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Carnegie
Newsline June 12, 2003
The
following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the
Trustees at the June 12, 2003 Board Meeting.
Contents:
EDUCATION
Academy
for Educational Development, Inc.
Three-year grant of $6,500,000 toward Teachers for a New Era: a
Corporation initiative to reform and improve the education of teachers
Aspen
Institute, Inc.
Two-year grant of $509,700 toward strengthening pathways for all
students from high school to post-secondary education
Baruch
College Fund
One-year grant of $460,000 for a leadership development program
for small high schools
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
Three-month appropriation of $100,000 for research and analytic
support for the Carnegie Advisory Council on Reading to Learn
Center
for Applied Linguistics
Thirty-month grant of $526,700 toward academic literacy through
sheltered instruction for secondary English-language learners
University
of Colorado Foundation, Inc.
Twenty-two month grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward enhancing
liberal arts education across diverse institutions
Council
for Aid to Education
One-year grant of $400,000 toward a longitudinal study of an assessment
system to measure the “value added” of a liberal arts
education
National
Association for Bilingual Education
Eighteen-month grant of $400,000 toward a project to integrate the
needs of high school English-language learners into district efforts
to reform high schools
National
Commission on Teaching and America's Future
Two-year grant of $806,600 for a national summit on high-quality
teacher preparation, technical assistance to institutions, and follow-up
activities in partner states
National
Urban League, Inc.
One-year grant of $150,000 toward a strategic plan for community
engagement in adolescent literacy
Research
Foundation of the City University of New York
One-year grant of $50,000 for a policy symposium entitled “Children
and the Law in New York”
Northwestern
University
One-year grant of $273,800 toward a planning grant for a multidisciplinary
educational leadership development program
Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Fifteen-month grant of $250,000 toward support of its liberal arts
initiatives
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Association
of Commonwealth Universities
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward participation by African university
executives in the association's general conference
University
of Jos
Three-year grant of $2,000,000 toward institutional strengthening
and gender equity projects
Leadership
Foundation
Twenty-month grant of $35,000 for support of an African higher education
fellow
Obafemi
Awolowo University
Three-year grant of $2,000,000 toward institutional strengthening
and gender equity projects
Simmons
College
Three-month grant of $21,800 for a workshop on capacity building
for gender equity and institutional change in African universities
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
University
of Bradford
Six-month grant of $21,000 for research and writing on bioweapons
development and use from 1945 to the present
Center
for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Six-month grant of $50,000 for a project to heighten awareness of
biological weapons among policymakers
Center
for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
Two-year grant of $600,000 toward the Russia and Eurasia Program
Cornell
University
One-year grant of $25,000 for a workshop on the need for revising
international humanitarian law
Dwight
D. Eisenhower World Affairs Institute
One-year grant of $200,000 as one-time funding toward a project
to strengthen international consensus on a security regime for the
future uses of space
Harvard
University
One-year grant of $250,000 as a final grant for fellowships at the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs on international
security
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Two-year grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the “Cultures
of the Russian City”
Institute
for War & Peace Reporting
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a project on Afghan humanitarian
reporting and journalist training programs
International
Institute for Strategic Studies
One-year grant of $200,100 as a final grant toward international
security forums for Russian regions
National
Academy of Sciences
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward a program on enhancing bioscience
in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy
Princeton
University
Fourteen-month grant of $150,000 for a project to develop recommendations
for academia, industry and government regarding the management of
potential biological weapons agents
Princeton
University
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a project to apply case study
analysis of post-conflict “state-building” to emerging
challenges
Salzburg
Seminar in American Studies, Inc.
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward the Visiting Advisors Program
for Russia and other former Soviet States
United
States Civilian Research and Development Foundation
for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Two-year
grant of $1,000,000 toward the Basic Research and Higher Education
Program
STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY
Arab
Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Three-year grant of $300,000 toward providing technical assistance
to community based organizations serving Arab Americans
University
of California, Berkeley
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a study of the effect of post-voter
registration laws on voter turnout among immigrants, language and
racial minorities, and low-income voters
Common
Cause Education Fund
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward support
Independent
Sector
One-year grant of $50,000 toward the Electronic Data Initiative
for Nonprofits, a coalition effort to streamline the reporting,
management, and DISSEMINATION of nonprofit data through electronic
technology
Interaction:
American Council for Voluntary International Action, Inc.
Two-year grant of $250,000 for strengthening the measurement and
enforcement of management, governance, and operating standards among
nonprofits
International
Center in New York
One-year grant of $25,000 toward expansion and replication of its
English-language training program
Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a conference to examine trends
in civil rights law
Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, Inc.
Two-year grant of $175,000 toward public education and outreach
on implementation of the requirements of the Help America Vote Act
University
of Maryland Foundation, Inc.
Two-year grant of $820,000 toward the Center for Information and
Research on Civic Learning and Engagement's efforts to commission,
undertake and disseminate research on K-12 civic education
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
One-year grant of $273,200 for a joint project with the California
Institute of Technology to explore the challenges and opportunities
of Internet voting
National
Civic League of Colorado, Inc.
One-year grant of $15,000 toward a conference to convene and encourage
better collaboration between the electoral reform and civil rights
communities
National
Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Inc.
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward its naturalization, voter registration
and education outreach programs for African Americans and black
immigrants
National
Council of La Raza
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward its Latino naturalization, voter
registration and education project
National
Institute on Money in State Politics
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward support
National
Priorities Project
One-year grant of $25,000 toward promotion of its database, which
allows users to create customized, state-specific comparative tables
based on the federal budget
Nonprofit
Finance Fund
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward a field-building initiative
to help nonprofits understand capital structure and capitalization
and apply these principles as part of standard operating procedure
University
of Pennsylvania
One-year grant of $139,000 toward a model of the Fels Institute
of Government's voting index project and an educational program
for state and local voting officials
Public
Interest Projects
One-year grant of $250,000 toward immigrant civic integration in
the states
Tides
Center
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward a colloquium to share best practices
of voter registration/education techniques, coordinated by WomenVote,
in preparation for the 2004 elections
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
American
University of Beirut
One-year grant of $94,900 toward a program to promote understanding
between the United States and the Islamic world
Civicus:
World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Inc.
Two-year grant of $225,000 toward support
Community
Foundation for the National Capital Region
One-year grant of $300,000 toward support of the administrative
costs of the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries
Human
Rights Watch, Inc.
One-year grant of $200,000 toward support
Search
for Common Ground
One-year grant of $100,000 as one-time funding for strengthening
U.S.-Muslim relations and understanding through the Partners in
Humanity Initiative
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