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Project Title
For a project to analyze the fiscal and economic impact of state-level immigration policies
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
In many public policy debates, a clear fiscal analysis from a trusted source can be the most effective tool to help inform Americans and shape public opinion. While the Congressional Budget Office and a range of national policy organizations are often available to author such reports on high profile federal policy debates, state governments rarely have the resources or infrastructure needed to carry out such research when debating proposed state policies. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is one of the preeminent policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal issues and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. CBPP co-founded the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative (SFAI) network in 1992, a network of fiscal policy institutes in more than forty states committed to improving the lives of low-income and vulnerable populations. With renewed Corporation support, CBPP and its network of state-based fiscal analysis groups will continue to provide fiscal data to groups working on state-level immigration policy issues.
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For the development of a multi-sector plan to promote immigrant integration in Houston
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
With 6.2 million residents, Houston is the country’s most diverse and rapidly growing metropolitan area. The Latino and Asian shares of the city’s population have more than doubled in the past two decades, and by the time of the 2010 U.S. Census, Houston did not have a majority racial or ethnic group. Of the city’s foreign-born population (604,475 individuals, as of 2013), 72 percent are from Latin America, 19 percent from Asia, 4 percent from Africa and 4 percent from Europe, and more refugees are resettled in Houston than in any other U.S. city. Despite this vibrancy and rapid growth, naturalization rates in Houston consistently fall below the national average (34 versus 44 percent of the foreign-born population). Citizenship rates are even lower for immigrants from El Salvador (24 percent), Mexico (22 percent), Guatemala (17 percent), and Honduras (14 percent). With Corporation support, the Neighborhood Centers will develop a citywide plan in partnership with business, civic, nonprofit, and government agencies to promote immigrant integration, including legal services for those applying for citizenship.
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For research projects on U.S. immigration and immigrant integration into American society
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
48 months
Description
In 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) published The Integration of Immigrants into American Society. The 2015 report is a much needed update to NAS’ 1997 report, The New Americans, a study examining the demographic, economic, and fiscal consequences of immigration to the United States. While the report found that current immigrants and their descendants are successfully integrating into U.S. society, it also identified three causes for concern regarding immigrant integration: the role of legal status in slowing or blocking the integration of both the undocumented and their U.S.-citizen children; racial patterns in immigrant integration and the resulting racial stratification of the population; and the lower rate of naturalization, compared with rates in similar immigrant-receiving countries. In partnership with the Corporation, the Russell Sage Foundation will support research projects investigating these issues and other policy questions from the 2015 report.
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For a research and development project to translate learning science research into high-leverage practices for schools
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
Recent advances in learning science research have highlighted the role that cognitive and social-emotional skills play in success in and beyond school. Yet, there is still a lack of readily available instructional tools to teach these skills. Turnaround for Children recently released Building Blocks, a landmark framework that identifies teachable cognitive and social-emotional skills that support academic achievement and outlines a developmental progression of prerequisite skills that must be cultivated before acquiring higher-order skills. Over the course of this grant, Turnaround will create a set of classroom-level resources that will make the Building Blocks framework actionable and support the acquisition of “co-academic” skills and mindsets.
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For a project to obtain and analyze government data on immigration enforcement practices
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
When government agencies announce new policies and practices, there is often little public information available to measure the impact. To accurately judge the worth of these reforms, the day-to-day minutia of an individual agency must be closely tracked. This often means digging through intricate layers of data that is not readily available to the public. Without this information, it is impossible to assess if the government is executing its announced policies, or whether these actions are achieving their stated goals. Established in 1989 at Syracuse University, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a nonpartisan data research center that collects, validates, analyzes, and distributes internal administrative data and reports documenting what federal agencies are doing day-to-day. With Corporation support, TRAC will collect data on how federal agencies are administering immigration laws; compile regularly updated authoritative data monitoring immigration enforcement practices; and widely distribute this information in readily accessible and understandable forms.
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For the Federal Hall National Memorial Project
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Federal Hall National Memorial is a metaphor for how little most Americans know about the nation’s history. The Greek revival temple on Wall Street—built in 1842—was erected by Congress as the first Custom House for the Port of New York to symbolize the democratic, commercial, and financial aspirations of the fledgling nation forged at the site by the founding fathers in 1789 when New York was the nation’s first federal capital. Today, however, Federal Hall, operated by the National Park Service, is overlooked, unheralded and underfunded; its maintenance backlog alone exceeds $10 million. With Corporation support, National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy will develop and implement strategies for Federal Hall’s future economic stability and develop plans for new programming at Federal Hall.
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For confronting the governance crisis in the Middle East and North Africa: toward establishing inclusive and pluralistic systems post-Arab Spring
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
This proposal is recommended in light of the Transnational Movements and the Arab Region program focus on strengthening problem-solving approaches through the activity of social sciences. A network of Arab region experts coordinated by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) will identify how and under what conditions the United States can engage proactively with regional stakeholders in the long-term pursuit of socio-political and economic progress and stabilization in the Middle East. The research team will engage academics, policy experts, and officials in the United States and the Arab region to advance “social contract” issues linked to the crisis of governance in the region.
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For support to the new Mainstreaming Russian Expertise pilot project at the Kennan Institute
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Current, mainstream ideas about Russia portray it as a resource-dependent economy and represent President Putin as a leader willing to use military power abroad and repression at home. The reality is far more complex; and the United States’ ability to debate and formulate proper policies toward Russia will continue to suffer if outdated perceptions endure. A project of the Kennan Institute, a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, will work to inject newer analyses and research on modern Russia into the broader national security dialogue and thereby bring that new thinking into the national conversation on security and foreign affairs. Working with a project steering group in a pilot phase, Kennan Institute staff will convene small group sessions of researchers, thought leaders, and policy figures in Washington, D.C. and New York. The goal is to forge new and enduring expert and journalist relationships.
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For the U.S. visit of the directors of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research administers the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program (CRFP), which builds academic capacity in the South Caucasus, Western Commonwealth of Independent States, and Russia. It introduces the work of scholars from these critical regions to the international academic community, creating vital ties that lead to ongoing collaborative research. The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), established in 2003 with the goal of strengthening social science research and public policy analysis in the South Caucasus, is a participating network in the CRFP. This project brought the directors of the CRRC (in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) to the United States so they can introduce their work to current and potential U.S. colleagues–including NGO leaders, university faculty, and government representatives–and identify possible areas of collaboration.
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For the development and launch of the State Human Capital Alliance
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
21 months
Description
Founded in 2011, the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy (USHCA) partners with school systems to build their capacity to effectively support and develop human capital management systems. Through its extensive work with school districts, USHCA has determined that the conditions and policies set at the state level play a large role in districts’ – particularly urban districts’ – ability to improve the quality of their individual workforces. Conditions and policies at the state level are often compliance-oriented and hinder, rather than support, a district’s ability to attract, deploy, and retain the best teachers and leaders. This grant will enable USHCA to address these challenges by expanding its support to State Education Agencies (SEAs). USHCA will develop and launch the State Human Capital Alliance, a program focused on helping SEA staff understand how their work directly impacts talent management in districts, as well as how to identify and implement the changes necessary to better align state practices and policies with district needs.
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For a report on Great Districts for Great Teachers and a State Teacher Policy Yearbook
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a nonpartisan research and policy organization, works with states and districts to develop teacher policies that support teacher effectiveness and improve their ability to attract, develop, and retain effective educators. State governments and school districts play critical roles in ensuring that all students are taught by effective teachers, but many struggle to identify what sound teacher policies look like and how they might achieve them. NCTQ proposes two projects that address both of these challenges: 1) a State Teacher Policy Yearbook that serves as an annual yardstick and “how to manual” for states seeking to identify and remedy ineffective teacher policies; and 2) the Great Districts for Great Teachers project aimed at identifying and celebrating large school districts with policies and practices that best support high-performing teachers. This proposal supports both projects.
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For a public education campaign on the history of constitutional amendments and their relevance today
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Of 11,000 proposed amendments to the Constitution, the twenty-seven that passed secure individual liberties and define the powers and structure of government. These issues addressed in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments have been the subject of continuous discussion for 225 years, through topics as old as economic inequality and as new as cyber security. No American’s life is untouched by the ongoing debates about the rights of individuals and the role of government. However, many individuals today do not make the connection between centuries-old amendments and the issues debated by policymakers and the public today. With Corporation support, the National Archives Foundation will launch Amending America, a series of exhibitions, programs, online resources, and more, to explore how the United States continues to perfect the union through the lens of its historic records.
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For a project to codify and share resources from the Bard Early College model and create more supportive conditions for other models rethinking the 9-college continuum
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Bard College has developed an effective early college model which is not only providing a rigorous educational experience to underserved students, but is also emerging salient lessons about the practices that drive the model’s efficacy. In its early college model, Bard hires and trains PhDs to teach college-level coursework to adolescents so students are able to complete high school and earn an Associate’s degree in four years. In the proposed grant, Bard will leverage its expertise to 1) adapt and codify its best practices for use in other school environments beyond the early college field, 2) improve the talent pipeline of early college-inspired high school educators, and 3) strengthen regulatory frameworks affecting models trying to rethink the grade 9-college continuum.
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For a public education campaign on the economic and social impact of immigration in rural counties
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
19 months
Description
The growth of immigrant populations in rural communities has been credited with creating new business opportunities, rejuvenating business districts, stabilizing property values, and keeping schools from closing due to lack of enrollment. But these news stories about immigration in rural areas are rarely told. While some national media have examined the topic, many rural Americans haven’t heard this perspective in a way that makes sense to them. With Corporation support, the Center for Rural Strategies rural immigration initiative will reach an audience of at least 500,000 with factual and timely information about the economic and social impact of immigration in rural communities. The initiative will include data-driven qualitative research; print, web, and multimedia story development; promotion of material to rural leaders, press, and policymakers; and distribution of localized, targeted news stories to rural media across the country.
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For the assessment and planning phase of Common Cause's 50th anniversary
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
21 months
Description
Founded with 4,000 core members in 1970 to serve as a people’s lobby, Common Cause Education Fund has grown into a nationwide network of more than 475,000 members and supporters, with offices in thirty-six states and Washington, D.C. Common Cause works to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promotes equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empowers people to make their voices heard in the political process. Common Cause will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020. In anticipation of that milestone, and with Corporation support, Common Cause is launching the assessment and planning phase of a significant, year-long commemoration.
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As a one-time grant in support of the project, “Addressing Key Dimensions of Global Uncertainty, Fairness and Inclusion”
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2000, The Globalist provides a daily account of the key issues before the global community, focusing on what unites and divides countries, societies and cultures, what challenges they face in the global era, and what solutions they offer to the global community. Their mission is to provide outstanding editorial content, written by expert voices in their respective fields, for a larger and varied audience worldwide. With Corporation support, over the course of the coming year, The Globalist will publish a series of articles on key issues in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Africa as well as and developments that strengthen (or weaken) democratic institutions and the rights of voters in regions in the United States and the West. The articles and arguments presented in this series will possess a depth and relevance to have an impact in policymaking circles and public debates.
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For the Education Working Group and learning community
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The effectiveness of any single intervention in education reform is often diminished because many organizations work in isolation, and because there are few mechanisms to facilitate and ensure coordinated approaches that spread effective, complimentary practices and solutions. The Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) seeks to minimize these missed opportunities, inefficiencies, and decreased impact by creating a system in the social sector to consistently scale promising practices and effective interventions. Within GPN, the funder Education Working Group collectively scales effective education initiatives (including policies, programs, and practices). With Corporation support, GPN is now creating a learning and action community for these funders and others to learn the latest theories, methods, research and strategies related to achieving large-scale impact, then to take collective action on a chosen issue in education.
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For continued support of "New Math Pathways," a project building successful transitions to post-secondary education
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
The Dana Center has become a leading force in modernizing introductory college mathematics and enabling student success. The Center’s New Mathways Project (NMP), which began as a partnership with all fifty Texas community college districts, is now working actively with more than a dozen states and key national higher education organizations and mathematics professional societies. The NMP reflects a novel innovation by which community colleges are increasing students’ access to and completion of rigorous and relevant math pathways.This grant will enable the Dana Center to scale its NMP work, sustain its leadership of a national movement to modernize postsecondary math education, and apply what it has learned at the college level to improve K-12 math learning and the transition from high school to college.
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For the Scholar Rescue Fund
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
30 months
Description
To respond to the overwhelming demand from threatened scholars affected by conflict and repression, especially in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, IIE-SRF will place promising professors, researchers, and public intellectuals at safe academic institutions around the world. IIE-SRF will focus support on scholars from the Arab region, with the potential to provide several grants to scholars from neighboring countries, thus enabling IIE-SRF to be responsive to changing global conditions. IIE-SRF will also strengthen partnerships established through prior Carnegie support, as well as build new partnerships with academic associations and human rights institutions focused on the Arab region.
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For promoting global governance and cooperation in an era of geopolitical upheaval
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
In the last quarter century, the world experienced an era of growing global interdependence marked by a decline in geopolitical competition and the uncontested leadership of the West. Today, however, the international order is being challenged by contrasting visions, and the role of the United States is the subject of scholarly and political debate. The Brookings Institution (Brookings) works closely with policy officials to assess problems and help develop possible approaches to them. Among programs that seek to inform policy, Brookings’ Foreign Policy program is recognized as a leading resource for policymakers, media, and the public in the United States and abroad. Brookings will focus on issues central to its research agenda: U.S. leadership in the shifting international order, the rise of China, enduring problems of negotiating nuclear nonproliferation, and work on Middle East religious soft power strategy.
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For support of the Kaleidoscopic Conflict project
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
8 months
Description
The complexity, lack of information and data available, and tangled web of contradictory interests creates a blurred picture of international conflicts. At the International Peace and Security Institute (IPSI), they call it a kaleidoscopic view. Through their Kaleidoscopic Conflict Project they are examining the complexity of current conflicts and U.S. foreign policy interests in those conflicts. Through a series of consultative dialogues, IPSI aims to identify specific reforms and investment recommendations that can be made to the 115th Congress, as well as United States government agencies such as the U.S. State Department and USAID. Recommendations are aimed at strengthening responses to conflict with approaches that are more effective at managing and mitigating violent conflict. The Corporation’s contribution will allow the project to conduct dialogues outside of Washington, D.C. with academics, research institutions, and community-based organizations involved in conflict resolution.
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For a communications campaign to increase public support for refugee resettlement in the United States
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Refugee issues generally receive limited attention in the Unites States from the media and the public. The current Syrian refugee crisis as well as the increased number of children fleeing violence in Central America present opportunities for refugee advocates to educate the public and policymakers on refugee resettlement systems and the need for the country to support refugees. Established in 1946, Church World Service (CWS) is a refugee resettlement organization and has been a leader at the forefront of building field capacity of people of faith standing in solidarity with immigrant and refugee communities across the United States. With Corporation support, and in collaboration with Unbound Philanthropy, CWS will increase its policy, communications, and grassroots organizing capacity in order to expand public support for refugee resettlement and train refugee leaders and allies working to build welcoming communities.
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For a project to support districts and cities that are redesigning school systems to foster and sustain student-centered learning environments
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
To achieve and sustain meaningful scale of student-centered learning environments, major shifts in the systems that support schools are required. Too many cities remain stuck with an outdated compliance-oriented education system. Now, district leaders across the country are adopting a new “portfolio” strategy to transform K-12 public education into a system of autonomous and accountable schools. Despite fast-growing support, implementation of this strategy is a major challenge. The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington provides thought leadership and direct support to cities transforming their education systems to better serve all students through a portfolio strategy. The proposed grant will enable CRPE to deepen this work by 1) supporting and expanding the network of cities implementing a portfolio strategy; 2) capturing learning from, and assessing the progress of, network members and sharing the results broadly; and 3) providing targeted technical support to high-potential systems implementing a portfolio strategy.
Project Title
For Arab Futures: Reframing Knowledge in the Arab Region
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
This proposal is recommended in light of the Transnational Movements and the Arab Region program focus on strengthening problem-solving approaches through the activity of social sciences and humanities sectors within the region. The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) seeks support for several key areas including (1) the production of new knowledge through two working groups: “Security and Insecurity” and “the Arab region, Iran and Turkey reconsidered”; (2) a postdoctoral fellowships program and two lecture series in honor of Hanna Batatu and Fatima Mernissi respectively; (3) surveying the landscape of knowledge production through new data collection and publication of the second report of the Arab Social Science Monitor; (4) dissemination of works produced through these programs both as print and e-publications as well as through lectures and workshops.
