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Carnegie Newsline June 8, 2006

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the June 8, 2006 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

CAST Resources, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Fifteen-month grant of $298,500 toward teaching reading comprehension strategies on the Internet

Editorial Projects In Education, Inc., Bethesda, MD
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward a conference on urban school reform

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc., Spartanburg, SC
Four-month grant of $20,200 for dissemination and outreach to educators of Making Schools Work, a documentary film on urban school reform that focused on ways to improve high schools

Forum for Education and Democracy, Amesville, OH
One-year grant of $50,000 for a planning grant

Good Shepherd Services, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward an independent evaluation of South Brooklyn Community High School's youth development model

International Reading Association, Newark, DE
Ten-month grant of $24,000 toward the development of curriculum materials to support Standards for Middle School and High School Literacy Coaches

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Two-year grant of $722,000 as a final grant toward expediting comprehension for English-language learners

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
One-year grant of $50,000 toward advancing adolescent literacy development in out-of-school time settings

Learning Matters, Inc., New York, NY
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward education coverage for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Three-year grant of $385,700 toward a study of teacher retention and student learning in urban Michigan districts

National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices, Washington, DC
Eleven-month grant of $50,000 for an orientation meeting for partners involved in developing state policies to promote adolescent literacy

NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a symposium to engage teacher leaders through teacher education associations to improve adolescent literacy

New York Community Trust, New York, NY
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support of the Donors' Education Collaborative, a group of New York City-based funders interested in school reform

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Thirteen-month grant of $38,600 toward a conference on the education of future history teachers

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Two-year grant of $25,000 toward research and publication of a book on the effects of the internationalization of higher education in Africa

University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Seven-month grant of $49,300 for African participation in a higher education management training seminar for women

University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Three-year grant of $2,496,215 toward a model university library system

Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 for improving educational advancement capacity at selected African universities

University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
One-year grant of $25,000 for strategic planning at the University's College of Education

South African Institute for Advancement, Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa
Six-month grant of $15,000 toward a development and fundraising workshop for women from African universities

University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a postgraduate diploma program in monitoring and evaluation methods

United Nations Development Programme, New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a documentary and media campaign to disseminate a UN study on conflict diamonds and the costs of war on African society

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $20,000 toward a meeting on transatlantic relations with Russia

University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
Two-year grant of $223,200 toward a series of international meetings and dialogues on preventing the hostile use of biology

The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $600,000 toward the Foreign Policy Studies program

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Two-year grant of $300,000 for a project to strengthen the link between the biological research and security policy communities

Center for Policy Studies in Russia, Monterey, CA
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward a training program on nonproliferationf for young specialists

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,400 toward a project on reforming U.S. and international post-conflict reconstruction efforts

Federation of American Scientists Fund, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward a project to strengthen the link between the biological research and security policy communities

International Crisis Group, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $375,000 toward research, analysis, dialogue, and dissemination on preventing state collapse

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $600,000 toward support of the Security Studies Program

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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

Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY
Two-year grant of $287,000 for research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on states at risk

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $325,000 toward a project on enhancing public security and the rule of law in post-conflict states at risk

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $200,000 as a final grant toward unofficial, trilateral dialogue on South Asian security issues

University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Two-year grant of $225,000 toward a project to develop an international agreement to criminalize the development, production or use of biological weapons

World Security Institute, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $130,000 as one-time grant toward evaluating the national interests of the United States and Russia toward post-Soviet Eurasia

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

ACORN Institute Inc., Washington, DC
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward education and mobilization of citizens displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to facilitate their participation in Louisiana's 2006 local, state, and national elections

Action Without Borders, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $125,000 as a final grant toward Idealist.org, a human resources web site for nonprofits and nonprofit job-seekers

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
Ten-month grant of $50,000 for a conference on the state of research on the U.S. voting system

American Institute for Social Justice, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $100,000 toward increasing voter participation among low-income and minority voters

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, Dearborn, MI
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward building a national network of community-based organizations serving Arab Americans

Boardsource, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 as a final grant toward support

Campaign Legal Center, Inc., Washington, DC
Five-month grant of $15,000 toward a conference on reforming redistricting

Center for Governmental Studies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
One-month grant of $5,000 toward travel costs for participants at a meeting on new campaign disclosure technologies

Coalition for DC Representation Education Fund, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support of DC Vote

Democracy South, Virginia Beach, VA
Two-month grant of $25,000 toward a regional training workshop on organizing nonpartisan civic engagement programs in the South

Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a study on the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy

Focus Project, Inc., Washington, DC
Ten-month grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward educating publicly-supported nonprofits on their advocacy rights

Fordham University, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a symposium on judicial selection in New York State

The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., Arlington, VA
Eight-month grant of $100,000 toward understanding young people's attitudes toward a wide range of social, economic, and political issues

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
One-year grant of $50,000 toward establishment and evaluation of the Philanthropy Incubator program at the Center on Philanthropy

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC
Two-month grant of $25,000 toward providing information to Louisiana voters to prevent disenfranchisement in the 2006 elections

National Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA
Nine-month grant of $15,000 toward promoting civic learning and ethical behavior in K-12 education

National Conference on Citizenship, Washington, DC
Six-month grant of $50,000 for a planning process to create an index of national civic health

National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward strengthening the capacity of state and local groups to promote immigrant access to identity documentation

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward the Fels Institute of Government's MyVote1 voter assistance, question, and complaint hotline

Pro Bono Net, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward the pilot phase of a web-based information and networking portal on immigrant legal issues

Pundit Productions Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $102,900 toward deepening and expanding its investigative and analytical reporting on the immigration debate and election issues relating to citizen engagement

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
One-year grant of $24,900 toward a study on the implications of immigrants' dual citizenship on their civic engagement in the United States

Strategic Concepts In Organizing And Policy Education, Los Angeles, CA
One-year grant of $200,000 toward developing alliances of community-based organizing networks in six states that will work to increase voter engagement in low-income communities

Tides Center, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 for Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group 2006 membership dues

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Brown University, Providence, RI
Nine-month grant of $25,000 for an ethnographic case study on the transnational experience

Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Four-month grant of $100,000 toward a conference on the value of an independent judiciary

MEM Associates, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward institutionalizing the Healthy Steps for Young Children program

New York University, New York, NY
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a study on improving Congressional performance in considering long-term policy reforms

DISSEMINATION

American University of Beirut, New York, NY
Three-month grant of $50,000 toward educating American journalists in issues of contemporary political Islam

Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corps, Baltimore, MD
Ten-month grant of $25,000 toward evaluation and dissemination of a volunteer program for retired and semi-retired adults

National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, Washington, DC
Eleven-month grant of $9,500 for an outreach campaign to promote an online journalism education toolbox

WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
Seven-month grant of $75,000 toward a fellowship program to train and mentor young journalists

ISLAM INITIATIVE

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a documentary on Averroes, a 12th century Muslim philosopher

HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, Washington, DC
One-month grant of $75,000 toward a conference to explore the state of the recovery of New Orleans in the context of historic and cultural heritage, and other activities in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina