New York, NY September 08, 2021 — Today, Carnegie Corporation of New York is proud to announce it has awarded 11 new grants worth over $3.6 million to help foster new ideas and practical solutions around the issues of multilateralism and the connections between domestic and foreign policies in the United States. All projects will begin in October 2021.
Over 300 organizations responded to the competitive call for proposals issued by the Corporation’s International Peace and Security program in January 2021. At the time, the international community was struggling to form a collective response to COVID-19, and the United States was wrestling to balance its role on the international stage with pressing domestic concerns. Submitted proposals were reviewed by a group of external experts.
Prospective grantees were asked to submit proposals exploring imaginative new ideas and practical solutions in response to questions such as:
- How might the system of international institutions be reimagined and/or reinvigorated to better respond to 21st-century security challenges?
- How could a better alignment between domestic and foreign policy lead to better outcomes for the United States?
The following organizations were selected:
- Center for Civilians in Conflict will partner with the Stimson Center to identify why the accountability of security institutions falls short in the United States and abroad, and explore what forms increased accountability might take. ($300,000)
- Colorado State University will track the ways that foreign and national security policies affect local communities across the United States, producing a map of the distributive implications of U.S. foreign policy and allowing communities to better understand their relationship to America’s role in the world. ($450,000)
- Congressional Progressive Caucus Center will examine the implications of the 2021 expiration of the 2011 Budget Control Act, which aimed to balance federal spending between domestic and foreign policy priorities by stipulating that increases for social programs must run parallel to increases in defense spending. ($200,000)
- Foreign Policy for America Foundation will draw from its NextGen Foreign Policy Initiative, a volunteer-led cohort of diverse young experts committed to advancing principled foreign policy, to produce a report on a set of “intermestic” issues that crosscut the traditional boundaries of international and domestic policy, such as climate, trade, immigration, and human rights. ($185,000)
- Georgetown University will bring together interdisciplinary experts at its Center for Global Health Science and Security to identify pandemic-related gaps in the current multilateral system and develop recommendations for a new, multilateral global health treaty that incorporates accountability, transparency, equity, participation, and the rule of law. ($196,000)
- Indiana University will tap its Ostrom workshop to study the applicability of other polycentric governance models to the space domain, where great powers and private businesses are increasingly competitive and multilateral legal frameworks are woefully outdated. ($199,000)
- Mercy Corps will partner with Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration to examine how climate change relates to migration — especially from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America — and how it intersects with poverty and violence. The study will produce policy recommendations and conduct a pilot project to test the potential of remittances in supporting local climate resilience. ($350,000)
- Open Earth Foundation will build international cooperation and accountability on climate agreements by developing an Independent Climate Accounting Network that will work with multilateral institutions, national governments, and nonstate actors to improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting and enhance trust and accountability in the Paris Agreement. ($500,000)
- University of Massachusetts Boston will create a network of smaller nations to address global warming and environment management through multilateral actions. The project will work with select governments to provide research and policy options to engage in global negotiations and assert collective leadership on the global stage. ($500,000)
- West Point Association of Graduates will collaborate with the University at Albany to analyze overseas and domestic counterterrorism methods and offer options for addressing domestic terrorism while safeguarding civil rights and liberties. ($280,000)
- World Conservation Society will mobilize research and networking to advocate for a unified, multilateral One Health approach to prevent future pandemics — an approach that highlights the interconnection among people, plants, wildlife, and their shared environment. ($500,000)
For more information, please email Celeste Ford, Director of External Relations: CFC@carnegie.org, 646.772.7917.