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Carnegie Newsline February 1, 2001

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the February 1, 2001 Board Meeting.

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EDUCATION

Aspen Institute, Inc.
Two-year grant of $466,500 toward support of the urban high school reform project

Boston University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward an early literacy development initiative

Education Trust, Inc.
Thirty-month grant of $1,000,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on the achievement and opportunity gaps in American education

Exploratorium
Forty-two month grant of $471,400 toward DISSEMINATION of a model teacher induction program

Institute for Student Achievement, Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward strategic planning for the Institute for Student Achievement, Inc.

National Black Child Development Institute, Inc.
Seven-month grant of $25,000 for a research meeting on the causes of reading problems among disadvantaged African American children

National Center on Education and the Economy
Eleven-month grant of $700,000 toward the launch and implementation of the National Institute for School Leadership

New Visions for Public Schools, Inc.
Five-year grant of $10,000,000 toward support of the New Century High Schools Consortium for New York City

New York City Partnership Foundation, Inc.
Three-year grant of $900,000 toward evaluation of an initiative to improve underperforming urban school districts

Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
Two-year grant of $439,200 for a public engagement campaign to improve teacher quality

RAND Corporation
Eighteen-month grant of $476,500 for research and DISSEMINATION on the practice and potential of measuring student learning as an indicator of teacher effectiveness

Stone Lantern Films Inc.
One-year grant of $225,000 toward post-production and outreach activities for a documentary series on the history of American public education

Tides Center
Six-month grant of $25,000 for a research project examining the relationship between public values and social policy for young children

University of Washington
Thirty-month grant of $490,200 toward support of the Strengthening and Sustaining Teachers project



INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Association of African Universities
Nine-month grant of $25,000 toward the 10th AAU General Conference

Association of Commonwealth Universities
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward participation by African university executives in a conference on global issues in higher education

University of Dar Es Salaam
Six-month grant of $25,000 for planning a scholarship program for undergraduate women

Forum for African Women Educationalists
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward preparing a presentation on enhancing opportunities for women in higher education at the Association of African University's tenth general conference

Makerere University
Three-month grant of $25,000 for planning a scholarship program for undergraduate women



INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

American Association for the Advancement of Science
One-year grant of $25,000 toward developing alternative career options for Russian scientists in the closed nuclear cities

Aspen Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $482,000 toward support of the international activities of the Congressional Program

Bard College
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward faculty and curriculum development at Smolny College in Russia

University of California, Los Angeles
Two-year grant of $312,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on the effects of globalization on self-determination

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Two-year grant of $900,000 toward the Carnegie Moscow Center

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward a project on nonproliferation

Center for Defense Information, Inc.
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward the organization's institutional and program development

Center for Media and Security, Ltd.
Two-year grant of $102,200 toward forums for journalists on defense and international security

Eurasia Foundation Inc.
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward support of the Economics Education and Research Consortium

Georgia Tech Foundation Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a meeting on security issues in Northeast Asia

Henry L. Stimson Center
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the Security for a New Century project

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Research Centre
One-year grant of $500,000 toward research on norms and protocols of intervention and self-determination for an international commission on intervention and state sovereignty

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Two-year grant of $900,000 toward support of the Security Studies Program

Moscow School of Political Studies
Two-year grant of $230,000 toward a project to strengthen democratic institutions and civil society in Russia

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Two-year grant of $550,000 toward academic fellowships for Russian scholars

Pennsylvania State University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward strengthening the linkages between Russian academia and the private sector

Santa Clara University
Three month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on secession and international law

Southern Methodist University
One-year grant of $20,500 for a conference entitled "Politics and Scholarship - Knowledge and Power, 1880-1922"

United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union
Two-year grant of $1,000,000 toward support of the Basic Research and Higher Education Program

University of Waterloo
Three-year grant of $177,700 for research and DISSEMINATION of globalization's role in the peaceful management of self-determination disputes

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Three-year grant of $460,100 As a final grant toward a program on conflict prevention

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Four month grant of $25,000 for preparatory work for a project on conflict prevention

Wilton Park
Three month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on missile defense, deterrence and arms control

Yale University
Three-year grant of $445,500 for a project to explore the nature and scale of threats to self-determination posed by globalization



SPECIAL PROJECTS

Artists Rights Foundation
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward planning a middle/high school curriculum that incorporates film in traditional subject areas

Democracy 21 Education Fund
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward support

Greenlining Institute
One-year grant of $25,000 for a conference on campaign financing and its impact on low-income and minority communities

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
One-year grant of $20,000 toward research and DISSEMINATION of a book on the formation of the legal concept of genocide

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward training state and local news media on campaign financing issues

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Six-month grant of $253,000 for a joint project with the California Institute of Technology to plan the development of new voting technologies and systems

National Voting Rights Institute
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward support

New York Fair Elections Project, Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on campaign finance reform in New York State

Public Campaign
Four month grant of $25,000 for institutional development

Tides Center
One-year grant of $25,000 as a final grant toward a national media campaign on citizen participation in the 2000 elections

United Nations office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
One-year grant of $500,000 toward engaging youth to help plan and participate in the 2001 United Nations' World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance