Carnegie Newsline December 2, 2004

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the December 2, 2004 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $573,000 for the Congressional Program on Education

New York University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $340,000 toward an analysis of cost and performance in small and large New York City high schools

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward the second phase of a multidisciplinary educational leadership development program

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Twenty-seven-month grant of $350,000 toward a research study of causal effects of value-added assessment on educators and student outcomes

Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY
Eighteen-month grant of $500,000 for a high school leadership development program

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Three-year grant of $300,000 toward research on teacher licensure tests and student achievement

International Peace and Security

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $550,000 toward a project on biological weapons threat reduction

Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $302,000 for research and publication on nontraditional security by the European University at St. Petersburg

Mercy Corps, Portland, OR
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward a project on strengthening human capital in the former Soviet Union

Strengthening U.S. Democracy

Alliance For Justice, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward its public education efforts among funders on supporting advocacy

Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward support

Common Cause Education Fund, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward its messaging and communications strategies around public financing of elections

Equal Justice Society, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $20,000 toward filing an amicus curiae brief in campaign spending limit cases before the Supreme Court

Grantmakers for Education, Portland, OR
One-year grant of $1,000 for 2004 membership support

University of Maryland Foundation, Inc., Adelphi, MD
One-year grant of $50,000 toward randomized field experiments on mobilizing voters in the 2004 elections

University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
One-year grant of $50,000 for a study of voting technology and ballot design

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
One-year grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward the 2004 National Election Survey

Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a national examination of immigration policy

NALEO Educational Fund, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Two-year grant of $375,000 toward its immigrant civic education project

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Inc., Washington, DC
Five-month grant of $20,000 for exit polling on the impact of Asian American voters in the November 2004 elections

National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO
One-year grant of $50,000 toward its immigrant policy project

N Power, Seattle, WA
Three-year grant of $150,000 toward an evaluation of technology capacity-building efforts in the nonprofit sector

Proteus Fund, Inc., Amherst, MA
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward support of its state-level campaign finance reform grantmaking program

Public Interest Projects, New York, NY
One-year grant of $550,000 toward a funder collaborative on immigrant civic integration

Tufts University, Medford, MA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an international conference of university presidents on the role of higher education in encouraging civic participation

The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward expansion of a national nonprofit data collection and analysis system

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward research and dissemination of a study on the impact of public service announcements on voter turnout

Special Opportunities Fund

The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $11,000 for a convening on creating new dialogues between the U.S. and the Muslim world

Council on Foundations, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $70,900 as one-time support toward advocacy on public policy issues related to private foundations

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Four-month grant of $50,000 for a project on developing bipartisan solutions for urban school reform

Japan Center for International Exchange, New York, NY
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the role of philanthropy in post-World War II U.S.-Japan relations

Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $35,000 toward administrative costs of the Next Generation Venture Fund, a preparatory program for college-bound students from underrepresented communities

National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The U.S.A., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 for examining its modules of interfaith dialogues in the United States

New York Community Trust, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward the Fund for New Citizens, a funder collaborative focusing on immigrants in New York City

Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Inc., Middlebury, VT
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the Arab Initiatives Advisory Committee

Supreme Court Historical Society, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $43,000 toward a model New York City training program for public high school teachers on the Supreme Court, the U.S. Constitution, and the judiciary