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For the Student Voices project and parent and community engagement efforts
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Students for Education Reform (SFER), founded by Alexis Morin as a college student in 2009, identifies and trains college students in grassroots organizing to be able to advocate for educational reform in their communities. Their student advocates have tackled issues ranging from remedial course reform, to better support for English Language Learners, to pushing for higher standards in K-12 education. With Corporation support, SFER will continue their Student Voices program, equipping young people with training and resources to provide first-hand accounts to the media about the need for education reform, particularly related to higher standards and new school designs. In addition, SFER will expand their work in parent engagement by conducting on-the-ground outreach and developing physical and online materials that inform parents about the educational resources at their disposal and how to best navigate them.
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For building parent understanding and support for postsecondary pathways and new ways of learning
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
GreatSchools is one of the country’s leading sources of school performance information for parents, reaching forty-four million unique visitors and 50 percent of American families with children. Along with profiles of more than 200,000 PreK-12 schools and more than 1,000,000 parent and community ratings and reviews of schools, their new program, GreatKids, provides information, tips, activities, and tools that help parents get the best possible education for their children. With the support of this grant, they will conduct research and develop content and services that help high school parents, especially low-income parents, better understand postsecondary education pathways that lead to economic opportunity; rally around a “knowledge, skills, character, and purpose” vision of education success; and understand innovations in teaching, schooling and the emerging science of learning.
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For general support and project support for convenings on parent empowerment at the local level
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
With high demands on families and limited support, many families find the school system confusing and frustrating. School choice is also emerging as an important tool for empowering parents and improving educational outcomes. But in the absence of expert help, not all families can make the most of the choices available to them—or even understand what those choices are. EdNavigator is a new nonprofit established in August 2015 with Corporation and other philanthropic support to help families get the best education possible for their children, by empowering them with affordable, high quality support from pre-K to college. After a successful initial pilot in New Orleans, EdNavigator will expand to reach more families and employers with further Corporation support. EdNavigator will also begin to build a community of practice amongst organizations across the country engaged in parent empowerment at the local level.
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For general support for the parent engagement initiative Learning Heroes and project support for a parent survey
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2015 with multi-foundation and Corporation support, Learning Heroes seeks to be a trusted, non-political source of information for parents about changes happening in the classroom and to equip them to support their child’s academic success. The Learning Heroes 2016 parent survey found that parents overwhelmingly believe that their child is academically on track, even though testing data shows that many students are not. With general support from this grant, Learning Heroes will provide parents with information through: communications campaigns, with a focus on new assessments and social and emotional learning; work with State Education Agencies and districts to conduct research and provide communications counsel; and work with national partners to reach more parents. This grant also provides project support for a 2017 version of the parent survey, this time focusing on parents of high school students.
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For the expansion of the Next Generation Science Standards resource site on TeachingChannel.org
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Teaching Channel’s mission is to create an environment where teachers can watch, share, and learn new techniques to help every student grow. They accomplish this by providing free, on-demand videos that model best teaching practices and an interactive collaboration platform where teachers become part of a community of professional learning—a space where they get better together. With previous Corporation support, Teaching Channel created a new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) resource site on TeachingChannel.org, their free open source website that reaches nearly one million educators a month. Along with NGSS videos and video-related resources, the site hosts NGSS aligned “challenges” to engage teachers across the country in working with the new standards. With renewed Corporation support, the Teaching Channel will continue to ensure they are helping teachers learn to change their practice in NGSS instruction in measurable ways.
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For continuing coverage on advancing student learning through integrated designs for school innovation in Education Week and on edweek.org
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Education Week is considered a “must-read” news source for practitioners and policymakers in elementary and secondary education. With over three decades of publishing, it has assembled a team of talented education writers with a wealth of knowledge about education and education reform. Their 200,000 print readers and 1.2 million online users include policymakers and practitioners within the K-12 system and across the range of government agencies, legislative bodies, state executives, and public and private institutions that effectively set the agenda for American elementary and secondary education. With Corporation support, Education Week will continue to conduct enterprise reporting that brings attention to efforts aimed at advancing student learning through integrated designs for school innovation. To complement the Corporation-supported news coverage, the Education Week Research Center will conduct an original research study to further explore issues related to the grant’s topical focus.
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For the Hechinger Report community engagement and coverage of high school designs and college and career access and success
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
The Hechinger Report will employ its brand of balanced, in-depth reporting to examine current efforts toward revamping and reshaping U.S. high schools. With previous support from the Corporation, the Hechinger Report created a body of journalism examining new ideas for high school design covering promising programs, turnaround efforts, and established schools that have shown success in an era of tough new standards. With further Corporation support, the Hechinger Report will continue to examine not only which new ideas, designs, and innovations have the potential to work but also highlight what is already working well and what is not. They will also drill down on the many new ways high schools are attempting to meet students where they are, via personalized, student-centered learning that defies a one-size-fits-all approach and helps meet the needs of vastly different types of learners.
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For a pilot program of the Learning Pioneers summer policy fellowship for teachers.
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
9 months
Description
Over the past five years, 50CAN has emerged as a leading non-profit organization that supports local leaders in efforts to advocate for educational systems that provide all children with a high-quality education. Their work in seven states provides policy, advocacy, and training expertise to local leaders and builds relationships with teachers, parents, and civic leaders to move the conversation forward on key education issues facing their communities—from universal pre-K, to recruiting great teachers, to implementing more rigorous standards. With Corporation support, 50CAN will launch a Learning Pioneers pilot program in Rhode Island, an intensive summer fellowship to provide pioneering teachers with the opportunity to work together to translate their personalized learning work into locally developed proposals that can inform statewide policy campaigns.
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For nonproliferation research and training in open-source methodology
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
This project addresses two issues of pressing importance to nuclear non-proliferation: the effective implementation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, and the development of open source research methodologies in support of the latter and the non-proliferation regime as a whole.
Project Title
For a research project related to liberal arts and sciences in the 21st Century
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and founding member of Project Zero (PZ), an educational research group. In 2013, the project “Liberal Arts and Sciences in the 21st Century” was launched by PZ with a goal to preserve an education the liberal arts and sciences while rethinking and reinventing this form of education for our times. In 2015 the Corporation provided funding in support of an in-depth study of the perspectives of stakeholders (students, parents, faculty, senior staff, alumni, and trustees) at a diverse group of campuses to ascertain alignments or misalignments among the constituencies with respect to the goals, values, and means of implementing quality post-secondary education. With Corporation support, the project will expand the study to include three community colleges, the results of which will be shared with second school educations and to use this information to inform policy at the local and national levels.
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For dissemination support for the film, "Command and Control"
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
Description
This grant supports a theatrical dissemination campaign for the American Experience film Command and Control, based on the Eric Schlosser book of the same title. The film, a gripping account of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas, powerfully illustrates the challenge posed by technological complexity and human fallibility. Corporation funding will allow an expanded theatrical release in major markets as well as screenings for influencers in target cities. The film provides an opportunity to engage new audiences in a visceral way about the nature of nuclear risk.
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For a project on regional capacity for nuclear governance in Asia Pacific region
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
The Asia-Pacific region will likely see significant growth in nuclear activity over the next two decades. However, there has been little policy-relevant research on nuclear governance in the region, especially research that is comprehensive, covering safety, safeguards, security and peaceful uses. This project will systematically assess the current situation, identify roadblocks to progress, and investigate how these obstacles might be removed. The project will examine how Asia-Pacific security architecture fits into the global architecture, and how the region might both benefit from, and contribute to, global nuclear governance. Several countries in the region could be standard bearers in this respect: Australia, Japan, and South Korea. The project is directly relevant to the Corporation’s longstanding interest in strengthening nuclear governance and nuclear security.
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For U.S.-Russian Academies of Sciences nuclear security dialogue
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
42 months
Description
Even before the rift over Ukraine, arms-control talks between the United States and Russia were paralyzed because of concerns over military capabilities other than strategic nuclear weapons: missile defenses, prompt global strike, boost-glide systems, space security, and cyber warfare. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) will conduct a series of bilateral Track 2 meetings to investigate these challenges and lay the ground work for future progress. The longstanding NAS-RAS dialogue has provided a forum for ventilating issues that Russian and U.S. officials say cannot be aired in official talks. One reason for its success is that it grounds these dialogues with a technical foundation before moving to policy implications.
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For the Innovation Fund Collaborative on Nuclear Security
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Ploughshares Fund’s N Square emerged from observations among funders that the nuclear security sector is relatively insular, with high barriers to entry for potential new contributors. While nuclear risk remains acute, public awareness and engagement on nuclear issues has dissipated. Moreover, there is no common problem map, which creates obstacles for new entrants who wish to apply their expertise, technology, or resources toward reducing nuclear risks. N Square is emerging from its two-year pilot phase with a revised approach to reaching outside the sector to build a “network of networks” that includes influential individuals in technology, media, and the arts. This network will allow nuclear security insiders to use new tools and approaches to adapt or scale their work.
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For a project to examine the barriers to election administration and to re-launch the Voting Technology Project website
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
28 months
Description
In late 2000, following the disputed 2000 presidential election and with Corporation support, the California Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched the Voting Technology Project (VTP). The VTP conducts research and engages in public outreach focused on the role of technology in ensuring that elections are administered fairly and effectively. With Corporation support, and fifteen years later, the VTP will conduct research and release a report looking at voting technology challenges of the 2016 election, and it will redesign and relaunch its website, as well as develop new social media channels to disseminate its work to other researchers, thought leaders, and policymakers.
Project Title
For projects out of the Carnegie Moscow Center
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (the Endowment) has been a leading force for peaceful engagement among world powers for over a century. It established itself as the first global think tank by opening the Carnegie Moscow Center (Moscow Center) in 1994 and as part of its Global Vision of 2007, opened offices in Beijing, Beirut, and Brussels. Today, the Endowment has a thriving network of centers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Because of that global presence, in support of the mutual aims of the Endowment and the Corporation, and to endorse the Endowment’s new president William Burns, a respected scholar and successful policymaker, we are recommending renewed support to the Endowment. Funding is targeted for the Nuclear Policy Program (NPP), to the Moscow Center for its research and outreach in both the United States and Russia, and to the Carnegie Tsinghua Center for Global Policy (CTC).
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For projects out of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (the Endowment) has been a leading force for peaceful engagement among world powers for over a century. It established itself as the first global think tank by opening the Carnegie Moscow Center (Moscow Center) in 1994 and as part of its Global Vision of 2007, opened offices in Beijing, Beirut, and Brussels. Today, the Endowment has a thriving network of centers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Because of that global presence, in support of the mutual aims of the Endowment and the Corporation, and to endorse the Endowment’s new president William Burns, a respected scholar and successful policymaker, we are recommending renewed support to the Endowment. Funding is targeted for the Nuclear Policy Program (NPP), to the Moscow Center for its research and outreach in both the United States and Russia, and to the Carnegie Tsinghua Center for Global Policy (CTC).
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For the development of a data visualization tool that allows users to view school-level outcomes in relation to school-level per-pupil spending
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Leveraging education resources—time, money, people, and technology—in different ways can create more personalized learning environments and improve student outcomes. In the current landscape, education stakeholders frequently make decisions about how (and how much) money should be spent, but rarely are these decisions informed by the relationship between per-pupil spending and student outcomes at the school level. BEST NC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of business leaders committed to improving North Carolina’s education system through policy and advocacy, and they are partnering with Decision Sciences to create a tool that will help education stakeholders to make more informed decisions about school spending. Corporation funds will support BEST NC to develop an interactive file that maps per-pupil spending to per-pupil outcomes at the school level, allowing users to begin thinking about resource allocation in ways that maximize student outcomes. This tool is intended to become public-facing.
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For unofficial diplomatic dialogue on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Asia-Pacific region, with a special emphasis on North Korea
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
This renewal grant to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will enable two dialogues on reducing nuclear risk. The first, the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), brings together security leaders from twenty-seven countries in East and Southeast Asia in parallel to the official Asia Regional Forum (ARF). Through its leadership role in this quasi-governmental network, CSIS promotes regional nonproliferation and disarmament efforts and trains the next generation of nuclear specialists. The second dialogue builds on longstanding engagement with scholars and officials in North Korea to convene a Track 2 process. Unlike past dialogues, this initiative is designed to test the North’s stated willingness to take steps on nonproliferation even as Pyongyang asserts that denuclearization is off the table.
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For project support to facilitate nongovernmental U.S. engagement and security dialogues on North Korea
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
North Korea’s nuclear weapons program continues to pose a deep and enduring challenge to the global nonproliferation regime, stability in East Asia, and, directly, to the United States. Despite the increasingly bellicose words and deeds emanating from Pyongyang, including its recent fourth nuclear test, and the impasse on the official diplomatic front, keeping channels of communications open with North Korea remains an important objective of IPS grantmaking as it promotes—similar to its work related to Iran—a non-military solution to a regional crisis where nuclear issues post a threat. A Corporation grant will allow the non-partisan National Committee on North Korea (NCNK) to continue and deepen its work on information sharing and networking among Track II practitioners and other groups working with North Koreans or on North Korea policy.
