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Carnegie
Newsline February 2000
The
following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the
Trustees at the February 1, 2000 Board Meeting.
Further
descriptions of the grants are available as PDF files. Click
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Contents:
EDUCATION
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Child
Care Action Campaign
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward planning a campaign on the importance
of early childhood literacy for child care and preschool educators
Committee
for Economic Development
Four-month grant of $25,000 for a planning meeting on financing
early childhood education and care
Learning
Matters
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a television series and reporting
about education reform
National
Academy of Sciences
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a workshop and report on preparing
Ph.D.-level scientists for careers in secondary school teaching
National
Association for the Education of Young Children
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward the redesign of a professional
accreditation system for early childhood care and education programs
Recruiting
New Teachers
Twenty-nine month grant of $235,000 toward a national study of community
college career corridors for elementary and secondary teacher recruitment
and preparation
Replication
and Program Strategies
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward a project on replicating successful
early childhood programs, held in cooperation with the National
Center for Children in Poverty of Columbia University
Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
One-year grant of $85,000 for a national meeting of urban secondary
school teachers and faculty members in the liberal arts at research
universities
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
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Aspen
Institute
One-year grant of $602,000 toward support of the international activities
of the Congressional program
University
of Bradford
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward a project on preventing the proliferation
of biological weapons
British
American Security Information Council
Nine-month grant of $14,000 for a research project on the Verification
Protocol of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Center
for Strategic and International Studies
Eighteen-month grant of $100,000 for a project on political Islam
in Russia
University
of Denver
Eighteen-month grant of $125,000 toward a joint project with the
International Peace Academy on self-determination, security and
the United Nations
Federation
of American Scientists Fund
Two-year grant of $212,000 for the Working Group on Biological Weapons
Verification
Financial
Services Volunteer Corps
Two-month grant of $25,000 for planning a multidisciplinary study
of the relationship between the security and economic problems of
Russia
Financial
Services Volunteer Corps
Ten-month grant of $250,000 for a study of Russia's security, economic
and banking crises
George
Washington University
Three-month grant of $18,400 for planning a study group on state-building
in Russia
George
Washington University
Ten-month grant of $250,000 toward a study group on state-building
in Russia
Harvard
University
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward the Women Waging Peace Initiative
Harvard
University
Eight-month grant of $25,000 as a final grant toward a working group
on Israeli-Palestinian relations
Harvard
University
Two-year grant of $120,100 toward the Harvard Sussex Program on
the global elimination of biological and chemical weapons
Hunter
College of the City University of New York
One-year grant of $15,000 toward research and writing by Sumit Ganguly
on the Indo-Pakistani conflict
Institute
for Eastwest Studies
Six-month grant of $24,000 for the translation into Russian of published
volumes on Russia's security environment on its western, southern
and eastern boundaries
Johns
Hopkins University
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward planning a project on issues
of water scarcity in South Asia
National
Bureau of Asian Research
Ten-month grant of $250,000 for a study of social cohesion in Russia
Overseas
Development Council
One-year grant of $73,500 toward a joint project with Rice University
on U.S. national interests in ethnic conflicts and other forms of
civil war
Pennsylvania
State University
Three-year grant of $25,000 toward publication in English of the
complete memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev
Ploughshares
Fund
Five-month grant of $24,000 toward a project on Y2K preparedness
and emergency response in Russia
Ploughshares
Fund
Two-year grant of $25,000 toward the Peace and Security Funders
Group
Social
Science Research Council
Three-year grant of $300,000 toward a project on cooperative security
in Northeast Asia
Henry
L. Stimson Center
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward the project on chemical and biological
weapons nonproliferation
Henry
L. Stimson Center
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a project on South Asia
University
of Sussex
Two-year grant of $129,900 toward the Harvard Sussex Program on
the global elimination of biological and chemical weapons
Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars
Five-month grant of $21,500 for planning a study on political democratization
and economic reform in Russia
Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ten-month grant of $250,000 toward a study of political democratization
and economic reform in Russia
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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University
of Zimbabwe
Two-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward a science and
technology policy dialogue in Zimbabwe
DEMOCRACY/SPECIAL
PROJECTS
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Article
19, the International Centre Against Censorship
One-year grant of $25,000 toward establishing an interactive Web
site
Carnegie
Institution of Washington
One-month grant of $25,000 toward a program to improve science,
mathematics and technology education for children in public elementary
schools in the District of Columbia
Center
for Responsive Politics
Three-year grant of $450,000 toward support
Children's
Television Workshop
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward an international symposium to
evaluate a joint Israeli/Palestinian production of "Sesame Street"
Council
on Foreign Relations
Twelve-month grant of $250,000 toward a program on economics and
national security for young scholars
French-American
Foundation
Twelve-month grant of $20,000 toward conference expenses and development
of a program on aging workers' issues
Hunter
College of the City University of New York
Twelve-month grant of $25,000 toward a model project of the Brookdale
Center on Aging to obtain a complete count of the elderly in the
2000 Census
Iowa
Citizen Action Network Education Foundation
Twelve-month grant of $20,000 toward a joint public education project
with the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance on campaign financing
Midwest
States Center
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a seminar for the news media on
campaign financing
National
Endowment for the Humanities
Twenty-seven month grant of $1,000,000 toward support of a core
collection of works by American authors for rural and small public
libraries in the United States
National
Urban League
Three-year grant of $750,000 as a final grant toward support
Native
American Rights Fund
Three-year grant of $450,000 as a final grant toward support
University
of Pennsylvania
Eighteen-month grant of $300,000 toward research by the Annenberg
School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center
on political discourse and issue advocacy advertising
United
States Hispanic Leadership Institute
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward support
William
C. Velasquez Institute
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward support
Carnegie
Corporation of New York is a philanthropic foundation created by
Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion
of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States.
Its charter was later amended to permit the use of funds for the
same purposes in certain countries that are or were members of the
British overseas Commonwealth. The Corporation's basic endowment
was $135 million; the market value of its assets was approximately
$1.7 billion as of September 30, 1999.
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