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Carnegie
Newsline October 9, 2003
The
following is a list of grants and appropriations approved by the
Trustees at the October 9, 2003 Board Meeting.
Contents:
EDUCATION
Academy
for Educational Development, Inc.
Three-year grant of $13,059,600 toward Teachers for a New Era:
a Corporation initiative to reform and improve the education of
teachers
All
Kinds of Minds
One-year grant of $50,000 toward Missing the Points, a planning
project that targets the comprehension challenges facing children
in middle childhood
American
Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Fourteen-month grant of $300,700 for a descriptive study of the
Alabama Reading Initiative
Aspen
Institute, Inc.
One-year grant of $411,400 for the Congressional Program on Education
Association
of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
Two-year grant of $75,000 toward establishing an institute on governance
for public college and university chief executives
College
of the Atlantic
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a support network for teacher training
Cabin
Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies
One-year grant of $350,000 toward a documentary film on the development
of one of the New Century High Schools in the Bronx (High School
for Contemporary Arts)
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
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
Nine-month grant of $250,000 for research and analytic support for
the Carnegie Advisory Council on Reading to Learn
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $1,330,000 for technical assistance associated
with the Teachers for a New Era initiative
Center
on Education Policy
Two-year grant of $400,000 toward support to monitor the implementation
of the No Child Left Behind Act at the state and district level
Council
for Basic Education
Three-year grant of $465,100 for support of the Standards-based
Teacher Education Project
Education
Trust, Inc.
Two-year grant of $600,000 for research and DISSEMINATION on the
achievement and opportunity gaps in American education
University
of Kansas, Center for Research, Inc.
Six-month grant of $29,900 for a Study of Successful Reform Models
in Urban Schools: Identifying Factors that Lead to Sustained Improvement
in Literacy Outcomes for At-Risk Adolescents
New
York University
Five-month grant of $25,000 for a working meeting of superintendents
of predominantly black suburban school districts
University
of Pennsylvania
One-year grant of $50,000 for a study and book on large-scale improvement
in Community District #2 in New York City
Rutgers
University
One-year grant of $49,400 for improving literacy achievement in
New Jersey, grades 4-8
Stanford
University
Three-year grant of $799,000 toward research examining the effect
of teacher preparation on student learning and teacher labor market
decisions
University
of Washington
Thirty-month grant of $386,100 as a final grant toward support of
the Strengthening and Sustaining Teachers project
WestEd
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward strengthening
a model of adolescent literacy acquisition
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
American
Library Association
Seven-month grant of $49,000 for a study on the impact of federal
regulations requiring public libraries to provide reader proclivities
Association
of African Universities
Sixteen-month grant of $134,500 toward development of a database
of African theses and dissertations
Association
of African Universities
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward the restructuring and revitalization
of the Association of African Universities (AAU)
University
of Cape Town
Three-month grant of $20,900 toward participation in a higher education
management training seminar by women from selected African universities
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $750,000 for technical assistance and assessment
services for African universities
University
for Development Studies
Seven-month grant of $25,000 for improving the university's financial
system and fundraising
University
of Ghana
Three-year grant of $1,637,300 for leveraging comparative strengths
and competencies in the University of Ghana through information
and communication technology
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Ten-month grant of $50,000 for a feasibility study on access to
online laboratories for selected African universities
Pamoja,
Inc.
Six-month grant of $24,800 toward developing a training manual on
grantseeking and proposal writing and upgrading electronic communication
capacity to better serve African institutions
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Six-month grant of $48,900 toward professional development for Corporation
grantees in Kenya
University
of Education, Winneba
Three-year grant of $1,686,000 toward distance education, student
internship and graduate studies
World
Bank
Four-month grant of $24,600 for a regional training conference on
improving tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
American
Council of Learned Societies
Three-year grant of $1,200,000 for fellowships in the humanities
for scholars in the former Soviet Union
British
American Security Information Council
Eight-month grant of $40,000 for a transatlantic biological weapons
education project
Brown
University
Nineteen-month grant of $49,500 for development and DISSEMINATION
of a high school curriculum that encourages classroom discussion
about international issues related to America's role in the world
Brown
University
Two-year grant of $299,200 as a final grant toward promoting discussions
between Americans, Russians and Europeans on security issues
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
Seven-month grant of $35,000 toward the second Moscow international
conference on the future of the nonproliferation regime
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
Nine-month grant of $25,000 for a conference and outreach activities
on post-war Iraq
Center
for Defense Information, Inc.
