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For a project to support the development of a next-generation Early Warning Indicator system and refinement of the Learner & Leader work at Compass Academy
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Two years ago, with support from the Corporation, City Year began its School Design Division (SDD). The SDD designed and launched Compass Academy, a charter middle school in Denver that leverages human capital provided by City Year AmeriCorps members, decades of youth development work, and recent advances in the learning sciences to support the holistic development of learners and leaders with the competencies needed for success in the 21st century in schools across the nation. Moving forward, City Year, in collaboration with John Hopkins University, plans to use Compass Academy as an research and development (R&D) base to develop, refine, transfer, and replicate evidence-based practices and to scale them throughout the City Year partner network of over 300 schools. This grant will enable City Year to carry out two R&D projects: 1) development of a next-generation Early Warning Indicator system that provides a comprehensive view of student progress; and 2) update and refinement of the Learner & Leader work at Compass Academy, which supports students’ academic, social, and emotional development.
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For the making of the movie "the bomb"
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
11 months
Description
This grant will support final production work on the bomb, an immersive film that premiered to great acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival. The movie places the viewer in the middle of the story of nuclear weapons, the most dangerous machines ever built. Comprised of archival footage, animation, text, and music, the bomb is a visual exploration of the culture surrounding nuclear weapons and the perverse appeal they exert. Corporation funds will allow for completion of the bomb to a broadcast-ready state so that it can educate and engage a global audience.
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For support of a strategic planning process
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Internationals Network for Public Schools (Internationals) works to provide quality education for recently arrived immigrants by growing and sustaining a strong national network of innovative International High Schools, and also sharing proven best practices and influencing policy for English Language Learners (ELLs) on a national scale. Internationals is widely recognized as a leader in the field of ELL education and is known for the innovative supports it offers to school leaders and teachers through a structured array of programs and activities. At this juncture, with a newly appointed executive director and the completion of its previous strategic plan, Internationals is exploring key opportunities to guide its next stage of growth. This discretionary grant will support Internationals to engage with a consultant to help design and facilitate a six-month planning process to engage staff and board members in the development of a new strategic plan to guide Internationals’ future growth.
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For funding teacher engagement to develop the Watson Teacher Advisor tool
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Learning from peers is widely acknowledged as a critical method for raising teacher quality, encouraging the sharing of instructional techniques and ideologies between and among teachers. Through peer-to-peer learning, teachers can receive focused classroom support, improve classroom practice, and gain support from an “expert” who understands the demands of the classroom. While the benefits of peer-to-peer learning are far reaching, structured opportunities to observe and learn from other teachers remains limited. This problem is compounded by a lack of tools designed to support teacher learning and help strengthen instructional practice. Teacher Advisor, powered by IBM Watson, will apply the power of cognitive computing technology to teacher professional development, providing teachers with an on-demand expert advisor and a resource for targeted strategies, lesson plans, and video demonstrations of expert teaching practices. The first release of Watson Teacher Advisor, scheduled for June 2016, will focus on Grade 3 mathematics. Funding from the Carnegie Corporation will support the design, implementation, and analysis of pilot testing with selected educators from multiple schools to gain insight into how teachers experience the features of Teacher Advisor, the likelihood of implementation of lessons/ classroom activities based on the guidance and support from the tool, and their judgments about the value if its guidance and support.
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For increasing civic engagement among Native Americans
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Since securing the franchise in 1924, the Native American community has continued to face considerable obstacles to voting and engaging in the civic process. In addition to having some of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country, Native American groups also receive little attention from the philanthropic community. Native Voices Rising (NVR) is a collaborative re-granting and research project of Common Counsel Foundation (CCF) and Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP) that is designed to invest in groups led by and for native communities in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. With Corporation support, NVR will foster native-led groups that are building leadership among native community members to encourage participation in democratic systems, including civic engagement with governmental agencies and decision-makers, ensuring access to electoral systems and educating and turning out voters.
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For research on the legal permanent resident population at the city and county level
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Citizenship provides substantial social and economic benefits for immigrants and their receiving communities. Despite these benefits–including increased wages and higher levels of civic participation–a large number of eligible immigrants (8.8 million)–do not naturalize. Naturalization efforts require local support as well as nuanced analysis of the impediments to naturalization. Researchers know, for example, that certain immigrants–those from particular countries of origin, those with lower levels of education, and those who are older–tend to naturalize at the lowest rates. But they do not always know how important each of these factors are relative to each other. With Corporation support, academics at the University of Southern California’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration will provide highly localized estimates–in many cases, sub-county and sub-metro–of who the eligible-to-naturalize are, where they live, and how advocates might encourage infrastructure to support their naturalization.
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For research and public education on wasteful government spending for border security
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite broad consensus on the need for comprehensive immigration reform, policymakers and the media often focus on the singular issue of border security. However, illegal border crossings have been decreasing since 2000 and are at lower levels than have been seen in forty years, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS), a nonpartisan budget watchdog group, aims to expose excessive border security spending and open up space for a more productive conversation about the complex policy issues that must be addressed in order to integrate millions of immigrants into communities across the country. With Corporation support, TCS will launch a research, public education, and strategic communications campaign that includes analyzing appropriations bills, legislative proposals, and proposals made by political candidates and publicizing their true costs. TCS will work with constituent groups, fiscal conservatives, and the media to share its research with a broad audience.
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For support of activities related to the 2016 National Voter Registration Day
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
15 months
Description
Voter registration is one of the most significant barriers to voter participation. In 2012, five million Americans did not vote because they didn’t know how to register or because they missed their states’ deadline to register. National Voter Registration Day—which will take place on September 27, 2016—is a coordinated, nonpartisan effort by nonprofits, volunteers, celebrities, businesses, and the media to create pervasive awareness of voter registration opportunities across the country before voter registration deadlines begin. With Corporation support, in 2016 the Bus Federation Civic Fund—the organization that oversees this annual campaign—will recruit over 3,000 partners and 8,000 volunteers to register 500,000 voters through 1,500 events.
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For support of the Martyrs Kirk Postgraduate Research Library and Special Collections Reading Room
Date
Dec. 10, 2015
Duration
36 months
Description
The collection at the newly renovated Martyrs’ Kirk Postgraduate Library and Special Collections Reading Room features hundreds of items, amassed over 600 years from a wide range of sources, including kings, clerics, and scholars. Students and academics from the United Kingdom and throughout the world depend on these significant works—Greek papyri, medieval illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, early print photographs, and the papers of celebrated writers and thinkers—for research and teaching. The Corporation’s centennial grant enabled the University of St. Andrews to make valuable additions to the library’s Special Collections and carry out much-needed conservation work. This grant will enable the library’s most experienced and qualified librarians and archivists to dedicate the majority of their time to preserving the Special Collections.
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For a national convening of immigrant advocates to plan for the implementation of executive action on immigration policy
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For a project on the role of intelligence in responding to proliferation threats
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a journalistic investigation into nuclear programs and trafficking
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
28 months
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For a project to build partnerships to achieve a secure nuclear future
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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As a final grant for a multimedia series on strengthening doctoral training and research in Africa
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
16 months
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For a project to expand professional opportunities for early and mid-career technical experts on international security
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
36 months
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For a fellowship program to promote doctoral research and writing on peacebuilidng by African social scientists
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a project on training security sector personnel and advocating for policy change related to child soldiers in Africa
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For developing strategies to advance K-12 engineering design via the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For a project to develop a guide to help faith communities engage in immigrant integration issues
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
37 months
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For support for the i3 project scaling early college strategies
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For the development and implementation of a strategic plan
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
11 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For a series on Common Core implementation around the country
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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As a one-time grant for the creation of the First Phase Standing Committee of the American Opportunity Study
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For the foundation collaboration on strategic communications efforts on the Common Core State Standards
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For a conservative outreach project on immigration
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For support for building a scalable, sustainable, and aligned School Leadership Development Model
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
15 months
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For general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
6 months
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For the digitization and publication of the "Papers of Woodrow Wilson Digital Edition"
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
18 months
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For assessment of best practices and needs relative to the state of Russian studies and research at U.S. Universities
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For U.S.- based academic fellowships for Russian and Eurasian scholars
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
27 months
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For support of the Center for Health and Human Rights at the New York University, School of Medicine
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For a project to help bridge the gap between scholarship and policy related to international peace and security
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
48 months
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For a high-level U.S.-China Track II dialogue
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
51 months
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For research and outreach by the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
31 months
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For the work on the international security implications of quantum mechanics
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
27 months
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For support of an international consortium to advance peacebuilding evaluation
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For the Teaching & Learning 2015 Conference
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
8 months
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For a project on U.S.-Russian relations
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a project on Russia and the West
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
27 months
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For the University Consortium's founding conference to address the relationship between Russia and the West
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
9 months
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for the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a project in support of the Security Studies Program
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
36 months
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For a project on pragmatic solutions to international security issues
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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As a final grant for strengthening regional doctoral programs in African universities
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
24 months
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