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For support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Immigration has been a dominant theme throughout the 2016 presidential election season. Regardless of who is elected, it is likely that most immigration policy work in the coming years will continue to be focused on the state level. Advocates will have to double down on local efforts to advance positive immigration policies and counter the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has emerged from this election season. Established in 2003 with Corporation support and housed at Neo Philanthropy (formerly known as Public Interest Projects ), the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) is a donor collaborative that supports state-based and regional immigrant-serving coalitions across the country. FFF serves a hybrid role of convener, grantmaker, and strategist, connecting grassroots organizations with national immigrant integration groups. With renewed Corporation support, FFF will continue to support state and regional groups across the country through grants that build institutional capacity, strategic collaboration among grantees, effective communications, and alliances with other constituencies.
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As a final grant for postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Makerere University’s project to train and retain a new generation of academics has provided masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral support to 147 scholars and scientists since its inception in 2010. The project has also stimulated the publication of a range of books, journal articles, and working papers, while skill-building workshops have trained faculty members in scholarly writing, writing policy briefs, and research management. This grant will allow the university to support the completion of two doctorates, the continuing studies of twelve doctoral students, and program administration and management.
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For a project to transform science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teacher mentoring
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Trellis Education (Trellis) is pioneering a solution to the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teaching crisis. Launched in 2015, Trellis is enacting a research-based, six-year trajectory of learning and support for those entering the secondary STEM teaching profession, beginning with bolstering pre-service work in partner teacher preparation programs and culminating in mentoring of new teachers and National Board Certification. By focusing on improving rigor and cohesion in existing programs, Trellis is helping to build a pipeline of excellent, ambitious STEM teachers who stay committed to the teaching profession and raise science and math achievement for a new generation of students. Support from the Corporation will enable Trellis to build, study, and scale their work in five California school districts, including (1) to determine the key components of building and implementing the first two years of a highly-effective STEM-specific, long-term teacher mentoring model; (2) to build a community of mentors who provide targeted, STEM-specific mentoring support to early-career teachers; and (3) articulate and begin to implement action plans for partner districts and schools to financially sustain and expand long-term mentoring for early-career STEM teachers.
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For the School Systems Leadership Fellowship program
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
The link between effective leadership and student success is clear: students achieve more in districts with better superintendents. The School Systems Leaders Fellowship (SSLF), previously a program of Teach for America (TFA) and now an inaugural project at Cambiar Education (Cambiar), is poised to play a significant role leading the charge to strengthen system level leadership. SSLF’s mission is to attract, develop, and support aspiring school systems leaders from diverse backgrounds to be the catalysts for transforming public education systems to ensure all students have access to excellent educational opportunities. The Fellowship helps participants develop the core skills – instructional, managerial, political, and strategic – necessary to be transformational systems leaders through a highly selective and rigorous leadership development program. Corporation funds will support Cambiar to implement and grow the SSLF, enabling the development of forty additional aspiring system leaders in the 2017 and 2018 cohorts as well as ongoing career support to alumni serving students in school systems across the country.
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For the execution of the revitalization plan
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Education Pioneers focuses on building a pipeline of highly skilled school systems leaders through the recruitment of professionals from a wide array of academic and professional backgrounds. After years of sustained growth, in 2016 Education Pioneers experienced a decline in the number of participants entering its fellowship program. To address these issues, Education Pioneers has developed a year-long revitalization plan featuring three areas for targeted improvement: 1) Talent recruitment into its summer and career fellowship tracks; 2) Partnership development focusing on working with partners to identify projects and roles that Education Pioneers knows it can tap talent to fill; and 3) Improving talent-to-partner matching and placement. This grant will support Education Pioneers’ execution of the revitalization plan.
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For enhancing the quality of New Tech Network's current approach to whole school transformation, piloting alternate approaches to school transformation, and building knowledge about the impact and efficacy of both strategies
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Students require deep, challenging, and relevant learning experiences in order to prepare for productive futures, and transformation at the classroom, school, and system levels is needed to bring these experiences to every student. New Tech Network (NTN) has a twenty-year history of enabling school transformation by partnering with school districts to support practitioners to implement personalized, project-based learning. This grant will enable NTN to enhance the instructional and pedagogical resources that exist on its online learning platform, Echo, and pilot a new partnership model in which teacher teams (NT Teams) will drive school-level change beginning in the classroom. This grant will also provide support for the research and evaluation of these efforts so that NTN can measure success and leverage key insights to drive continual improvement, including analysis of the mechanisms by which classroom-level innovation may spread to whole-school transformation.
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For national organizing work, including the Community Organizer Training Program and the Parent Leader Institute.
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The national education reform movement has begun to see the power of engaging the people closest to the issues – in particular, low-income families in failing schools – but organizations often lack the expertise and capacity to effectively engage and organize the parents of these families. Over the past several years, Innovate Public Schools (Innovate) has emerged as a national leader in community organizing for education reform. This grant supports Innovate’s national organizing work, including their Community Organizer Training Program and National Parent Leader Institute, which work in tandem to train and develop effective community organizers and parent leaders in order to build effective and sustainable school reform efforts in communities across the country.
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For building public understanding around educational equity while giving a voice to families and educators
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization established in 2013 covering educational change efforts and changing the education landscape in the communities where they work. Their mission is to provide deep, local coverage of education policy and practice to inform the decisions and actions that lead to better outcomes for all children, especially those in the low-income communities where improvement can have the largest impact. Unique among news sources, some of Chalkbeat’s most engaged readers are classroom teachers and school leaders who describe Chalkbeat as an essential resource to help them navigate the education system, identify promising practices, and make sense of challenges. They also reach the low-income parents who are the ultimate constituents of school improvement efforts by partnering with community, church, and school groups as well as through Facebook. With Corporation support, Chalkbeat proposes to give a voice to families and educators in the formation of education policy and practice with a focus on new school design models and innovations in teaching and leadership.
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For field module execution, evaluation, strategic planning, and general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
15 months
Description
The National Academy for Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) is dedicated to the development and delivery of advanced programs of professional learning for experienced educators to develop, retain and deploy them in classrooms and school buildings in our nation’s high poverty schools. Through three programmatic areas, the Teacher Fellows, School Leaders Fellows, and Field Modules initiative, NAATE aims to improve outcomes for students in high-needs schools through a whole school approach to change that aims at deepening teacher instructional practice and leveraging teachers to support and lead their peers. Support for NAATE will focus on four areas: 1) Conducting an external evaluation to determine the impact of its programs on teacher and school leaders’ practices; 2) Conducting a strategic planning exercise to refine NAATE’s business model, value proposition, and ensure that it is positioned for long-term sustainability; 3) Testing of three Field Modules and identification of two additional modules to develop; and 4) General operating support.
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For support for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future State Network to Improve Teaching and Learning
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
9 months
Description
The National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) is a bipartisan organization committed to engaging policymakers and practitioners to address the recruitment, development, and retention of great teachers. Last year, the Corporation supported NCTAF to convene researchers, educators, policymakers, and thought-leaders to contribute their research, expertise, and voice to a report on supporting great teaching. This grant builds on that work, supporting NCTAF and its partners to plan a multi-year initiative at the state level to transform teaching and learning based on the recommendations of the report. Specifically, the planning grant will support the development of a robust strategy and implementation plan for NCTAF’s State Networks and the initial design of key resources necessary to launch the initiative.
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For building public understanding around Next Generation High Schools for parents and communities
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The 74 is a new news organization launched in July 2015 to address a significant public understanding gap about education reform. In just over a year, The 74 has established its brand and platform and now wants to focus on its mission of closing the understanding gap about education and increasing public awareness of key policy and parenting issues around ensuring all kids have access to a great school that meets their specific needs. This grant to The 74 is for: 1) general operating support to further the site’s overall goals around communicating with parents; and 2) support for a beat focused on introducing parents to the most exciting and promising school models and designs for closing the achievement gap. Both areas include dedicated work to strengthen and expand the site’s marquee efforts to reach parents via video and build their understanding of key educational concepts so they can participate effectively in their children’s education.
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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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