Carnegie Newsline April 12, 2001

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the April 12, 2001 Board Meeting.

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EDUCATION

Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc.
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a national project to research and promote strategies that link educational adequacy litigation, civic engagement, and high academic standards to improve urban schools

Joy G. Dryfoos
Nine-month grant of $25,000 for research and writing on creating full-service community schools

Jumpstart for Young Children Inc.
Three-year grant of $600,000 toward development of training and curriculum materials for and evaluation of a program that trains college students to work with disadvantaged pre-school children

Middlebury College
Three-year grant of $1,206,100 for one-time funding of the establishment of an urban education network to promote best practices in teaching literature and writing

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
Two-year grant of $600,000 as a final grant toward a project to develop and implement a performance-based system of accreditation for teacher education institutions

Stanford University
One-year grant of $125,000 toward an experimental test of the effects of racial diversity in higher education on students' learning

Teachers College, Columbia University
Six-month grant of $25,000 for planning and initial implementation of a program to recruit and prepare Columbia University seniors to work in New York City public schools upon graduation

What Kids Can Do Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward support

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
One-year grant of $25,000 toward regional public meetings on the findings of the Commission on the High School Senior Year


INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Rhodes University
Four-year grant of $817,500 for one-time funding of a project to train teachers and strengthen a research center for science, mathematics and technology

Social Science Academy of Nigeria
One-year grant of $34,700 toward a study of the Nigerian university system and selected universities

University of South Africa
Forty-two-month grant of $1,086,100 toward one-time funding of the establishment of the Centre for the Improvement of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education


INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

American International Health Alliance, Inc.
Eighteen-month grant of $249,500 as a final grant for a study of social cohesion in

Columbia University
Two-year grant of $94,300 toward research and writing on Russian foreign policy

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
Ten-month grant of $25,000 for a roundtable series on Russian nationalism

Emory University
Two-year grant of $200,300 for a joint project with the Institute of Law and Public Policy in Moscow for research and DISSEMINATION on the role and influence of Russia's Federation Council

Financial Services Volunteer Corps Inc.
Two-year grant of $301,400 as a final grant for research and DISSEMINATION on the international integration of Russia's security, economic and banking institutions

George Washington University
Two-year grant of $185,000 as a final grant for a joint study with the EastWest Institute on state building in Russia

Harvard University
Two-year grant of $500,000 for fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs on International Security

International Peace Academy, Inc.
Twenty-one-month grant of $271,000 toward research and DISSEMINATION on the United Nations' involvement with transitional governments and its impact on the evolution of self-determination

International Research and Exchanges Board Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000 toward one-time funding of a conference on Russia in the information age

Monterey Institute Of International Studies
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward research and education on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union

New School University
One-year grant of $25,000 for a seminar series on the impact of cultural factors on Russia's transition

Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation
Three-month grant of $25,000 for U.S.-Russian dialogue on international security

Oregon State University
Twenty-one-month grant of $389,600 for a joint project with the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security on preventing water conflicts

Queens College of the City University of New York
One-year grant of $14,000 toward a meeting on South Africa's nuclear weapons program

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Eighteen-month grant of $150,000 toward research and DISSEMINATIONs on the implication of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies for contemporary Russia

Rutgers University
Two-year grant of $399,400 as a final grant for research and DISSEMINATION on the problems, prospects, and policies relating to Russia's integration into Europe

Seton Hall University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a joint project with the United Nations Association of the United States of America to convene an international group of experts to discuss identity, diversity, and intergroup relations


STRENGTHENING US DEMOCRACY

Colby College
Thirty-month grant of $250,000 toward a study on the effects of highly competitive congressional races on voter engagement

Common Cause Education Fund
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward support

Compumentor Project
One-year grant of $150,000 toward marketing and evaluation of TechSoup, a technology web site for nonprofit organizations

Independent Sector
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward support for the Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest project

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Two-year grant of $900,000 toward national replication of its Standards for Excellence program

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Inc.
One-year grant of $10,000 toward membership support in 2001

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND KIDSNET
Fifteen-month grant of $200,000 toward one-time funding of a joint effort with the Favorite Poem Project to distribute print anthologies and videos to small-town and rural libraries in the U.S. and to conduct summer poetry institutes for teachers


CARNEGIE SCHOLARS

Robert Bates
Two-year grant of $95,237 for a research project entitled A Study of the Political and Economic Determinants of Africa's Development Experience, With Emphasis on Governance and Conflict

Diane Davis
Two-year grant of $99,100 for a research project entitled Public vs. Private Security Forces and The Rule of Law: The Transformation of Policing in South Africa, Russia and Mexico

Georgi Derluguian
Two-year grant of $89,991 for a research project entitled The Globalization of Mafia Enterprise: From Diagnosis to Civil Society Counteraction

Laura Donohue
Two-year grant of $99,440 for a research project entitled Security and Freedom in the Face of Terrorism

Jeff Faux
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project entitled Toward a North American Social Contract

Benjamin Highton
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project entitled African American Representation in the U.S. Congress

Donald Horowitz
Ten-month grant of $100,000 for a research project entitled Constitutional Design for Severely Divided Societies

James Jonah
Eighteen-month grant of $78,689 for a research project entitled The UN in Conflict Resolution: The Role of the International Civil Servant

Heinrich Mintrop
Two-year grant of $99,845 for a research project entitled School Accountability in the U.S. and Germany: Learning from Common Challenges and Different Paths

Jamie Monson
One-year grant of $93,220 for a research project entitled Developing a Database and Mapping Program to Evaluate the Role Played by the TAZARA Railroad in the Rural Development of Southern Tanzania

Dani Rodrik
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project entitled Institutions, Integration, and Geography: The Analytics and Empirics of INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Rogers Smith
Two-year grant of $99,340 for a research project entitled Civic Horizons: Achieving Democratic Citizenship in Modern America

Nina Tannenwald
Two-year grant of $99,600 for a research project entitled The Sociology of Danger: Weapons Stigmatization in International Politics

Brian Taylor
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project entitled State Power and Russia's Regions

Sharon Weiner
Two-year grant of $100,000 for a research project entitled Our Own Worst Enemy? Bureaucratic Organizational, and Political Constraints on U.S. Efforts to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons Expertise in the Former Soviet Union

Amy Stuart Wells
One-year grant of $56,967 for a research project entitled In Search of Uncommon Schools: Charter School Reform in Historical Perspective