Carnegie Newsline April 8, 2004

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the April 8, 2004 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

American Council on Education, Washington, DC Eighteen-month grant of $135,000 for a collaborating project with disciplinary associations on internationalization in U.S. postsecondary education

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc., Spartanburg, SC
One-year grant of $200,000 toward Schools That Work, a documentary film on urban school reform

International Reading Association, Newark, DE
Six-month grant of $25,000 for the development of standards and certification for middle school literacy coaches

KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the Ohio Department of Education's work to transform urban high schools

People and Stories - Gente y Cuentos, Inc., Trenton, NJ
One-year grant of $24,000 one-time funding for the expansion of a reading and discussion program designed to provide access to literature for economically disadvantaged youth

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Eight-month grant of $41,500 toward African participation in a higher education management training seminar for women

The Leadership Foundation, Washington, DC
Twenty-month grant of $50,000 toward support of two African higher education fellows

National Council for Tertiary Education, Accra, Ghana
Eighteen-month grant of $207,400 one-time funding toward establishing a secretariat for Ghana's Council of Vice Chancellors and developing its business and activity plans

Tides Center, San Francisco, CA
Two-year grant of $50,000 for Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group membership dues

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
Two-year grant of $269,000 toward research and writing on the impact of scientific and technological developments on the control of biological weapons

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Two-year grant of $300,000 for the creation and implementation of a program on biological weapons threats and policy

Canadian Polar Commission, Ottawa, ONT, Canada
Ten-month grant of $36,000 as a final grant toward an international conference on arctic and circumpolar issues

Center for Policy Studies in Russia, Monterey, CA
Two-year grant of $285,900 as a final grant toward institutional support

Federation of American Scientists Fund, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward a project to strengthen the link between the biological research and security policy communities

Georgia Tech Foundation Inc., Atlanta, GA
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward the 2004 Sam Nunn Policy Forum on Bioterrorism Preparedness

Internews Network, Arcata, CA
Seven-month grant of $25,000 one time funding toward a project on building networks in the South Caucasus

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $25,000 for meetings to develop a biosecurity issues initiative

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

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $325,000 toward unofficial, trilateral dialogue on South Asian security issues

US Pugwash, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $335,800 toward multilateral dialogue on South Asian security issues

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

Action Without Borders, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward Idealist.org, a human resources website for nonprofits and nonprofit job-seekers

Democracy Matters Institute, Hamilton, NY
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward its campus coordinator program

Fannie Lou Hamer Project, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI
Two-year grant of $120,000 as a final grant toward support

JEHT Foundation, New York, NY
Eighteen-month grant of $200,000 toward a strategic communications project of the Right to Vote Campaign, which seeks to remove the barriers to voting faced by people with felony convictions

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
Six-month grant of $15,000 toward marketing and distribution of a resource guide for new immigrants in New York City

National Organization on Disability, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 for survey research on barriers to electoral engagement in the disability community

North Carolina Center for Voter Education, Raleigh, NC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a public education campaign to promote public awareness of statewide judicial campaign financing reform in North Carolina

Philanthropic Research, Inc., Williamsburg, VA
One-year grant of $200,000 toward support for GuideStar, a national database of nonprofit organizations

Philanthropic Research, Inc., Williamsburg, VA
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward modernizing the New York State Charities Bureau

Philanthropy Roundtable, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $2,500 toward membership support in 2004

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 for a study on the role of local organizations in encouraging the political incorporation of immigrants

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Trustees Of Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Two-year grant of $119,900 toward a public education project on religious tolerance in America

Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
Five-month grant of $25,000 one-time funding for a symposium on developments in biology and evolution in honor of Maxine F. Singer's presidency of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Constitutional Court Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward support of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

International Center For Transitional Justice Inc., New York, NY
Seven-month grant of $50,000 toward a workshop on human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $200,000 toward public education activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education

United Nations, New York, NY
One-year grant of $250,000 one-time funding toward its High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change