At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on September 12, 2019, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 48 grants totaling $35,170,400. Brief descriptions of each Board-approved grant are provided below.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
American Councils for International Education, Inc., Washington, DC, The United States
27-month grant of $231,000. For the Academic Fellowships in Russia Program.
American University in Cairo, New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $400,000. For a project on alternative policy solutions.
Boston University, Boston, MA, The United States
24-month grant of $450,000. For the Costs of War Project.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, IL, The United States
24-month grant of $550,000. For general support.
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $300,000. For general support.
Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $250,000. For investigative reporting on the increasing speed of warfare.
Central European University, New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $450,000. For an international scholars network on state and social transformations in the Arab region.
Columbia University, New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $700,000. For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the United States.
Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., New York, NY, The United States
36-month grant of $994,400. For the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars.
George Washington University, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $700,000. For the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia).
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $500,000. For enhancing academic and public policy understanding of Russia.
Global Zero, Washington, DC, The United States
18-month grant of $325,000. For the Nuclear Crisis Group.
Institute of International Education, Inc., New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $3,500,000. For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
24-month grant of $1,000,000. For a competitive fellowship program for early-career academics.
Nudge Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon
24-month grant of $300,000. As a final grant for the Consumer Citizens Lab.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $400,000. For research collaborations and professional development for displaced Middle East scholars.
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London, The United Kingdom
24-month grant of $500,000. For a transatlantic dialogue on China.
Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $4,400,000. For the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program.
St Antony's College, Oxford, The United Kingdom
24-month grant of $750,000. For a University Consortium on the relationship between Russia and the West.
Transparency International, London, The United Kingdom
24-month grant of $350,000. For a project on security assistance, corruption, and prolonged conflict.
Tufts University, Medford, MA, The United States
24-month grant of $250,000. For participation of African academics in the Talloires Network Leaders Conference.
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, The United States
36-month grant of $475,000. For the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue.
University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
24-month grant of $2,025,000. For support of early-career, doctoral, and postdoctoral candidates and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, The United States
24-month grant of $500,000. For a project on policy-relevant responses to emerging policy issues.
University of Sydney, Sydney, NWS, Australia
24-month grant of $400,000. As a final grant for a project on the implications of quantum theory and its application for international peace and security.
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, The United States
24-month grant of $275,000. For a study and policy dialogues on the impact of private universities on public universities in Africa.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $600,000. For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers.
NATIONAL PROGRAM
4.0 Schools, New Orleans, LA, The United States
21-month grant of $525,000. For the development of entrepreneurial pathways for new schools and learning models.
Bellwether Education Partners, Sudbury, MA, The United States
24-month grant of $600,000. For continued support of a project to align services to better serve students with interrupted education.
Columbia University, New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $500,000. For Center for Public Research Leadership's project to support education systems and organizations to improve professional learning of teachers linked to the use of high-quality instructional materials.
DreamYard Project, Inc., Bronx, NY, The United States
30-month grant of $950,000. For providing work-based learning opportunities to high school students in partnership with Here to Here.
EL Education, Inc., New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $800,000. For a project to design and field test learning progressions that support teachers, coaches, school and district leaders implementing a high-quality Language Arts curriculum.
Foundation for Excellence in Education, Tallahassee, FL, The United States
12-month grant of $470,000. For continuation of a research project focused on the alignment of education programs with the future of work.
FSG Inc., Boston, MA, The United States
24-month grant of $750,000. For continued support of a project to improve educational equity by building capacity for systems change and collective impact.
Fund for the City of New York, Inc., New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $400,000. For core support of the Student Success Network.
Highlander Institute, Providence, RI, The United States
24-month grant of $800,000. For expansion of a school-based process to implement blended and personalized learning approaches.
Illustrative Mathematics, Oro Valley, AZ, The United States
12-month grant of $300,000. For a project to develop partnerships with other professional learning organizations to support the implementation of a high-quality math curriculum.
MDRC, New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $500,000. For the Center for Effective Career and Technical Education.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $800,000. For enhancing science and engineering in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
New Visions for Public Schools, Inc., New York, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $800,000. For Comprehensive Instructional Support in Science: A project to develop and field test a Next Generation Science Standards-designed high school biology curriculum.
Riverdale Country School, Bronx, NY, The United States
24-month grant of $500,000. For core support of the Teachers Guild.
Surge Institute, Chicago, IL, The United States
30-month grant of $650,000. For general support.
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, The United States
24-month grant of $250,000. For core support of the Cowen Institute.
Urban Teacher Center, Baltimore, MD, The United States
18-month grant of $800,000. For a project to evaluate the effectiveness of Urban Teachers’ model of teacher preparation.
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, The United States
24-month grant of $1,000,000. For support for a model faculty development program for historically black colleges and universities.
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, The United States 24-month grant of $500,000. For support for a model faculty development program for historically black colleges and universities.
United States Foundation for the Commemoration of the World Wars, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $1,000,000. As a one-time grant for the development of a national memorial commemorating the legacy of the First World War.
TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS INITIATIVES
American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, The United States
24-month grant of $700,000. For the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Workshops and the Arab Political Science Network (APSN).