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For a higher education policy engagement initiative
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
92 months
Description
That well-performing universities are a pre-requisite for participation in the process of knowledge creation and instruments in solving developing country challenges has been acknowledged at the global and continental policy levels by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015-2030, and the African Union Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) 2016-2025. With these frameworks in place, the timing is favorable to inform and guide receptive policymakers with evidence-based research. Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is one of the few African think tanks conducting research in the social sciences and higher education in Africa. Through national and comparative research groups and dissemination, CODESRIA aims to contribute to improving the governance and quality of academic programs at African universities.
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For a writing symposium
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
0 months
Description
Hunter College prides itself not only on being among the most affordable colleges in the nation, but one that offers rich cultural and academic opportunities for its students. In addition to standard courses for English language learners and continuing education students, the Writing Center at the college offers a series of events throughout the year that feature many of today’s best authors, such as Erica Jong, Mary Higgins Clark, and James McBride. With Corporation support, the Writing Center will host its annual Summer Symposium featuring major authors who will instruct attendees on the writing process and the path to publication.
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For the project Getting out from “In-Between”: Towards an Inclusive Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
20 months
Description
Current analyses of the European regional architecture is dominated by stale and backward-looking debates. To define an alternative, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) will attempt to identify mechanisms to help bridge the divide between Euro-Atlantic institutions and Russia-led organizations and determine a shared agenda for regional integration that also could help stabilize ties between Russia and the West. IISS will convene a working group of scholars, former practitioners, and thought-leaders from the United States, the European Union, Russia and states outside of Euro-Atlantic institutions—termed “in-between states”—such as Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, and others. Participants will prepare working papers covering key challenges to inform the discussions. The papers will form the basis of a final report aimed at framing the debate about the future of the post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia regional order.
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For the project Ethics for a Connected World: An international education center on ethics and U.S. global engagement
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Since its establishment over a century ago, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (the Council) has become a global digital platform that produces public programming that convenes leading experts and the public. The work serves as a bridge between the academy and the policy sphere, the academy and the public, and the academy within itself. This grant will allow the Council to continue to use the language of ethics to bridge differences about the world’s most pressing problems. The special focus on the U.S. Global Engagement Program on U.S.-Russia Relations (USGE), will help create a balanced, honest, and workable understanding of Russia that could aid diplomats, business leaders, students, and teachers.
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For the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Herbert J. Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship was established in 1987 to recruit and train the next generation of peace and security leaders. Since its founding, and with Corporation support since 2009, more than 160 young professionals have been named fellows through a highly competitive program that includes a salaried position for up to nine months with participating organizations in Washington, D.C. that are focused on nonproliferation, conflict resolution, terrorism prevention, and other international security challenges. Fellows attend policy talks, Congressional hearings, and small group events with experts in government and think tanks; receive active mentoring and networking opportunities from the board of directors and former fellows; and write and publish. Fellows have gone on to prominent positions in the field of peace and security with the government, domestic and international NGOs, academia, and media.
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For promoting global security by means of nonproliferation education, training, and policy-oriented research
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) provides international professional education in areas of critical importance to the changing global community and offers opportunities for its students to acquire and apply practical professional skills. Two projects of MIIS are recommended in this agenda: one for a new model to engage graduate students in active dialogue with Russian and Eurasian experts; and this one to the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction WMD by training nonproliferation specialists. Each of these projects works with different but complementary cohorts of emerging leaders to ensure they are capable of producing solutions to a variety of global challenges.
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For projects advancing system leadership development, sustainable teacher preparation programs, and learning and continuous improvement
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past few years, school systems have been asked to implement a number of reform initiatives intended to advance student achievement, including instituting higher academic standards, elevating students’ socio-emotional needs, and developing new evaluation and accountability systems. In an effort to assist district leaders to implement a multitude of distinct and sometimes competing initiatives, Bank Street College of Education proposes to undertake three strands of work aimed at orchestrating change from the systems-level to the classroom: 1) Through the Bank Street Education Center, partner with school districts to build leadership capacity to engage in thoughtful strategy creation and execution, project management, and change management; 2) Through the Sustainable Funding Project, identify and promote substantial and sustainable public funding streams for high-quality teacher preparation, specifically teacher residency programs; and 3) Form a learning agenda in collaboration with the Corporation based on the products and tools developed in the first two projects.
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For sponsorship of innovative school design related activities at the NewSchools Venture Fund's Summit 2016
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
NewSchools Venture Fund’s Annual Summit brings together a diverse cross-section of the education community. This year, over 1,000 educators, entrepreneurs, district and school leaders, policymakers, and funders will gather to confront challenges and identify opportunities in improving public education. The content offered at Summit focuses on making connections between specific topics and broader themes in education design, policy, and implementation. As such, the Summit provides an important opportunity for attendees to unpack a range of pressing issues, and these discussions are an important way for many issues and organizations to gain greater exposure within the education community. This year, the Corporation’s support of the Summit will help the NewSchools Venture Fund team organize engaging discussions related to innovative school design and new opportunities for impact.
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For developing the National Observational Teaching Examination (NOTE) for secondary English language arts
Date
Jan. 05, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Excellent teaching is comprised of both clinically-rich, pedagogically sound practice, and a deep understanding of and ability to help others understand academic content. With respect to the latter, it is not enough for teachers to just possess subject matter knowledge in their field; they must acquire content knowledge for teaching, which involves being able to unfold complex knowledge in ways that make it explicit. However, most existing licensure-level assessments focus on basic content and professional knowledge rather than the ability to use knowledge in practice. In this grant, Teaching Works, a center at the University of Michigan dedicated to ensuring all students get skillful teaching by raising the bar for entry into practice, will partner with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to develop a new type of licensure-level performance assessment – the National Observational Teaching Examination (NOTE). Focusing first on English Language Arts (ELA), this test would appraise candidates’ skills with key tasks of teaching, asking them to carry out specific high-leverage teaching practices with content knowledge for teaching secondary ELA. Through this grant, Teaching Works, would identify the core set of practices, build with the ETS a new set of licensure exams, and develop resources for those who prepare prospective teachers to help their candidates master the practices and pass the test.
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For a study on why eligible voters do not participate in elections
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Voter participation in the United States is among the lowest of all industrialized democracies. Turnout in high-profile, presidential elections only occasionally exceeds 60 percent of eligible voters, midterm congressional and local elections have participation by under half of those eligible, and municipal and special elections capture only about one in five eligible voters. Based at the University of Chicago, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) has over seventy years of experience conducting survey research in the public interest and has produced valuable studies of American opinion and attitudes. With Corporation support, NORC will conduct a pilot study exploring why those eligible to vote, faced with a flood of information from campaigns, the internet, television, radio, and door-to-door contact, do not.
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For the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering 2016 with the theme of "Connecting Science to Humanity."
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
3 months
Description
Africa’s scientific renaissance is under way, according to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) November 2015 Science Report. Africa’s global share of publications increased from 2 to 2.6 percent between 2008 and 2014, while research and development expenditure increased from $13 billion to $19 billion from 2007 to 2013. Creating an African global platform for science and innovation, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of African Institute of Mathematical Sciences focuses on the pillars of science, society and policy. NEF ensures that leading scientists will interact and engage with industry and policymakers to collaborate for solutions that utilize science, technology and innovation for development. Its first forum, hosted by President Macky Sall with 500 participants in Dakar, Senegal on March 8-10, 2016, will showcase fifteen NEF fellows and fifty-four NEF ambassadors including Corporation-supported scientists. In addition to support from the Government of Senegal, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Johnson & Johnson, Government of Rwanda, African Union, UNESCO, The MasterCard Foundation, Wellcome Trust, IDRC, and German Research Foundation, NEF is seeking Corporation support for African scholar participation.
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For support of early career doctoral and postdoctoral candidates and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
58 months
Description
The University of Ghana (UG) has been pursuing an aggressive agenda to become a research-led institution over the last six years. Through support from the Corporation and other partners, UG has increased its faculty with Ph.D.s from under 50 percent to 66.5 percent, and its research output has quadrupled since 2000. UG seeks to consolidate its achievements by embedding its young faculty in the emerging research culture of the institution. The proposed project is seeking support for postdoctoral and doctoral training of the best performers in its current cohort along with renewal of its pan-African doctoral academy. The aim is to ensure that thirty Masters and thirty Ph.D. graduates in the Carnegie cohort begin their early careers entrenched in UG’s teaching and research culture, networked in global research communities, and able to supervise and practice desired leadership and engagement in academia.
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For support of the Meselson Chemical and Biological Weapons Archive and Website
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
In the 1960s, biologist Matthew Meselson was an arms control consultant who advised the Richard Nixon Administration to renounce biological weapons (BW). In the decades that followed, Meselson’s expertise influenced policy as the United States signed the BW Treaty, banned the development of the weapons and adopted efforts to control their spread. A few years ago, Meselson offered to make publicly available his collection of historically relevant documents related to major developments regarding BW and chemical weapons nonproliferation; the Corporation has supported the effort. This grant will continue to scan and make publicly available Meselson’s letters, memoranda, interviews, and visual materials relevant to the adoption and subsequent implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 and the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, both of which directly involved Meselson.
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For a project to engage and amplify the voice of the evangelical community in support of immigration reform
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
For many Americans, the problems created by the current immigration system contradict their values and beliefs and present a moral imperative to fix the immigration system. Given the strong influence religion has on shaping the values of many Americans, faith coalitions can play an important role in educating the public about the moral and practical failures of current immigration policy and the need for federal immigration reform. Established in 1971, Sojourners is a national, nonpartisan Christian organization committed to engaging the faith community in support of social justice issues. Sojourners builds alliances among, and mobilizes people of faith, focusing on racial and social justice issues, among others. With Corporation support, Sojourners will engage and amplify the voice of the Christian community—especially evangelicals—in support of immigrant integration.
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As a final grant for fellowships in the humanities in Africa
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
48 months
Description
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) launched the African Humanities Program in 2008 in response to the dearth of research opportunities for early-career African humanities scholars. Fellowships for doctoral dissertation and postdoctoral research and writing are awarded on a competitive basis to scholars working in universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. To date, 266 fellowships have been awarded to scholars from sixty-three African universities. This grant will support an additional ninety-six early-career fellowships, thirty travel fellowships for senior humanities scholars, writing-for-publication workshops for fellows, and the publication of eight books in the African Humanities Series. Research and workshops on supervision of doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars and qualitative research methods will result in the publication of guidelines for supervision of young scholars and improvement of qualitative research.
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For the project "America's Role in Asia 2016: Asian Views about the Future of Asia and U.S. Interests in the Region"
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
28 months
Description
In its fifth iteration, the “America’s Role in Asia” (ARA) report, produced by The Asia Foundation, aims to provide insight into issues directly relevant to the United States’ political, economic, and security interests in the region. In contrast to the majority of policy studies on Asia in the United States, the ARA report emphasizes Asian views in addition to their American counterparts. For the 2016 ARA report, The Asia Foundation will convene Asian sub-regional focal groups of regional foreign policy experts, including a younger generation from civil society and policy institutes. The Foundation will build upon its previous reports and its extensive relationships and access to U.S. and Asian leadership. With Corporation support, the report will expand to include additional thematic areas and to increase its focused dissemination to the new administration and the 115th Congress. The project is directly related to the Global Dynamics initiative and provides parallels to the Bridging the Gap initiative.
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For launching the Transformational Learning & Leadership Lab
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
9 months
Description
Nations across the globe, including the United States, struggle to provide all students with a high-quality education capable of setting them up for college and career success. This includes ensuring that there is a teacher in every classroom that is well-prepared to tackle the challenges facing schools in underserved communities and create learning environments capable of seeding and sustaining high student achievement. To address this problem, Teach for All is dedicated to forming a global network of independent organizations capable of building local movements for educational excellence, including high-quality teaching. In this pursuit, Teach for All proposes to launch a Transformational Learning & Leadership Lab (TLL Lab) to collate the learnings from transformational classrooms around the world and disseminate them across its growing network. Through the TLL Lab, Teach for All will conduct investigations, host expert roundtables, and facilitate online forums, amongst other things, and then develop and spread actionable insights about what differentiates transformational teachers, intended to catalyze learning within and across the education sector. Such insights will include how to better develop and support teachers, and how to create systems that foster teacher learning and student learning. Through this planning grant, Teach for All will lay the foundations of the TLL Lab, allowing it to build the capacity both from a staffing and infrastructure perspective needed to successfully launch the lab in July 2016.
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For an i3 matching grant for 'Improving Teacher Effectiveness Through Comprehensive Induction'
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
11 months
Description
The New Teacher Center’s (NTC) comprehensive teacher induction program has been proven to increase teacher retention and student achievement for those pupils taught by a new teacher receiving two years of NTC’s mentoring support. NTC has found that to truly be successful, systems leaders must be invested in and have the capacity to support the development of new teachers. In November 2015, NTC was selected as one of the highest rated applicants for the U. S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale Up Grant. Through this grant, NTC will be able to scale its new teacher induction and mentoring model to six high-need districts. NTC will also be able to build organization and partner capacity at the systems-level to support and sustain the model. This matching grant will provide stipends for NTC staff to deliver professional development for mentors, coaches, and school leaders responsible for supporting new teachers and implementing the model.
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For participation of early-career African scholars in the association’s annual meetings
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Founded in 1957, the African Studies Association (ASA) encourages production and dissemination of interdisciplinary knowledge about African societies. With close to 2,000 participants, ASA’s annual meetings provide an effective platform for emerging scholars to engage with the wider scholarly community. This grant will enable ASA to select—from among the more than 1,300 Corporation-supported early-career scholars—twelve fellows per year to participate in three panels, which will be chaired by senior scholars. Panel themes will range from the impact of climate change on development in Africa; to bridging scholarship, policy, and representation in African Studies; to innovations and transformations in public health higher education. The grant will cover travel of the fellows to the 2016 and 2017 annual meetings, a skill-building workshop on scholarly publishing, and a small networking reception.
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As a one-time grant for strengthening social science research methods training in Africa
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
30 months
Description
The quality of research in the social sciences depends to a great extent on the researcher having in-depth knowledge of methodology, including conceptualizing research, matching methods to research questions, and applying methods appropriately and rigorously. For a variety of reasons, methods training in many African social science graduate programs does not meet competitive standards. In response, the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) developed a course on social research methods. The course benefits social science researchers, non-social scientists who want to add a social dimension to their research, and policymakers who want to learn how to evaluate research offered as evidence for policy. This grant will provide scholarships for thirty-five course participants and enable the participation of an additional forty-five to sixty-five; underwrite the revision of ten modules and the development of one new module and one e-case, and support training for ten new instructors.
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For the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Learning Ecosystem Evaluation: Year 1
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
14 months
Description
The Center for Education Policy and Law (CEPAL), based at the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences, aims to understand the complex system of K-16 education and advance strategic pathways that lead to better student outcomes. With support from the Corporation and other members of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Funders Network (SFN), CEPAL will implement the first year of a three-year National STEM Learning Ecosystems Initiative Evaluation, exploring the factors that influence the development and sustainability of effective STEM Learning Ecosystems, comparing twenty-seven existing ecosystems across the country to identify key themes and trends. Technical assistance to the community ecosystems and organization of national community of practice sessions will be undertaken by the Teaching Institute for Excellence in Science (TIES).
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For the project, Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
37 months
Description
The explosion of violence in the name of religion following the Arab Spring and the dis-aggregation of states have intensified the search for instruments enabling a more cogent understanding of a seemingly intractable tangle of interconnected conflicts. In line with the Transnational Movements and the Arab Region program focus on advancing new understandings of social and militant movements in the region, and its aim of integrating expertise from the region into policy formulation, Central European University’s (CEU) Center for Religious Studies (CRS) launches a program with analytical and international security implications. Partner institutions including the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and Stony Brook University Institute for Global Studies will collaborate on the project’s workshop series and will each organize project conferences to integrate regional and international partners.
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For a public education and engagement campaign related to the influence of immigration and democracy on the American identity
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
31 months
Description
From the beginning of the nation’s history, social questions of migration, mobility, and acculturation have been inextricably intertwined with political questions around the machinery of democracy, citizenship, and the law. Today, myriad current challenges to American democracy—political intransigence, the influence of special interests, voter dissatisfaction, and changing demographics—are diminishing the public’s faith in the American democratic system. With renewed Corporation support, the National Museum of American History, in collaboration with Zócalo Public Square, will continue a national, multi-platform public education campaign that brings together leading thinkers, public figures, and Americans from all walks of life to explore big, visceral questions about how America’s history of migration and democratic traditions have made it the nation it is today.
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For a dialogue with Members of Congress, The Russian Duma and the German Bundestag: Addressing Mutual Foreign Policy Challenges
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
5 months
Description
U.S.-Russia relations are at a low point, and yet many foreign policy challenges require the attention and cooperation of both countries. In order to facilitate in-depth discussion on transnational problems – such as confronting terrorism, nonproliferation, security, and energy – the Aspen Institute will hold a trilateral dialogue with members of Congress, the Russian Duma, and the German Bundestag outside of Berlin in May 2016. U.S., Russian, and German scholars will help stimulate and lead these analytical discussions, with the goal of fostering mutual policy understanding and defining areas of potential cooperation and collaboration. Ideas generated at the conference will be put into a policy action memo, and a public conference report will be distributed to U.S. policy makers and made available to the public on the Aspen Institute website.
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For a needs assessment that addresses teacher professional development and learning between informal science institutions and universities
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Informal inquiry-based science institutions emphasize real world, inquiry-based learning and can ultimately have a greater impact on student science literacy than formal classroom education, however this is not an area that universities often include in teacher education programs. The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is leading an innovative model for collaborative professional development between informal science institutions and universities entitled, Practice, Research, Engagement in Science Education for Teachers (PRESET). The Corporation will support a needs assessment that will engage NYBG and its collaborators, the City University of New York, Lehman College and the Wildlife Conservatory to review current practices and the proposed phase one of the logic model and program design, and mitigate potential challenges prior to implementing and evaluating phase two.
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For support of the Third Pan Africa Think Tank Summit
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Since 2013, the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tank and Civil Society Program (TTCSP) has been organizing a series of regional and global “Think Thank Summits” that bring together leadership from top-ranked think tanks for networking, reflection, and discussions on pressing issues. As TTCSP organizes its third installment of the African Think Tank Summit, the Summit has become one of the foremost forums for African think tanks to share ideas and network with institutions from other countries and regions of the continent. The third African Think Tank Summit builds upon the first two summits, both funded by the Corporation, to focus on continued improvement of think tanks’ monitoring and evaluation, as well as discuss the topic of Agendas 2030 and 2063 (Agenda 2030 is the UN Sustainable Development Agenda and includes the SDGs; Agenda 2063 is an African Union action plan for African development ). This project relates to IPS’ focus on peacebuilding in Africa, specifically eliciting and applying local knowledge.
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For a forum on Northeast Asia peace, security, and cooperation
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Mansfield Foundation will host a forum among experts from the United States, Japan, and China on cooperative approaches to shared challenges. Held in partnership with the China Institute for International Studies (CIIS)—the think tank of China’s Foreign Ministry—the forum will focus on regional nuclear security and climate to establish lines of communication among the participants, build confidence, and develop a degree of consensus on issues that are susceptible to cooperative approaches before moving to more contentious challenges, such as North Korea’s nuclear program. After the forum, the Mansfield Foundation will publish and disseminate in the three countries’ capitals a concise policy-oriented document that will highlight the significance and the key findings of the discussions.
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For engaging African peacebuilding practitioners in research and dissemination aimed at policymakers
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite an increase in knowledge generated by scholars and practitioners, the peacebuilding community has not yet been able to influence global policy responses to fast-moving emerging crises in Africa. Valuable knowledge residing within the practitioner community is rarely fully analyzed through research and presented in formats that are useful to policymakers. Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a leading operational peacebuilding organization with programs in nineteen African countries, proposes a pilot project that will explore ways to bridge these gaps. Through a consultative process, SFCG will select up to six “critical cases”—active conflicts in Africa or situations where conflict appears to be highly likely—and will link practitioners and researchers to develop white papers relaying recommendations for action, help disseminate them to relevant policymakers, and provide basic research training for practitioners.
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For support of a digital publication that covers the United Nations
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
20 months
Description
PassBlue is a digital publication covering the United Nations (UN). The UN’s bureaucracy and size limits its ability to clearly articulate its objectives and happenings. This leads to misunderstanding by politicians, practitioners, and the general public. PassBlue’s goal is to clarify the wide range of the UN’s work in clear, well-written articles and other media formats to a general audience throughout the world. Through this grant, PassBlue aims to continue to increase its readership, social media exposure, and dissemination partnerships, while engaging authors to produce more investigative, exclusive stories, and data-driven articles from the UN operations around the world. This project builds on previous Corporation funding, by strengthening current operations, outreach, and broadening the base of international contributors.
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For a project on security sector training on the prevention of child soldiers
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
27 months
Description
The enduring use of child soldiers in conflicts remains a key concern in peacebuilding in Africa and beyond. The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (Dallaire Initiative—named for the Canadian general who tried, and failed, to prevent the 1994 Rwanda genocide), housed at Dalhousie University, is developing prevention-orientated security sector training programs to combat the use of child soldiers by militaries. These efforts focus on behavioral and attitudinal changes towards child soldiers through training of trainers and military embedded programs. The project will support the initiative’s rollout of the training program in Uganda, and will work with the military’s national training centers to increase the number of security sector personnel able to deliver peer training. This project contributes to the Corporation’s Peacebuilding in Africa program by engaging research and training programs with direct applicability to peacebuilding situations in Africa.
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For the project Soft Power: Understanding the Values that Shape Russian Policy
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
39 months
Description
Since its establishment over a century ago, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (the Council) has become a global digital platform that produces public programming that convenes leading experts and the public. The work serves as a bridge between the academy and the policy sphere, the academy and the public, and the academy within itself. This grant will allow the Council to continue to use the language of ethics to bridge differences about the world’s most pressing problems. The special focus on the U.S. Global Engagement Program on U.S.-Russia Relations (USGE), will help create a balanced, honest, and workable understanding of Russia that could aid diplomats, business leaders, students, and teachers.
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For support of the Richard Holbrooke Forum workshop, “The Global Migration Crisis"
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Richard C. Holbrooke Forum was founded in 2013 and conceived by the American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) 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 Academy, at its February 2016 forum, will sponsor the workshop, The Global Migration Crisis: Its Challenges to the United States, Europe and Global Order. Topics for discussion will include: the magnitude and state of play of the migration crisis in Europe, the United States, and East Asia; problems and solutions both nationally, regionally, and globally; and to extent solutions are being facilitated or hindered by existing legal frameworks.
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For support of the American Academy in Berlin's Fellowship Program
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin (the Academy) was founded in 1994 by Richard Holbrooke, then the American Ambassador to Germany. Their mission is to maintain long-term intellectual, cultural and political ties between the United States and Germany. A major program within the Academy is the Berlin Prize Fellowships. Each year, the Academy awards up to twenty-four fellowships to outstanding scholars, writers, and artists from the United States. The fellows are given an opportunity to pursue independent projects which they in turn share with Berlin audiences at the Academy’s public lectures, film screenings, concerts, and other events. With Corporation support, the Academy will sponsor 24 fellows from the United States, providing them with an opportunity to pursue a significant scholarly or creative project for a semester or full year at the Academy’s community Villa Arnhold in Wannsee, outside of Berlin.
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For public education and policy recommendations related to an expanded electronic employment verification system
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Whether it is done comprehensively or piece by piece, any future federal immigration reform will likely include an expansion of the current electronic employment verification system, which is used to confirm the eligibility of employees to work in the United States. The current system (known as E-Verify) is used inconsistently by a collection of states and the federal government–primarily for public employees and government contractors. The system has many critics, including libertarians who oppose the government’s collection of personal information and business groups that argue the process is cumbersome and financially punitive. But to prevent unscrupulous employers from recruiting future generations of undocumented workers, such a system is necessary. With Corporation support, the Economic Policy Institute, in collaboration with Ray Marshall, professor of economics at the University of Texas, Austin, will develop policy recommendations for a fair and effective electronic employment verification system that a range of policymakers can support.
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For “Changing Worldviews and Identities in Uncertain Times” (w.t), a coverage initiative to explore intersection of cultural identity and global security with special attention to the perspectives of Millennials
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Public Radio International’s (PRI) The World, is the only daily news program dedicated to making international issues and events relevant and compelling to U.S. listeners. In its previous Corporation-supported phase, The World explored security issues impacting the eighteen-to-thirty-five demographic cohort such as the emerging technologies, climate change, and the refugee crisis. PRI will now recast its coverage to center on the shifting and contested identities of millennials in the Arab region and Russia as they are buffeted by powerful economic and political forces. The coverage will examine the identities youth are selecting for themselves and potential for more cooperative relationships with a younger generation. Public radio audiences are comprised of educated, civically active, and influential citizens. Corporation support will let PRI serve them with in-depth and contextual reporting on major international security issues.
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For expert assessments of the intersections of important science and technology developments with the diplomatic responsibilities of the Department of State
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
In response to recent scientific and technological developments and changes in collaboration among scientists across the globe, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently assessed the capacity of the Department of State (DOS) to draw effectively on the science and technology assets of both the United States and the broader international scientific community to carry out its diplomatic responsibilities. The resulting study, published in 2015, indicated that a cultural change is needed within the DOS and U.S. embassies so that science and technology competence is considered as important as language fluency and area expertise when it comes to diplomacy. In partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, NAS will now convene small groups of foreign policy and science experts to help the DOS address future foreign policy issues and diplomatic responsibilities that are interlocked with science and technology concerns.
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For investigative reporting on issues related to immigration
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
In-depth, fact-based journalism plays an important role in enriching American democracy and advancing progress on a range of public policy issues. Founded in 1977, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) provides the public access to high-quality, fact-based, and credible information to foster informed civic dialogue on key issues that affect communities locally, nationally, and worldwide. With Corporation support, CIR will pursue several investigative pieces that shed light on the abuses and challenges immigrants face and educate the public on the immigrant experience today.
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For the development and expansion of an on-line Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) hub for tools and resources for teachers
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) with over 55,000 dedicated teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, and business and industry representatives as members, continues to be committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. As a partner in the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA is seen as a leader in improving the quality of science instruction for all students, and is playing an essential role in implementation efforts for the NGSS across the country. With renewed Corporation support. NSTA plans to recognize the significant contributions teachers are making toward their own professional learning around the NGSS and toward classroom implementation; and to redirect the national conversation around science standards by elevating the collective voice of science teachers.
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For support of the Remake Learning in the Neighborhood Program to engage families in underserved communities in the Remake Learning Days events.
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Engaging communities in learning innovations is central to the success of such endeavors inside and outside of the classroom. The Remake Learning Days will be a first-of-its-kind, week-long celebration of the innovations in learning happening throughout the southwest Pennsylvania and West Virginia region. It will include over 100 documented and publicized commitments to innovative learning throughout the region, and up to 100 events hosted by organizations throughout the week. Corporation funds will support the Remake Learning in the Neighborhood program, which will reach families, primarily families of color in four targeted communities, and engage them in events throughout the week-long celebration. This program will provide families: a) access to innovative learning opportunities throughout the week; b) incentives to participate in these activities; and c) information to youth and families about how they can continue to participate in these experiences, in their own neighborhoods, beyond the Remake Learning Days.
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For a conservative outreach project on immigration
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
In recent years, immigration reform advocates have formed alliances with conservative leaders from a variety of backgrounds, including those from the faith, law enforcement, business, and military communities. These alliances have proven to be effective in broadening support for reform to include conservative constituencies that are not as receptive to traditional immigration reform advocates. Linda Chavez, who formerly served as Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Reagan, is one such leader who has earned the respect of conservatives and has continually argued for immigration reform. In 2016, Chavez will continue to serve as Distinguished Fellow in Immigration Policy at Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute. In that role, and with Corporation support, Chavez will use op-eds, appearances in major radio and television media outlets, public debates, and social media to engage conservatives in the immigration debate and make the case for immigrant integration.
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For a national survey of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are a rapidly growing segment of the American electorate. For more than a decade, AAPIs have been the fastest growing population in the United States. Despite the significance of this group, information tracking AAPIs’ policy interests, what compels them to participate in the civic process, and how best to communicate with them is incomplete. With Corporation support, professors Karthick Ramakrishnan and Taeku Lee of the University of California will conduct a national survey of AAPI adults and analyze the results to better understand the nuances of this diverse group’s policy attitudes and priorities as well as the messages that resonate most strongly with them. The resulting report will be disseminated widely to policymakers, advocates, and the news media.
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For research and analysis to prepare the 2016 presidential transition team for staffing needs at the Department of Homeland Security
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the first Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was appointed, and twenty-two different federal departments and agencies were integrated into one office. Now the third largest cabinet department, composed of 240,000 employees, DHS has faced several managerial challenges since its creation. As the executive branch prepares to transition from one administration to another in 2017, it is important that the new president take seriously the numerous political appointments in DHS that either directly or indirectly involve immigration issues. Too often, presidents focus solely on top-tier appointments such as the secretary and immediate undersecretaries before moving on to staff other parts of a cabinet department. Filling vacancies in the lower-level positions may seem less important, but the lag puts at risk an agency’s mission, direction, leadership, and capacity to function effectively. With Corporation support, the Brookings Institution will conduct research and analysis of the specific positions and skills at DHS that a presidential transition team needs to focus on before the new president takes office.
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For outreach and naturalization services for the Dominican community in Rhode Island and New York
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2012, approximately 960,000 immigrants from the Dominican Republic resided in the United States, with close to half a million living in Rhode Island and New York. Fifty percent of the Dominican population are naturalized U.S. citizens (versus 46 percent naturalized among all immigrants). Department of Homeland Security data show that in 2012 approximately 310,000 Dominicans were eligible to become U.S. citizens but had not yet done so. Dominicanos USA was established in 2013 to engage the growing population of Dominican-Americans in civic life. Given the organization’s close, specific involvement with the Dominican community, it is in an advantageous position to help guide eligible Dominican Legal Permanent Residents through the naturalization process. With Corporation support, Dominicanos USA will partner with the New Americans Campaign—a national naturalization campaign—in New York and Rhode Island to provide outreach and education about naturalization opportunities for the Dominican population.
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For a series of academic seminars related to the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
4 months
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As the largest and most diverse generation in the United States’ history, Millennials (those born between 1981 and the early 2000s) have the unique potential to be a potent force for change. Yet the 2014 election cycle saw the lowest youth voter turnout rate in history—just 20 percent. Looking ahead, only 35 percent of Millennials report being “extremely interested” in the 2016 elections, and fewer than 30 percent of young people believe their vote matters. The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC) is a nonpartisan organization serving hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States by providing challenging opportunities for students to work with organizations that instill the need to be well-informed, public-spirited and socially engaged leaders. With Corporation support, TWC will host two seminars—one at each of the major parties’ national conventions—for college students to develop a personal understanding of and appreciation for the political process as well as the impact of their voice and vote.
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For a dialogue series on advancing coordinated approaches to the effective prevention of armed conflict
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Nobel Peace Prize Forum (the Forum) is one of three programs officially associated with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Focused on initiating high-level dialogues to advance pressing international peace issues, the Forum will conduct two dialogue programs: one focused on advancing global nuclear security architecture and second on early warning systems and approaches for violent conflict. Each dialogue will engage stakeholders and initiate processes of sustained commitment. Additionally, the dialogues will produce a number of key agreement points for greater dissemination. The Nobel Peace Prize forum has unique convening power given its relationship to the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The Forum is partnering with the Foreign Policy Association to further enhance the projects convening and communications ability. The program of Track II dialogue complements the Corporation’s initiatives on Nuclear Security and Peacebuilding in Africa.
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For a research project on school district borders and segregation.
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
4 months
Description
The arbitrary boundaries of many United States school districts incentivize socioeconomic segregation throughout much of the country. This points to a fundamental inequity at the base of the education system that disadvantages underserved communities. EdBuild is a new non-profit dedicated to reforming the school funding system such that public schools can innovate and better serve their communities, promoting equity for all students. With Corporation support, EdBuild proposes to plan and conduct a research project around school district borders. Through network analysis and advanced analytics, EdBuild will identify the top 50 most segregating school district boundaries and write a comprehensive report that delves into the history and policies that have enabled segregation, and proposes innovative solutions.
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For a joint project with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the role of women in peacebuilding in Africa
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
48 months
Description
Much of the research on women and conflict has been done in the field of feminist international relations and has usefully critiqued some of key concepts defining the way people think about war and conflict. However, with some important exceptions, the empirical base of this literature has been weak, particularly in understanding grassroots impacts and responses to conflict. This proposed consortium project seeks to address this gap by focusing on the gendered nature of peacebuilding: 1) how the lack of incorporation of women into formal peace processes and post conflict governance have hindered peace; 2) how women have been engaged in unrecognized forms of peacebuilding informally in Africa and their contributions and limitations; and 3) how the struggle for women’s rights and legal reform is a key battleground internally in African societies struggling to confront conservative Islamist and Salafist influences.
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For the International Affairs Fellowship: for tenured international relations scholars
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
Few tenured political scientists working on peace and security issues have experience working in government, while few government officials working on foreign and national security policy follow academic research. As a result, academic work is usually not informed by the constraints and demands faced by policymakers, while policymakers typically operate without the benefit of systematic scholarly research. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) proposes to address this gap by creating a variant of its successful International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) program (aimed primarily at young academics) restricted to tenured scholars. The program would enable these academics to work in a U.S. government agency or international governmental organization and thereby gain valuable hands-on experience in the foreign policymaking field. The scholars selected would need to arrange a paid sabbatical with their home university, with CFR covering the balance of the academics’ salary and assisting with placement in policy positions.
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For a project to develop strategies aimed at promoting religious tolerance
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
19 months
Description
Among other founding principles, religious freedom set America apart from its European counterparts even in its nascent years. The ethic of religious tolerance still exists today, perhaps more so than in other western countries, but it is under significant pressure. Particularly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, religious intolerance has grown, establishing a national fault line that divides religious pluralists from extremists. Having identified this growing threat as a defining challenge for America in the 21st century, Aspen Institute’s Justice and Society Program launched the Inclusive America Project (IAP) in 2011 to examine best practice models for multi-faith engagement. With Corporation support, the IAP will convene its panel of national and local institutional leaders to conduct interviews with grassroots leaders and draft, circulate, and revise a new report. The panel’s findings and recommendations on religious diversity, bias, and extremism will focus on three levels: local community engagement; statewide policy in such areas as education and public safety; and federal grantmaking and strategic planning.
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As a one-time grant for a project on the use of bottom-up indicators of citizen inclusion and confidence in transitional processes in Kenya and South Sudan
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
27 months
Description
Post-conflict transition periods offer a brief but critical opportunity to build the legitimacy of emerging democratic systems and to establish a foundation for sustainable peace. Despite an emerging consensus that citizen inclusion in transition processes is necessary to foster legitimacy and stability, significant gaps remain in opportunities for citizens to influence transition process design, implementation, or evaluation. The National Democratic Institute (NDI), the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in South Africa (EISA), and the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights (The Oslo Center) propose a pilot project to create bottom-up indicators of citizen inclusion and confidence (CIC) in transitional processes that can inform national and international policymakers’ understanding of citizen priorities around inclusion in transition periods. Kenya and South Sudan will be the pilot countries.
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