Carnegie Newsline June 2001

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the June 14, 2001 Board Meeting.

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EDUCATION

American Educational Research Association
One-year grant of $24,900 toward a project to convene education experts to synthesize and disseminate existing empirical research on teacher preparation

Board of Control for Southern Regional Education
Three-year grant of $900,000 for strengthening the implementation of a comprehensive school reform design for high schools in urban districts

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Four-month grant of $200,000 for start-up costs and technical assistance associated with the Teachers for a New Era initiative
Center for Collaborative Education, Metro Boston, Inc.

Three-year grant of $900,000 toward a final grant to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of the 'Turning Points' model for comprehensive middle school reform

Council for Aid to Education
Eighteen-month grant of $350,000 toward a feasibility study on the development of an assessment system to measure the 'value added' of a liberal arts education

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Thirty-three-month grant of $477,800 toward evaluation of an alternative teacher certification program

National Head Start Association
Two-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward an early literacy training project utilizing distance learning technology

University of Pennsylvania
Three-year grant of $500,000 toward implementation of a university-school district leadership training center

SRI International
Forty-month grant of $1,168,800 for a national study to identify quality standards for alternative teacher certification programs

The After-School Corporation
Two-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward support for an evaluation of the New York City in-school after-school initiative by Policy Studies Associates

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of Cape Town
Five-year grant of $705,600 as a final grant for development of science and engineering capacity in selected African universities

City of Johannesburg Library and Information Services
Three-year grant of $500,400 for activities to increase literacy and reading enrichment programs for children and adolescents

Council on Higher Education
Thirty-month grant of $400,000 for one-time funding to design and implement a national quality assurance system for South African universities

University of Dar Es Salaam
Three-year grant of $1,000,000 for a scholarship program for undergraduate women

Department of Education, Republic of South Africa
One-year grant of $283,400 for one-time funding of a study to develop a national higher education information and application service

Durban Metropolitan Library Services
Three-year grant of $750,000 for activities to increase adult literacy and access to a community information database

Free State Provincial Library and Information Services
Three-year grant of $650,000 for activities to expand services, enhance collections for children and adults, and develop an electronic infrastructure

Makerere University
Three-year grant of $2,015,000 for institutional development

Makerere University
Three-year grant of $1,000,000 for a scholarship program for undergraduate women

Ministry of Education, Republic of South Africa
Three-year grant of $500,000 for one-time funding of a project to strengthen history pedagogy and enhance the status of history within the education system

Mpumalanga Provincial Library and Information Services
Three-year grant of $493,900 for activities to provide electronic networking and internet access to public libraries and bookmobiles

University of Natal-Durban
Forty-two-month grant of $1,120,700 toward one-time funding to establish the KwaZulu Natal Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking

University of Natal-Durban
Three-year grant of $467,100 for one-time funding of a science and mathematics teacher development project in the province of KwaZulu Natal

NBI Foundation, Inc.
Two-year grant of $499,700 for one-time funding of a project to improve the quality of South African schools by training school leaders and teachers in evaluation, management, and curriculum development, and providing in-service training for science and mathematics teachers

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipal Library Services
Three-year grant of $750,000 for activities to increase services for children, expand services in underserved areas, and train staff

Northern Cape Provincial Library and Information Services
Three-year grant of $666,500 for activities to increase literacy, preserve indigenous languages, enhance technology and train staff

Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support of a seminar on higher education and public policy

South African Universities’ Vice Chancellors Association
Two-year grant of $129,000 for one-time funding to develop the capacity of a quality assurance system for South African universities

University of Witwatersrand
Two-year grant of $500,000 for one-time funding to establish the University of Witwatersrand AIDS Research Institute

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

American Library Association
One-month grant of $25,000 for a workshop to strengthen library associations in the South Caucasus

American Society of International Law
One-year grant of $24,700 toward a project on effective humanitarian intervention

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
Two-year grant of $350,000 for a joint project with the College of William and Mary for research and DISSEMINATION on motives for nuclear weapons acquisition

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
Two-year grant of $680,000 toward a program on new approaches to Russian security

Eurasia Foundation, Inc.
Two-year grant of $560,000 for interdisciplinary research and training centers in the Caucasus

International Institute for Strategic Studies
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward international security forums for Russian regions

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (The World Conservation Union)
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward a forum to consider strategies to promote the widespread implementation of the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams

University of Michigan
Two-year grant of $400,000 for a joint project with the European University in St. Petersburg to foster the development of the social sciences in Russia's regional universities

Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation
One-year grant of $250,000 for U.S.-Russian dialogue on international security

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ten-month grant of $1,110,200 toward the creation of centers for advanced study and education in Russia

World Affairs Council of Northern California
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on globalization in the 21st centurySTRENGTHENING US DEMOCRACY

Alliance for Children and Families, Inc.
Nine-month grant of $25,000 for the development and assessment of a technology-based association management system for recently merged nonprofit organizations

American Forum
Ten-month grant of $25,000 for education of local news media, including editorial boards, on campaign finance issues

Advancement Project
One-year grant of $100,000 toward production and DISSEMINATION of policy reports on structural obstacles to electoral participation in low-income and minority communities

Aspen Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000 Toward DISSEMINATION of the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program's 'State of America's Nonprofit Sector' products

Brookings Institution
One-year grant of $20,000 toward DISSEMINATION of Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary, a discussion of the 2000 presidential election

ImpactOnline Inc.
One-year grant of $400,000 toward VolunteerMatch, an online service that matches potential volunteers and nonprofit organizations

Independent Sector
Two-year grant of $20,400 toward membership support in 2001 and 2002

Johns Hopkins University
One-year grant of $300,000 toward the start-up phase of a national research project that links nonprofit practitioners and scholars to improve nonprofit practice

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 for development of a fundraising plan

National Center for Nonprofit Boards
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward capacity-building programs and tools that will help small- and mid-sized nonprofits strengthen their board of directors

National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise Inc.
One-year grant of $10,000 toward a conference to explore approaches to economic decision-making by nonprofit organizations

National Institute of Money in State Politics
Two-year grant of $700,000 toward an evaluation of the institute's work, expanded marketing efforts, and general support

Public Agenda Foundation, Inc.
Fifteen-month grant of $378,300 for public opinion research and DISSEMINATION on immigrant attitudes toward civic participation

Search for Common Ground
Six-month grant of $15,000 toward establishing a dialogue between liberals and conservatives on national issues

Tides Center
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference coordinated by WomenVote to assess the success and challenges of nonprofit voter registration and voter education programs in 2000

Urban Institute
Eighteen-month grant of $293,000 for the creation of a standardized template that can be used to collect, synthesize, and disseminate empirical data and information about the value and contributions of the nonprofit sector across and within states

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Tides Center
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward one-time funding to establish a center for transitional justice