FY2003 DISSEMINATION AWARDS

America Abroad Media
America Abroad Media is developing a variety of programs focusing on international affairs. America Abroad, a new program airing on Public Radio International (PRI) and over the Internet, offers expert analysis and discussion of international events to a growing audience around the world. Co-hosts include veteran broadcasters Marvin Kalb, Steve Roberts, Garrick Utley and Margaret Warner. An educational component, Youth SPAN, uses videoconferencing to connect American students with counterparts abroad for moderated discussions on world events.

American Journalism Review
A Dissemination Media Award to AJR supported in-depth coverage of the 2003 Federal Communications Commissions regulatory changes to media ownership and consolidation restrictions. This excellent report is available in the December/January 2004 issue of AJR.

BBC World Service Trust
To augment program grantmaking to African universities, a Dissemination Award to the BBC World Trust funded a feasibility study on media capacity-building and media education at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Boston Review
A Dissemination Award to this well-respected magazine of serious political, cultural and literary ideas extended the reach and impact of the Boston Review's Democracy Forum initiative, which frequently provides commentary on issues central to the Corporation's strategic goals and the work of some of our Carnegie Scholars.

Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies
The Cabin Creek Center is producing a film documentary of the birth of New York City's High School for the Arts, a public school located in the Bronx developed through a public school urban reform initiative that emphasizes small schools. The film documents the school's first year from the perspectives of students, teachers and parents.

Carnegie Hall/The Hugh Masekela Global Encounters South Africa Project
During 2002-2003, Carnegie Hall's Global Encounters Program sponsored a year-long study of traditional and contemporary South African music in New York City public high schools under the leadership of South African singers and musicians. Carnegie Corporation 's Dissemination Award supported publication of a companion Teacher's Guide for teaching South African music, which was distributed to New York City teachers as well as schools and libraries in South Africa.

Center for Defense Information/Azimuth Media
A Dissemination Media Award to Azimuth Media funded production of a documentary entitled Arming the Heavens: The Push for Weapons in Space. The 25-minute documentary, released in early 2004, explores the current debate on the weaponization of space.

Council on Foreign Relations/What Works in Girl's Education
A Dissemination Award fund publication and dissemination of a report about the current status of girl's education, particularly in the Second and Third Worlds. The report, prepared by the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses women's scholarship and gender reform on the university level, a particular focus of the Corporation's International Development Program.

Crimes of War Education Project
The Crimes of War Project, founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Roy Gutman, is a resource for war reporters for international humanitarian law and the responsibilities media bear as potential witnesses to war crimes. Carnegie Corporation's Dissemination program supported sustained and augmented coverage of the Iraqi War and its aftermath as well as on-line resources for reporters covering the conflict.

Education Writers Association
Dissemination funding underwrote a program on teacher training reform at EWA's 2003 national conference and also provided scholarships for education reporters who otherwise would have been unable to attend the meeting.

Harper's Magazine Foundation/Timeline: History Behind the Headlines
A Dissemination Media Award funded two pilot episodes of the radio series Timeline: The History Behind the Headlines. The project seeks to present breaking news within a broad historical context, providing a deeper understanding of America's social, political and economic agendas.

INVESTING IN DEMOCRACY: A Citizen & Candidate Guide to Voter Owned Elections
Investing in Democracy is a unique toolkit the provides a detailed and comprehensive look at publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform in the United States. A collaborative effort of three Corporation grantees – The Center for Governmental Studies, Firelight Media and Public Campaign, the project augments grantmaking by the Strengthening U.S. Democracy Program in the area of campaign finance reform.

A Dissemination Award funded production and distribution of the toolkit. Each kit contains a booklet on the current status campaign finance reform on the national, state and local levels and helpful resources for community organizers as well two 20-minute video documentaries featuring candidates who ran for office under public financing guidelines:

The Road to Clean Elections (14-minute video) follows candidates running for office using public funding guidelines in Maine and Arizona. Produced for Public Campaign by Haddow Communications.

Running: The Campaign for the New York City Council (30-minute video) documents the story of the 2001 New York City Council elections, the first governed by term limits and enhanced public campaign financing rules. Produced by Firelight Media in association with Thirteen/WNET New York.

