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For support of the Public Intellectuals Program
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
As U.S.-China relations grow increasingly complex, experts who can provide nuanced and holistic analysis of China are essential. The National Committee on United States-China Relations’ (NCUSCR) Public Intellectuals Program (PIP) is designed to broaden emerging China specialists’ knowledge of China beyond their academic disciplines and prepare them to communicate effectively with non-academic audiences. Since 2005, NCUSCR has leveraged its relationships in China and the United States to help 160 PIP fellows develop extensive new networks in academia and the policymaking world. Renewed support will fund a two-year cohort of early- and mid-career PIP fellows to attend workshops and meetings with public and private sector leaders, media training, and study trips to China and other relevant Asian countries.
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As a one-time only grant for an educational game on topics related to nuclear security issues
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The salience of nuclear weapons is higher today than at any point since the end of the Cold War. Yet public awareness about nuclear dangers, especially among younger generations who grew up after the end of the Cold War, remains low. With a rapidly shifting geopolitical climate and renewed concerns about nuclear proliferation, it is essential to educate today’s high school students—tomorrow’s voters and leaders—about the history, policies, and consequences of nuclear weapons. Building upon the success of its educational resources on nuclear weapons and security policy, GBH Education, the parent organization of NOVA, will research and develop a youth-friendly, game-based interactive experience that aligns with key learning objectives related to nuclear security. The goal of the game will be to deepen the next generation’s understanding of nuclear policy and global nuclear arsenals, while inspiring students to tackle efforts to strengthen international nonproliferation and arms control. The game will also enhance student critical thinking, decision-making, and information literacy skills.
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For core support of More Perfect
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
More Perfect is an alliance of cross-partisan partners that includes all thirty-seven U.S. Presidential Centers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a diverse network of more than 130 additional organizations. This alliance is committed to strengthening and renewing the nation’s democratic foundations through five core democracy goals (as recommended by the American Academy’s A Common Purpose report): ensuring universal civic learning, making national and state service and volunteerism a shared expectation, reducing polarization by bridging divides, securing trusted elections and a more representative and responsive government, and expanding access to high-quality, nonpartisan, and reliable information at the local, state, and national levels. With Corporation support, More Perfect aims to protect and revitalize democracy as the United States approaches the commemoration of its 250th anniversary and beyond.
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For support of the “Real Talk” dialogues, empowering young people to bridge divides and engage meaningfully on critical issues
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
Cortico, a nonprofit associated with MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication, fosters civic engagement by facilitating small-group conversations that encourage transparency and drive action, aiming to build civic networks and empower communities. With this proposed grant, Cortico, in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA), will host discussions at teen civic centers in up to 10 public libraries, focusing on small-group exchanges of ideas rooted in personal insights and experiences. Participants will use AI technology to analyze and interpret these dialogues, employing transparent tools to highlight overarching themes and amplify diverse voices. Cortico will also provide training to participants on curating and elevating these conversations, while supporting library programs to sustain community engagement. The recorded discussions will be featured on a dedicated website, offering a platform to explore common ground and connections among young people across ideological and geographic divides.
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For project support for digital citizenship resources, library pilot, and annual summit sponsorship
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
Children and education are at the forefront of rapid advancements and disruptions in artificial intelligence (AI), which holds the potential to deliver significant benefits such as creating immersive virtual learning environments, overcoming language barriers, providing real-time feedback, developing personalized learning plans, and fostering creativity. However, children are also vulnerable to ethical issues like biases, misinformation, privacy breaches, and the digital divide in AI usage. Without a deeper understanding and responsible adoption of AI practices, today’s youth face significant risks. Established in 2003, Common Sense is the leading organization in the U.S. dedicated to helping kids thrive in the digital world. Their comprehensive Digital Citizenship Program draws on research conducted by Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Their trusted brand, and broad network enables them to make a significant impact in the information and media literacy field. With support from the Corporation, Common Sense will redesign their Digital Citizenship Curriculum to reflect the rapid changes in the AI field. These changes will equip educators and public librarians with the support they need to prevent further equity gaps among students from different socio-economic backgrounds and help all students become healthy, safe, responsible citizens of the world.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The global humanitarian system is under immense strain, with 305 million people currently in need of assistance, and donor governments—including the United States—scaling back critical funding. Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides emergency relief and long-term support to communities affected by conflict and disaster across more than forty countries and twenty-nine U.S. cities. As one of the few organizations operating across the entire arc of a crisis—from war zones to resettlement—the IRC delivers integrated programming in health, safety, education, economic recovery, and legal services to more than 23 million people. The organization has faced significant disruptions due to the suspension of U.S. foreign assistance, jeopardizing access to malnutrition treatment, gender-based violence support, refugee case management, and global disease prevention. With renewed Corporation support, the IRC will continue responding to global humanitarian crises, help meet the needs of some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, and advocate on behalf of refugees and the refugee resettlement programs in the United States.
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For renewed support of convenings to consider pragmatic policy solutions for increasing legal immigration pathways
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
The failure to enact comprehensive legal immigration reform continues to fuel public frustration, misinformation, and political gridlock. In response, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI)—in partnership with Niskanen Center and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)—is leading efforts to rebuild a pragmatic, solutions-driven nonprofit ecosystem that will influence legal immigration policymaking and advance bipartisan, evidence-based policy solutions. This initiative aims to strengthen border security, enhance legal immigration pathways, and restore public trust in the immigration system while ensuring adherence to legal norms and humane treatment principles. With renewed Corporation support, MPI will continue convening center-right and center-left stakeholders, including corporate, labor, business, and faith-based sectors, to develop practical legal immigration policies.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is the leading nonprofit advancing news literacy education for middle and high school students nationwide. With the bold goal of making news literacy a required part of K–12 learning—like math or English—NLP equips young people to identify credible sources, resist misinformation, and make informed decisions. NLP’s proven classroom tools—including the Checkology platform and The Sift newsletter—have reached over 17,000 educators and 1.5 million students since 2016, spanning more than one-third of U.S. public school districts. Through district fellowships, educator training, and state-level coalition building, NLP is helping to institutionalize news literacy education nationwide. Carnegie’s current project support grant has played a key role in advancing this work, particularly by supporting NLP’s District Fellowship program. A general support grant would further accelerate NLP’s capacity to expand its reach, scale high-impact programs, and support implementation in even more schools and states. With Carnegie’s investment, NLP will advance its goal of guaranteeing news literacy instruction for 3.5 million cumulative students by 2028.
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For core support of the Voting Rights Working Group
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Democracy in the United States faces mounting threats: restrictive voter identification laws, voter roll purges, limits on early voting, and partisan gerrymandering. These measures disproportionately harm voters of color, who are young, who are low-income, and/or with disabilities. Since its launch in 2010, the State Infrastructure Fund (SIF), housed at NEO Philanthropy, has worked to expand voter participation and protect voting rights in underrepresented communities, raising over $200 million, and serving as a trusted donor collaborative. With Corporation support, SIF will resource its Voting Rights Working Group (VRWG)—a coalition of eleven leading national civil rights organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center for Justice, Legal Defense Fund, and the Native American Rights Fund. VRWG coordinates proactive and defensive litigation to expand ballot access, challenge tactics that undermine voter turnout, and protect voters throughout the election process. With this grant, VRWG will continue to provide a coordinated legal defense against efforts to undermine voting.
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For a U.S.-China dialogue on high-tech innovation and competition
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
The Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub seeks to address the growing knowledge and policy gap in U.S. understanding of China’s rapid technological advancements in AI, biotech, quantum, and robotics. Without direct access to on-the-ground developments in China or the technical background to understand these advancements, U.S. policymakers are increasingly detached from the information they need to effectively assess and respond to China’s rise. With Carnegie support, this project aims to break current analytical bubbles on China by facilitating direct engagement between U.S. experts and China’s leading tech firms and think tanks to build understanding on respective high-tech capabilities and policies. Through a delegation of senior and rising experts, led by former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, the project will generate actionable policy recommendations and conduct high-level briefings aimed at informing and updating U.S. policy toward China.
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For support of a research project on intergenerational tensions, hostility, and polarization
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Led by Professor Michael Bruter and Dr. Sarah Harrison, the Electoral Psychology Observatory (EPO) at the London School of Economics and Political Science is dedicated to the psychology of voters across the world. Through a new study, the EPO aims to explore intergenerational tensions and their role in polarization and hostility in the United States, particularly assessing how generational divides influence societal and familial dynamics. The project will conduct fieldwork, including surveys and interviews in the United States followed by analysis and dissemination to its network of institutions. With Corporation support, the project will provide insights into how intergenerational perceptions shape polarization and suggest pathways to mitigate hostility.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The Pharos Foundation is an independent UK academic organization set up to resemble research institutions like the Hoover Institution and the Santa Fe Institute, dedicated to principles of humane learning to address a dire need for intellectual curiosity, scholarly integrity and open, rigorous debate in academic and public life. It funds research fellowships for talented young scholars with internationally competitive salaries and an atmosphere of free inquiry. It also organizes public lectures on key questions in political and social life. Carnegie’s grant for general support would support Pharos’ further fundraising and its program of free public education, including the annual lecture series at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, and the Studies in Western Civilisation series of short courses.
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For project support to scale Career Village's AI Career Coach tool
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
CareerVillage (CV) is a non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing career information and advice for underrepresented individuals, providing essential support to learners and job seekers as they navigate their futures. This inaugural grant to CV will fund a project centered on CV’s AI Career Coach—a personalized, chat-based career coaching tool offering a dynamic array of career activities, including resume drafting, skill development (both soft and hard), professional network building, college essay writing, and career exploration. As CV advances into a new phase of the Coach’s product lifecycle, their primary focus is on scaling and expanding access to this invaluable resource. Buoyed by strong support from partners, positive user feedback, and increasing demand, there is a clear market need for the AI Career Coach. By accelerating the scaling process, the Corporation will help CV leverage AI to bridge opportunity gaps rather than widen them, ensuring widespread adoption of the AI Career Coach to reach more learners, especially those from underserved communities who stand to benefit the most from this technology.
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As a one-time grant in support of the establishment of the Carnegie 125th Anniversary Fellowship Program
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
Founded in 1900, the University of Birmingham is dedicated to transforming lives through education and research, with a strong commitment to public health, environmental sustainability, and social justice. In 1899, Andrew Carnegie provided a $243,500 gift to the University’s Scientific Building. In celebration of its 125th anniversary, the University will appoint 100 anniversary fellows and 25 anniversary chairs, dedicating one as a Carnegie Anniversary Fellow in appreciation of Mr. Carnegie’s munificence. A Carnegie Corporation grant along with direct support from the University will help establish this fellowship. Each
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In support of Broadway Salute honoring Governor Thomas H. Kean on the occasion of his 90th birthday
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
6 months
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For a space bootcamp and a nuclear-space-commercial dialogue
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent advancements in outer space have fundamentally altered traditional notions of strategic stability between nuclear powers. More than ever before, actions, capabilities, and competition in space can have nuclear consequences. Yet many nuclear security professionals lack the training and expertise needed to understand space security and its implications. At the same time, the commercial sector has drastically changed the outer space environment in recent years, upending approaches to space security that were traditionally government-led. In today’s environment, it is entirely feasible that a nuclear-inciting incident could be started by a non-state actor due to actions taken in orbit. With Corporation support, Secure World Foundation (SWF) will develop an in-person set of nuclear-space bootcamps primarily for early-career nuclear security professionals. SWF will also develop a new dialogue among experts from the nuclear security, space security, and commercial space communities to propose solutions to pressing space-nuclear strategic security challenges.
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For project support to update digital literacy resources to include navigating AI across multiple classroom subjects, such as social studies, history and civics
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
While nineteen states have enacted legislation mandating the teaching of digital literacy, there is no subject for it during the school day. To satisfy these mandates, the topic typically finds its way to the desk of the librarian as a one-off session disconnected from the rest of the curriculum. Today’s students lead digital lives, spending more than eight hours a day online. If we want an informed citizenry, we need to weave digital literacy into the core curriculum so that it’s not an appendage but fits seamlessly with existing topics. The Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), a nonprofit established in 2002 by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), offers history curriculum and digital literacy materials with over 16 million downloads and used in all fifty states and around the globe. With support from the Corporation DIG will create and pilot AI instructional materials in Los Angeles and Chicago building on their existing digital literacy that can be implemented into history, civics, and government curricula, focusing on helping students evaluate social media claims and digital sources. They will be designing assessments, providing teachers with professional development, and engaging in a national outreach campaign to ensure widespread use of resources.
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For renewed core support of the Bush Institute’s immigration program
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The 2024 election cycle intensified polarization on federal immigration policy, with public discourse being dominated by border enforcement and deportation measures, while solutions for legal immigration pathways, refugee resettlement, and economic migration were largely absent. The George W. Bush Institute, housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, is a nonpartisan policy organization committed to fact-based immigration reform that strengthens the U.S. economy, upholds national security, and reinforces America’s role as a global leader. Through its immigration program, the Bush Institute convenes policymakers, business leaders, and bipartisan stakeholders to reframe legal immigration as an economic and security imperative. With continued Corporation support, the institute will advance bipartisan immigration policy solutions that focus on economic prosperity, workforce needs, border security, and legal pathways for undocumented immigrants, including Dreamers.
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For project support to expand reach and services through both their English as a Second Language and college access and readiness programs
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 Kansas City Public Library is among the selected libraries. With Corporation support, they will expand their Refugee & Immigrant Services and Empowerment (RISE) program with workforce-aligned ESL courses while also scaling College Readiness programs like Teen Leaders and the Digital Media Lab to offer leadership training, financial literacy, and mentoring to local youth. Through FAFSA workshops, scholarship support, and family engagement, KCPL will boost ESL enrollment, expand college access, and strengthen workforce partnerships to bridge service gaps and foster economic mobility.
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For library revitalization and civic engagement
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
Book Bunk is an organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that restores and transforms libraries into centers of engagement for underserved communities by providing resources, preserving and promoting access to heritage and cultural history, and offering educational programming and skills development. With Corporation support, Book Bunk will offer programming on digital literacy training, civic education, indigenous language instruction, and community arts programming. The project will also support promoting access to digitized archive collections.
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As a one-time grant for the West Africa Democracy Fund
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
TrustAfrica, a Dakar-based foundation, has been selected to serve as the fiscal sponsor and fund administrator of the West Africa Democracy Fund (WADF), a $21.5 million multi-donor initiative aimed at countering democratic erosion in the region. In addition to Carnegie, the Fund includes Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Luminate Group, and Open Society Foundation. Over a three-year period, WADF will support citizen-led efforts to reimagine and strengthen democratic governance in seven key countries: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Togo. Through support for research, national dialogues, judicial strengthening, and regional convenings, the Fund will amplify citizen voices in governance processes, broaden civic participation, and generate policy-relevant ideas for reform.
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As a one-time grant for support of a report and national public workshop on developing information literacy
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
The National Academies’ Board on Science Education proposes a two-day public workshop to advance media literacy education for youth at a critical moment in the information landscape. In today’s fragmented, AI-driven media environment, young people face growing challenges in evaluating sources, identifying misinformation, and engaging meaningfully in civic life. While media literacy is increasingly recognized as essential to civic engagement, its implementation across schools and informal settings—such as libraries and museums—remains uneven, with limited cross-disciplinary integration and unclear measures of success. This hybrid workshop will bring together educators, researchers, and practitioners to share promising practices, highlight evidence gaps, and explore how to embed media literacy across core content areas. Proceedings including a report and resources will be made publicly available, with the National Academies Press ensuring broad dissemination. This timely convening offers a strategic opportunity to strengthen media literacy, promote civic readiness, and build youth resilience to misinformation.
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For support of a project to reimagine refugee resettlement
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
Founded in 2000, Refugee Council USA (RCUSA) has served as the only national coalition serving forcibly displaced people in the United States. It is a coalition of nonprofit organizations that advocate for and serve a wide range of forcibly displaced populations, including refugees, asylum seekers, unaccompanied children, torture victims, among others. Its mission is to mobilize expertise and influence to protect the rights of forcibly displaced people to have agency, access to safety, and opportunities to thrive through its member organizations. Given steep reductions in funding for refugee resettlement in the United States, and with Corporation support, RCUSA will build connections among national, state, and local refugee advocates, engage new voices in support of refugee resettlement across the country, and engage the larger public in refugee advocacy.
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For core support of AllSides Education’s media and news literacy in schools initiative
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
AllSides Education Fund was founded in 2015 as a joint nonprofit initiative of AllSides (news literacy and media bias) and Living Room Conversations (bridging divides through dialogue). Born from the urgent need to address two confronting challenges, declining media literacy skills and the erosion of meaningful dialogue across ideological divides—the organization equips educators and community leaders with tools to foster critical thinking and constructive conversation. Today, schools nationwide are leveraging AllSides School Memberships and Living Room Conversations topic guides to empower students. With this proposed grant, Carnegie will support the next phase of their media and news literacy app, AllSides, which includes deepening strategic partnerships with civics education providers, consolidating curriculum resources on the app, updating the School Community Toolbox with pilot lessons on media and AI bias education and introducing the Mismatch platform—which enhances media literacy and dialogue integration across classrooms. Together, these efforts will expand AllSides’ reach, strengthen programs, and bring positive change in classrooms and communities.
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For a U.S.-China Track II dialogue on Taiwan
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Taiwan is the most dangerous flashpoint in already tense U.S.-China relations. Many in Washington believe that Beijing is likely to use force against Taiwan in the coming decade and radical steps are needed to strengthen deterrence. At the same time, Beijing is losing confidence in Washington’s “one China” policy and believes that it is emboldening Taiwan to pursue independence. Establishing greater understanding and trust regarding Taiwan will help forestall a crisis in U.S.-China relations that might lead to conflict between two nuclear-armed states. Toward this end, the German Marshall Fund’s Indo-Pacific Program will continue its a sustained dialogue between American and Chinese experts who are both well-informed about Taiwan and well-connected to their respective governments.
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For support of the Journal of Democracy
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
The Journal of Democracy, founded in 1990 and published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is the world’s leading publication on democratic theory and practice. For thirty-five years, it has convened leading scholars, writers, and advocates to analyze global democratic trends and challenges, reaching audiences that include policymakers, academics, college students, and engaged citizens worldwide. With democracy facing unprecedented challenges around the world, the journal’s nonpartisan, evidence-driven analysis is more vital than ever. In 2025, the journal is projected to reach roughly 2 million readers through its quarterly print issues and nearly 100 online-exclusive essays, making it the most-read publication in the Johns Hopkins University Press catalogue. Readership is growing rapidly, with downloads of paywalled content rising 34 percent and newsletter subscriptions up 40 percent over the prior year. With Corporation support, the journal will continue to deliver timely, nonpartisan content that shapes and informs public conversation.
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For project support to provide college and career supports to New York City youth through community centers
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Established in 1853 with the mission to improve the lives of orphans in NYC, Children’s Aid now offers over 100 programs across more than forty sites in under-resourced communities, reaching nearly 50,000 children and families annually. Children’s Aid primarily serves four neighborhoods—Harlem, Washington Heights, the South Bronx, and Northern Staten Island—experiencing high levels of intergenerational poverty. It operates six community centers offering neighborhood-based solutions for young people, families, and communities, including academic support, post-secondary preparation, career skills, financial literacy, and life skills for high school students. Graduates receive ongoing support, including job placements, counseling, financial assistance, and food security. Carnegie support would amplify these programs by integrating them into a scalable model for community centers, allowing Children’s Aid to assist more youth with comprehensive college and career services and provide $1,500 stipends for intensive youth cohort-based experiences.
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For Things that Go Boom
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Podcasts that explore international affairs often present issues through a narrow, exclusive lens, sidelining diverse voices and overlooking the human consequences of policy decisions. Things That Go Boom (TTGB), from Inkstick Media and Public Radio Exchange (PRX), revolutionizes this approach by combining rigorous journalism with storytelling to spotlight national security and foreign policy from a human-centric perspective. By emphasizing human security and inclusivity, TTGB transforms global policy discussions into relatable narratives that resonate with local communities. Continued support for TTGB is crucial to ensure the production and distribution of future seasons, enabling the podcast to continue addressing international relations, nuclear security, and national security with depth and depth and a broad-based perspective.
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For support of Four Freedoms Fund's nonpartisan civic engagement work
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
Established in 2003 with Corporation support, the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) is a donor collaborative housed at Neo Philanthropy 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. Over the past two decades, FFF has raised more than $300 million, supporting organizations in forty-five states and building pro-immigrant infrastructure in both traditional gateways and states with newer immigrant populations. With a focus on nonpartisan voter engagement, FFF will support immigrant-serving organizations in twenty states. The purpose will be to engage new citizens and low turnout communities in the importance of voting. FFF will also provide support to grantees on legal compliance, voting data capacity support; combat disinformation targeting voters from immigrant backgrounds; and prepare communities for Census 2030.
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For a project to establish culture and heritage protection as strategic peacebuilding tools through a Peace and Memory Lab initiative in Sudan
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
The Africa Center’s Peace and Memory Lab is a timely response to the deliberate targeting of culture in Sudan’s war. This initiative treats culture and memory as strategic resources for peace by documenting attacks on heritage, connecting Sudanese leaders to international protection mechanisms, and embedding cultural protection in conflict prevention and reconciliation efforts. By combining documentation, diplomatic engagement, and public storytelling, the project hopes to make heritage protection a recognized part of peacebuilding infrastructure and create a model for use in other conflict zones. TAC’s convening power, partnerships, and Sudanese connections give it a strong platform to engage multilateral mechanisms and contribute to policy conversations.
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For project support to strengthen broadband access and digital literacy in rural communities by providing direct support to Carnegie rural libraries
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Limited digital access and low adult literacy are closely linked challenges in the U.S., particularly in rural areas, where more than a quarter of residents lack broadband and literacy rates are significantly lower than average. As trusted community anchors, rural libraries often serve as the most reliable providers of internet access, technology, and educational opportunities. The Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) is a professional network representing library workers serving small, diverse communities across the country. With support from Carnegie, ARSL will launch Literacy Bridges, a two-year initiative that will support sixty-six Carnegie Libraries in small and rural areas of the U.S. to deliver programs integrating adult basic and digital literacy skills. In addition to providing financial support, the initiative will foster network-building through monthly professional development sessions to ensure library staff are prepared to develop sustainable programs that endure well beyond the initial grant period.
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For core support of the Nuclear Policy Program
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Rising tensions among nuclear-armed powers, the breakdown of arms control agreements, and the development of emerging technologies have heightened the risk of nuclear conflict. With renewed core support, the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will continue its work to reduce the likelihood of nuclear use and proliferation and strengthen strategic stability. The program will use research and policy engagement to explore how technologies, such as missile defenses, artificial intelligence, and advanced nuclear energy are shaping escalation risks, and will use wargames with policymakers to test approaches to managing escalation. It will also focus on reducing proliferation risks among U.S. allies in Europe and Asia and will continue interactions with Chinese experts to develop shared analysis on minimizing proliferation risks from advanced nuclear energy technologies.
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For project support to the Applied Social Media Lab to implement the Frankly platform in youth dialogue projects
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
In today’s polarized climate, the need for constructive dialogue among diverse groups is more urgent than ever. And in an increasingly online world, digital tools designed to foster deliberation and empathy are essential for advancing prosocial civic discourse among young people. In response to this pressing societal need, the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center (BKC) developed Frankly, the only open-source video discourse platform natively built for structured civil dialogue. Frankly offers unique features including organized agendas within conversations and algorithmic group matching for balanced breakouts. With support from Carnegie, BKC will complete a 12-month pilot in partnership with two of the Education Program’s current grantees—Columbia University’s Center for Public Research & Leadership and Narrative 4—to adapt Frankly for use in their youth civic education programs. Frankly will host at least twenty events over a one-year pilot, receiving real-time feedback from these partners as they implement and refine new features and document outcomes to inform broader adoption by educational and civic organizations.
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For one time funding for a project providing open-source estimates of the Chinese nuclear program as part of a Request for Proposals for the Consortium to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s rapid nuclear expansion has fueled U.S. projections of “strategic parity” by 2035. Yet many estimates of Chinese nuclear growth rest on opaque assumptions, potentially conflating civilian nuclear activity. This project will provide the first modern open-source assessment of China’s fissile material production for its weapons program. Because nuclear weapons require fissile material, credible arsenal estimates must start from actual production and stocks rather than assumptions about delivery systems or reactors. Using advanced open-source intelligence plus expert consultation and analysis of Chinese-Russian nuclear cooperation, the team will produce transparent, bottom-up estimates of fissile stocks and weapons potential.
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For one time funding for a project to develop social digital twin simulations for nuclear risk reduction as part of a Request for Proposals for the Consortium to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
As nuclear threats become more complex, traditional nuclear deterrence and escalation models are increasingly ill equipped to understand modern political, social, and behavioral drivers of nuclear dangers. To address this gap, Search for Common Ground, in partnership with CulturePulse, will launch the Modeling the Reduction of Nuclear Dangers (MODRN) initiative. The project will design and deploy a next-generation simulation platform using social digital twinning and multi-agent artificial intelligence capabilities to model escalation dynamics, test de-escalation pathways, and generate evidence-based options for reducing nuclear dangers. MODRN will engage intermediary actors, including governmental actors, to provide them with actionable tools to inform policy and dialogues that reduce nuclear dangers. MODRN’s goal is to give policymakers pathways for restraint and de-escalation during a nuclear crisis.
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For support of National Voter Registration Day
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
As many as one in four eligible Americans are not registered to vote and every year, millions of Americans are unable to vote because of a problem with their voter registration, a missed deadline, an outdated or missing record, among other issues. Established in 2012, National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) is a day of coordinated, nonpartisan media and field events aimed at raising awareness of the registration process and empowering citizens to access their fundamental right to vote. Backed by a bipartisan coalition and embraced across sectors, the holiday remains a nonpartisan space for celebrating and fostering broad-based civic participation. To date, the partners in NVRD have registered more than six million eligible voters. With Corporation support, Nonprofit VOTE will continue to spearhead NVRD and collaborate with corporate partners, national nonprofits, election associations of both parties, and other civic institutions in engaging millions of voters in the democratic process.
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For project support to scale the Citizenship Test Initiative
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
The National Assessment of Education Progress reports that only 22 percent of 8th graders are proficient in civics and a mere 14 percent are proficient in U.S. history. This lack of foundational knowledge is alarming considering the essential role that understanding history and civics plays in preparing students for responsible citizenship and participation in a democratic society. The Gilder Lehrman Institute, with its extensive network of 36,000 schools and 107,000 educators, serves 14 million students across all fifty states and is uniquely positioned to tackle this issue. Their approach combines utilizing digital tools with primary source documents and resources curated by top historians, which helps promote both knowledge acquisition and civic empathy. By adapting the U.S. Citizenship Test for classroom use, the project connects history and civics learning to the citizenship experience, helping students develop a deeper understanding of American democratic institutions. These interventions are especially timely as the nation prepares for its 250th anniversary, offering an exceptional opportunity to engage students with the nation’s history and civic principles in a meaningful way.
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As a one-time only grant in support of educational programming
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
12 months
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Founded in 1922, the mission of the New Jersey Symphony is to connect with the people and diverse communities of NJ through the power of live symphonic music to inspire, entertain and educate. It is the largest performing arts organization in New Jersey. It offers mainstage concert programs, and the Symphony provides chamber music performances within community settings, family and education programs that offer vital arts experiences for younger patrons. Each year the Symphony’s programming reaches more than 140,000 residents, including as many as 60,000 young people, families and community members, along with a broader reach of audience members through its unique virtual content and social media networks. Corporation support will provide the New Jersey Symphony’s Education and Community Engagement (ECE) programs additional opportunities to nurture young minds, inspire creativity and promote meaningful, lifelong engagement with live orchestral music.
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For project support of the Young Scholars Civic Engagement Program
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
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Middle school is a critical period for civic identity development, yet few civic learning programs are intentionally designed for this age group. This grant will support the launch and implementation of the Carnegie Young Scholars Civic Engagement Program, a new initiative developed by UCLA’s Center X to cultivate civic agency among Los Angeles middle school students. Each year, the program will directly serve approximately 730 students—130 through two summer institutes and 600 through classroom implementation during the school year. Students will explore local issues, design inclusive civic districts, and present their work publicly at Carnegie – UCLA Civics Day, hosted at the Los Angeles Public Library. Students will help plan and facilitate the event, further developing student voice, agency, and ownership of their learning.
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As a final grant for support of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse’s immigration projects
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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The immigration debate in the United States is mired in misinformation and misleading or false claims, and the public is often unable to access reliable sources and data from federal officials, who often erect barriers to block the free flow of information about their practices. Since 2005, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), has been using the Freedom of Information Act to collect, validate, analyze, and distribute immigration data from the federal government. With Corporation support, TRAC will continue to obtain and analyze records on immigration enforcement practices and their impact on individuals and communities and compile this data into understandable forms for widespread distribution to advocates, public interest lawyers, journalists, and other stakeholders in the immigration field.
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For support of Carnegie Corporation of New York's archives of grantmaking materials and for responding to requests for information from Corporation staff and other researchers
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
12 months
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For project support of coverage on pathways to socioeconomic mobility and overcoming polarization
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Education Week (EdWeek) is a trusted source of news and analysis on American education. For over 60 years, EdWeek has provided high-quality journalism to inform educators, policymakers, and stakeholders. With nearly 2 million registered users, its audience includes teachers, principals, district leaders, and policy professionals. EdWeek’s content spans print, online, video, and social media platforms, ensuring broad accessibility. With a strong social media presence reaching 2.4 million followers, EdWeek fosters a highly engaged community of influencers and educators. With renewed support from the Corporation, EdWeek will expand reporting on critical issues like Pathways to Economic and Social Mobility and Combatting Polarization in American education, supporting Carnegie’s goal of strengthening education and civic engagement.
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For a final grant for a project on promoting ethical approaches to policy engagement
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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Continued support for this project will address an important but underexamined issue in efforts to bridge the academic-policy gap: Despite progress in many areas, not only is there not enough engagement between researchers and policymakers, but when such engagement does occur, it is sometimes ethically flawed and counterproductive. Building on its previous Corporation-supported work, the Sié Center at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies (Korbel) will focus on the dilemmas that can arise as researchers advise policymakers or become involved in policy processes. Among the themes addressed will be how intense polarization has raised questions about the foundational assumptions, theories, and methods in the international relations field and the importance of critically examining research through an ethical lens.
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As a final grant to research and policy development on security in the Middle East
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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The World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Tufts University works with a network of international scholars to increase understanding and informed dialogue about conflict dynamics and peacebuilding. This work expanded its scope and impact through a policy development initiative called “Pathways to Renewed and Inclusive Security in the Middle East” (PRISME). Launched in 2022, PRISME fosters interactions between international academics and practitioners working to refine the concept of security in the Middle East and North Africa. WPF and PRISME publish research and provide data to journalists and policy researchers in multiple languages. Renewed funding will support data collection and analysis, publications and briefings, and professional development for a new generation of policy researchers.
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As a final grant for the Orfalea Center partnership with the Security in Context network
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
30 months
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The Arab region, an area in which the geopolitical order is being shaped and contested, is highly relevant to US foreign policy concerns. Since 2005 the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been training and mobilizing scholars on key questions regarding peace and conflict, security and insecurity, and international norms. This hub specializes in comparative and transregional research on the securitization of urban space, infrastructure, and the social impact of data-driven technologies. Renewed Corporation funding will support working groups, international research collaboration, publications, and expanded partnerships with Middle East and Global South institutions.
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As a final grant to complete the formative reviews of the remaining OpenSciEd elementary science units
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
15 months
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The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) is committed to best practices in teaching science through professional learning, partnerships, and advocacy, with over 35,000 members and a reach that is up to 300,000 educators. NSTA is currently conducting external teacher-led reviews of OpenSciEd’s elementary science instructional units to inform the development process and provide quality assurance. Corporation support will allow NSTA to complete these external reviews and disseminate reports on high-quality instructional materials to elementary science teachers.
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For a legislative study group on the role of Congress in foreign affairs
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
27 months
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Congressional members and aides can lack the specialized knowledge and accessible guidance needed to understand legal issues related to U.S. foreign and national security policy. Brookings’ legislative study group addresses this deficiency by convening regular discussions between bipartisan congressional staff and leading legal and policy experts. By focusing on emerging issues facing Congress and targeting relevant staff working on those issues, the project has helped inform and shape the debate of key topics on Capitol Hill, including recent rulings regarding the authorization of military force. Continued funding will allow the grantee to increase the frequency of sessions, remain responsive to timely developments, and develop an archive of research material relative to study group topics.
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As a final grant to support K-12 science education in the Instructional Materials and Professional Development Network
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
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The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nonpartisan, nationwide organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the fifty states and Washington, D.C. CCSSO assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an American education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life. CCSSO has led the High-Quality Instructional Materials and Professional Development (IMPD) Network since 2017, which was created at the recommendation of members of its Chief Academic Officer Network. The IMPD Network is made up of 14 states that have been working together to get high-quality instructional materials into the hands of teachers across their states and ensure that those teachers are receiving curriculum-based professional learning to support skillful curriculum implementation. This final grant supports a focus on improving science education in these states that is integrated with the work they are doing to improve instruction in English language arts and math.
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As a final core support grant to the Charles A. Dana Center
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
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Established in 1987, the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin (the Center) develops and scales effective mathematics and science innovations to support educators, administrators, and policymakers in creating seamless transitions throughout K–12 and postsecondary education for every student. The Center seeks to empower the next generation of students who understand the purpose, power, and relevance of mathematics and science in their roles as citizens and as future participants and leaders in the workforce. Applying research, policy, and wisdom of practice, the Center develops innovative and practical solutions to the persistent institutional structural and practice problems that every level of the educational system faces. This final grant will support the development and implementation of the Center’s revised strategic plans focusing on the national pathways movement.
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As a final grant for a project on media studies in the Arab region.
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
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With Corporation support, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar launched an Arab Information and Media Studies program to strengthen regional media studies in three languages (French, Arabic, and English). Renewed funding will support capacity building through academic workshops, networking, conferences, and dissemination of academic papers and policy briefs.
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