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For support for the project, "Journalism in the Public Interest Concerning K-12 Education"
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2007, ProPublica is an independent, non-profit news agency with a mission to produce investigative journalism in the public interest. The first online news organization to win a Pulitzer Prize, ProPublica’s strength lies in both the quality of its reporting staff and its extensive data-mining and analysis capabilities. Its goal is to stimulate positive change by uncovering objectionable practices and abuses of power. In 2014, the Corporation awarded ProPublica a $150,000 grant to expand its reporting on K-12 education. This funding enabled the organization to publish revealing articles on topics such as the widespread misuse of restraints in public schools and the abuse of people with disabilities by a company that runs schools and residential facilities for the disabled. In both cases, the articles resulted in state laws banning those practices. With renewed support, ProPublica will continue to uncover inequality and exploitation in the nation’s education system and encourage reform.
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For support for an anthology of articles from throughout the Chronicle's publishing run
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Since its establishment in 1966 as an independent newspaper, The Chronicle of Higher Education has been a trusted source of reporting on higher education. The publication was created to demystify the sector, as the general public at the time had limited access to information about higher education. Carnegie Corporation of New York was one of The Chronicle’s first funders and has helped ensure its survival and success. Over its fifty-year history, the newspaper has evolved into a central source of information for educators and higher-education administrators across the country. With Corporation support, The Chronicle will collect and publish an anthology of its best articles from the past half-century that will shed light not only on the newspaper’s history, but also on fifty years of American higher education, and will be available to both subscribers and the general public.
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For continued development and implementation of the Greenfield model, and associated knowledge building and dissemination
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
The continuously higher bar that students will have to meet in order to compete in the global marketplace and participate in American democracy necessitates the development of new classroom, school, and system models built explicitly to prepare students for success in college, career, and life. This proposal from Achievement First (AF) supports the continued development and piloting of an innovative school model with a focus on supporting student mastery of rigorous academic content through technology-enabled personalization, as well as crucial knowledge management and sharing. AF is a venerable, high-performing charter management organization well known for the rigor of its instructional model and its comprehensive teacher development strategies. Importantly, the effort seeks to accelerate fulfillment of the organization’s student-centered goals while at the same time contribute critical innovation and learning to the education sector to accelerate learning outcomes more broadly.
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For a Vietnam War Summit
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Five decades on, the legacy of the Vietnam War, and that of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, remains complex and controversial. This year, the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas aims to take a “substantive, unvarnished look” at the war and its lessons, while also honoring the thousands of veterans who fought and died during the conflict. With Corporation support, the Vietnam War Summit, to be held April 26-28, will include panel discussions with historians and political activists; appearances by political luminaries such as Secretary John Kerry and former Secretary Henry Kissinger; and veteran recognition ceremonies.
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For continued development of Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math), a project to transform post-secondary mathematics
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
30 months
Description
Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math) was created in 2013 with funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York, in recognition of an urgent need to foster significant change in the teaching and learning of college math. Under the leadership of Phillip A. Griffiths and a small, voluntary group of other prominent mathematicians, TPSE Math has sought to develop both a compelling agenda for reform and an organization equipped to advance that agenda—one that fosters experimentation and collaboration, promotes best practices, works in partnership with others in the math community, and has the capacity to advance reform at a national scale With further Corporation support, TPSE Math developed a strategic plan (assisted by consultants at Parthenon-EY) and has taken the first steps toward implementation. This grant will provide support for full implementation of its strategic plan.
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For policy research on state failure and social fragmentation in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
This proposal is recommended in light of the Transnational Movements and the Arab Region program goal of mobilizing experts towards analysis of militant movements. Artis International has identified knowledge gaps, as well as gaps in the feedback loop on the impact of security policies implemented in the Arab region. They propose new research and an experts and policymaker network to focus on critical causes, consequences, and policy options associated with systemic social fragmentation particularly as it relates to the rise of the Islamic State. Artis International will send scientists to Iraq, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia to evaluate empirical evidence and the impact of Western Policies on the strength of the Islamic State and the support levels from particular populations. Artis International will then communicate findings and produce policy alternatives for policymakers in the United States, Europe and the Middle East and North Africa.
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For the Emergency Scholarship Program for Syrian Students
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
As the conflict in Syria enters its sixth year, it is having a devastating and long-lasting impact on young people and the education sector. The Global Platform for Syrian Students is a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides academic opportunities for Syrian students to complete a graduation cycle. Corporation funds mainly go to student costs; a full package of education services is being provided to Syrian students to complete higher education programs at institutions outside Syria. In addition, the organization is scaling up its policy development and intergovernmental outreach to build a Rapid Response Mechanism for Higher Education in Emergencies.
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For early childhood and literacy programs
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
40 months
Description
Flint, Michigan, is in a state of emergency after its residents, including more than 13,000 children under the age of eight, were exposed to lead tainted water for nearly two years. While the effects of lead exposure cannot be reversed, sustained and thoughtful interventions can help those exposed lead healthy and productive lives. The Community Foundation of Greater Flint is undertaking the Flint Kids Campaign to address a number of interventions for children, including an early childhood and literacy program that will ramp up family focused programs that have a two-generation impact; increase literacy levels for both children and parents; and increase resources to under-served populations of young children, ages zero to five, through a mobile preschool program. Corporation support, which will be matched by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, will provide flexible funding to expand literacy and early childhood outreach.
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For a forum series exploring new and competing challenges facing the U.S. in the Middle East
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The United States’ relations with the Middle East are complex and ever-changing, making understanding the challenges facing the regions difficult to grasp. Indeed, surveys have shown that many Americans have little understanding of the nation’s role or status in the Middle East. The World Affairs Councils of America (WACA) is the largest nonpartisan network of nonprofits in the country dedicated to educating the American public on key global issues, including challenges in the Middle East. With Corporation support, WACA will produce a speaker series at partner organizations around the country to educate the public about U.S. policy in the Middle East region. WACA aims to use these forums to help “lower the temperature” and “let light in” in order to provide Americans with balanced information about a confusing and highly politicized topic.
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For a project to support charter/district collaboration and community outreach in Los Angeles
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Although the education field has made strides in recent years, progress has not happened equally across all geographies. There are still too many neighborhoods across the U.S. where families do not have access to high-performing schools. Great Public Schools Now (GPSN) was created to address this challenge within Los Angeles. Its mission is to increase the number of great public school options in Los Angeles, with a particular focus on replicating high-quality schools in the neediest neighborhoods. In order to do this, GPSN will support the growth of existing charter school networks, single schools that want to expand, new schools started by highly talented school leaders, and successful school networks from other cities that want to expand to Los Angeles. During the grant period, GPSN will leverage the Corporation’s funding to support district/charter collaboration and community engagement and outreach work.
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For the Newark Public Library’s efforts to engage the community and encourage family literacy
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
25 months
Description
Nearly one third of the population of Newark lives below the Department of Health and Human Services poverty guidelines, exacerbated by an adult functioning illiteracy rate of 52 percent. The Newark Public Library in New Jersey plays a vital role as the center for community life and learning, offering individuals of all ages opportunities in literacy, achievement of educational goals, and the pursuit of lifelong learning. The library faces three main issues as it launches a campaign to reimagine the library: an educational gap among local community residents, a growing need to digitize the historic collections that are housed by the library, and a new development, marketing, and branding effort that will help spur future fundraising to expand efforts to address these challenges. The Corporation will make a one-time only contribution toward the campaign, which is expected to attract other contributions. The Community Foundation of New Jersey serves as the fiscal sponsor.
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For a project to support local journalism in New Jersey
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Like many states, New Jersey’s local journalism outlets have struggled in recent years, contending with increasingly limited revenues and resources. As a result, New Jersey residents’ access to community news is shrinking, an alarming trend given the importance of an informed citizenry to a healthy democracy. Free Press, a national, nonpartisan media nonprofit, aims to counter this development by launching a campaign to reserve part of the revenues from an upcoming FCC action to establish an endowment for local journalism in the state. With Corporation support, Free Press will conduct popular education and press outreach; identify and work with key stakeholders; host community engagement events; and conduct original research and policy development to support the campaign.
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As a one-time grant for the establishment of a Rhodes Scholarship in West Africa
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
48 months
Description
The Rhodes Scholarship, named for the British mining magnate and South African politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for non-British students to study at the University of Oxford. The award is widely considered to be one of the world’s most prestigious scholarships and most effective leadership development programs. The Rhodes Trust’s vision is to develop leaders and help them make a global impact. This proposal is requesting support towards establishment of a regional Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa, specifically the countries of Nigeria and Ghana and for three scholars. By identifying and training African Rhodes Scholars, The Rhodes Trust will contribute to training, research and retention of academics in select countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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For the Social Justice for Children Lecture Series
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
94 months
Description
Brooklyn College established its Children and Youth Studies Program, the first of its kind in the United States, twenty-five years ago. Since that time, the program, which focuses on human rights and informing local policy, has grown rapidly: it has garnered an international reputation and boasts the third highest enrollment of majors in the college’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. To recognize its anniversary and to honor the program’s founder, Gertrud Lenzer, the Children and Youth Studies Program will, with Corporation support, host a five-part Social Justice for Children Lecture Series. The series, which will begin in the spring of 2017 and be held once per semester, will feature speakers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, including the juvenile justice system, the child welfare system, and the human rights of children.
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For a project on the future of voting
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
26 months
Description
In the wake of the 2000 national election, the limitations and failures of America’s voting technology came to the fore. With the 2016 national election now looming, aging and outdated voting machines across the country are yet again a major concern. With Corporation support, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will study the use of voting technology during this year’s election. It will then produce a report that will aim to bring national attention to issues associated with voting technology and offer recommendations that provide a vision of voting that is more accessible, reliable, and verifiable. The NAS will disseminate and promote the report with the goal of encouraging policy change in the field of voting technology.
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For a personalized learning study
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
21 months
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The National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) focuses on delivering high quality professional learning to top-tier teachers and their school leaders. NAATE is undertaking a study of personalized learning school models to better understand the implications for human capital. Specifically, NAATE seeks to understand what skills, mindsets, and practices must educators possess to successfully construct and implement these models, and subsequently, what new approaches for preparing and supporting teachers, school leaders, and other educators will be needed. These findings will inform future developments in NAATE’s model and be shared with the field. This grant supports this study.
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For a convening for Education Leaders of Color
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
4 months
Description
A new organization in the education reform landscape, Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) was founded in 2014 by prominent Black and Latino leaders of color with the purposes of convening leaders of color to address the challenges of education reform. Through providing a network of support, connecting back to communities of color, and working to expand the definition of school success while mitigating the vitriol surrounding reform efforts, EdLoC aims to dramatically increase the number of Black and Latino leaders in high-level decision-making, organizational, and thought leadership roles and become the “standard-bearers” for education reform in low-income communities. This grant supports EdLoC’s second annual national convening, bringing leaders of color together to increase the size of EdLoC’s network and expand the uptake of its values to new communities and leaders.
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For support for the project titled "Scaling Infrastructure for Next-Generation Digital Preservation and Access"
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
42 months
Description
The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) collections are among the most comprehensive ever assembled for the free use of the public, covering virtually every subject, format, and language and forming the bedrock of the library’s programs and services to promote scholarship and learning. For nearly two decades, NYPL has been working to create large-scale digital access to its collections. Today, NYPL seeks to increase and upgrade its digital-asset-management infrastructure to take on a new set of challenges. To date, the library’s digitization efforts have focused on media such as books, manuscripts, maps, prints, and photographs. NYPL plans to expand its digitization efforts to more than 200,000 rare and unique films and audio recordings, among others. In addition, the library has begun to process a growing volume of collections that were created in digital formats and increasingly make up the archival collections of writers, artists, and organizations. With Corporation support, the library’s repository system—which, thus far, has handled only simple digital assets like images and texts—will be updated to store this expanding spectrum of digital material.
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For the book "Before the Age of Prejudice: A Muslim Woman’s Story of Service at the National Security Council for Three U.S. Presidents"
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
In view of the recent emergence of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and the West, more broadly, the story of one Muslim immigrant woman’s journey from the Deccan plateau of India, through the northwest frontier city of Peshawar in Pakistan, to a life of public service in the United States is particularly compelling. Through this grant, Shirin Tahir-Kheli will finish writing her memoirs, which will describe how an early emphasis on education, tolerance of difference, and openness to the larger world scene, shaped her worldview and professional entrance into the field of international relations. This journey culminated in service to three American presidents on the National Security Council staff and in other key diplomatic and foreign policy posts, including as the first Muslim ambassador representing the United States.
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For the Shii Studies Research Project
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
48 months
Description
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), an internationally recognized center for the study of Islamic cultures and history, proposes a research project to expand and enhance the field of Islamic studies. The Shii Studies Research Project seeks to redress the under-representation of Shii Studies within the field of Islamic Studies, enriching contemporary understandings of the historical roots of current crises and regional tensions in the Middle East. IAS seeks Corporation funds in support of growing this field through a variety of activities, including hosting scholars in residence and publishing the Shii Studies Review (journal) as well as a companion books series. IAS will also establish a workshop series for training young scholars in the field of Shii Studies and will hold two annual conferences mobilizing leading scholars in the field.
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For support of the Great Decisions in the Libraries Program
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1918, The Foreign Policy Association (FPA), a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding, and informed opinions on U.S. foreign policy and global issues. FPA’s program, Great Decisions, is the largest grassroots discussion forum in the United States. Topics include Russian Foreign Policy, Privacy in the Digital Age, International Migration, Shifting Alliances in the Middle East, Cuba and the U.S. and U.S. Policy Toward Africa. With Corporation support, the FPA will be able to respond to an increased demand for copies of the Great Decisions briefing book, making available an additional 5,000 copies for dissemination to university libraries in the United States.
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For the project "America’s Role in the World: A Campaign to Raise Awareness of National Choices"
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
11 months
Description
Today’s global environment is increasingly unstable and complicated. Moreover, it can be poorly understood. A project of the Eurasia Group Foundation (EFG) aims to expand the understanding of foreign policy issues among younger Americans so that they can make informed choices. Through a social media campaign that addresses the themes of security, economics, and values, EFG will contribute content and ideas, and provide input toward a more comprehensive understanding of critical challenges of today. For content development, EGF will draw on its own expertise in global politics and an extensive network of policy analysts and experts, Corporation grantees among them.
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For the George C. Marshall Legacy Series
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
This grant will provide support for the Legacy Series of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation (the Series). The Series interprets the legacy of the former statesmen and soldier, renowned for his leadership roles during World War II and the Cold War, through a four-year series of exhibitions, programs, and speakers centered on key themes, events, and episodes from his noteworthy career. This grant will enable the foundation to move the Series forward by continuing its research and documenting Marshall through new discoveries. The now broadly popular Series was inaugurated in April 2015 as an intentional complement to the scholarly work of the recently concluded Marshall Papers Project. The Series meets an ongoing and growing need to return Marshall to the forefront of American consciousness, so his remarkable example of public service will continue to inform and inspire current and future generations.
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For the project "Twenty-five Years of U.S.-Russia Relations: What Should We Have Learned?"
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
10 months
Description
Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russia relationship has gone through several phases of both cooperation and confrontation. Understanding the past trajectory, and the reasons for it, are essential for charting the future course of this important relationship. The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) at Georgetown University will host a major international conference, “Twenty-five Years of U.S.-Russia Relations: What Should We Have Learned?” Conference participants will include leading former policymakers, analysts, and private sector representatives from the United States, Russia, and elsewhere. The conference will be retrospective and prospective with the goal of bringing its findings to the attention of a new U.S. administration and the Russian policymaking community. A podcast of the conference will be available on the CERES website.
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For the Transformational Leadership and Learning Lab
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Patterns emerging from transformational classrooms in some of the most challenging contexts around the world have the potential to reveal actionable insights into what teacher actions and mindsets are effective and how to develop them; how engagement with students, families and communities affects student success; and which student outcomes set young people on an enduring path to opportunity and leadership. Teach For All’s new Transformational Learning and Leadership (TLL) Lab seeks to use a series of collaborative investigations, expert/practitioner roundtables, and fellowships across its network of 40 partner organizations to learn from these classrooms and to model new ways of sharing that learning with the broader field. This grant supports the launch and first year of the TLL Lab.
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As a one-time grant for an education initiative to strengthen literacy in global affairs
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
This grant supports CFR Campus, an initiative to promote higher literacy in global affairs and help future generations of Americans prepare for an increasingly globalized world. CFR Campus uses an innovative digital platform to inspire college and high school students, especially those with no prior specialization in global affairs. These educational products use activities and assessments to build essential skills in critical reading and thinking, persuasive speaking and writing, and teamwork. Interactive modular learning materials explain the fundamentals of international relations and U.S. foreign policy, and will help build a higher level of global literacy in the U.S. and beyond. The project reinforces Carnegie Corporation’s mandate to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.
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