The Corporation's Program

FY2004 DISSEMINATION AWARDS

Active Voice/Farmingville Outreach
Farmingville is an award-winning documentary about the effect U.S. immigration policy has on a small Long Island community. A Dissemination Award produced a community toolkit that was used in a national series of discussions about the film, enhancing the goals of the Corporation’s program in Strengthening U.S. Democracy to help new communities integrate immigrant populations.

AllAfrica Foundation
The AllAfrica Foundation operates one of the Internet's largest content sites, offering multilingual news and digital networks that connect groups working on common issues throughout the African continent. This Dissemination Award supported production of a multimedia series about the opportunities and challenges South Africa faces in its second decade of democratic governance.

America Abroad Media
America Abroad Media produces in-depth radio programs on international issues using seasoned journalists such as Garrick Utley, Marvin Kalb and Margaret Warner. A Dissemination Award funded three one-hour programs on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as a dissemination campaign to broaden awareness of this new hourly program among public radio outlets and international affairs departments in colleges and universities.

APCO Africa/Establishment of African University Communicators Network
African universities receiving Corporation funding are creating a communications system that will inform the public about each university’s accomplishments and make university administrative operations more transparent. The 2004 Carnegie Corporation conference brought together leaders from these institutions to form the African University Communicators Network, a successful online association that is being used by university communications administrators to learn new strategies, access technical information and communicate with each other and the Corporation.

Boston Review
The editors of Boston Review, like the Corporation, are interested in ideas that inform public policy, and have been instrumental in publishing the work of Carnegie Scholars. This Award supported Boston Review’s proposal to build relationships with other media organizations as it builds circulation and to enhance Boston Review’s web site.

Center for Defense Information/Azimuth Media/Arming the Heavens
Arming the Heavens, a documentary about space weaponization, produced with funding from a 2003 Dissemination Award, and a new companion brochure were distributed nationwide to High School Advanced Placement teachers in relevant subject areas as well as to college and university instructors in departments such as Peace and Conflict Studies, Nuclear Arms and Control, International Relations and World Politics and Foreign Policy.

Center for Science and the Media/ScienCentral
ScienCentral produces expert television news reports on science-related educational issues that are picked up by ABC, NBC and other broadcasters. This Award supported stories based on Corporation education foci, such as teenage literacy, teacher training and urban school reform. The reports aired on local stations in up to 20 states with an audience of about 1 million viewers per broadcast.

Community Television Foundation of South Florida/Nightly Business Report
The Nightly Business Report produced a five-part series on South Africa’s transition to democracy during the first ten years after the end of apartheid. The project included an outreach component that distributed videotapes of the entire series to targeted high school teachers nationwide. A companion web site provides additional information and learning resources for teachers, students and parents.

Crimes of War Project
The Crimes of War Project is an online resource for journalists looking for information and guidance on war reporters’ responsibilities in documenting humanitarian and war crimes. This Dissemination Media Award produced a series of articles on the interlocking wars being waged in sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences these conflicts have on efforts to stabilize the region.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation/The Open Mind
The Open Mind is a venerable program that for almost 50 years has featured interviews with world leaders, politicians, writers and others conducted by the series’ only moderator, Richard Heffner. This Dissemination Award supported production costs for programs focusing on issues central to the Corporation’s grantmaking.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation/Wide Angle
Wide Angle, a PBS documentary series that explores critical international issues, received a Dissemination Award toward program development for its third season and pre-production of two documentaries focusing on issues germane to Corporation grantmaking in Africa and Russia.

Educational Television Endowment for South Carolina/Hedrick Smith Productions
To augment a Corporation grant toward Schools that Work, a PBS documentary about public school reform in America, this Award provided funding for a companion web site for the program that will ensure school leaders and policymakers can learn from the broadcast and its findings.

Firelight Media/Schools for a New Society
A new documentary, Schools for a New Society, records the progress of the five-year initiative by the same name. The film focuses on three of the cities participating in the program, Sacramento, Chattanooga and Boston, highlights changes to local high schools at the midway point of the Schools for a New Society program and takes the parent, teacher or policymaker inside these re-designed high schools.

Foreign Policy Association
The Foreign Policy Association’s popular Great Decisions world affairs educational program is the centerpiece of a project to raise awareness of international issues in America. The Corporation funded a one-day training seminar for new Great Decisions coordinators, who went on to promote the program in communities around the country.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunication Association/The News
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunication Association and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions are developing a ten-minute daily news program that will be available for viewing in middle and high school classrooms. This Dissemination Award supported the development of outreach activities, such as focus groups to vet programming content, as well as consultations with journalists, educational experts and other strategic partners.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunication Association/The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ($50,000)
This Dissemination Award, issued to encourage deeper analysis of international news, will enable NewsHour reporters to cover stories in Iran and Iraq and to better understand the concomitant issues arising from contemporary political developments in the Middle East.

Johns Hopkins University/International Journalism Program
The International Journalism Program trains American journalists to do a better job of providing the public with in-depth coverage of global issues. This Award supported a program, called America Through The Eyes of Islam, which took U.S. national editors to Lebanon and Syria for intensive training in international affairs.

Justice at Stake
Justice at Stake received a capacity-building Dissemination Award to launch a seminal report, The New Politics of Judicial Elections, about the rising influence of special interests on judicial elections and the efforts underway to advance public financing of these elections. U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona participated in the event at which the report was announced.

Learning Matters/The Merrow Report
John Merrow is a frequent contributor of education news stories to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.This Award provided support toward a series of reports on education and education policy issues strategic to the Corporation's education program goals.

Long Island Educational Television Council/BBC World News
WLIW21, Long Island’s public television conduit, transmits the BBC World News to public television stations across the United States. Carnegie Corporation's support went toward licensing and transmittal fees.

MMB Media/Youth and News Study
In connection with the Corporation’s grantmaking for journalism education, a survey was conducted among 18-to-34-year-olds to measure their current news sources and viewing patterns. The survey data will be used to assess new trends about how and where young adults access news, informing the discussions underway by leading journalism school deans about improving journalism education. A report about the study appeared in the Spring 2005 Carnegie Reporter.

Moving Image/Democracy on Deadline
Lumiere Productions, with its partner, Roundtable, is preparing an outreach campaign around a four-part documentary, Deadline for Democracy: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press, scheduled for broadcast on public television. This Dissemination Award provided seed money for the public engagement strategy.

Objective Reality Foundation/Interfoto 2004
A Dissemination Award supported advance work and preparations for Interfoto’s 2004 Annual Festival of Professional Photography, which was held in Moscow. The festival included educational activities and a photograph exhibit of professional photographers’ depictions of social, cultural and political changes in Russia since the end of the Soviet era.

Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
The Journalist’s Guide to Covering Bioterrorism, an informational piece for news media about crisis communications and bioterrorism, was produced by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation with support from Carnegie Corporation shortly after 9/11. Since then, demand for the Guide has exceeded supply. This year’s Award enabled the report to be updated and reprinted.

Teachers College of Columbia University/Hechinger Institute
Prior to the 2004 presidential election, the Hechinger Institute held a one-day seminar for political journalists that focused on education matters likely to surface during the campaign, with the goal of informing and enhancing election coverage of critical education issues.

United Nations Development Programme/Between Peril and Promises
Between Peril and Promises is 30-minute film documentary that features Ugandan, Tanzanian and South African women whose lives have been transformed by scholarship and education programs targeting women’s higher education, including the Strengthening African Universities program, a collaboration between the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford, MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations.

University of Maryland Foundation/American Journalism Review
The American Journalism Review conducted a study on the qualitative differences in news reporting practiced by for-profit and non-commercial news media. Results of the research, which also focused on the impact financial pressures impose on news content, appeared in the October/November 2004 issue of the magazine.

WGBH/Frontline/World Fellows Program
Frontline/World partners with journalism schools at Columbia University, Northwestern University and the University of California at Berkeley to provide outstanding students the opportunity of contributing to Frontline/World's program content and of working side-by-side with the program's writers, producers and directors. A Dissemination Award provided stipends for students selected for the project whose work was appeared on the Frontline/World web site.

World Affairs Councils of America
The World Affairs Councils of America received a planning grant to coordinate a series of 2005 national conversations using the Corporation-funded documentary about space weaponization, Arming the Heavens, and a related Carnegie Challenge Paper called The Weaponization of Space: Divided Viewpoints, Uncertain Directions.