Carnegie Newsline June 9, 2004

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the June 9, 2004 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY
Four-month grant of $117,000 for technical assistance associated with the Teachers for a New Era initiative

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a project to examine and improve the relations between foundations and educational institutions

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Fund, Chattanooga, TN
Twenty-five-month grant of $150,000 for research and dissemination on the issues of teacher quality

Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., Tallahassee, FL
Nine-month grant of $24,500 for a planning grant to study leadership for literacy

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., Arlington, VA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward Do You Speak American?, a MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' educational outreach documentary program

National Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth, Basehor, KS
Eighteen-month grant of $500,000 toward support of systemic strategies for struggling students

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Eighteen-month grant of $150,000 toward a national initiative for assessment reform

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
One-year grant of $25,000 for a teacher education accountability project

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
One-year grant of $35,000 toward a workshop on the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade and Services and ensuing research on higher education in Africa

Association of African Universities, Accra-North, Ghana
One-year grant of $50,000 toward the restructuring and revitalization of the Association of African Universities (AAU)

University of Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Three-year grant of $2,100,000 for a scholarship program for undergraduate women

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Three-year grant of $2,020,500 for a scholarship program for undergraduate women

Simmons College, Boston, MA
Eighteen-month grant of $201,100 toward technical assistance by the Center for Gender in Organizations for selected African universities undertaking gender equity initiatives

Southern African Research & Innovation Management Association, Mayville, South Africa
Two-month grant of $24,900 for participation of representatives of selected African universities in a conference on management of research and innovation in higher education institutions

University of Education, Winneba, Winneba, Ghana
Eighteen-month grant of $100,000 toward planning a strategy to achieve gender equity at the university

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $800,000 toward the Foreign Policy Studies program

Brown University, Providence, RI
One-year grant of $24,500 for meetings, research and analysis on information technology and security

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $301,100 toward a project on reforming U.S. and international post-conflict reconstruction efforts

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $180,000 for a project on cooperative threat reduction in North Korea

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Three-month grant of $6,900 toward a meeting on state-building

Columbia University, New York, NY
Ten-month grant of $50,000 toward the Gulf 2000 project

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $275,000 toward research and writing on international security

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Seven-month grant of $50,000 toward a study on the potential exploitation of biotechnology

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $1,030,000 toward the executive programs for Russian military officers and policymakers from Russia and the Black Sea region

International Crisis Group, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on preventing state collapse

Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA
Five-month grant of $25,000 for publication of a journal on nonproliferation

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Four-month grant of $25,000 for a study on the scope of biosecurity challenges

New School University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward the Journal Donation Project

New York University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $299,600 toward a project on enhancing governmental and intergovernmental capacity to support state-building

The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation, Yorba Linda, CA
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward U.S.-Russian dialogue on international security

Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $180,000 as a final grant toward a project to support cooperative threat reduction among the United States, Russia and other former Soviet states

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Two-year grant of $275,000 toward research and writing on international security

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a project on enhancing public security and rule of law in post-conflict reconstruction

University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward the Harvard Sussex program to develop a new international treaty that would criminalize the development, production or use of chemical or biological weapons

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
One-year grant of $15,000 toward a research project on power and culture during the Cold War

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

Asian Americans for Equality, Inc., New York, NY
Ten-month grant of $90,000 toward public education and outreach around a community-driven, collaborative planning project to revitalize Chinatown's economy in the wake of September 11

District of Columbia College Access Program, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $1,000,000 toward support

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

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $8,000 as membership support

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Nine-month grant of $50,000 for use by the Civil Rights Project, for a research symposium on the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Independent Sector, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $25,000 as membership support (2003 and 2004)

Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $100,000 as a final grant toward a national research project that will improve the flow of information about field-based nonprofit practices to nonprofit teaching, technical assistance, and research institutions

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward a research and public education project about the upcoming reauthorization of provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act

Neighborhood Funders Group, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $5,000 toward its 2004 annual meeting on democracy and civic engagement

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $16,000 as membership support

Northern California Grantmakers, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $1,000 as membership support for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, a project of Northern California Grantmakers

Proteus Fund, Inc., Amherst, MA
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward strengthening the capacity of the State Strategies Fund to provide technical assistance to statewide, multi-issue, public interest coalitions

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

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward enhancement of Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse's online federal information database

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

American Assembly, New York, NY
One-year grant of $250,000 as one-time funding toward policy analysis, dialogue and dissemination on reforming global institutions

Business Higher Education Forum, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $250,000 as one-time funding toward support

Firelight Media, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward public outreach related to a documentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education

JSTOR, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $100,000 as one-time funding toward digitizing and disseminating scholarly journals from the field of education

ANONYMOUS $15 MILLION IN GRANTS TO CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SERVICE INSTITUTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY