Carnegie Newsline March 3, 2005

The following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the Trustees at the March 3, 2005 board meeting.

Contents:

EDUCATION

American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 for development of a typology of evidence-based assessment strategies for teacher education programs

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a data retrieval system linking student achievement data to individual teachers

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $250,000 toward education policy seminars for congressional staff

Council of Independent Colleges, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward cooperation among colleges and universities to measure the 'value added' of student learning

Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, Chicago, IL
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward developing and disseminating strategies for district reform

Education Writers Association, Washington, DC
Twenty-seven-month grant of $200,000 toward informing and training reporters to promote coverage of urban district reform

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Eighteen-month grant of $20,000 for a study on reading speed and comprehension

University of Kansas, Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence, KS
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward developing tools for enhancing preservice efforts to prepare teachers and administrators to effectively educate struggling adolescent readers

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Nine-month grant of $23,600 for research on effective pedagogical practices for language-minority students

Learning Matters, INC., New York, NY
Seven-month grant of $50,000 toward education coverage for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Three-year grant of $100,000 toward preparing preservice teachers for teaching adolescents strategies for reading and writing

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
One-year grant of $24,800 toward research into the origins of out-of-field teaching

National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA
Seven-month grant of $25,000 for writing a leader's guide to adolescent literacy

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Two-year grant of $300,000 for research on human resources management and improved student achievement

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Three-year grant of $2,000,000 toward institutional transformation and an employment equity program

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

Centre for Higher Education Transformation Trust, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
One-year grant of $49,000 for distributing higher education publications to libraries at African universities

Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Washington, DC
Fifteen-month grant of $200,000 for improving educational advancement capacity at selected African universities

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a conference on reform of the higher education system in Nigeria

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL
Three-year grant of $499,900 for strategic planning and automation of African grantee university libraries

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Two-year grant of $800,000 toward a project on providing access to online laboratories for selected African universities

University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Ten-month grant of $46,000 toward a study of the reconfiguration of South Africa's higher education institutions

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward a U.S. Congress-Russia Duma study group

The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $609,400 for the international activities of the Congressional Program

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Two-year grant of $349,700 for research, analysis and dissemination on international policy toward states at risk

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

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward an initiative to promote an international strategy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons

Center for Media and Security, Ltd., Millwood, NY
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward forums for journalists on defense and international security issues

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC
Three-year grant of $285,000 toward study group meetings on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Asia Pacific

Dayton Peace Accords Project, Medford, MA
Three-month grant of $25,000 toward a workshop and consultations on the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords

European Institute Inc., Washington, DC
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a transatlantic conference on biosecurity

University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Two-year grant of $250,000 as a final grant for a project for Russian and American lawmakers to better understand nonproliferation and new security threats

Global Security Institute, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 as one-time funding toward a conference to review the Non-Proliferation Treaty

The University of Maryland Foundation, Inc., Adelphi, MD
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward research and training of Russian and American security experts

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Eight-month grant of $24,900 for a seminar series on biosecurity and national security

Moscow School of Political Studies, Moscow, Russia
Two-year grant of $230,000 toward a project to strengthen democratic institutions and civil society in Russia

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $630,000 for academic fellowships for Russian scholars

North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada
One-year grant of $25,000 toward research and dissemination on external intervention in states at risk

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a global academic partnership on exploring states at risk

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward a project to educate policymakers on current security issues

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $4,000,000 toward the creation of centers for advanced study and education in Russia

STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY

18-35 Inc., Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward support

Alliance for Nonprofit Management, Inc., Washington, DC
Four-month grant of $10,000 toward exploration of a merger between the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Council of Nonprofit Associations

American Forum, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward its messaging and communications strategies around electoral reform issues

American Prospect, Inc., Boston, MA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward development and dissemination of a post-election special report on the state of U.S. democracy

Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
One-year grant of $100,000 toward its national demographic profile of the Asian Pacific Islander community

William J. Brennan, Jr., Center for Justice, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward public education on the federal funding restrictions on nonprofit advocacy

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
One-year grant of $50,000 toward research and public education on the impact of recent federal campaign finance reforms

Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc., San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an investigation of surveillance technologies, new government intelligence-gathering policies, and the impact on U.S. democracy, including civil liberties

Center for Public Democracy, Inc., Austin, TX
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward public education on the impact of statewide soft money contributions in Texas

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

The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, Washington, DC
Eleven-month grant of $25,000 toward a study of the economic contributions of immigrants in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region

Community Voices Heard, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a tool kit on community organizing and civic participation

Council for Excellence in Government, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $19,200 for covering expenses of Corporation civic education grantees to attend a series of workshops for state civic education coalitions associated with the national 'Civic Mission of Schools' campaign

Fund for the City of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward development of a database that helps nonprofits conduct more sophisticated and timely analysis of their activities, outcomes, and results

International Center for Innovation in Civic Participation, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $15,000 toward participation of U.S. civic education leaders in a seminar to learn about how civic education leaders in the United Kingdom have incorporated political literacy into school-based civic education curricula

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
One-year grant of $169,500 toward a national study of ethnic pluralism and politics in American democracy

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Washington, DC
One-year grant of $200,000 as one-time support toward its coalition building and advocacy on immigrant rights

National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO
One-year grant of $50,000 for replication of the Michigan House Civics Commission's bipartisan effort to promote high quality K-12 school-based civic education in seven states

National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward its role in collecting and analyzing voting problems in the 2004 elections

National Council of La Raza, Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward its Latino naturalization, voter registration and education program

National Immigration Forum, Inc., Washington, DC
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward its immigrant civic integration policy and public education activities

Network for Good, Vienna, VA
One-year grant of $100,000 as one-time support toward improving online services that promote charitable donations

New World Foundation, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward development of programs and services targeted to young philanthropic leaders

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $16,000 as membership support

Northeast Action, Inc., Boston, MA
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward evaluation and strategic planning of its civic engagement activities

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Two-year grant of $100,000 toward survey research and dissemination on Latino incorporation in the United States

Pacific Institute for Community Organizations, Oakland, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward improving its communication strategies

Pro Bono Net, Inc., New York, NY
Six-month grant of $40,000 toward planning a web-based information portal on immigrant legal issues

Proteus Fund, Inc., Amherst, MA
One-year grant of $50,000 toward an evaluation of nonprofit voter engagement activities in 2004

Rutgers University Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a national survey of college students about their voting experiences in 2004

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward monitoring the public interest performance of local television election news coverage

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL, INC., Atlanta, GA
One-year grant of $20,000 toward collecting and recording violations of the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Southern Rural Development Initiative, Inc., Raleigh, NC
One-year grant of $50,000 toward planning a regional project to meet the capacity-building needs of small or under-capitalized nonprofit organizations in the South

United Leaders, Cambridge, MA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a pilot that will partner college student leaders with City Year Corps members to teach a new civic education curriculum in public schools

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a pilot project to train immigrants in rural areas on the U.S. citizenship exam

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

American Forum for Global Education, New York, NY
Four-month grant of $25,000 toward strategic planning to revitalize programming in the field of global education

University of California, Berkeley, CA
Ten-year grant of $500,000 as a challenge grant toward a lecture series on Clark Kerr's contributions to higher education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
One-year grant of $20,000 toward a conference on religious pluralism in India

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
One-year grant of $100,000 as one-time only support toward its Institute for Democratic Renewal's anti-racism training institutes

Faith and Politics Institute, Washington, DC
Eleven-month grant of $35,000 toward a convening to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march

Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC
Nineteen-month grant of $200,000 toward research on Islam, economic development and global stability

Human Rights First, New York, NY
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support

Near East Foundation, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support of its strategic planning process

New School University, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a conference on the image of the U.S. in the aftermath of September 11

PEN American Center, Inc., New York, NY
One-year grant of $10,000 toward a strategic planning initiative

Public Interest Projects, New York, NY
One-year grant of $100,000 toward a funder collaborative promoting an examination of affirmative action policies

Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY
One-year grant of $25,000 as one-time only support toward a feasibility study on establishing a research institute focused on philanthropy

University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Eleven-month grant of $50,000 toward an oral history of South Africa

World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, CA
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support for a forum on global philanthropy