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Carnegie Newsline April 11, 2002

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the April 11, 2002 board meeting.

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EDUCATION

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
One-year grant of $25,000 for publication and DISSEMINATION of a study on the causes and consequences of grade inflation at universities

Dillard University
Fifteen-month grant of $537,800 toward enhancing liberal arts education across diverse institutions

Harvard University
Two-year grant of $567,600 for a joint project with the National Governors' Association to improve the education of teachers of reading at the state level



INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Botswana National Library Service
Three-year grant of $2,032,300 toward strengthening institutional capacity and the development of four model libraries

University of Cape Town
Three-year grant of $1,093,900 for the establishment of a masters degree program in structural biology, in partnership with the University of the Western Cape

Kenya National Library Service
Three-year grant of $2,074,400 toward strengthening institutional capacity and the development of four model libraries

Makerere University
Twenty-nine month grant of $1,065,100 for institutional development

Rand Afrikaans University
Three-year grant of $1,000,000 toward the establishment of a four-year degree in accounting at the University of Fort Hare, in partnership with Rand Afrikaans University

University of Stellenbosch
Thirty-two-month grant of $1,000,000 toward a collaborative program with the Medical University of Southern Africa on the Management of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace

Tides Center
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support for the Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group



INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Australian National University
One-year grant of $24,900 for research and writing on internal conflict and conflict management in the Asian-Pacific region

Boston University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward an international conference on education in the 21st century

Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Inc.
Two-year grant of $350,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on national identity, Islam and internal conflicts in Asia

Center for Policy Studies in Russia
Two-year grant of $220,000 toward research, training, and DISSEMINATION to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation in Russia

Columbia University
Four-month grant of $49,300 toward a study of the role of the United Nations in counterterrorism

Communitarian Network
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a project to convene international scholars and policy leaders to discuss how democratic states maintain their identity while accepting immigrants whose cultures differ from their own

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
Two-year grant of $900,000 toward support of the international security studies program

National Academy of Sciences
Eighteen-month grant of $150,000 toward trilateral and bilateral meetings of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control with its Russian and Chinese counterparts

National Academy of Sciences
One-year grant of $200,000 for a project on Russian-American cooperation in countering terrorism

National Security Archive Fund, Inc.
Two-year grant of $575,000 toward support for the Russia and Former Soviet Union Initiative

Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
Two-year grant of $363,200 for a project to develop and implement U.S.-Russian initiatives to address proliferation threats in Russia's nuclear cities

Stanford University
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward an initiative to reinvigorate the study of the social sciences through distance learning at Russian universities

Henry L. Stimson Center
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a project to educate policy makers on security issues in the 21st century



STRENGTHENINING U.S. DEMOCRACY

American Humanics, Inc.
One-year grant of $85,000 toward strengthening a national network of higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations to prepare and certify undergraduates interested in careers in the nonprofit sector

Brown University
Three-year grant of $900,000 toward Campus Compact's national initiative to encourage higher education institutions to integrate civic engagement education and practices into their missions

Compumentor Project
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward TechSoup, a technology website for nonprofit organizations

Democracy 21 Education Fund
One-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward public outreach and DISSEMINATION of its study on strengthening the Federal Election Commission

University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc.
Eleven-month grant of $25,000 toward an international roundtable on the impact of terrorism on global civil society and democracy

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Inc.
Two-year grant of $28,200 toward membership support in 2002 and 2003

University of Pennsylvania
Five-month grant of $25,000 for development of an index to rank states on the accuracy, accessibility, and fairness of their voting systems

Project Pericles, Inc.
One-year grant of $250,000 as one-time funding toward a pilot project to support ten institutions of higher education to integrate civic engagement education and practices into their missions by encouraging participatory citizenship among students, faculty and administration

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

City University of New York
One-year grant of $40,000 toward planning public education and outreach activities commemorating the accomplishments of Ralph J. Bunche on the 100th anniversary of his birth

Harvard University
Six-month grant of $20,000 toward DISSEMINATION of a paper on women's participation in post-Taliban Afghanistan based on Afghan culture and the teachings of Islam

CARNEGIE SCHOLARS

David Edwards
Nineteen-month grant of $98,035 for a project entitled “Civil Society and Terrorism in Afghanistan”

Erin Jenne
Two-year grant of $81,893 for a project entitled “Europe's Long Struggle with Ethnic Conflict: From the League of Nations to the European Union”

Carol Lancaster
One-year grant of $75,750 for a project entitled “Fifty Years of Foreign Aid: An Analytical History”

Glenn Loury
Twenty-month grant of $100,000 for a project entitled “Color-Blind Affirmative Action: Assessing the Trade-off between Efficiency and Representativeness in College Admissions in a World without Racial Preferences”

Uday Mehta
Eighteen-month grant of $100,000 for a project entitled “Constitutional Configurations of the Past: A Comparative Study of India, Israel, South Africa and the U.S.”

Rajan Menon
One-year grant of $100,000 for a project entitled “Islam and the Politics, Foreign Policy, and National Security of the Russian Federation”

Sharyn O'Halloran
Fourteen-month grant of $100,000 for a project entitled “More than the License Plates: Majority-Minority Voting Districts and Representative Democracy”

Adolph Reed
Fourteen-month grant of $96,442 for a project entitled “Race in American Life: What It Is, What It Isn't/How It Works, How It Doesn't”

James Robinson
Thirty-month grant of $100,000 for a project entitled “Understanding the Institutional Determinants of Comparative Development”

Ian Roxborough
Two-year grant of $99,318 for a project entitled “Diagnosing New Dangers: A Sociology of Military Strategy and Threat Assessment”

Richard Shweder
Twenty-two month grant of $100,000 for a project entitled “When Cultures Collide: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies”

ANONYMOUS $10 MILLION TO 137 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Alliance for the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
One-year grant of $100,000

American Folk Art Museum
One-year grant of $100,000

American Museum of the Moving Image
One-year grant of $100,000

American Music Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

American Place Theatre, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio
One-year grant of $100,000

Anthology Film Archives
One-year grant of $25,000

Art in General, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Artists Space, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

ArtsConnection, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Asian American Arts Alliance
One-year grant of $25,000

Atlantic Theater Company
One-year grant of $100,000

Ballet Hispanico of New York
One-year grant of $100,000

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Bargemusic Ltd.
One-year grant of $75,000

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Boys Choir of Harlem, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Bronx County Historical Society
One-year grant of $50,000

Bronx Museum of the Arts
One-year grant of $75,000

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corp.
One-year grant of $100,000

Brooklyn Children's Museum
One-year grant of $100,000

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
One-year grant of $75,000

Brooklyn Historical Society
One-year grant of $100,000

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Castillo Cultural Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Center for Arts Education, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Chamber Music America, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Children's Museum of Manhattan
One-year grant of $100,000

Circle in the Square Theatre School, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

City Center
One-year grant of $100,000

City Lore, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
One-year grant of $75,000

Creative Time, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Dancing In The Streets, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Dia Center for the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Ensemble Studio Theatre, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Four Way Books
One-year grant of $25,000

H.T. Dance Company, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Harlem School of the Arts
One-year grant of $75,000

Harlem Textile Works
One-year grant of $25,000

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Historic House Trust of New York City, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art (HERE)
One-year grant of $50,000

Hospital Audiences, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

International Print Center New York
One-year grant of $25,000

Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

John A. Noble Collection
One-year grant of $25,000

Jose Limon Dance Foundation
One-year grant of $75,000

King Manor Association of Long Island, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
One-year grant of $75,000

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co., Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Museum for African Art
One-year grant of $100,000

Museum of Jewish Heritage - Living Memorial to the Holocaust
One-year grant of $100,000

Museum of the City of New York
One-year grant of $100,000

National Choral Council, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

National Dance Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

New 42nd Street, Inc. / New Victory Theater
One-year grant of $100,000

New Museum of Contemporary Art
One-year grant of $100,000

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

New York Hall of Science
One-year grant of $100,000

New York Historical Society
One-year grant of $100,000

New York Shakespeare Festival
One-year grant of $100,000

New York Studio School of Drawing Painting & Sculpture, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Open Channels NY, Inc. (Dixon Place)
One-year grant of $25,000

Orpheon, Inc./The Little Orchestra Society
One-year grant of $100,000

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Paper Bag Players, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation
One-year grant of $100,000

Performance Space 122, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Poets & Writers, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Poets House, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Public Art Fund, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Publicolor, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Queens Botanical Garden Society, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Queens College Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Queens Council on the Arts, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Queens Museum of Art
One-year grant of $100,000

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Signature Theatre Company
One-year grant of $75,000

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and
Bedford-Stuyvesant History
One-year grant of $25,000

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000

Spanish Theatre Repertory Ltd.
One-year grant of $100,000

Staten Island Botanical Garden, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Staten Island Children's Museum
One-year grant of $75,000

Staten Island Historical Society, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
One-year grant of $75,000

Staten Island Zoological Society, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Studio in a School Association
One-year grant of $100,000

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Symphony Space, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Target Margin Theater
One-year grant of $25,000

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
One-year grant of $75,000

Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Theatre for the New City
One-year grant of $50,000

Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Town Hall Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

UrbanGlass New York Contemporary Glass Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Wave Hill, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Women's Project & Productions
One-year grant of $75,000

Wooster Group, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

World Music Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $75,000

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000

Young Playwrights, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000

21ST CENTURY FUND

Boston University
Eight-month grant of $100,000 for the WBUR Group radio stations to support programming on Islam and foreign policy

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Eight-month grant of $500,000 for Channel Thirteen/WNET New York's expenses related to restoration of transmission and broadcast capabilities, website enhancement and programming

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
One-year grant of $250,000 for reporting by The NewsHour from countries involved in different aspects of the war on terrorism

National Public Radio, Inc.
One-year grant of $250,000 toward programming on the aftermath of September 11 and the war on terrorism

WNYC Radio
One-year grant of $500,000 toward rebuilding organizational capacity and strengthening programming in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001