Carnegie Newsline February 5, 2004

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the February 5, 2004 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
One-year planning grant of $50,000 for design and initial implementation of a study on the post-secondary experiences of students in the Chicago Public Schools

Council for Basic Education, Washington, DC
Four-month grant of $49,000 for a study on the effect of the No Child Left Behind Act on access to liberal arts education

James B. Hunt, Jr., Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
One-year grant of $399,300 as one-time funding toward the annual governors’ education symposium

Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
Eighteen-month grant of $350,000 for expediting comprehension and English-language literacy

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Two-year grant of $405,900 for the development and DISSEMINATION of tools to advance the practices of literacy coaches to support subject matter comprehension instruction

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward a strategic plan to connect research to education practice and policy

New York Institute for Special Education, Bronx, NY
Eleven-month grant of $50,000 for the design of a secondary-school framework for the Cornerstone National Literacy Initiative program

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Two-year grant of $552,200 toward the Institute for Learning’s disciplinary literacy professional development system

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a symposium and workshops on teaching engineering as a liberal art

Research for Action, Philadelphia, PA
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward an evaluation of Philadelphia’s mixed-model approach to urban school reform

Southern Center for International Studies, Inc., Atlanta, GA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an independent evaluation of the center’s university-based teacher-training program

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
One-year grant of $25,000 for DISSEMINATION of information and lessons emanating from the Organizing for Educational Excellence project

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Three-year grant of $2,000,000 toward support of institutional strengthening, including gender equity projects

Boston University, Boston, MA
Six-month grant of $50,000 for support of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University

City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Three-year grant of $2,000,000 toward the creation of a model reference library in Cape Town

Council on Higher Education, Pretoria, South Africa
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward implementation of a national quality assurance framework for the South African higher education system

University of Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Three-year grant of $2,968,300 for implementation of institutional transformation

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL
Four-month grant of $42,600 toward professional training needs analysis for university libraries in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda

Library and Information Association of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Three-year grant of $499,500 for the establishment of a database and training unit

Msunduzi Municipality, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Three-year grant of $2,028,600 toward creation of a model junior reference library in Pietermaritzburg

New York University, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $187,400 toward a position at the Steinhardt School of Education to facilitate the work of the foundation partnership to strengthen African universities

South African Bibliographic and Information Network, Centurion, South Africa
One-year grant of $33,200 to provide technical training to South African libraries

University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward participation by representatives of selected African universities in a conference on open source software

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $554,000 toward the international activities of the Congressional Program

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Two-year grant of $325,000 for a multilateral dialogue on North Korea

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $250,000 as one-time funding toward an initiative to create and promote an international strategy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $312,000 toward the establishment of the American Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $25,000 for a project on cooperative threat reduction in North Korea

International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom
Two-year grant of $425,000 toward development of policy options addressing the nexus of weapons of mass destruction and failed states

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Fifteen-month grant of $220,000 for a project on U.S.-Russian challenges in countering urban terrorism

National Committee on American Foreign Policy, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward a multilateral dialogue on North Korea

Wilton Park, West Sussex, United Kingdom
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the role of the United Nations Security Council

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, VA
Eighteen-month grant of $175,000 as one-time funding toward the first phase of a project to develop and evaluate civic education materials for non-college bound high school youth

William J. Brennan, Jr., Center for Justice, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward support of its democracy program

Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward research and public education on competition, partisanship and congressional redistricting

Campaign Finance Institute, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 as one-time funding toward its presidential public financing project

Campaign Legal Center, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $9,500 toward a conference on the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on McConnell v. FEC, which challenged the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002

Center for Community Change, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $250,000 toward its civic participation work among low-income immigrants in the states

Center for Governmental Studies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward its campaign finance and media reform activities

Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward support of its domestic program

Council for Excellence in Government, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $8,000 toward research that will improve tools designed to help candidates reach out to younger voters

Council for Excellence in Government, Washington, DC
Three-year grant of $1,000,000 toward establishment of a national coalition that advocates for implementation of the policy recommendations outlined in the Civic Mission of Schools report

Democracy North Carolina, Carrboro, NC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward research, public education, and advocacy on judicial campaign financing reform in North Carolina

Earth Day Network Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $200,000 toward the Campaign for Communities’ work with low-propensity voters

Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a project to assess immigrant worker center models

Fordham University, New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a commission to promote public confidence in judicial elections in New York State

Greenlining Institute, San Francisco, CA
Two-year grant of $150,000 as one-time funding for analyzing the impact of the state-based voter education and mobilization component of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

Institute of Government Foundation, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
Two-year grant of $420,000 toward the North Carolina Civic Education Consortium

Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Fourteen-month grant of $15,000 for a project on Internet voting in rural communities

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a project to deepen Latino political involvement

North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research Inc., Raleigh, NC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward national DISSEMINATION of its election reform project findings

N Power, Seattle, WA
One-year grant of $18,000 for evaluation of the impact of technology and technology capacity building services in the nonprofit sector

Public Agenda Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward Clarifying Issues, an interactive source of voter education information

Reform Institute Inc., Alexandria, VA
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward its democracy and elections program

Rock the Vote Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a CNN forum on youth and voting

Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a pilot project that will provide voting-age high school and college students with an opportunity to research issues and ask questions of the presidential primary candidates

Social Science Research Council, New York, NY
One-year grant of $150,000 as one-time funding toward a project on the challenge of migration within the context of national security

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a series of transatlantic dialogues

Paul Robeson Foundation Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the development and DISSEMINATION of public education materials on Paul Robeson’s legacy

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $10,000 toward an internship program for students of color with a commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism