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Carnegie
Newsline October 10, 2002
The
following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the
Trustees at the October 10, 2002 board meeting.
Contents:
EDUCATION
Aspen
Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $495,000 for the Congressional Program on Education
Association
of American Colleges and Universities
One-year grant of $50,000 for a campaign to engage the public in
discussion of the goals and practices of liberal education
University
of California, Santa Cruz
Three-year grant of $750,400 for a national teacher induction initiative
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $900,000 for technical assistance associated with
the Teachers for a New Era initiative
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $850,000 for technical assistance and evaluation
services for the Schools for a New Society initiative
Education
Commission of the States
One-year grant of $150,000 toward developing a strategic plan to
ensure state support for teaching quality
Federation
of American Scientists Fund
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a public-private consortium to
advance research and development in learning science and technology
at the post-secondary level
Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc.
Two-year grant of $34,900 toward additional support for the evaluation
of an alternative teacher certification program
National
Council of La Raza
Six-month grant of $30,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on early
literacy and language development in Latino children
New
Leaders
One-year grant of $239,400 for curriculum development for high school
leadership preparation
New
York Community Trust
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward support of the Donors' Education
Collaborative, a group of New York City-based funders interested
in school reform
University
of North Carolina
Thirty-month grant of $839,000 toward the establishment of cross-state
data collection systems by the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality
WGBH
Educational Foundation
Six-month grant of $50,000 for an evaluation of the educational
efficacy of the web site accompanying the PBS broadcast “Commanding
Heights: The Battle for the World Economy”
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Ahmadu
Bello University
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward planning institutional development
projects
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $550,000 for Technical assistance and assessment
services for African universities
Centre
for Higher Education Transformation Trust
Two-year grant of $106,900 toward national and regional policy/change
dialogues for higher education experts and policymakers in South
Africa
University
of Iowa
Three-month grant of $24,800 toward participation of representatives
from selected Nigerian universities in a workshop on information
technology
University
of Jos
Eight-month grant of $50,000 toward planning institutional development
projects
Makerere
University
Six-month grant of $10,000 for the purchase and installation of
blackboards
New
York University
One-year grant of $17,900 toward publication of monograph series
and website, in partnership with Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation
and Rockefeller Foundation
Obafemi
Awolowo University
Eleven-month grant of $49,800 for planning institutional development
projects
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
American
Physical Society
Eight-month grant of $25,000 toward the production and DISSEMINATION
of a study of the science and technology of boost-phase systems
for national missile defense
Association
of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
One-year grant of $40,000 as a final grant toward an international
conference on arctic and circumpolar issues
Brandeis
University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the Andrei Sakharov Archives and
Human Rights Center
University
of California, Berkeley
Two-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward support of the
program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $99,400 as a final grant for expenses related
to research and writing by David A. Hamburg, M.D., in the areas
of conflict resolution and education and health of children and
youth
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a project to promote positive political
change in regions of conflict
CEC
International Partners, Inc.
Nine-month grant of $25,000 toward research and a publication on
Russia
Center
for Defense Information,
One-year grant of $25,000 toward electronic news services on contemporary
Russia
Center
for International Policy
One-year grant of $12,000 toward a joint project with the University
of Chicago on U.S.-Korea policy
The
Chronicles Group, Inc.
Three-month grant of $25,000 for an educational video on the global
water crisis
Duke
University
Five-month grant of $25,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on managing
the policy challenges of U.S. interventions in foreign countries
Environmental
Law Institute
Two-year grant of $214,900 as one-time funding toward a project
on public participation and governance in international watershed
management
Fund
for Peace, Inc.
Three-month grant of $8,000 for a convening of Corporation grantees
to discuss projects related to self-determination disputes and internal
wars
University
of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant for policy research
to provide new solutions for controlling proliferation trade
Georgia
Tech Foundation Inc.
Ten-month grant of $25,000 toward a meeting on security issues in
Northeast Asia
Institute
for EastWest Studies, Inc. (EastWest Institute)
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward a project to promote European,
North American and Russian dialogue on economic and security issues
Institute
for Science and International Security
Four-month grant of $50,000 as a final grant for nuclear nonproliferation
in Russia
Institute
of International Education, Inc.
Nine-month grant of $25,000 toward participation costs of international
scholars and professionals in a program on sectarian, ethnic and
cultural conflict within and across national borders
Lawyers
Alliance for World Security, Inc.
Three-month grant of $15,000 toward DISSEMINATION of a report on
constitutionalism in Russia
Lawyers
Alliance for World Security, Inc.
Five-month grant of $25,000 for a conference to analyze issues related
to space weaponization
Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a symposium on business and economic
reform in Russia
University
of Oxford
One-month grant of $8,400 for convening Corporation grantees to
discuss self-determination projects
Princeton
University
Three-month grant of $12,000 for a joint project with Cambridge
University to convene Corporation grantees to discuss self-determination
issues
Public
International Law and Policy Group
Two-year grant of $318,500 as a final grant for simulation exercises,
roundtables and publications on the evolving nexus among sovereignty,
self-determination and terrorism
Stanford
University
Two-year grant of $1,605,200 toward research and training in international
security
World Affairs Council of Northern California www.itsyourworld.org/
Two-month grant of $25,000 toward a conference on Islam
STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY
American Enterprise Institute for
Public Policy Research
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a joint project with the Brookings
Institution to form a bipartisan commission to consider ways to
ensure the continuity of government after a terrorist attack
Catholic
Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Seven-month grant of $25,000 toward a pilot project to improve naturalization
services and civic integration in immigrant communities on the border
between the United States and Mexico
City
University of New York
Two-year grant of $150,000 toward research, evaluation, and DISSEMINATION
related to the Coalition for New Philanthropy, a multi-year initiative
to encourage strategic philanthropy among communities of color
Community
Resource Exchange, Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a longitudinal study to assess
the effectiveness of capacity-building nonprofit organizations
Education
Commission of the States
Four-month grant of $46,700 for the development of an organizational
and strategic plan to promote comprehensive approaches to civic
education
eGrants.org
One-year grant of $200,000 as a final grant toward support
Impact
Online Inc.
One-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward support
University
of Michigan
One-year grant of $150,000 as one-time funding toward a national
study on the 2002 elections
NALEO
Educational Fund, Inc.
Two-year grant of $350,000 toward an immigrant civic education project
National
Council of Nonprofit Associations
Two-year grant of $500,000 toward support
New
York Fair Elections Project, Inc.
Six-month grant of $10,000 toward a conference on campaign finance
reform in New York State
Nonprofit
Coordinating Committee of New York, Inc.
Five-year grant of $4,875 toward membership support in 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005 and 2006
Northeast
Action, Inc.
One-year grant of $150,000 as a final grant toward providing technical
assistance on implementing state-based campaign financing reforms
Philanthropy
Roundtable
One-year grant of $5,000 toward membership support in 2002
Public
Allies, Inc.
Six-month grant of $10,000 toward DISSEMINATION of the results of
a national poll on young adults' views about community service,
civic engagement and racial tolerance
Saint
Anselm College
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward two convenings of leaders from
national nonprofit organizations engaged in innovative efforts to
improve civic education and citizenship among high school and college-age
youth
Southern
Rural Development Initiative, Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward planning a regional project to
meet the capacity-building needs of small or under-capitalized nonprofit
organizations in the South
Tufts
University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support for the Lincoln Filene
Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs' research and public education
about the roles and contributions of philanthropy, voluntary action
and civil society
Vermont
Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations
One-year grant of $25,000 toward evaluation of a pilot project to
help community-based nonprofit organizations use technology to build
their policy advocacy capacity
Volunteer
Consulting Group,
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward assessment of boardnetUSA, an
Internet-based project to match trustees and board candidates with
nonprofit organizations
William
J. Brennan, Jr., Center for Justice, Inc.
One-year grant of $100,000 toward support
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis
Two-year grant of $50,000 for a memoir on the contributions of Sir
Ketumile Masire to nation building in Africa
Center
for Strategic and International Studies,
One-year grant of $171,900 for a study of the barriers to modernization
and democratization in the Muslim world
Center
for the Study of the Presidency
One-year grant of $50,000 as one-time funding for a project to improve
global communications about American culture, values, and system
of governance
Federation
of American Scientists Fund
One-year grant of $50,000 as a final grant toward DISSEMINATION
and public education related to a report on public interest obligations
in the digital age
Institute
of Semitic Studies Inc.
Six-month grant of $23,600 as one-time funding toward a symposium
on Jewish, Muslim and Christian relations in Yemen
National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
Sixteen-month grant of $45,000 as one-time funding toward support
of a panel discussion on children, the schools, and substance abuse
at a conference on substance abuse in the 21st century
Wei
Jingsheng Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $50,000 for writing and research by Wei Jingsheng
on human rights in China
21ST
CENTURY FUND
Friends of the District of Columbia Youth Orchestra Program, Inc.
Six-month grant of $50,000 as one-time funding toward an educational
and cultural tour of South Africa
Human
Rights Watch,
One-year grant of $100,000 toward a project to monitor human rights
issues related to post-September 11 antiterrorism campaigns and
the war in Afghanistan
DISSEMINATION
Carnegie Corporation of New
York
One-year grant of $1,350,000 for program dissemination of the Corporation’s
work
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