Carnegie Newsline February 1999

Grants and Appropriations Approved by the Trustees at the February 2, 1999 Board Meeting

Contents:

Education
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Democracy and Special Projects
Cross-Program

EDUCATION

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Eight-month grant of $150,000 for the teacher education technical assistance fund

Children’s Defense Fund
Three-year grant of $700,000 as a final grant toward support

Joy G. Dryfoos
Eighteen-month grant of $50,000 for research and writing on comprehensive youth programs

Families and Work Institute
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a project to develop business, media, and family leadership on meeting the needs of young children

Aspen Institute
One-year grant of $650,000 toward support of the international activities of the Congressional Program

Brookings Institution
Two-year grant of $800,000 toward support of the Foreign Policy Studies Program

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Six-month grant of $25,000 for completion of a book on McGeorge Bundy’s role in policymaking on the Vietnam War

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward a project on nonproliferation

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Two-year grant of $800,000 toward the Carnegie Moscow Center

Harvard University
Seventeen-month grant of $300,000 toward a program on new approaches to Russian security

Human Rights Alliance
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support

University of Maryland, College Park
Nine-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the role of major unilateral concessions on negotiating conflict resolution

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Two-year grant of $800,000 toward support of the Security Studies Program

Moscow School of Political Studies
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward U.S. participation in seminars on democratic institutions and civil society

Ohio State University Research Foundation
One-year grant of $100,000 as a final grant toward a five-institution collaboration on the strategic and military aspects of the end of the Cold War

Stanford University
One-year grant of $100,000 as a final grant for research and writing by Alexander L. George on international relations

Africa Fund
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward promoting the involvement of state and municipal officials in U.S. policy toward Africa

Africa Policy Information Center
Two-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward support

International Federation of Women Lawyers, Kenya Chapter
Two-year grant of $100,000 as a final grant toward monitoring women’s rights in Kenya

International Forum for Social Sciences in Health
Three-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward support

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs¹
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward the Coordinated African Programme of Assistance on Services of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

William J. Brennan, Jr., Center for Justice
Three-year grant of $450,000 toward public education and technical assistance on constitutional, state, and local issues of campaign finance reform

Center for Governmental Studies
Three-year grant of $500,000 toward support of its resource center for state and local campaign finance reform and as a final grant toward development of online voter information services

Center for Public Integrity
Three-year grant of $450,000 toward support

Columbia University
Nineteen-month grant of $25,000 toward the convening by the Graduate School of Journalism of three conferences on the future of journalism education

National Voting Rights Institute
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward public education on state and local campaign finance reform

CROSS-PROGRAM

American Council of Learned Societies²
Four-year grant of $1,000,000 for fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences

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

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Three-year grant of $750,000 as a final grant toward support

City University of New York
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward an intellectual history of the United Nations

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 for the Basic Research and Higher Education Program

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward a needs assessment by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the humanities and social sciences in the new states of the former Soviet Union

¹This grant was approved at the October 8, 1998, board meeting.

²This grant was approved at the January 8, 1998, board meeting.