The Islam Project
In the aftermath of 9/11, The Islam Project launched a national community engagement campaign to promote discussion and understanding of Islam and Muslims. This multimedia effort, produced under the auspices of the Independent Production Fund and Active Voice, is being used by schools as well as interfaith and community-based organizations across America to build awareness of the broad diversity of the world's fastest growing religion.

Objects and Memory Project
A Dissemination Media Award toward production of a film documentary about collecting and preserving artifacts from the September 11 terrorist attacks followed up earlier Corporation grantmaking to New York City organizations affected by the tragedy. The project is a collaboration between Environmental Video, Education & Reports (EVER), the New York Historical Society and the Columbia University Oral History department.

Open Mind Online Digital Archive
A Dissemination Award funded development of a model for digital video archiving to preserve videos through digitization and to make them accessible on the Internet by an online database. Using some 1300 historic tapes from the venerable series The Open Mind, the database model coding will be considered open-source code and eventually be made available free of charge to nonprofit, governmental and other organizations.

Progressive Media Project
In Madison, Wisconsin, Progressive Media solicits, edits and distributes commentaries on youth engagement, immigration, high school and urban school reform and other important topics to mainstream newspapers across the country.

South Carolina ETV Endowment/Stolen Childhoods
A Dissemination Media Award supported educational research and outreach for Stolen Childhoods, a film documentary about child labor worldwide and efforts underway to educate and provide opportunities for its victims. The project intersects goals of the Corporation's Education and International Development Programs.

Sound Portraits Productions/StoryCorps
The Corporation provided seed money for this nationwide initiative to record oral histories of ordinary Americans. The StoryCorps collection of interviews will be permanently stored at the Library of Congress. Segments of some of the oral histories are broadcasted on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Technical Assistance to Grantees
To underscore its commitment to advance and diffuse knowledge and to encourage grantees to follow suit, Carnegie Corporation, through its Dissemination Program, provides board-level grantees capacity-building opportunities in strategic communications and Web site consultation.

Strategic Communications Training for Grantees
Senior level staff from Corporation grantees are invited to attend a Strategic Communications Training Workshop held by leading nonprofit communications organizations. The training focuses on specifics for message development and dissemination and also provides one-on-one coaching on media interviews and public presentations. The workshop also offers Corporation grantees who work in similar areas the opportunity to network and build relationships.

In addition to the strategic communications training, African grantees also have the opportunity to become part of the Carnegie AfricaNet, a service available to workshop graduates for online mentoring and follow-up training as well as for sharing messages and queries relating to communications.

Web Tutoring Awards
For grantees who may not have the resources or staff to expand and improve project Web sites, Dissemination Awards fund Web consultations with an expert in online communications. Communications training graduates are invited to compete for the Web Tutoring Awards. Those chosen to receive awards exhibit a clear understanding of communications strategy and a well- defined plan for how changing the Web site will advance the mission and purpose of the project.

United Nations Association of the USA/America's Re-engagement in UNESCO
A Dissemination Award supported outreach and educational efforts to promote the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and to shape public debate about America's re-involvement with the group.

WETA Public Television /Reporting America at War
This critically acclaimed documentary about war correspondents and the challenges of frontline reporting premiered on PBS. Carnegie Corporation's Dissemination Media Award funded the creation of a comprehensive companion Web site, which includes links to educational resources and teaching tools for teachers, and for distribution of the documentary to journalism schools across the country.

WGBH Educational Foundation/FRONTLINE/World
Dissemination funding seeded expansion of the FRONTLINE/World Fellows Program, a unique initiative for training and mentoring young journalisms, who work with FRONTLINE staff to produce and publish news projects for on-air and on-line viewing.

WLIW/BBC World News
Public television station WLIW/21 received a Dissemination Media Award toward transmittal of BBC World News broadcasts to 200 public television stations across the United States, the only available conduit for the news program for non-cable households.

WNET/Wide Angle
A Dissemination Media Award to the PBS series Wide Angle supported program segments on public school enrollment in Kenya and Black economic empowerment in South Africa, two countries receiving support from the Corporation's International Development Program.