomacy during the Cold War, Matlock is an expert on how the Cold War ended and how to apply those lessons to public policy today.
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For a project to set up a new digital platform and design a challenge for outreach to schools to empower students and elevate their voice as stakeholders in their communities
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
Peace First, a nonprofit organization, increases opportunities to elevate student voices in their communities and prepare them for leadership. With support from the Corporation, Peace First will launch its new Peace First Challenge – imagined as a “science fair” for social innovation – by engaging tens of thousands of young people across America in civic engagement projects that would impact its student participants and their communities. In a pilot implemented in early 2017, student leaders tackled critical social issues such as school bullying, food poverty, and education disparities. The Peace First Challenge across America will equip young people to understand education issues in their communities, design and implement solutions, and share their insights through a digital community of young change-makers.
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For workshops and seminars on technological change and nuclear risk
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
New weapons systems, driven by technological advances, have the potential to undermine strategic stability and increase nuclear risk. This project of the RAND Corporation (RAND) will seek to strengthen the nascent community of non-governmental experts focused on these challenges. Through workshops and speaker events, RAND will help distribute relevant research and tools and facilitate new channels for engaging policymakers. In addition to meetings to connect researchers with one another and with defense and diplomatic practitioners in Washington, D.C., RAND will also conduct a two-day intensive “boot camp” for graduate students and junior scholars to teach analytical tools and strengthen the field. Finally, RAND will hold panel discussions targeted at a defense policy audience. The overarching goal is to foster discussion of new technologies and stability among scholars, analysts, and policy practitioners.
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For analysis of nuclear weapons policy options
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
The United States faces difficult choices related to nuclear modernization and the pending Nuclear Posture Review. Through this grant, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will respond to these challenges and, as necessary, provide alternative policy options. In addition to supporting analysis, the project will convene experts and policymakers from U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, media, and academia. The overarching goal is to ensure the United States remains in the strongest possible position to lead global efforts on nonproliferation and disarmament. Particular areas of focus include the size and modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, U.S. nuclear policy in light of the pending Nuclear Posture Review, and the relationship between the nascent nuclear ban treaty and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) system.
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For a public information project entitled "America Asks: Science Answers"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
32 months
Description
As partisan rhetoric increasingly takes precedent over facts, the nation is in need of more objective sources of information. Americans’ trust in media continues to fall, however, leaving a gap in institutions on which to rely for news and data. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) proposes to step into that gap with a new public engagement initiative, entitled “America Asks: Science Answers,” which will aim to identify the scientific questions Americans ask most and then provide answers to those questions in clear, easily digestible formats. With Corporation support, using research conducted by top scientists and experts, NAS will address some of the most common and contested scientific questions of today, including those related to climate change, evolution, genetically modified organisms, and vaccines.
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For a project analyzing how scholarly knowledge shapes the views of the public, the media, and policy practitioners
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In recent years, there has been growing demand from the media, scholars, and policy practitioners, for systematic quantitative data on experts’ views on contemporary international issues. The Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) project at the College of William and Mary has responded by conducting large-scale surveys and establishing itself as a hub for this data. TRIP has also collected baseline data on public opinion of foreign policy issues and academic expertise. The data show that a sizable gap remains on how expert knowledge on the theory and practice of international relations affects the public, and on the media’s role in transmitting expert opinion to the public and policy officials. With renewed support, the project seeks to better understand this “theory-practice gap,” and to identify the conditions under which expert knowledge can shape the views of the public, the media, and policy practitioners.
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For support of the Korean Nuclear Security Initiative
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Korean peninsula—perhaps more than any other region of the world—has become central to efforts at building a strong international nonproliferation regime and, most recently, to avoiding nuclear war. However, the increased pace of North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests have highlighted the international community’s failure to halt this growing threat. Given the critical implications of these developments for regional and international peace and security, a well-informed public and policy debate is essential. To address this need, the U.S.-Korea Institute (the Institute) at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) seeks to engage policy circles, the media, and the broader public through increasing both the content and accessibility of information and analysis on North Korea on its authoritative website, 38 North. Additionally, when appropriate and feasible, the Institute will facilitate engagement between the United States and North Korea.
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For technical innovation in nonproliferation verification
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
There are too few independent analysts with deep technical proficiency working on evolving challenges in verification and deterrence. Through this project, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will train graduate student in order to develop future researchers in the field of nuclear security, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. Students will focus on the implications of advances in tracking mobile missile systems and in precision guidance. The grant will also support a doctoral student to complete work on studying how advances in information theory could be applied to nuclear-warhead verification. This project advances the Corporation’s work on technological change and nuclear risk.
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For a project on Iran, nuclear proliferation, and security in the Middle East, and a project on the implications of cyber weapons, artificial intelligence, and machine learning for strategic nuclear stability
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA or “Iran nuclear deal”) addresses an acute source of tension between Iran and the international community. However, the nuclear issue is so closely linked with Iran’s activities in the region that the deal will remain fragile if other areas of disagreement are not addressed. In the JCPOA’s aftermath, other states in the region shifted to arguing that Iran’s role and position in the Middle East constitute more urgent threats than its nuclear capabilities. In response to these challenges, the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) will continue its Track II channels of communication between Iran and relevant actors. IISS will also continue to engage the U.S. foreign policy community,as well as the Chinese and Russian policy communities.
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For enhancing district capacity to gather and use evidence through participation in the Proving Ground project out of the Center for Education Policy Research
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
As states, districts and schools increasingly move towards using evidence-based practices to drive continuous improvement at the school level, a number of limitations, including cost, timeframe and capacity, prevent them from fully leveraging data and analysis. As a result, school districts are constantly cycling through new initiatives, with no valid way to know which are working and which are not. The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University was founded in 2006 to address this and related issues, with the goal of providing education leaders with better evidence to guide their decisions. In 2016, they launched Proving Ground, a collaborative network of state, district and charter management organizations (CMOs) learning together about what is working and what is not in U.S. education, by making analytical results more readily available and widespread in order to improve implementation, assess impact, and inform decision-making. This grant supports the start-up costs for four districts to join Proving Ground, after which the districts will cover the annual operating costs.
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For a book project on “Rethinking Islam: A Modern Interpretation of the Classical Tradition"
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
In parts of the world today, Islam is sometimes viewed as anti-modern and dogmatic. Ali Mirsepassi, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University and a 2007 Carnegie Scholar, seeks to influence the debate over the Islamic tradition with a new book project, entitled “Rethinking Islam: A Modern Interpretation of the Classical Tradition.” With Corporation support, through his research and writing Professor Mirsepassi plans to counter the view that liberal secularism is alien to the Islamic tradition. He will do so through a historical lens, focusing on the intellectual biography of the eminent and influential 11th-century Islamic scholar al-Ghazali. Professor Mirsepassi aims to shift scholarly understanding of Ghazali, and in doing so break new ground in the field of Islamic Studies.
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As a final grant for a project on regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Relations between the United States and Russia are in an unstable state, posing complications for the regional order. A project of the RAND Corporation has been working to identify avenues for building an inclusive regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia, by assembling leading experts and former practitioners from across the region to discuss the issues and coauthor recommendations. The project will focus on the economic integration, regional conflict, and security architecture of what it terms the ‘in-between’ states (Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and others) with the aim of developing a coherent policy framework that ultimately could be adopted by policymakers throughout the Euro-Atlantic region.
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For developing and promoting state policies that enable effective data use, and building public understanding and demand around the value of education data
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
States have made great strides in adopting the data systems and infrastructure necessary to educational transformation, but the full potential to use data in service of the student experience has yet to be realized. Founded in 2005, Data Quality Campaign (DQC) is nonpartisan and the only national organization focused entirely on changing the role of data to improve education outcomes. With current Corporation support, DQC has created and disseminated tools and resources to increase public understanding of the value of education data, conducted original research to gauge and better meet stakeholder needs, and created resources and provided policy guidance to help build stakeholder capacity to employ data in service of personalized learning. Building on these successes, DQC will: 1) advance state policies that enable effective data use in support of new models of education delivery and 2) build public understanding and demand around the value of education data.
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For support of the 2020 census initiative of the Funders' Committee for Civic Participation
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The information collected in the constitutionally mandated decennial census is used to determine fair political representation and allocation of federal resources, as well as to implement and enforce civil rights laws. With the Census Bureau facing drastic financial setbacks—a shortfall of at least $300 million—many fear the consequences of the expected drop in accuracy and efficiency in the 2020 census. The Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), housed at Neo Philanthropy, has been a driving force in civic engagement grantmaking for nearly thirty-five years. By leveraging its philanthropic network of eighty-five member institutions, FCCP convenes and educates the funding community on important civic issues. With Corporation support, FCCP will foster robust, sustained, and effective foundation support around the 2020 census through outreach and recruitment, and by serving as an informational clearinghouse for funders engaged in census work.
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For support of the voting rights litigation working group
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2017, more than 100 bills to limit voting and voter registration access were introduced in 31 states, efforts which disproportionately affect low propensity voters, including minorities, youth, immigrants, and low-income individuals. Many of these bills would have been blocked by the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), a historic achievement of the civil rights movement that was weakened by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County v. Holder (2013). As policymakers work on legislation to restore previous protections offered by the VRA, voting rights attorneys remain the primary defense against efforts to disenfranchise voters. In response to threats posed by the Shelby decision, ten of the nation’s leading voting rights organizations came together to form the Voting Rights Litigation Working Group. With renewed Corporation support, the working group, fiscally sponsored by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will continue to leverage its collective expertise to counsel and collaborate on litigation and pre-litigation efforts against emerging challenges to voting rights.
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For a project to revise and field test high school Biology and Earth Science full course instructional materials that align with the Next Generation Science Standards and develop professional learning supports for teachers to use them with students
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
New York State recently adopted new science standards that were adapted from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and articulate a vision for science teaching and learning that radically shifts from prior state standards. Without instructional materials that are explicitly designed for these new science standards and comprehensive support for teachers to navigate the shifts in instruction, science teachers will not be able to effectively help students master the content. Through this grant, New Visions will launch a two-year project to increase access to open-source, NGSS-aligned high school science instructional materials, focused on Biology (Living Environment) and Earth Science. The project includes instructional materials, professional learning opportunities, and school-based support are aligned.
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For a project to launch the What Matters Now Networked Improvement Community working together within and across states, districts, and schools to study, implement, and iterate on powerful systems of professional learning
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
States and districts do not systematically invest in teachers and their professional growth or adhere to the practices and standards that research has demonstrated to be effective to support professional learning for teachers. Many states and districts do not comprehensively design or adequately track and assess their professional learning investments and programs. The problem is compounded by misalignments between state-, district-, and school-level policies, investments, and systems that inhibit more equitable access to high quality professional learning experiences. Through this grant, Learning Forward will embark on a new initiative called the What Matters Now Networked Improvement Community. It will enable diverse constituencies in three state coalitions to work together within and across states and school districts to use improvement science methodology to study, implement, and iterate interventions to ensure more powerful systems of professional learning in schools, school district, and states.
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For a project to create Zearn Mission Study, a digital professional learning offering for elementary teachers to deepen their content knowledge of mathematics and pedagogical content knowledge of how to teach mathematics using the Zearn Math digital curri
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
Zearn was founded five years ago to take on the challenge of improving K-8 mathematics in the United States by leveraging the EngageNY open source math curriculum to develop a free digital version based on these instructional materials. Zearn Math is highly rated and has “gone viral” (1.4 million registered users representing approximately 7 percent of the elementary school students in the United States.) Even though Zearn Math has already demonstrated an impact on student learning, in order to maximize impact, Zearn plans to develop online professional learning to support each of the units in the curriculum. Zearn Mission Study will be a digital professional learning offering for elementary teachers to deepen their content knowledge of mathematics and their pedagogical content knowledge of how to teach mathematics by using the Zearn Math curriculum to teach teachers.
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For a project to expand district partnerships and build capacity of a national model for job-embedded professional learning opportunities for K-8 teachers implementing high quality English Language Arts instructional materials
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
There is a growing national focus, spurred by an emerging body of research, on the power of thoughtful alignment between high-quality instructional materials and job-embedded professional learning for teachers as a lever for raising student achievement. Yet this kind of impactful professional development is not yet the norm. Through this proposal, EL Education plans to tackle this challenge, accelerating its teacher development at scale, and aiming to provide a national model for other professional development providers. EL Education plans to build on its highly rated K-8 English Language Arts curriculum to partner with five to seven districts to both implement their curriculum and engage in a series of professional learning offerings to build the capacity for district level coaches and teacher leaders to support teachers.
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For support of two conventions of the International Association for the Humanities
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the next two years, partner associations of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will host conventions in the former Soviet Union. The conventions are modeled on learned society annual meetings that are held in the United States and act as international, multilingual forums for the open exchange of independent research and analysis. To ensure a regional balance among the attendees of the conference, the ACLS is working to solicit the participation of scholars from the post-Soviet region and from Europe and North America. Corporation funding will help support that participation.
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For research, policy engagement, and training to reduce nuclear risks
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Princeton Program on Science and Global Security (PSGS) is home to some of the leading independent technical analysts working on nuclear security issues. They have provided advice to policymakers on a range of issues, from managing fissile material to nuclear modernization to the Iran deal. With Corporation support, PSGS will continue its policy research and its training for doctoral and masters students. Their work over the next two years will focus on force posture and war plans, nuclear verification, ballistic missile defense, and the intersection between nuclear energy and proliferation risk. PSGS also serves as the secretariat of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), and coalition of experts from around the world that analyzes “the technical basis for practical and achievable policy initiatives to secure, consolidate, and reduce stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium.”
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For work to strengthen the media capacity of the arms control and disarmament sector
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States faces a series of connected challenges on nuclear policy in Iran, North Korea, nuclear modernization, and U.S.-Russia relations. While recent developments are daunting, they have increased the salience of nuclear issues and created new opportunities for a public conversation about nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and global security. ReThink Media (ReThink) will provide the arms control and disarmament community resources, advice, and technical assistance to inform this conversation. As the constituency concerned with nuclear weapons has steadily diminished over the past two decades, ReThink will work with its partners to understand where the public stands on these issues and how to communicate more effectively for today’s audiences.
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For a project to develop a Network of Educators across the United States (NEXUS) for Next Generation Science Education Leadership to support state and district leaders implementing new science standards and to deepen their knowledge and leadership practic
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
27 months
Description
WestEd is a national education research and development agency with over fifty years of experience supporting educational equity and excellence. Through this grant, WestEd will develop Network of Educators across the United States (NEXUS ) for Next Generation Science Education Leadership. This project will create a networked group of state and district leaders in five states, and support them to access and use effective approaches to implementing the NGSS in their districts. NEXUS will be designed in response to the need for state and district science leaders to deepen their knowledge and leadership practices related to supporting teachers and schools in ensuring equitable standards-aligned science education for all students through the implementation of high quality instructional materials designed for the NGSS.
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As a one-time grant for a project on peace, conflict and the media
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Spectrum Media, working through conflict resolution specialists, Peace Direct, is producing a film festival focused on the intersection of peace, conflict, and the media. The program involves a one-day symposium bringing together distinguished experts in peacebuilding, diplomacy, and the media for an examination of the question: In a world seemingly beset with violence, why aren’t we talking more about non-violent solutions to conflict? Concurrent with the symposium will be a weeklong film festival featuring the best among recent documentaries about peacebuilding. The films will play throughout New York City in association with local colleges and universities, and will include follow-on discussions led by filmmakers. Additionally, the program will have an ongoing digital presence to disseminate findings from the symposium and to strengthen links between journalists and peacebuilders.
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For the 2017 Grantmakers for Education annual conference, entitled Equity in Education: Empowering Community Voice.
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
4 months
Description
Effective education grantmaking is complex and too often, funders work independently with limited opportunities for exchange and collaboration with peers. Grantmakers for Education (GFE) is a national network of hundreds of education philanthropies, diverse in focus but united in mission: to improve outcomes and expand opportunities for all learners, cradle to career. Founded in 1995 on the premise that collective insights, shared resources and constructive collaboration enable grantmakers to make more intentional and impactful investments in public education and beyond, GFE hosts an annual conference as a centerpiece of that strategy. This grant supports the 2017 conference, the theme of which is Equity in Education: Empowering Community Voice, and which aims to provide the opportunity to hear from those directly impacted by education funding: educators, students, parents and more.
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For Arabic Collections Online (ACO)
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is an open-access digital library created by New York University. Other than focused collections of scholarly Arabic literature and theology, very little Arabic-language content is available online to the public. This has limited the ability of scholars and others to study and research Arabic culture and history. To address this problem, ACO is bringing a substantial, open-access Arabic library collection to an internet environment long dominated by Western-language content. Currently, half of ACO’s growing readership is in areas where libraries are not easily accessible. Corporation support contributes toward creating an overall 23,000-volume, Arabic-language library accessible to all.
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For a project on the defense industry and U.S. foreign policy
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
23 months
Description
Transparency International (TI) is a leading global nongovernmental organization that works with governments, businesses, and civil society to prevent the abuse of power. Within its mandate, it has been tracking the impact of defense industries and arms sales on government policy agendas in Western Europe. It now plans to conduct similar assessments in the United States, from its new office in Washington, D.C. TI’s Defense and Security project will trace the role of the defense industry on U.S. policies through case studies that will include the examination of institutional controls. The assessments will result in practical policy recommendations for consideration by U.S. policymakers.
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For the Middle East and South Asia Fellowship Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
The Corporation will support a customized seven-week Fellowship for twelve individuals from the Middle East and 9 individuals from South Asia. Eisenhower Fellows from the Middle East and South Asia (MESA) will travel throughout the United States, stopping in eight to ten cities (two to three meetings per day), and meet with industry professionals in their fields of interest. The MESA Fellows are mid-career leaders from all sectors: government, business, civil society, the sciences, health care, the arts and journalism. Each Fellow is required to develop a project that they will implement when they return to their home countries; a prominent theme of their current action is The Future of Work. Year’s fellows will join the impressive network of Eisenhower Fellows already active in the region, and gain access to networks of Corporation-supported experts.
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For a Center for Public Research and Leadership project to use improvement methodology to increase the success of school systems and non-profits in designing and implementing high-quality instructional materials and professional learning systems to suppor
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Effective implementation of new and rigorous standards requires both high-quality instructional materials and effective professional learning systems and supports for teachers and school leaders. While many districts and nonprofits are implementing new instructional materials and associated professional learning, very few have adopted improvement methodology tools and practices into their work. This project of the Center for Research and Public Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University is designed to bring its improvement methodology to nonprofit organizations and school systems that are working to implement rigorous standards in new ways. The grant also will support follow-up Re-envisioning Professional Education (RPE) convenings to help better prepare graduates of university-based professional schools to solve public problems using improvement science methodology.
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For expanding and implementing a personalized learning program at the high school level
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
College and career readiness have not kept pace with rising high school graduation rates. This problem disproportionately impacts low-income students, hindering their opportunity to achieve economic mobility through quality education. RePublic Schools, a charter management organization currently operating five middle schools and one high school in Nashville, Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi, was founded in 2014 with a mission to reimagine public education in the South. Despite impressive results, RePublic leadership believe that more must be done to ensure college and career readiness, namely, personalized learning experiences will be key to students’ long-term success. With seed funding from the Corporation, RePublic has refined a digital platform and developed instructional materials to transform the RePublic High School model into a more personalized, adaptive academic experience. Building on this work, RePublic will expand its personalized learning curriculum to include more content areas and grade levels, as well as develop necessary supports.
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For support of the Here to Here initiative, a multi-sector partnership network committed to providing work-based experiential learning opportunities to high school students in the Bronx
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Better alignment between what students are expected to know and be able to do in high school and what they need to be successful in college and career will require coordinated efforts across the secondary, postsecondary, and career sectors such that students have access to personalized, real-world learning experiences while in high school. DreamYard Project, Inc. (DreamYard) has over two decades of experience engaging a broad coalition of local stakeholders to build pathways to equity and opportunity for students in the Bronx. Building on this experience, DreamYard is now launching a new program, Here to Here (H2H), a multi-sector partnership network committed to providing work-based experiential learning opportunities to high school students in the Bronx. With Corporation support, DreamYard will develop, refine, and implement the H2H program; build and steward a partnership network of multi-sector actors; and complete a formative study and prepare for a long term program evaluation to inform H2H improvement and the field at large.
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For incorporating socio-emotional learning into the iMentor program model
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—an extensive body of research indicates that students’ socio-emotional and metacognitive skills are key to their lifelong well-being. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction, particularly at the high school level. The iMentor model, which matches every student in a partner school with a committed, college-educated mentor and incorporates direct instruction from iMentor staff, has demonstrated positive impact on its students, who enroll, persist, and graduate from college at higher rates than do low-income students nationwide. Despite these successes, iMentor recognizes that more needs to be done to improve postsecondary outcomes for the students it serves. With Corporation support, iMentor will redesign core elements of its program model to more purposefully target socio-emotional learning such that students are armed with the SEL skills necessary for college persistence and postsecondary success.
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For a communications campaign to elevate teacher voice
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
5 months
Description
The education reform debate in this country is currently very polarized and would benefit from the collective wisdom of teachers. The Teachers Union Reform Network (TURN), which has been a leader for decades in gathering and shaping this wisdom, recently published a white paper outlining a progressive vision of education reform. The report underscores performance-based standards and assessments for student learning; recognizes the importance of teaching as a profession; and tighter bonds between parents and teachers. With Corporation support, TURN will disseminate this report widely at the national and regional level to 1) infuse the national conversation around education reform informed by the collective voice of teachers; 2) highlight the ideas and on-the-ground work of policies and practices developed by pioneering teacher leaders from across the nation; and 3) encourage other National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers local affiliates to join the movement or deepen their existing reform work.
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For improving university research administration in Eurasia and Africa
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Sub-Saharan Africa’s socio-economic development depends on its ability to produce research to address local challenges. African share of world research output has increased, from 1.5 percent in 2005 to 2.8 percent in 2015 according to Web of Science global index. However, bottlenecks to mobilizing resources for research include poor capacity to manage the resources, monitor and track research, and apply for large research grants. Supported by the Corporation since 2002, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) University Administrator Support Program (UASP) equips research administrators through placements at U.S. universities. IREX is seeking support for twenty-four African and eight Eurasian university fellows to include orientation and closing Washington, D.C.-based workshops, four-week placements at U.S. universities, a small grants competition, and alumni activity.
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For conducting research and analysis for post-secondary pathways to success - including hosting a convening, leading a visioning process, and disseminating findings
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
23 months
Description
Founded in 2007, The Cowen Institute at Tulane University will conduct intensive research to explore the trajectories of young people in New Orleans and develop possible solutions to improve college-going and persistence. The Cowen team will establish clear baseline data on the status of New Orleans youth in particular age bands; lead a convening of local and national thought leaders; develop recommendations for community-level responses; and prepare and disseminate a report on research methodology and best practices that can be used by other communities. The goal is to create a vision for meaningful, high-quality pathways to postsecondary opportunities and credentials for socioeconomically disadvantaged youth for use in New Orleans and communities nationwide.
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For a one-time grant in support of education programming
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the nation’s only museum focused on design and is a leader in introducing design thinking across all ages and settings. Design thinking promotes the use of a variety of mathematical concepts and skills; requires communication about one’s work, which in turn develops written and oral presentation skills; and is easily integrated in teaching thereby promoting STEM and 21st century skills in an organic and effective way. With Corporation support, Cooper Hewitt will continue to offer students an opportunity to participate in their DesignPrep, pre-college career program and will also support the integration of a new “thesis” project for DesignPrep Scholars using the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access’s Learning Lab to create unique student-curated content that can be shared with students and educators across the world.
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For a project to design and field test a model for online, video-based professional learning that leverages the implementation of high quality instructional materials aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and further develop an engagem
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
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With Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) recently adopted or adapted by thirty-three states and the District of Columbia, more than half of American students will be in schools that are intended to teach science in ways that reflect the innovations and vision of NGSS. Teaching Channel’s proposed project responds to a growing market need for high quality instructional materials and examples of NGSS-aligned classrooms. This project will develop an innovative professional learning model, using video and online learning, and also empower teachers as leaders to help with NGSS implementation. The grant supports the development of an online course and proof of concept (using two chapters of a middle school ecology unit called Disruptions in Ecosystems) that fuses instructional materials with video, online learning, and coaching. Teaching Channel also will pursue a dissemination strategy to engage more teachers in the NGSS and contribute to a robust “movement” with the teacher’s voice at its center.
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For a case study for education leaders, policymakers, and practitioners on the District of Columbia Public Schools' instructional reforms
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
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FutureEd is an independent, solution-oriented think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of the nation’s schools on behalf of disadvantaged students. Ensuring that every student is taught by capable teachers is central to that work. FutureEd recently published a 5,500-word analysis in the Washington Monthly magazine of the efforts over the past decade to improve the teaching force and teachers’ daily lives in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Through its comprehensive human capital reform efforts, DCPS has strengthened students’ chances of academic success and has created an important reform blueprint for others to follow. The proposed project draws on their extensive research for that project to develop a new 10,000-word case study designed to support the development of education leaders, policymakers, and practitioners in other school systems who would like to learn from the DCPS reform blueprint to strengthen instruction in their school systems.
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For initiating strategies to isolate and measure impact of Tribeca Film Institute's educational programs, with a special focus on populations served through the New York City Administration of Children's Services partnership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
21 months
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Incarcerated youth are overwhelmingly prevented from thriving and contributing to the social, physical, and economic fabric of their communities. Using a film production model rooted in empathy and collaboration, Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) leverages the power of storytelling as a teaching and transformative healing tool for those affected by the criminal justice system, with the goal of helping justice-involved youth in New York City rebuild social and cultural interconnectedness within their communities. TFI recognizes that learning and community engagement opportunities occur everywhere, and that schools are only one piece of a larger ecosystem of growth that happens at home, online, with peers, and within informal or alternative learning spaces such as jails, prisons, and secure and non-secure detention centers. Funding will support the evaluation and strengthening of the ‘Tribeca Teaches’ connected learning program for justice-involved youth, in which young people “on both sides of the bars” participate in collaborative storytelling through film, with a specific focus on youth in detention centers served by New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).
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For WorldViews 2019 conference on the democratization of higher education and the media
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As enrollment in higher education is estimated at 200 million worldwide and will double in a few decades, heightened public interest in how universities operate and what they offer has increased the role of the media in higher education. Concurrently, technological change has profoundly transformed the “mainstream” media and questioned the expertise of professional journalists. WorldViews 2019 global conference which will be held in Toronto in June of 2019 will investigate the interplay between higher education and the media, while exploring how the media can support more democratic access to higher education and dissemination of academic research findings.
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For a program to offer naturalization assistance through the New York City public library system
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
18 months
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Naturalization is a foundational component of immigrant civic integration that brings significant social, economic, and civic benefits not only to families, but also to communities, states, and the country as a whole. Yet, more than 650,000 lawful permanent residents in New York City (NYC) have not taken the final step of naturalizing for reasons ranging from cost and misinformation, to lack of access to good counsel and more. The NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) recognizes the importance of educating eligible persons about the naturalization process and the substantial benefits it will bring to their families, their communities, and themselves. With Corporation support, MOIA will use the city’s public library network to provide naturalization services, such as community citizenship clinics and application assistance, including access to Citizenshipworks, a web-based application tool.
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For support of the 2020 Census Project
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S. Constitution mandates a full and accurate enumeration of the total population in each state and the country as a whole every ten years. A precise count of the population is vital to the basic functions of government. The census not only serves to apportion seats for the U.S. House of Representatives, it also provides a vital source of information to a wide range of other stakeholders. However, faced with significant budget constraints, the U.S. Census Bureau is likely to experience severe challenges in completing an accurate census in 2020. Recognizing the extent of these challenges, as well as the importance of the census, multiple foundations have come together to develop a plan to ensure a complete count. With Corporation support, New Venture Fund’s 2020 Census Project will fund key organizations to educate decision makers on census design and implementation, organize and coordinate key stakeholders, and respond to arising challenges that would impede an accurate count.
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For support of the Lou Frey Institute's civic learning program in Florida
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
According to the most recent Current Population Survey, the State of Florida ranks 49th in voting in local elections, contacting public officials, and belonging to a civic group, and 50th in working with neighbors on community problems and attending public meetings. In 2010, the Florida State Legislature passed the Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Civic Education Act in light of the relative weakness of the state’s civic culture. The O’Connor Act, arguably the strongest civic learning legislation in the country, resulted in a new statewide emphasis on civics. In order to support the O’Connor Act’s ambitious goal of producing widespread, better and more equal civic learning, the Florida Legislature began providing the Lou Frey Institute (housed at University of Central Florida) funding to support the act’s implementation. The Lou Frey Institute works with state department personnel, district curriculum specialists, teachers, and school administrators to build an effective, multi-pronged support system that focuses on middle school civics and supports instructional learning. With Corporation support, the Lou Frey Institute will continue making civic learning gains for Florida’s youth, despite an unexpected budget shortfall in fiscal year 2017.
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For support of the Choose Love Enrichment Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
An extensive body of research shows that students’ socio-emotional skills are key to their lifelong success. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction. The mission of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement (JLCLM) is to ensure that every child has access to SEL in their classrooms. In pursuit of this mission, JLCLM developed the open access Choose Love Enrichment Program (CLEP), a standards-aligned, pre-K-12 SEL curriculum to help students acquire and apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy and compassion, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. With Corporation support, JLCLM will roll out an updated and improved CLEP for the 2017-18 school year; expand outreach to and support of CLEP educators; ensure ongoing partner school data collection and evaluations; and increase national awareness of JLCLM, CLEP, and the benefits of SEL.
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For the launch of the Boulder Fund and general operating support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite an increase in rhetoric advocating for more diverse leadership and more inclusive efforts within education reform in recent years, in large part the homogeneity of race, ethnicity and experience in organizational leadership in education reform has persisted. At the same time, the polarization of the political and education landscape has increased and vitriolic reactions to education reform – including from the very communities that need excellent schools the most – continues to characterize reactions to efforts to improve schools. Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC), launched in 2016, envisions a ‘third way’ to address these challenges, by making reform more inclusive of the communities it affects. As an expanding network of diverse leaders, EdLoC seeks to increase the number of effective, aligned Black and Latinx leaders in high-level positions in education and adjacent fields by providing the support, networks, seed funding and the social capital that facilitates access to significant funding. This grant is for the launch of EdLoC’s Boulder Fund ($1M) and for general support ($250K).
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For the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum seminar "Towards a New Balkans Diplomacy"
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Richard C. Holbrooke Forum was conceived by the American Academy in Berlin as a special remembrance of its founder and his lifelong commitment to applying the tools of diplomacy and statecraft for solving the protracted challenges to the well-being of humanity. With Corporation support, the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum will convene a special seminar, “Towards a New Balkans Diplomacy”, to discuss the future of Western diplomacy and statecraft in the Balkans. The seminar aims to look at the past to identify what worked in the mid-1990s, and why. Looking into the future, the Forum will address a number of issues including breaking the gridlock on democratic transformation within the region; the role of the U.S., political elites as agents of positive change; reconciliation; and geopolitics.
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For the NOVA Science Studio
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
28 months
Description
While the need for science-based skills and professions in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field continue to increase, attracting a diverse workforce remains a major challenge. Research shows that low-income students of color show a stronger disinterest in science than their peers, largely because they rarely perceive scientists from diverse backgrounds on the media and lack opportunities in their curriculum for genuine engagement. WGBH’s NOVA Science Studio will launch a pilot program connecting Boston-area students with science writers and communicators in order to inspire students to engage in the sciences and support a broader set of career aspirations. NOVA is the most-watched science series on prime-time television, with an average of four million weekly viewers, and is well-positioned to execute the pilot. With the Corporation’s support, NOVA will (1) design its curriculum focusing on science journalism and video production and (2) implement the pilot through biweekly courses on topics such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
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