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For support of the Public Intellectuals Program: a fellows program to create and strengthen ongoing links among academia, the policymaking world, and opinion leaders on China
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
27 months
Description
Established in 2005, the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP) of the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) is designed to nurture outstanding members of the younger generation of U.S. China specialists from a variety of fields. It aims at deepening and broadening their knowledge of China beyond the narrow focus of their academic disciplines and equipping them with the tools and incentives to use that knowledge to inform American policy and public opinion. NCUSCR requests renewal support for a follow-on PIP round for twenty fellows. Each program component is tailored to meet PIP’s goals, and includes workshops and meetings with public and private sector leaders, media training, and study trips to Greater China. Periods of sustained interaction among the fellows enable them to become acquainted, learn about each other’s research, develop plans for collaborative work, and think about China through an interdisciplinary lens.
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For developing a state human capital academy and continuing support of the Emerging Human Capital Leadership Initiative
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
13 months
Description
Over the last decade, State Education Agencies (SEAs) have evolved from a more compliance or regulatory role in education supporting and managing performance of individual districts, schools, and charter management organizations through alternative governance models. Despite greater awareness of opportunities for more strategic management, change at the state-level has been slow and, thus, hindered change at the district and school-levels. To address this, Urban Schools Human Capital Academy (USHCA) seeks to create a State Human Capital Academy, modeled after its work with districts. In doing so, USHCA aims to not only impact the work of SEAs, but also accelerate the work of districts poised for change that are located in participating states. Through this grant, USHCA will plan the launch of this academy, work with critical partners to capture best practices and assess interest, and engage those states that are ready to commit to change. Further, this work at the state and district levels requires leaders who understand the importance of human capital management and seek roles as change agents. To address this need, USHCA proposes to continue to work with partners on the Emerging Human Capital Leaders Initiative (EHCLI), focusing its efforts on content creation and program delivery. By supporting the State Human Capital Academy and EHCLI, CCNY furthers USHCA’s work to advance alignment of policies, actions, and outcomes, promoting practices that support a coherent human capital strategy and lead to the implementation of highly effective talent management structures and identification of sustainable talent pipelines.
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For support of the National Agenda for the Future of Syria (Phase II)
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
17 months
Description
This proposal is recommended in the frame of the new program area to explore programming based on the principles of human rights, citizenship, democracy, social equity and justice to develop sustainable solutions and informed policy on the ongoing Syrian conflict. The escalation of the Syrian crisis over the past five years has presented a real threat to the disintegration of national unity and the Syrian state. Without concrete and substantive discussions on the future course of the country, finding a sustainable political solution to the crisis seems unlikely.
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For a project on the strategic implications of Russia-China relations
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The emergence of both China and Russia as major global powers presents both challenges and opportunities for the United States. By focusing on the potential for a Sino-Russian alliance, strategic options for America and its allies come into clearer focus. The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) proposes a concentrated, bipartisan project into early-2018, designed to inform the U.S. presidential campaigns, the new administration in 2017, and the broader American policy community. The project would start with an assessment of the current state of the Sino-Russian relationship, and the problems or advantages it currently poses for the United States and the “West” more generally. It would explore the dynamics behind, and likelihood of, a tighter Sino-Russian alignment, including the internal and external dynamics driving the relationship, and its implications for U.S. and broader international peace and security interests.
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For a project on bridging the gap between academia and the policy world
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Bridging the Gap (BtG) is a flagship project within the Corporation’s portfolio of grants promoting greater linkages between the academic and policy worlds. Co-sponsored by American University, Duke University, and the University of California, Berkeley, this initiative connects research and policy, primarily in the fields of political science and international relations. BtG is concerned primarily with promoting the value of scholarship in the public sphere by fostering policy-relevant scholarship within universities and providing scholars with the tools and skills necessary to bring their knowledge and insights to policy and practice. Its impact to date is most evident through the network of scholars it has trained and mentored who pursue research aimed directly at the policymaking community and have proven their ability to communicate important findings clearly and coherently to a broad audience.
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For Middle East Dialogue and Countering Violent Transnational Movements
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Building on previous Corporation support, the Middle East Institute (MEI) seeks a grant renewal to address two related sets of issues: 1) The ongoing civil war in Syria and the dangerous level of regional conflict, particularly between Iran and Gulf States, and; 2) The rise of violent non-state actors fueled by conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and throughout the region. MEI’s Middle East Dialogue seeks to build common ground and agreement among officials and experts from the region and beyond relating to ending the war in Syria and establishing a more stable and sustainable regional order. The policy research project on Countering Violent Transnational Movements (CVTM) seeks to provide a new depth of understanding of the drivers behind this complex phenomenon and to influence the policies of regional and international state actors.
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For religion, identity, and human rights in the Middle East
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
29 months
Description
This proposal is recommended in the context of the new program area to explore programming rooted in the frame of human rights. The goal of this project is to address the unraveling political order in the Middle East and the rise of violence. The Hariri Center gathered an array of regional stakeholders and international experts to identify ways in which citizens in the Middle East can build and support institutions that offer legitimacy as an alternative to violence. The project will chart a course of action by convening a group of legal scholars in 2016 to work towards restoring human rights as an integral part of religious discourse. The Center will also lead a Track II diplomacy process in 2017 with high-ranking state officials in the Middle East to create an action plan to change policies that encourage violations of human rights.
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For support of two international conferences and associated activities on peacebuilding in Africa
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1946, Wilton Park organizes more than fifty events a year in the United Kingdom and in other countries, convening leading representatives from the worlds of politics, diplomacy, academia, business, civil society, the military, and the media. Continuing its partnership with two key Corporation grantees, the Social Science Research Council-led African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the King’s College London-led African Leadership Centre (ALC), Wilton Park will organize an additional two, forty-to-fifty participant, two-day international conferences. Building on meetings organized in 2015 and 2016, these events will bring together a range of Corporation grantees with local partners, international institutions, activists, and scholars from both the Global North and South, and key policymakers in order to discuss African perspectives on peacebuilding, focused on scholarly and practical approaches on the continent.
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For the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
The threat of militarized inter-state conflict in Northeast Asia is as pronounced today as it was during the Cold War. In the absence of a formal regional security architecture, informal or quasi-formal mechanisms play an important role to promote dialogue and confidence-building. One of the longest established of these is the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a “Track 1.5” forum that straddles the official and non-official domains. It brings together some forty to fifty government and military officials and academics and specialists from China, the United States, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, and Japan to discuss regional security issues. Meeting back-to-back with NEACD, the related Defense Information Sharing (DIS) workshop convenes regional military and defense officials to exchange information about their respective missions, forces, doctrines, policies, and exercises. DIS findings are then fed into the NEACD plenary.
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As a final grant for bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through a global hub for research and consultation on cyber policy
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
27 months
Description
As a follow-on to a grant made under the Corporation’s “Rigor and Relevance” initiative aimed at the twenty-two U.S.-based members of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) seeks continued support for addressing the academic-policy gap in the critical areas of cyber security and global internet governance, as well as the impact of digital technologies on the global economy and public policy. Although global decision-makers are facing serious policy challenges in these emergent, interrelated areas, relevant scholarly knowledge is underdeveloped and scattered among diverse disciplines and institutions. Moreover, much of the relevant expertise resides not in traditional scholarly disciplines, but in experts based in government and the private sector. To adequately address these challenges, university-based researchers need substantive and longer-term interaction with governmental and corporate decision-makers and thought leaders.
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As a final grant for bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through an interdisciplinary project on the migration crisis and state fragility
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
39 months
Description
As a follow-on to a grant made under the Corporation’s “Rigor and Relevance” initiative aimed at the twenty-two U.S.-based members of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Fletcher) seeks renewed support to (a) further projects on state legitimacy and governance that represent a continuation of work completed under the project’s initial phase; (b) expand that work into the related substantive area of migration, where state legitimacy is eroded in both transit and receiving countries; and (c) creation of a mechanism at Fletcher for continued learning about and commitment to policy-relevant research and dissemination. Expansion of the substantive focus of the project will broaden the number of faculty members engaged in diverse project efforts to bridge the academic-policy gap.
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For bridging the gap between the academy and policy world with a focus on inclusive peacebuilding
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
As a follow-on to a grant made under the Corporation’s “Rigor and Relevance” initiative aimed at the twenty-two U.S.-based members of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies (Korbel) seeks renewal grant support for research, education, policy, and public outreach that 1) explores the impacts of the inclusion of previously underrepresented groups—such as women, historically marginalized communities, indigenous groups, or youth— on violent and nonviolent processes and governance; that 2) connects with and makes actionable recommendations to a broad array of policy practitioners, in government, the private sector, and non-governmental communities. Although it is a core concept in the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the 2016 revised United Nations peacebuilding architecture, inclusion remains both controversial and understudied.
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For engaging African peacebuilding scholars to inform policy dialogues in the United States through the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Providing avenues for African policy researchers to inform American policy dialogues about the continent expands the diversity of African voices contributing perspectives and offers an opportunity for U.S. policymakers to develop policies that are more likely to succeed and result in stronger and more effective North-South relations. Access to a range of African perspectives is particularly critical as U.S. policymakers attempt to address issues of conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the continent. Building on previous Corporation support, the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) will strengthen its Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding, which currently includes twenty-two key policy and research institutes from twelve African countries—Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Africa—focusing on issues related to peacebuilding and state-building in Africa.
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For a project on promoting statebuilding and peacebuilding in Africa and a project on modern conflict, transnational threats and non-state actors
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
As African countries continue to face major security and humanitarian crises, detailed and well-researched commentary from the continent directed at Europe and the United States remains minimal. International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) has established itself as a go-to actor for open source analysis and policy recommendations on potential and current conflicts in Africa and beyond. Likewise, Crisis Group’s work in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) responds to the need for a greater depth of understanding about the origins and root causes of local problems, as well as the wider geopolitical trends that create an enabling environment for transnational movements and up-ticks in violence. With support from the Corporation, Crisis Group will continue its detailed research and analysis, while increasing its policy focus and government engagement.
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For a joint project with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on enhancing South-South cooperation and promoting African responses to peacebuilding in Africa
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The continuation and re-emergence of conflict in Africa demonstrates the need for more effective peacebuilding strategies. Yet policymakers often design these strategies based on assumptions lacking empirical evidence of what works in practice. Adding to the multitude of traditional peacebuilding actors on the ground, there are growing expectations for the role of African actors, including sub-regional organizations, and “South-South” cooperation more generally, in assisting countries emerging from conflicts. In response to these developments, New York University’s Center for International Cooperation (CIC), the South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS), and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO,) have formed a consortium to analyze the peacebuilding approaches of African actors and sub-regional African organizations, and their potential for facilitating sustainable peace on the continent.
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For The International Panel on Exiting violence (IPEV)
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
30 months
Description
In a context of expanding conflict in the Euro-Mediterranean region, the leading social science council of France will form an International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), uniting 200 outstanding thinkers on political violence from different regions to produce policy options for the process of de-escalating social conflict and violent transnational movements. The IPEV will be comprised of working groups examining entry points to violence and the process of exiting violence. It will adopt a comparative perspective, communicating lessons learned from the recent history of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas concerning the drivers of violence, alternatives to violence, and effective ways to find an exit from conflict. The failure of authoritarian states in the Arab region will be considered as a major topic to be analyzed in the light of situations found elsewhere.
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For the India-Pakistan Intelligence Dialogue (Track II)
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
21 months
Description
Experts and officials in both Pakistan and India agree that the support of their respective intelligence establishments is fundamental for there to be any meaningful progress on improving India-Pakistan relations. The University of Ottawa’s Intelligence Dialogue (one of a series of four dialogues between well-connected, former officials from Pakistan and India) is the only Track II initiative that engages retired senior-most intelligence officials from the two countries in a process exploring the role that their agencies could play in reducing tensions and misperceptions. In advance of the 2016 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit in Islamabad, there is a unique opportunity to support progress on the Pakistan-India file, especially on the two countries’ stated central issues: Terrorism and Kashmir, by generating policy recommendations that advance improved relations.
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As a one-time grant for doctoral and postdoctoral training in higher education studies
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
72 months
Description
As African higher education enrollment expands at an average annual rate of 7.7 percent among leading universities, institutions require sophisticated data and analysis to ensure effective decision-making. African governments, regulatory agencies, civil society, communities and global ranking systems are increasingly demanding more accountability and transparency. University of the Western Cape (UWC) aims to build research capacity in African higher education studies to equip the expanding sector with academic leaders and policymakers who practice evidence-based decision-making. With the aim of contributing to a center of excellence in African higher education, UWC is seeking funding to support a doctoral and postdoctoral training program comprising ten candidates in higher education studies for the African continent.
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For the 2016 Teaching & Learning Conference
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
8 months
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Founded in 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards seeks to advance student learning and achievement by establishing standards and systems for certifying accomplished educators and by providing programs and advocating policies that support excellence in teaching and learning. With Corporation support, the National Board will bring together thousands of educators, advocates, thought leaders, and policymakers at their third Teaching & Learning Conference in March 2016. The conference will wrestle with the nation’s pressing reform issues and best strategies for success, including strands on personalized learning and parent engagement.
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For a project to track funds raised from undisclosed sources that are spent by political campaigns
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The prevalence of dark money (funds spent by political campaigns that are raised from undisclosed sources) in elections has grown rapidly, particularly since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC in 2010. Candidates’ growing reliance on dark money means voters are unable to determine what private interests are influencing policymakers’ campaigns. The Center for Responsive Politics is a nonpartisan organization that educates voters and promotes transparency of the influence of money on public policy, especially at the federal level. With Corporation support, and support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Center for Responsive Politics will partner with Guidestar and assemble comprehensive data about dark money from the IRS form 990 to help educate voters and journalists on its influence.
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For enforcing human rights and international law to combat gender inequality and ensure accountability for gender-based crimes in the Arab Region
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
18 months
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This proposal is recommended in the frame of the new program area seeking to expand problem-solving expertise and achieve informed policy on the Arab region and transnational issues. Project leaders will strategically utilize the enforcement of fundamental international laws to address and propose solutions to the gender dynamics of transnational militant movements in the Arab region. Global Justice Center (GJC) will advocate for ensuring accountability for international crimes, in particular genocide, committed by transnational militant movements in international, regional and domestic venues with a focus on the International Criminal Court and build the capacity of women’s rights groups in the Arab region.
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For a Centennial Colloquium on the Russian Revolution of 1917
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
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At a time when Russian scholars face pressure to consider an increasingly nationalistic reading of the past, Russia will commemorate the 100th anniversaries of the February and October Revolutions of 1917. In June 2016, as part of an ongoing series of colloquia, Southern Methodist University, in partnership with the European University of St. Petersburg and the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will hold a conference for Western and Russian scholars to robustly examine the history of the 1917 Revolutions. The scholars will seek to formulate a better understanding of how historical memory, the ongoing definition of Russian identity, and Russian political and social instability may impact Russian regional and foreign policy in times of rapid change and crisis. Their analysis will inform the brokering of U.S.-Russia relations and U.S. policy formation toward Russia. Papers and commentary from the colloquium will be published as a book in Russian and in a companion work in English.
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For a project to advance state-level policies and practices that increase nonpartisan voter registration
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requires state agencies offering social services as well as department of motor vehicle offices to offer clients an opportunity to register to vote. Along with numerous state laws allowing residents to register and vote on the same day or that automatically register voters when they become eligible, these policies are important tools that can be used to increase voter participation. But implementation of the NVRA–enacted in 1993–has been inconsistent among various state agencies. Established in 2000, Demos uses research, advocacy, litigation, and strategic communications to reduce political and economic inequality. With Corporation support, Demos will dismantle structural barriers to voting by pushing for full compliance with the NVRA and expanding the number of states with automatic and same-day voter registration policies.
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For development of a mastery-based math application as part of a one-time Shark Tank Award.
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Technology, including engaging apps, can help enable personalized learning at scale; yet, the current education landscape lacks high quality products, particularly those that are engaging to and aimed at low-income students. Learn Fresh is a nonprofit working to tackle systemic issues present in the education of low-income students, specifically low-income students of color, by providing learning experiences closely related to their own lives. After experiencing success with its NBA Math Hoops program–a board game aligned with Common Core State Standards used both in and outside of the classroom, with a proven track record of success in increasing student math achievement–Learn Fresh now seeks to provide more students access to NBA Math Hoops through the creation of an app-based version of the program. Corporation funds will support Learn Fresh to develop and test a prototype for the mastery-based NBA Math Hoops Mobile App to bring this program to greater scale by creating a free version, accessible on smartphones and tablets.
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For a teacher-led professional learning initiative
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
17 months
Description
Educators are experts who have the professional experience and prowess to steer or accelerate positive change at the school, district and state level. However, many teachers are not provided with the platform, resources, or training to lead transformational change in education or their communities. That is, in part, why the Teach to Lead initiative was set up as an effort of the U.S. Department of Education and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to advance educational outcomes by expanding opportunities for teacher leadership, particularly those that allow teachers to remain in the classroom and in their profession. While Teach to Lead has engaged, supported and served as an incubator for teacher leadership ideas, teacher leaders need additional support and resources to take their action plans to the next level. A critical next step in achieving this goal is to directly fund teacher leaders’ ideas and action plans. A new program led by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Learning Solutions, a global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner, will provide direct grants to teachers to fund their own teacher-led, professional learning initiatives. These ASCD “Teacher Impact Grants,” will build on the success of the Teach to Lead initiative providing the flexibility, funding, and evaluation support necessary to meet the unique needs of promising individual teacher-led projects emerging from the Teach to Lead summits, labs, and online idea platform. The Corporation will join other foundations to support this initiative to empower teachers and amplify their voices towards working on stronger outcomes for all students.
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For public opinion research on the effect of religion and values on American attitudes on immigrants and immigration reform
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Established in 2009, Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to research at the intersection of religion, values, and public life. PRRI’s mission is to help journalists, opinion leaders, scholars, clergy, and the public better understand debates on public policy issues and the role of religion and values in American public life by conducting quality public opinion surveys and qualitative research. Because PRRI does not take positions on, or advocate for, particular policies, it is viewed by policymakers, the media, and the public as a trusted source of unbiased information. With Corporation support, PRRI will conduct extensive public opinion polling and research on how religious and moral commitments drive Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration reform.
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For a project to help build the capacity of various education stakeholders to understand the data concerning achievement and opportunity gaps in California
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
8 months
Description
Public will-building and authentic community engagement are key elements necessary to transform education systems such that they better serve all students; yet, the current education landscape lacks high quality tools to increase public understanding of the data that can drive this change. The Education Trust-West (ETW), a subsidiary of Education Trust, Inc., is a nonprofit working to empower education stakeholders to work towards improved outcomes for all students through building capacity of community-based organizations to be agents of change; sharing policy research and data analysis on the root causes of inequities and best practices for improvement; and engaging with leaders and policymakers to close student achievement gaps. After experiencing success with its Data Equity Walk program—a set of interactive activities designed to help civil rights groups, education advocates, parents, student leaders, and community leaders to understand the data about disparities that exist for students of color, low-income students, and English Language Learners—ETW now seeks to expand their reach by taking the Data Equity Walk on the road and by developing a toolkit that helps organizations conduct their own Data Equity Walks. Corporation funds will support ETW in both of these efforts.
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For African higher education leaders' participation in the 2017 Talloires Network Leaders Conference
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
20 months
Description
The Talloires Network (TN) is a growing coalition of 350 universities in seventy-five countries whose purpose is to strengthen the civic roles and responsibilities of higher education institutions. Talloires Network Leadership Conference (TNLC) 2014 held in Cape Town placed a special emphasis on highlighting innovative African programs and strategies and showcased and reinforced the dynamic leadership of African institutions. In the period leading up to TNLC 2017, TN proposes to identify exemplary civic engagement programs of African universities including fifty-five African university TN members; support documentation and public communication about these activities; organize TNLC 2017 sessions that will disseminate African civic engagement experience and build support for those activities; support preparation of conference presentations by African higher education leaders and their partners; and cover the costs of fifty African university leaders so that they can attend and make presentations at TNLC 2017.
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For the Russian Foreign Relations Program at The Fletcher School
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
A project at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Fletcher) of Tufts University seeks to improve relations between the United States and Russia and develop a generation of leaders who can manage and improve understanding of the issues that impact the countries. Fletcher will establish the Russian Foreign Relations program (RFR Program) to increase ties with Russian universities, especially with Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) to expand scholarship and Track II diplomacy. Through the RFR Program, Fletcher will educate professionals around the world and prepare them for positions of leadership and influence in the national and international arenas. It will increase perceptions of international problems and concerns through teaching, research, and publications, and serve local, national, and international communities in their search to develop relationships of mutual benefit.
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For support of University World News (Africa) higher education editorial projects.
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
African academics are seeking new forms of dissemination through open and online platforms. University World News (UWN) Africa, the only regular news publication covering higher education across Africa and internationally is dedicated to increasing the online presence and visibility of African higher education through traditional and new forms of media. The proposed grant aims to improve UWN Africa’s editorial content, dissemination and reach, and support its operation including website development. It also plans to expand its current reach of 27,000 readers of the Africa edition and 48,000 readers of the Global edition to 35,000 Africa edition readers; provide a continental and international audience with quality reporting on African higher education; and improve communication and collaboration among African academics and higher education professionals.
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