Carnegie Newsline June 1999

Grants and Appropriations Approved by the Trustees at the June 10, 1999 Board Meeting

Contents:

Association of Youth Museums
Three-month grant of $20,000 toward a conference and DISSEMINATION of information on early learning research to children’s museums

Brown University
Two-year grant of $700,000 toward the Annenberg Institute’s Task Force on the Future of School Districts

Council of Chief State School Officers
Two-year grant of $450,000 as a final grant toward the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium

Editorial Projects in Education
Eighteen-month grant of $250,000 toward special reporting on school leadership and on an intellectual history of U.S. education in the twentieth century and its future

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

Teachers College, Columbia University
Three-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward the Fred M. Hechinger Institute on Education and the MediaTides Center
Four-month grant of $25,000 for a research project examining the relationship between public values and social policy for young children

WGBH Educational Foundation
Eighteen-month grant of $1,000,000 toward production and educational outreach for a public television series to promote young children’s literacy skills

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
Aspen Institute
One-year grant of $250,000 toward the Aspen Strategy Group

Harvard University
One-year grant of $310,000 toward programs with Russian military personnel and policymakers on foreign and security policies

Harvard University
One-year grant of $175,000 as a final grant toward research and writing on international security by William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter

Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Six-month grant of $15,000 toward the Balkan Crisis Report project

International Institute for Strategic Studies
Two-year grant of $320,000 toward the project on Russian military reform

International Research and Exchanges Board
Two-year grant of $800,000 for the Social Sciences and Humanities Network

National Bureau of Asian Research
One-year grant of $150,000 toward a project on the security implications of economic and political developments in the Russian Far East

National Endowment for Democracy
One-year grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward the International Forum for Democratic Studies

Stanford University
One-year grant of $175,000 as a final grant toward research and writing on international security by William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Akina Mama Wa Afrika
One-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward an African women’s leadership institute

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Twenty-month grant of $25,000 toward planning an issue of Daedalus on South Africa

Women’s Development Foundation
Two-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant for a policy development program for gender equality

DEMOCRACY
University of California, Berkeley
Fifteen-month grant of $50,000 toward a study of the impact of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act and other voter registration practices on voter turnout

Center for Investigative Reporting
Fifteen-month grant of $25,000 toward a documentary on the campaign financing of judicial elections

Committee for Economic Development
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward outreach and public education within the business community on campaign finance reform

Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward training workshops for local and regional journalists on campaign finance

SPECIAL PROJECTS
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
One-year grant of $500,000 toward a multicultural literacy project

Biblioteca Carnegie
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward the development of a young adult collection and outreach programs for young adults

Boston Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the expansion of literacy services at all branch libraries and the creation of neighborhood history centers in seven branch libraries

Brooklyn Public Library
Eighteen-month grant of $1,000,000 toward a reading program for children and core collections for English for speakers of other languages at every branch library

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
One-year grant of $500,000 toward a system-wide preservation and access project

Chicago Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the teen reading project

Cleveland Public Library
Eighteen-month grant of $500,000 toward a literacy project for young children

Denver Public Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward special acquisitions for foreign-language collections, enhancement of services to children, and augmentation of core collections

Detroit Public Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward a project for young adolescents

District of Columbia Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the expansion of library services on literacy, services to adolescents, and a special exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance

Enoch Pratt Free Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the expansion of youth services and foreign-language collectionsFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the enhancement and expansion of an after-school program

Houston Public Library
Twenty-six-month grant of $500,000 toward library programs for Hispanic users

Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the enhancement and expansion of foreign-language collections

Kansas City Public Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the expansion of the Books to Better Our Lives collection

Los Angeles Public Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the expansion of an after-school reading club for children

Miami-Dade Public Library System
One-year grant of $500,000 for the acquisition of foreign-language materials for immigrant populations

Minneapolis Public Library
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward services for immigrant families and students

New Orleans Public Library Foundation
Fifteen-month grant of $500,000 toward enhanced collections for young children, adolescents, and teenage parents

New York Public Library
Eighteen-month grant of $2,000,000 toward adult literacy projects, special acquisitions to strengthen core collections, and preservation of materials at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Newark Public Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward a citywide branch revitalization project

Queens Borough Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $1,000,000 toward enhanced special collections in the social sciences, math, and science and on diversity

San Antonio Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward enhanced library services to children

San Francisco Public Library
One-year grant of $500,000 toward an initiative to improve academic and job information available to adolescents

Seattle Public Library Foundation
One-year grant of $500,000 toward the enhancement and expansion of special collections of music and film for branch libraries

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Four-month grant of $70,000 for the fund for the preservation and DISSEMINATION of the oral history of Carnegie Corporation

Columbia University
Seven-month grant of $25,000 for an oral history of the activities of Carnegie Corporation of New York in South Africa

Council on Foundations
Three-year grant of $133,800 toward membership support in 1999, 2000, and 2001

Images and Education
One-year grant of $175,000 as a final grant toward the Culture of Peace program teaching non-violent conflict resolution techniques to school children in Jordan

Independent Sector
Two-year grant of $20,500 toward membership support in 1999 and 2000

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a history of African Americans at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pacific Council on International Policy
Three-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward support

Tides Center
One-year grant of $75,000 toward its Center for Y2K and Society

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