Two-year grant of $312,000 toward electronic news services on contemporary
Russia
Center
for Public Integrity
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a study of the politics of national
security
DePaul
University
One-year grant of $50,000 for a project to promote criminalizing
biological terrorism and biological weapons proliferation
Financial
Services Volunteer Corps, Inc.
Two-year grant of $300,000 toward a project on relations between
the United States, Russia and China
Georgetown
University
One-year grant of $25,000 for research, meetings and publications
on U.S. power and multilateral implications
Georgetown
University
One-year grant of $50,000 toward symposia in international affairs
Indiana
University
One-year grant of $50,000 for a project on Russian elections
International
Research and Exchanges Board, Inc.
Two-year grant of $704,000 for improving university administration
in Russia and other post-Soviet states
University
of Michigan
Thirty-one-month grant of $450,000 for a joint project with the
European University in St. Petersburg to foster the development
of the social sciences in Russia's regional universities
National
Academy of Sciences
Two-year grant of $200,000 as a final grant toward trilateral and
bilateral meetings of the Committee on International Security and
Arms Control with its Russian and Chinese counterparts
National
Committee on American Foreign Policy
One-year grant of $25,000 for a multilateral, unofficial dialogue
on North Korea
New
School University
One-year grant of $25,000 final grant for a seminar series on the
impact of cultural factors on Russia's transition
New
York University
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a project on multilateral security
arrangements
Ploughshares
Fund
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward the Peace and Security Funders
Group
Royal
Institute of International Affairs
Two-year grant of $199,900 for cooperation between Russia and the
West on INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY issues
Scripps
College
One-year grant of $20,000 for a conference on European Union-United
States relations
Stanford
University
One-year grant of $50,000 toward increasing the fundraising capacity
of the Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stony
Brook Foundation
Six-month grant of $50,000 toward the planning phase of a pilot
project to develop a training program for combined competence in
bioscience and security policy
Vietnam
Veterans of America Foundation
One-year grant of $25,000 toward educating Congress about the continued
threat of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons
STRENGTHENING U.S. DEMOCRACY
Action Without Borders, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the merger of Action Without Borders
with Campus Outreach Opportunity League
American
Documentary
Nine-month grant of $50,000 toward support of a public education
campaign around immigrants, particularly those who recently arrived
Association
for Community-Higher Education Partnerships
One-year grant of $25,000 toward developing a national infrastructure
that will support partnerships between higher education institutions
and nonprofits working in economically distressed communities
Big
Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits
One-year grant of $15,000 toward research that identifies states
with little access to philanthropic resources and a communications
effort to encourage more philanthropic investment in those states
Brookings
Institution
One-year grant of $25,000 toward DISSEMINATION of the National Commission
on the Public Service's recommendations for reform of the federal
public service
Brown
University
Three-year grant of $598,400 for efforts to use two model programs
to promote a comprehensive approach to civic education in Maine
and Indiana
Business
Volunteers Unlimited
One-year grant of $25,000 for research on the feasibility of replicating
a model program that matches business executives with nonprofits
in need of management and board services
Catholic
University of America
Eighteen-month grant of $47,600 for data analysis and publications
about the role of school-based required and voluntary service in
the civic development of high school students
The
Century Foundation
Two-year grant of $300,100 toward research and public education
on the nexus of domestic security, civil liberties and immigrants
Clark
Atlanta University
Eighteen-month grant of $25,000 for a study on the impact of proportional
representation on black political representation in Alabama
Committee
for Economic Development
Two-year grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward outreach and
public education within the business community on campaign finance
reform, including judicial elections
Constitutional
Rights Foundation
Two-year grant of $549,400 toward coalition building, public education,
research, and communications to promote a comprehensive approach
to school-based civic education in California
Council
for Excellence in Government
Seven-month grant of $50,000 for planning a national effort to implement
the recommendations of the Civic Mission of Schools report
Earth
Force Inc.
Three-year grant of $517,600 for efforts to use the Earth Force
program as a model to promote a comprehensive approach to civic
education in Michigan
Foundation
Center
One-year grant of $35,000 toward research on the philanthropic response
to the events of September 11th
HOPE
Foundation, Inc.
Six-month grant of $8,500 toward data collection and evaluation
of a high school in Hudson, Massachusetts, that involves all students
in school decision-making processes and policies
University
of Houston
One-year grant of $25,000 toward the publication and DISSEMINATION
of Su Voto es Su Voz, a biography of William C. Velasquez
Immigrant
Workers Citizenship Project
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a national public education campaign
on citizenship
Interfaith
Education Fund, Inc.
One-year grant of $200,000 toward an immigrant leadership project
University
of Maryland Foundation, Inc.
Four-month grant of $50,000 toward production and DISSEMINATION
of the Civic Mission of Schools report
University
of Maryland, College Park
One-year grant of $50,000 for research as to whether and how different
types of text material enhance students' civic knowledge and engagement
Maryland
Association of Nonprofit Organizations
One-year grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward national replication
of its Standards for Excellence program
University
of Minnesota
Three-year grant of $499,600 toward evaluation of the Center for
Democracy and Citizenship's Public Achievement program, which teaches
civic skills through community participation and problem solving
New
York Community Trust
One-year grant of $50,000 for use by the Fund for New Citizens toward
technical assistance, community outreach, coordination and monitoring
of the special call-in registration program
Northern
California Grantmakers
One-year grant of $25,000 toward research and writing on immigrant
civic participation in the United States
Peace
Games Inc.
One-year grant of $23,900 toward research, evaluation, and DISSEMINATION
about school-based programs and practices that encourage civic engagement
in young children
University
of Pennsylvania
Two-year grant of $300,000 as a final grant toward research by the
Annenberg School for Communication and Public Policy Center on legislative
issue advocacy advertising
University
of Pennsylvania
Two-year grant of $500,000 for efforts to use the Student Voices
program as a model for civic education curriculum and standards
in Pennsylvania
People
for the American Way Foundation
Fifteen-month grant of $250,000 as a final grant toward expansion
of a project to promote civic participation, educate voters about
their rights and assist them on Election Day
Project
on Government Oversight, Inc.
Two-year grant of $200,000 toward support
Project
Vote/Voting for America, Inc.
Fifteen-month grant of $200,000 toward support
Public
Campaign
Two-year grant of $500,000 as a final grant toward support
Puerto
Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward its leadership transition
Tomas
Rivera Policy Institute
One-year grant of $50,000 toward a study of best practices and policies
on immigrant integration in non-traditional areas
Third
Sector New England, Inc.
One-year grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward development and
national expansion of the Nonprofit Quarterly
Third
Sector New England, Inc.
Six-month grant of $25,000 for research about the state and value
of the nonprofit sector infrastructure
Tides
Center
Eight-month grant of $10,000 toward a study of the capacity of national
and local organizations to improve U.S. civic participation
William
C. Velasquez Institute, Inc.
Two-year grant of $200,000 one-time funding toward measuring Latino
political participation in 2003-04
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
One-year grant of $25,000 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
Aspen
Institute, Inc.
Fourteen-month grant of $200,000 toward an initiative on ethical
globalization
Brooklyn
Public Library Foundation, Inc.
Three-year grant of $750,000 toward support
Center
for the Study of the Presidency
Five-month grant of $25,000 toward a project to improve global communications
about American culture, values and system of governance
Institute
for Advanced Study
Six-month grant of $25,000 toward a workshop on the influence of
Greek political thought on Islam
The
Interfaith Center of New York
One-year grant of $25,000 toward its civic engagement program in
New York City Muslim communities
University
of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $25,000 toward support of the Democracy Collaborative's
interdependence day conference
MEM
Associates, Inc.
Two-year grant of $50,000 toward a communications and marketing
strategy for the Healthy Steps for Young Children program
New
School University
One-year grant of $100,000 as a final grant toward a project to
establish meaningful dialogues between Muslims and Westerners at
all levels of society
New
Visions for Public Schools, Inc.
Seven-month grant of $400,000 toward development of a professional
library for teachers and administrators
New
York Public Library
Three-year grant of $3,000,000 toward the Emergency Campaign
Queens
Library Foundation, Inc.
Three-year grant of $750,000 toward support
Toynbee
Prize Foundation, Inc.
One-year grant of $20,000 toward an interdisciplinary conference
and volume of essays on New Global History
Vital
Voices Global Partnership
One-year grant of $50,000 toward support
Working
Partnerships USA
One-year grant of $25,000 toward a study on the social and economic
problems created by the rise of virtual business enterprises and
associated changes in employment
DISSEMINATION
Carnegie
Corporation of New York
One-year grant of $1,790,000 for program dissemination of the Corporation's
work
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