Carnegie Newsline June 9, 2005

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the June 9, 2005 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

Academy for Educational Development, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $4,546,700 toward Teachers for a New Era: a Corporation initiative to reform and improve the education of teachers

Alliance for Excellent Education Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward a project on promoting policy for intermediate and adolescent literacy

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward a nonpartisan commission on the No Child Left Behind Act

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an evaluation design to measure the effectiveness of a Master of Arts in Teaching program

Brown University, Providence, RI
Eleven-month grant of $50,000 toward support to develop and convene a forum on Understanding Educational Equity and Excellence at Scale

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward enhancing teacher preparation for adolescent literacy through interdisciplinary learning communities

Connect For Kids, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a strategic communications initiative on policies affecting disadvantaged students

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Nineteen-month grant of $100,000 toward creating tools for teachers to develop student competencies in traditional and new literacies

Crenulated Company, Ltd., Bronx, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a community collaborative to improve district-wide schools in New York City

Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., Tallahassee, FL
Two-year grant of $436,000 toward the development and dissemination of a leadership model for improving adolescent literacy

Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward an evaluation of current science standards for K-12 education in light of changes in scientific knowledge; and publication of The State of State Science Standards 2005

University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward developing capacity to prepare pre-service teachers to teach literacy in secondary school classrooms

The Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support for fostering the development of the National Alliance on the American High School to strengthen research, practice and policy in high school reform

The Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 for the Education Policy Fellowship Program

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
One-year grant of $24,900 toward a summit on adolescent literacy in out-of-school time

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Two-year grant of $99,900 for advancing adolescent literacy learning in the disciplines

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $21,000 for the dissemination of a report on engaging high school students' motivation to learn

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Three-month grant of $50,000 for research on improving the quality of liberal arts education

Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $450,200 toward teacher and student surveys to guide research and development to improve adolescent literacy instruction

United States Conference of Mayors, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $265,000 toward enhancing mayors' role in urban education reform

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

African Virtual University, Nairobi, Kenya
Three-year grant of $1,269,700 toward a satellite bandwidth purchasing consortium serving selected African universities

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
Two-month grant of $10,500 toward the working group on higher education strategic planning

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
Eight-month grant of $15,000 toward a consultancy to examine the association's role in enhancing bandwidth access for higher education institutions in Africa

Foundation for Library and Information Service Development (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa
Three-year grant of $2,000,000 for a model national library in South Africa

The Leadership Foundation, Washington, DC
Twenty-month grant of $50,000 toward support of two African higher education fellows

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a summit on global issues in women's health

Tertiary Education Network, Rondebosch, South Africa
Thirty-month grant of $156,100 toward training in bandwidth management for selected Africa universities

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward the Smolny Collegium, an international institute for advanced study in Russia

Brown University, Providence, RI
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a workshop on creating a new global security agenda

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $325,000 as one-time support for developing a model for U.S.-Russian cooperation on nonproliferation and counterterrorism in Iran

Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Inc., Honolulu, HI
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a project on state-building challenges in Asia

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward the Russia and Eurasia Program

Fund for Peace, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $499,900 toward a project to provide early warning of states at risk

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
One-year grant of $400,000 toward support of the Security Studies Program

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a program on enhancing bioscience in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy

Public International Law and Policy Group, Arlington, VA
Two-year grant of $349,000 toward a project to provide pro bono legal assistance and policy advice to states at risk

Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Inc., Middlebury, VT
Two-year grant of $200,000 for the Visiting Advisors Program for Russia and other former Soviet States

Social Science Research Council, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $225,000 toward a project on unofficial diplomacy focused on Northeast Asia

United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, Arlington, VA
Two-year grant of $1,000,000 toward the Basic Research and Higher Education Program

Strengthening U.S. Democracy

American Association of People with Disabilities, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward electoral reform and voter participation activities in the disabled community

American University, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a commission on federal election reform

Campaign Legal Center, Inc., Washington, DC
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on reforming redistricting

Center for Policy Alternatives, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 for a conference for midwestern state legislators on election reform

Democracy 21 Education Fund, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 as a final grant toward support

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action, Ltd., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward electoral reform research and public education

Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO
Eighteen-month grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward the National Center for Learning and Citizenship's efforts to identify effective citizenship education policies and practices in states

Foundation Center, New York, NY
One-year grant of $33,000 toward 2005 membership support

Fund for Constitutional Government, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward a coalition to ensure access to government information

George Washington University, Washington, DC
Ten-month grant of $25,000 toward a study of the increase of small political contributions in the 2004 elections

Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward Justice at Stake's state-based coalition building and public education around judicial campaign financing

Independent Sector, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $200,000 toward public policy activities

Independent Sector, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $12,500 toward 2005 membership support

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fifteen-month grant of $45,500 for the evaluation of state policies designed to increase youth civic engagement

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward a joint project with the California Institute of Technology on voting technology

The National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise, Arlington, VA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward developing a business model template and training services for nonprofits

National Institute on Money in State Politics, Helena, MT
One-year grant of $250,000 as a final grant toward support

Neighborhood Funders Group, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $1,600 toward 2005 membership support

Neighborhood Funders Group, Washington, DC
Eight-month grant of $10,000 toward a conference on the impact of demographic changes on communities

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Eight-month grant of $39,800 for use by the Fels Institute of Government, final grant for a model technical assistance program for state and local election administrators

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Three-year grant of $300,200 toward activities by the National Consortium on Youth Civic Engagement aimed at promoting civic participation

Reboot, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward dissemination of the results of a study on youth, religion and civic engagement

Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the 2004 Latino exit polls

Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc., Metairie, LA
One-year grant of $2,000 toward 2005 membership support for the Grants Managers Network, a project of the Rockefeller Family Fund

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $10,000 toward 2005 membership support

Tides Center, San Francisco, CA
Ten-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference evaluating the role of the women's vote in the 2004 election, focusing on new and infrequent voters

Tides Center, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $1,500 toward its Technology Affinity Group project

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Ten-month grant of $49,900 for a systematic analysis of the debate surrounding the adoption and use of electronic voting technologies

William C. Velasquez Institute, Inc., San Antonio, TX
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a post-election phone survey to measure Latino political participation in the 2004 election

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
One-year grant of $50,000 as one-time support toward the Chancellor's Challenge, to support sholarships in honor of Alan Pifer

Chess-In-The-Schools, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $10,000 as a one-time-only grant toward disseminating a report on the impact of Chess-In-The-Schools on children's education

Citizens Budget Commission, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward its education finance reform project

Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $180,000 for a volume providing a review of reformist and moderate thinking on Islam

University of Maryland Foundation, Inc., Adelphi, MD
Two-year grant of $300,000 for research and analysis on the public attitudes and the media in the Middle East

National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Washington, DC
Eight-month grant of $50,000 toward promoting a national commission to encourage study abroad by college students

New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY
Seven-month grant of $35,000 toward a conference on transatlantic immigrant health issues

Public Radio International, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Two-year grant of $200,000 as a final grant toward in-depth coverage of Africa for The World

Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward disseminating case studies on religious tolerance and conflict resolution

SEPTEMBER 11 RECOVERY

Asian American Federation of New York, New York, NY
Nine-month grant of $100,000 toward planning efforts to sustain and expand economic activity in Lower Manhattan

The Fund for Public Schools, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $100,000 for collection development for two school libraries in Lower Manhattan

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
One-year grant of $500,000 academic Leadership Award

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
One-year grant of $500,000 academic Leadership Award

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
One-year grant of $500,000 academic Leadership Award