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- Watch & ReadGetting to Know Dame Louise Richardson with Judy Woodruff
Watch long-serving Corporation trustee Judy Woodruff interview the Corporation's new president, Louise Richardson, about growing up in rural Ireland, the dangers of binary thinking, and much more, including being the first in her family to go to college
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022
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It is a great privilege and an even greater responsibility for us today to use Andrew Carnegie’s wealth wisely to achieve the immutable objective of improving the world around us.
A Greeting from Our New PresidentDame Louise Richardson writes about the opportunity and obligation of philanthropists to use wealth wisely and to act with speed and flexibility, unhindered by partisanship, and with an eye toward those who are being overlooked
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022
- EducationPartnering with Immigrant Families to Promote Student Success
A new Corporation-commissioned report outlines recommendations and best practices to build effective family-school partnerships with immigrant families
Family & Community EngagementImmigration - Higher Education and Research in AfricaAfrican Voices: Meet Hazvinei Tsitsi Tamuka Moyo
Tamuka Moyo, a fellow of Carnegie Corporation of New York's Next Generation of African Academics initiative, is working to increase transport access to marginalized groups in Cape Town and other areas with low-income suburbs or informal settlements
African Academics - International Peace & SecurityAsk the Experts: How Should the U.S. Address Nuclear Dangers?
Ahead of the G7 Summit, Corporation grantees offer guidance on ways the U.S. can help to avoid the escalation of nuclear dangers
Nuclear Threats - NEWSNewton N. Minow, Author, Public TV Advocate, and Former Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees, dies at 97
As chief of the Federal Communications Commission, Minow made headlines when he declared television “a vast wasteland” in 1961
The Voting Issue | Governor Thomas H. Kean on The Importance of Bipartisanship | Getting to Know Dame Louise Richardson with Judy Woodruff | Abigail Deutsch on Protecting and Advancing the Right to Vote | Heather McGhee on Universal Voting | Geri Mannion on What Philanthropy Can Do to Protect and Expand Voting Rights | Mona Chalabi on Voter Turnout | Sue Dorfman on Democracy in Action | Meet the First Female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana
- ReadThe Importance of Bipartisanship
Thomas H. Kean, chairman of the Corporation’s board of trustees, argues that polarization is one of the most serious problems affecting U.S. democracy today and suggests ways that we can work together on the nation’s problems
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022 - ReadVisualizing Voter Turnout in Local and School Board Elections
Data journalist Mona Chalabi helps visualize voter turnout gaps among national and local elections and why voter participation at all election levels — including local school boards — is one way to strengthen U.S. democracy
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting - ReadThe Fight to Vote — It’s at the Heart of American History
Politics may be messy, but, as the Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman argues, the struggle for the right to vote is never over
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting - ReadWhat Can Philanthropy Do to Protect and Expand Voting Rights?
The latest efforts to suppress the votes of Americans demand that philanthropies across causes, from environment and education to health care, do more by continually supporting the expansion and protection of voting rights – and not just at election time, writes the Corporation’s Geri Mannion
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting