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For support of a project on immigration policies in state legislatures
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) was founded in 1975 to improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures, promote policy innovation and communication among them, and ensure they have a strong, cohesive voice in the federal system. Today, NCSL remains the only bipartisan organization representing all 7,386 state legislators and 30,000 legislative staff, uniquely positioned as a trusted, nonpartisan source of analysis and convening power. This grant would allow NCSL to expand its immigration policy work at a time when immigration is politically fraught and deeply polarized. With federal reform stalled, states have both significant opportunities and challenges to advancing pragmatic, innovative laws that foster immigrant integration and bring communities together rather than divide them. By investing in NCSL’s capacity, the Corporation can ensure lawmakers receive credible research, bipartisan education, and opportunities for thoughtful policy exchange.
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As one time funding for a project modeling the effects of nuclear use in outer space as part of a Request for Proposals on “Emerging Technologies and Nuclear Weapon Risks"
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent public reports suggest that the risk of nuclear use in outer space is rising. However, the consequences of such an event remain poorly understood. Existing public knowledge related to nuclear explosions in space relies on outdated data that does not reflect the modern commercial and military space environment. The University of Texas at Austin will apply updated modeling techniques to examine how nuclear detonations in space would affect key military and civilian satellite constellations across different orbits, as well as ground-based electrical and electronic infrastructure. The study will also estimate the potential economic and socio-political impacts of these disruptions. The findings will inform practical policy recommendations to reduce security vulnerabilities and identify diplomatic strategies to lower the risk of nuclear use in space.
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In support of the American Academy in Berlin Fellows Program
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
The American Academy in Berlin, founded in 1994 by U.S. Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, is dedicated to strengthening transatlantic ties through advanced study and dialogue in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and public policy. With Corporation support, the Academy seeks to establish the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, where one distinguished scholar, artist, or policy expert will be selected and will spend four months in residence at the Academy, focusing on European security, democracy, and transatlantic Over a three-year cycle, this fellowship will deepen the Academy’s focus on critical global challenges, expand its programming, and extend its impact across Germany, Europe, and the wider transatlantic community.
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For core support of College Promise
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
College Promise is a nonpartisan organization that helms the national ‘promise movement’ to provide public funding the first two or more years of postsecondary education. They directly support a network of over 450 “Promise programs” across all fifty states with the goal of ensuring that all students in the United States have access to the education, training, and support necessary to achieve social and economic mobility. To address male economic disconnection, where only 57 percent of male high school graduates proceed to college, and many men aged 18-24 are neither in education nor employment, College Promise will collaborate with stakeholders in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Georgia. They will develop state-level frameworks integrating Promise programs with workforce priorities, train 40-60 staff, and develop policy briefs and a comprehensive implementation guide to ensure men receive seamless support for education, career counseling, and financial assistance. This initiative will enable states to adopt policies that help men enroll in and complete programs leading to high-demand jobs.
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In support of the Carnegie Scholarship Initiative
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1996, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) was established to build Ukraine’s domestic capacity to educate a new generation of economists. Ukraine now faces an urgent human capital crisis. Decades of brain drain have significantly worsened following the 2022 outbreak of war with Russia, jeopardizing the country’s ability to rebuild and modernize its economy. With Corporation support, the KSE will launch the Carnegie Scholarship Initiative, within the School’s Come Back Home program, which aims to retain and attract talented young people to pursue their education within Ukraine.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash) has a legacy of engaging the world’s top scientific minds to reduce nuclear dangers. Under new leadership, the organization is modernizing its work to respond to today’s complex global threats, including those posed by advanced technologies and geopolitical instability. Through a combination of research and dialogues among leading scientists across the globe, Pugwash continues to bring together experts from across geopolitical divides—including countries often excluded from international forums—to foster dialogue and develop actionable policy ideas. The organization remains a rare, trusted platform for diplomacy grounded in scientific integrity. This renewal supports Pugwash’s new initiatives and intergenerational efforts to prepare future scientific leaders to support research and diplomatic efforts to reduce nuclear dangers.
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In support of the Waterford Treasures Children's Museum
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Between 1986 and 1992, a major archaeological excavation in Waterford, Ireland’s historic city center uncovered important Viking and medieval artifacts, leading to the creation of the Waterford Treasures Museum in 1999. The museum preserved seven historic buildings and expanded educational outreach. In 2022, the Museum of Childhood project sought a permanent home at 18 Lady Lane, an 18th-century merchant’s house. The museum explores childhood in all its dimensions—joyful and difficult—while promoting education, diversity, and community engagement. Initial Corporation funding supported workshops and planning; a renewal grant will help develop interactive exhibits and educational content.
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For an Asia-U.S. peace and security dialogue
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The adversarial relationship between the United States and China is fueled by widening perception gaps and a lack of substantive dialogue, with effects on the entire Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) will engage experts from the United States, China, and wider Asia-Pacific in Track II dialogues and rigorous analysis to clarify expectations and assess how to build common ground in pursuit of regional stability. By approaching U.S.-China relations from a regional perspective, APLN can evaluate the steps necessary to avoid confrontation and better understand the long-term trajectory of political and security relationships. The dialogues will generate practical policy recommendations that APLN will share with decision-makers and policy communities in the United States, China, and the Asia-Pacific.
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As a final grant for the U.S.-Russia Relations Initiative
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
High quality education and research on Russian foreign policy are essential for U.S. policymakers to effectively address Russia’s strategic challenges to U.S. interests. Since its establishment with Corporation support in 2016, the U.S.-Russia Relations Initiative at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy has provided premier graduate-level training on Russia and its global role. With final support, Fletcher will continue preparing the next generation of American experts through comprehensive study of Russian foreign policymaking and U.S.-Russia relations. Fletcher will expand course development, host visiting Russian scholars in exile for research and teaching, and facilitate academic track-two dialogues with Russian counterparts.
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As a one-time only grant in support of humanitarian assistance in Sudan
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), founded in 1933, responds to the world’s worst crises, providing health care, infrastructure, learning, and economic support to more than 25 million people annually. Sudan is currently the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world. Since the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, the IRC scaled up its emergency response activities, including the deployment of a new team to Darfur. In January 2025, IRC was close to finalizing a funding agreement with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance that would have provided stable support for operations in Darfur and South Kordofan. However, the freeze on U.S. foreign assistance halted the issuance of that funding, and there is little expectation that it will resume soon. A grant from Carnegie Corporation would enable the IRC to implement a one-year, integrated health, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) project across Tawila (North Darfur) and Zalingei (Central Darfur), delivering 13 targeted interventions for vulnerable internally displaced persons and conflict-affected communities—helping to stem the deepening humanitarian crisis in the region.
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For a project to expand educational services to school districts across the country
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Many children from immigrant backgrounds face challenges in schools due to poverty, language barriers, and unfamiliarity with the education system. With educators lacking understanding of how to support them, students experience stress, which negatively impacts their school performance. ImmSchools, an organization founded in 2018, fills a critical gap in the field by providing resources and professional development to school districts, leaders, and teachers, focusing on supporting immigrant students. With Corporation support, ImmSchools will triple their annual reach to meet growing demands from educators in the states. In response, they will provide educational workshops to more than 15,000 educators, students, and families, fostering informed communities, improving education access, and advancing immigrant civic integration.
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For support to expand National Education Equity Lab's model to serve an additional 26,000 additional high school students over three years
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
The surest path toward economic mobility and civic participation remains a four-year college degree. However, students from low-income communities do not have consistent access to the academic preparation needed to unlock the world of higher education. Founded in 2019, with a single Harvard humanities course in twenty-five high schools, the National Education Equity Lab (Ed Equity Lab) has provided over 25k students across thirty-two states with access to actual credit-bearing courses at top universities at no cost to the students. Eighty percent of all students completing courses have passed, earning over 47k college credits, and representing an estimated $60M+ in college tuition cost savings. Prior Corporation support enabled the Ed Equity Lab to significantly scale the number of participating scholars and double and triple their presence in three of the country’s largest school districts. Renewed support will enable the Ed Equity Lab to expand the program to approximately 26k low-income high school scholars over the next three years and onboard two to three additional higher education partners.
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As a one-time grant for the Teaching America250 Awards
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
Through fellowships, innovative learning tools, and an annual national summit, the Jack Miller Center (JMC) fosters a deeper understanding of the essential texts and ideas of the American political tradition among a network of over 4,000 K-12 educators and professors in forty-nine states. The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 presents an opportune moment to celebrate the teachers who are equipping their students with a strong understanding of America’s founding principles. With support from Carnegie, JMC will launch the Teaching America250 Awards—a one-time national awards program recognizing one outstanding teacher in each state—in the fall of 2025. The Awards will empower exceptional educators to develop projects that celebrate America’s founding principles and bring its history to life: a powerful catalyst for renewed enthusiasm and meaningful action in American civic education. Applicants will design projects that teach the Declaration’s founding principles and foster civic purpose—via field trips, assemblies, clubs, or community art. Fifty educators will receive a $5,000 award to carry out their project, and a select number will present their projects at JMC’s National Summit on Civic Education.
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For project support to advance civic engagement and democracy education through hands-on, experiential learning opportunities
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Too few adolescents have access to high-quality civic learning during the middle school years. To address this gap, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), a national organization founded in 1912 and committed to fostering girls’ leadership and civic engagement, will launch a civics initiative for middle school girls delivered directly in schools through facilitators. The program builds on a successful 2025 pilot that demonstrated the effectiveness of school-based programs in reaching low-income girls who may not otherwise access troop experiences. With Carnegie support, GSUSA will create a co-branded Civics Series Experience Box containing program guides, activity prompts, and badges. Through in-school sessions, girls will earn the Democracy for Cadettes Badge, pursue the True North Award through values-driven civic action, and culminate with a real-world civics experience such as state capitol visits or advocacy events, earning a co-branded Carnegie patch. The initiative will launch in 40 schools across the country, reaching 2,000 Cadettes and their families, with priority given to low-income communities.
Project Title
For Russia Matters
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Given Russia’s consequential role in world affairs, it is essential for the United States to have a clear and accurate understanding of developments in its foreign and domestic policies. With support from Carnegie, the Russia Matters website was launched in 2016 to offer fact-based analysis, data, and informed debate on the factors shaping Russian behavior. It serves expert and policymaking communities in the English-speaking world, as well as the general public. With final funding, the site will continue to grow its content by commissioning new research and analysis on topics such as Russia’s political, economic, and social stability; U.S.-Russia strategic relations; and the future of Euro-Atlantic security. The grant will support the production of research, publications, convenings, and briefings.
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For project support to expand the National Civics Bee Competition
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
The Civics Bee is a national competition engaging students in history, government, and civics. Launched in 2024 by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, it served 2,500 students from twenty-eight states. With Corporation support, it will expand to all fifty states, partnering with 300 chambers to host essay contests, local quiz events, and state championships. By 2026, 50,000 middle schoolers will enter the first stage, with 6,000 advancing to local events and 900 to state competitions. State champions will compete in a nationally televised championship—featuring forty states in 2025 and all fifty by 2026. Prizes range from $500 locally to $100,000 nationally, with the Corporation presenting second- and third-place awards at the 2025 and 2026 championships.
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For project support to expand the Democracy in Dialogue Virtual Exchange Program
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2026, the Smithsonian Institution will engage communities across the country with an invitation to celebrate, commemorate, and contemplate the founding of the nation and the tenets of our democracy. Unfortunately, many U.S. education systems currently lack comprehensive civics instruction, leaving a critical gap in educating students about the nation’s founding ideals and the rights and responsibilities of all citizens. Currently in its pilot phase, The Democracy in Dialogue Virtual Exchange Program (DiDVE) run by the Smithsonian empowers young people ages thirteen to eighteen by connecting local stories to national narratives through civic engagement and community storytelling. By combining place-based pedagogy with Smithsonian resources, DiDVE fosters meaningful dialogue among students from diverse backgrounds while providing educators with the tools and training to lead these exchanges. With the Corporation’s support, the Smithsonian aims to establish the program as a signature educational offering, expanding its reach from just over 1,000 students served as of spring 2025 to 5,000 students nationwide by the end of 2026.
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For support of the Think, Learn, Create Change program
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Many young people in the United States lack access to high-quality civic learning experiences during adolescence. This grant will support the expansion of Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Think, Learn, Create Change civic engagement program from eighty to one hundred Clubs between 2025 and 2027, increasing youth participation from approximately 3,600 to 4,500. It will fund a new Carnegie-supported Youth Leading Change cohort involving ten Clubs, engaging 200 students in deeper civic learning through project-based action, mentorship, and advocacy events, while reaching an additional 1,000 youth through expanded Town Halls, Service Projects, and State Advocacy Days. The grant also supports the 2026 Summit for America’s Youth in Washington, D.C., which will convene 600 youth during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Youth will also participate in advocacy training and engage with national leaders.
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For project support to expand debate programs to foster civic skills
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The Bill of Rights Institute (BRI) has been at the forefront of promoting civic education since 1999, striving to bridge gaps in civic knowledge and creating opportunities for students to engage in civic practices. With a vast network of over 83,000 civics teachers, BRI empowers both teachers and students through engaging debate initiatives that emphasize critical thinking, public speaking, and constructive dialogue. The proposed project aims to expand BRI’s impact by scaling up two key initiatives over the next two years. 1) The DebateWorks in the Classroom series will provide essential resources to 575 civics teachers, thereby impacting 60,000 students by facilitating discussions on current events and 2) the Debating Matters TransAtlantic Tournament will connect U.S. and U.K. students for global debates with plans for annual in-person championships. Support from the Corporation will enable BRI to significantly enhance student participation in debates, both in classrooms and through various events, fostering a deeper understanding of civic values and engagement.
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For project support of the New York Alliance for Early College Pathways to advance State policy to expand early college pathways in New York
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite decades of effort in both K-12 and higher education policy reform, the gaps in access and success in college remain large and stark in New York, even though we know a four-year college degree continues to be the single best predictor of socioeconomic mobility. The New York Alliance for Early College Pathways (NY4ECP) is a non-partisan, cross-sector initiative formed in 2024, modeled after a successful statewide effort in Massachusetts, which enabled hiring flexibilities central to early college models and secured public funding for early college programs among other critical policy wins, including conferring state designations for twenty-six early college programs across thirty-eight participating high schools and twenty colleges, enabling approximately 4K students to accrue significant amounts of college credit. Corporate support will enable NY4ECP to advance state-level policies that strengthen and expand early college pathway programs over the next two years, grow to include 100 member organizations, and launch a policy fellowship for ten early college alumnae.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite decades of research confirming the benefits of civic education, student proficiency has stagnated at twenty to twenty-five percent for more than twenty-five years. Declining public investment, politicized curricula, and rising polarization have exacerbated civic disengagement—particularly among youth, who increasingly report a loss of faith in democratic institutions. Founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009, iCivics is the leading civic education organization in the United States, known for its accessible curriculum, bipartisan coalitions, and expansive policy reach. With Corporation support, iCivics will continue leading the CivXNow Coalition to advance bipartisan policies that restore civic learning to classrooms across all fifty states. Additionally, $500,000 of this general support grant will be dedicated to the Carnegie Civics Youth Fellowship—a national leadership and civic engagement initiative that will train young people to organize, advocate, and participate in efforts to improve democracy and civic education.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2019, the American Exchange Project’s (AEP) mission is to foster meaningful connection between Americans from different political, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds. Its program brings high school seniors together for a two-week domestic exchange program. The experience consists of a week-long trip to an American hometown radically different from the one participating students call home, followed by a week where those students host other seniors in their hometown. In just four years, AEP has sent nearly 1,000 students on more than 150 exchanges across 36 states. With Corporation support, AEP will increase capacity from 650 seniors to 3,000 students annually in all 50 states to encourage meaningful dialogue between people across lines of difference and equip young people with the knowledge, skills, disposition, and agency to actively engage as members of their communities, states, and country.
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As a final grant for the University Consortium
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
At a time when public discourse is increasingly polarized and deep expertise on Russia is in decline, the University Consortium (UC) strengthens the foundations for more coherent, coordinated, and far-sighted policy toward Russia and European security. By convening scholars, policy practitioners, and rising experts from across Europe, America, Russia, and beyond, the UC promotes informed, cross-regional debate that bridges national, ideological, and generational divide. With renewed support, the program will deepen transatlantic collaboration on Russia-West relations; enhance Western strategic thinking through academic diplomacy; train and mentor the next generation of Russia/Eurasia experts; and strengthen a growing alumni network.
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For the Project on Media and National Security
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
In an era where national security threats are increasingly complex and global, accurate and fact-based reporting is crucial. The Project for Media and National Security (PMNS) responds to this need. Through its flagship initiative, the Defense Writers Group (DWG), PMNS enhances fact-based journalism by improving reporters’ access to senior leaders who offer essential context and insights into security challenges. This ensures more informed and truthful media coverage of these critical issues. Reporters use these interactions and conversations to craft articles and stories that are published worldwide. Beyond the DWG, PMNS also hosts seminars on topics for students and manages the archive of transcripts from the journalist convenings.
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For project support to expand reach and services through their English as a Second Language program
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The Education program has selected eleven public libraries from nine states for their impactful programs and broad reach as part of its Libraries as Pillars of Education and Democracy initiative, a two-year, $5 million grant program launched in December 2024. These libraries were chosen through a highly competitive process from over 1,400 expressions of interest, demonstrating a strong commitment to expanding English language proficiency programs for adults and enhancing college readiness and access for teens. With this support, the selected libraries will scale their impact, strengthen community partnerships, and create new opportunities for students. The Gwinnett County Public Library (GCPL) is among the selected libraries. With Corporation support, GCPL will expand its English language learning programs to better serve Gwinnett’s diverse and rapidly growing immigrant population, where nearly 40 percent of households speak a language other than English at home. The library will offer structured English language courses alongside digital literacy and workforce development training, ensuring adult learners gain the skills needed for economic mobility and civic participation. Additionally, GCPL will enhance its college readiness initiatives, providing teens with mentorship, test preparation, and resources to navigate higher education pathways.
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For project support of The Team's athlete civic ambassadors high school expansion program
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
Research from CIRCLE at Tufts University shows that peer-led, culturally relevant outreach—especially by athletes—can boost youth civic participation. The Team, a project of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund, is a national nonprofit that embeds year-round civic engagement into the culture of athletics and has reached more than 250,000 individuals nationally through their work with college athletes and coaches as trusted civic messengers. With Corporation support, The Team aims to bring their signature youth leadership development, peer-to-peer organizing, and civic storytelling programs to high schools nationally, ensuring that more young people are inspired and prepared to participate meaningfully in civic life. The Team will also engage students online through virtual events and youth-created media that promotes civic leadership and a pro-democracy culture. This high school expansion initiative aims to reach more than 5,000 students during the 2025-2026 school year.
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For project support of Theirworld’s Peace, Security and Education Task Team of Global Youth Ambassadors
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
At a time of rising conflict and polarization, engaging young people as leaders in peacebuilding and civic participation is urgent. Theirworld, a global education nonprofit, runs the Global Youth Ambassador (GYA) program, the world’s largest network of youth campaigners for education, with 2,300 Ambassadors from 140 countries and more than 6,000 alumni. Ambassadors, ages 18–28, are selected for their leadership potential and trained in advocacy, campaigning, and community mobilization. With Carnegie support, Theirworld will launch a new Peace, Security, and Education Task Team within the GYA program. The grant will directly train ten to fifteen Ambassadors with lived experience of conflict, equipping them with skills in civic dialogue, conflict resolution, and leadership. Ambassadors will design community action plans and lead youth consultations with 500 peers worldwide, culminating in a published report. A digital storytelling and advocacy campaign will amplify youth perspectives globally. This project builds youth leadership for peace, security, and civic participation.
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For one time funding for a project to develop an integrated, open-access model that simulates the full spectrum of the consequences of nuclear conflict as part of a Request for Proposals for the Consortium to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
For the first time since the 1980s, the United Nations General Assembly has mandated a new scientific study assessing the effects of nuclear conflict. However, the UN Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War will rely on outside expertise to produce its results. While past studies have examined discrete elements of nuclear war effects, there is no integrated framework capable of simulating the full range of immediate and long-term impacts—from blast, fire, and fallout to disruptions of climate, agriculture, the global economy, and space infrastructure. To address this major gap in understanding nuclear dangers, the University of Wisconsin–Madison will develop a new open-access modeling capability that integrates nuclear weapons effects with macroeconomic, agricultural, and earth system models, and will produce a novel first-order model of nuclear detonations in space to assess risks to satellites and related infrastructure.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite China’s global rise, U.S. companies, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions face a talent deficit of Americans with robust Chinese language capabilities and experience in China. Without a deep pool of China-knowledgeable professionals, Americans in both public and private sectors will continue to operate at a disadvantage. The American Mandarin Society (AMS) is dedicated to nurturing the current and future generations of China-focused professionals and creating meaningful channels for dialogue. With continued Corporation support, AMS will promote the career development of Americans across professions interested in China through a portfolio of unique programs, including fellowships for emerging bilingual American journalists and mid-career African-American professionals and multiple online Chinese-language learning tools.
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As a final core support of Springpoint
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
The New Designs portfolio promotes innovative school models that personalize student learning and seeks to build knowledge about those new approaches. Springpoint, seeded over a decade ago as part of Carnegie Corporation’s Opportunity by Design initiative, partners with communities to transform student learning experiences so that they are personalized, mastery-based, student-driven, and integrate social-emotional development. Partnering with over 100 high schools and districts to date, Springpoint accomplishes its mission in part through its Transformative Learning Experiences (TLEs), rigorous, project-based curricular units focused on real-world problems and authentic learning experiences. TLEs are accompanied by implementation guidance designed to build educator capacity and reduce the time and energy educators need to create, use, and personalize project-based learning for their students. Support from the Corporation will allow Springpoint to gather data on current experiences of those using TLEs in order to measure the impact of the approach, which will in turn inform and improve model approach.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Although it has been decades since the last major immigration policy reforms, the issue has historically enjoyed bipartisan support. However, with increasing global migration and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the topic has become increasingly polarized, blocking immigration reform policies from advancing. Founded in 2008 with Corporation support, America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) is a communications hub working to build public and political support for pro-immigrant policies in the United States. It works closely with national, state, and local advocacy organizations to develop unified messaging that advances pro-immigrant narratives across media platforms. These messages are disseminated through rapid response communications, traditional media events, and social media, with the aim of educating journalists, policymakers, and the public about the benefits of pro-immigrant policies. With Corporation support, AVEF will continue to develop and disseminate positive, pro-immigrant narratives.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
As the 2024 elections approach, issue campaigns and ballot measures offer the opportunity for direct participation on a range of matters, promoting more equitable and just governance structures. The ballot initiative process allows citizens to propose statutes or constitutional amendments, depending on the state, and collect signatures to place their proposals on the ballot for voters to decide. Twenty-six states allow for citizen-initiated ballot measures. Founded in 1999, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) is a primary source of research, information, expertise, and training on ballot measures and campaigns. In recent years, BISC has worked on initiatives on voting rights, election administration, immigrant integration, and economic inequality. In addition, BISC tracks legislation around referenda and ballot measures and conducts research on national and state-level trends. With Corporation support, BISC will educate the public on the power of ballot measures as effective tools to increase civic engagement and promote positive social and economic change.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Today, more than 5o million voting-eligible adults are not registered to vote in the United States. This population is disproportionately comprised of the young, the poor, and communities of color. This demographic also disproportionately utilizes medical emergency services for non-urgent care, due to a lack of access to standard healthcare channels. Founded in 2019, Vot-ER is a nonpartisan initiative dedicated to increasing civic engagement among a population underrepresented in political discourse. Its community of 30,000 healthcare professionals and organizers has expanded into over five hundred hospitals and clinics, helping more than 47,000 Americans register and prepare to vote to date. With Corporation support, Vot-ER will expand its infrastructure and capacity to support the growing number of healthcare professionals across the country who are interested in engaging Americans in the civic process.
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As a final general support grant
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Students from historically marginalized communities face greater barriers to higher education and economic mobility and the schools that serve them often have the least capacity to bridge the gap, dual challenges that were exacerbated by the pandemic. As schools seek to address these challenges while also navigating teacher shortages, programs that personalize learning and reimagine the teacher role are needed more than ever. Throughline Learning (Throughline) has been focused on improving the educational experiences of underserved students for over fifteen years, helping schools implement personalized, culturally relevant teaching practices at scale. Based in Rhode Island, Throughline has built extensive relationships across the state by collaborating with every local school district and established itself as a national leader in the field of student-centered practices. With Corporation support, Throughline developed a school model and instructional toolkit, which they have equipped 3,000 educators to implement, reaching approximately 40,000 students. Recent Corporation support seeded Throughline’s Community Educator model, which is training a new generation of teachers to address staffing challenges and meet students’ academic, social, and emotional needs. This final grant will enable Throughline to expand the number of schools implementing this approach by working with in-service and aspiring educators within the teacher pipeline.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Recent global challenges have highlighted the need to revitalize and update the tools and processes of U.S. foreign policy bureaucracies. The innovative think tank, fp21, seeks to modernize these government institutions by helping build and support a culture of evidence-based decision-making. Rather than focusing on specific regions or topics, fp21 homes in on some of the key deficiencies in foreign policy decision-making mechanisms. Through a network of experienced governmental officials and non-governmental researchers and practitioners, fp21 leverages evidence of effective practices and deep understanding of government operations to design actionable recommendations for policy reform. Renewed support from the Corporation will help fp21 advance various strategic and operational reforms at the Department of State and in Congress, as well as further the broad dissemination of their work.
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As a final grant for a project to support NextGenScience to review OpenSciEd high school instructional units
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
9 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials are an essential component of any meaningful effort to improve K–12 science outcomes at scale. The science instructional materials market, however, currently includes few high-quality, standards-aligned K–12 science programs, particularly curriculum for high school science courses. NextGenScience at WestEd provides formative feedback to instructional materials developers so they can improve the quality of their materials designed for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Using a peer review panel of teachers and the EQuIP rubric for science, NextGenScience will complete their review of six OpenSciEd instructional units across three high school science courses in biology, chemistry, and physics.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Latinos are the largest minority group and the fastest growing demographic in the United States. There are 36 million Latinos eligible to vote in the United States and only half are registered to vote, which is one of the lowest voter registrations of any demographic group. Founded in 2004, the Voto Latino Foundation is a nonpartisan organization committed to engaging young Latino Americans around the civic engagement process using digital media and technology to close the voter registration gap. The organization provides culturally relevant resources across its digital platforms, reaching more than 22 million viewers a month on a broad range of issue areas. In 2020, it registered 600,000 voters. With Corporation support, the Voto Latino Foundation will continue to register, educate, and mobilize Latino voters around the 2024 elections to maximize civic participation.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
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Women are the majority of voters, volunteers, and donors in the United States. However, issues that impact women, especially young women 18-35 years of age, are often ignored or dismissed in national conversations. Additionally, young women comprise the larger part of groups most targeted for voter suppression, including voters of color, low-income voters, and college students. Founded in 2019, Supermajority Education Fund is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and public engagement around young women’s civic participation, utilizing a network of more than 75,000 women throughout the country. With Corporation support, Supermajority Education Fund will educate and mobilize women around civic issues, including nonpartisan voter participation and policy advocacy.
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For core support of its nonpartisan youth voter education and outreach program
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
15 months
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Founded in 2015, Civic Nation houses a number of national initiatives aimed at increasing voting among those least likely to vote, including youth. Among its initiatives are When We All Vote, a nonpartisan initiative with the mission to change the voting culture and to increase participation in each election. As the 2024 elections approach, When We All Vote will partner with the entertainment industry, Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and educational institutions, to engage and mobilize young voters, particularly in low-income communities and communities of color. With Corporation support, through its ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, Civic Nation will recruit community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to engage young voters and ensure they are ready to vote. In 2022, Civic Nation’s turnout data showed that sixty-four percent of its constituents voted, an eighteen percent increase over the national turnout rate.
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For core support of its voting access and engagement work
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
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Voting is one of the nation’s most fundamental rights. Yet, access to the vote for people with disabilities continues to be a challenge. Founded in 1983, the National Disability Rights Network’s (NDRN), a leader in the disability rights movement, works to protect and engage the disability vote and advocates for federal support on behalf of people with disabilities. In 2016, forty percent of America’s polling places were found to be fully accessible by the Government Accountability Office, highlighting a significant rise from sixteen percent in 2000 with much more to improve. With Corporation support, National Disability Rights Network will provide training and technical assistance to member organizations nationwide to protect access to the vote and expand options for voters (including voting by mail, drop box, or curbside).
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As a final general support grant
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
15 months
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Parents have a unique and critical role in improving our public schools. In communities where parents are connected and deeply engaged, public schools tend to be more effective. Innovate Public Schools, a nonprofit whose mission is to build the power of parents and communities to demand and support the creation of world-class public schools, helps parents organize and advocate successfully for better schools in their communities and hold the system accountable to the needs of their children. Continued support from the Corporation will enable Innovate Public School to continue building their National Organizing program, through which they train and support other education organizations to build their capacity to organize parents. This includes a six-month Community Organizer Training Program (COTP) and three-day National Parent Leader Institutes (PLI). Through this renewal, Innovate will 1) continue the work of building the capacity of parents and families to organize, advocate, and demand high-quality schools for their children and 2) refine and launch their new strategy for national parent power-building.
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As a final core support of Seek Common Ground's Action Accelerator
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Seek Common Ground (SCG) serves independent state-and community-facing education advocacy efforts to promote coalition building that honors the power of local, authentic agenda-setting to drive sustainable educational excellence and equity. SCG coalitions seek to empower those most impacted by education policies and practices—students, families, and educators—with support from allies across a broad range of interests and identities. Through this final core support grant from the Corporation, SCG will continue working with leaders and policymakers to ensure that all stakeholders’ concerns and needs are centered in education decisions that affect them. SCG will also double the size of their Action Accelerator: “Immigration is American”, from 16 to 30 groups serving 50,000 immigrant and refugee students and families. This will deepen their support of organizations that focus on the needs of underserved immigrant and refugee students, families, educators, and communities.
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For core support for projects on East Asian security dynamics and wargaming
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
27 months
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Global stability increasingly faces more and deeper challenges, including China’s military buildup, rising assertiveness by North Korea, and emerging technologies with military applications. With renewed funding, MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP) will undertake projects to better understand the impact of new technologies on U.S.-China naval competition and to investigate the causes and consequences of recent changes to North Korea’s security strategy. SSP will also offer training opportunities for students, faculty and policy analysts to conduct and analyze wargames as a tool for understanding conflict dynamics.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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In response to the October 2018 attack at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Tree of Life Synagogue, where an anti-Semitic attack led to the tragic shooting deaths of eleven people, the Eradicate Hate Global Summit was founded. Today, it is the most significant anti-hate rule of law initiative in the world, bringing together multi-disciplinary global experts and leaders who are committed to the eradication of all forms of hate speech and violent extremism. With Corporation support, the Eradicate Hate Global Summit will continue to bring experts together to work collaboratively across disciplines, institutions, and borders between each annual gathering, to deliver measurable change through its working groups and annual summit.
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For participation of African early-career academics in the association's annual meetings and skills-enhancement workshops
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Founded in 1957, the African Studies Association (ASA), based in the United States, promotes production and dissemination of interdisciplinary knowledge about African societies. With close to 2,000 participants, ASA’s annual meetings provide a platform for emerging scholars to engage with the wider scholarly community. This grant will enable ASA to competitively select twenty-five Corporation-supported early-career African scholars — twenty new and five returning — to participate in the 2024 and 2025 ASA conferences. This grant will support fellows’ participation in panels, online and in-person skill-building workshops on scholarly presentations and publishing, mentorship on publishing, and institutional networking visits.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Immigrants play a critical and beneficial role in the American economy. They provide communities and industries with high-quality talent and field expertise, and they financially contribute to cities and states in critical need of investment. Founded in 2013, the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC) represents a growing and diverse set of businesses and business associations that are promoting pro-immigrant policies at the federal and state levels. ABIC has built a coalition of business, faith, education, and immigrant rights advocates, along with grassroots organizations, which engage directly with immigrants. With Corporation support, ABIC will expand and strengthen its network of business leaders from key industries and states who can communicate to policymakers the importance of implementing an immigrant integration agenda that will make the United States more prosperous and economically competitive.
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As a final grant for core support of its immigration program
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Challenges at the southern border and the use of immigration as a wedge issue have led to an impasse on changing the federal immigration laws of the United States. For decades, the immigration laws of the United States have been outdated and unreflective of modern global and economic challenges. Since 2009, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has been using its research and policy expertise to educate policymakers on the need for federal reform of immigration policy and to help ground the national conversation in data. With Corporation support, CAP will continue its research and analyses. In particular, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider whether to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)—which provides work authorization for 700,000 individuals who came to the United States as undocumented youth—CAP will tailor its research on DACA to strengthen public support for the program in the face of legal challenges.
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For core support of InsideSchools
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
As of 2023, New York City has admitted 95,000 migrants (TRAC, 2023), more than twice the number of migrants admitted to Texas, California, and Florida combined. Mostly residing in temporary housing, they require assistance with school enrollment and support to meet their children’s educational needs. InsideSchools, an initiative of the Center for NYC Affairs and The New School for Social Research, launched this project to support recently arrived migrant families and asylum seekers in enrolling their children in public schools and accessing services such as English language instruction and special education. This grant will assist 2000 migrant families in registering their children in schools through multiple strategies. Through workshops conducted in shelters and ten nonprofit partners serving migrants, InsideSchools will guide parents in finding suitable schools, navigating the registration process, and accessing language and special education services. The project will also provide personalized support through one-on-one appointments with staff and trained volunteers and a WhatsApp helpline for easy access to information.
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For project support to expand reach and services through their English as a Second Language program in Framingham, Massachusetts
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Migrants and refugees who settle in the US need to be proficient in English to integrate into American society. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of those in need have access to English as a Second Language (ESL) programs. In Milford, MA, an increasing number of immigrants lack the English proficiency to enter the economy and engage in civic life, with no adult basic education classes available within a 20-mile radius. ESL Plus, housed by the Foundation for MetroWest and located in Framingham MA, offers an externally validated program that can increase annual earnings by $2,400 (56 percent) and double voter registration rates for participants (Heller and Muma, 2023. When the program opened a new course offering in 2023, it was immediately over-enrolled by 400 percent. Corporation project support will enable the program to expand the site by 105 students, reaching a total of 165 students annually, bringing in more beginner students, adding administration and support staff, and offering classes at higher levels.
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For core support to the National Committee on North Korea
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
North Korea’s expansion of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program and rising geopolitical tensions in Northeast Asia make efforts to resume diplomacy between the United States and North Korea both more difficult and vital. Given the high stakes of stability on the Korean Peninsula, there is continued need for a central convening mechanism for stakeholders, experts, and the policy community to facilitate a more effective and holistic U.S. approach to North Korea. Housed at Mercy Corps’ Washington, D.C. offices, the National Committee on North Korea (NCNK) supports principled engagement, when feasible, between the United States and North Korea, provides analysis to inform U.S. policymaking, and facilitates information sharing among nongovernmental specialists, including other Corporation grantees.
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