Carnegie Corporation of New York Board Approves 30 Grants Totaling $16,875,000

At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on March 5, 2020, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 30 grants totaling $16,875,000. Brief descriptions of each board-approved grant are provided below.

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
New York, NY
24-month grant of $300,000 for the Project on U.S. Global Engagement.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $1,000,000 for support of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $1,000,000 for support of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $400,000 for core support of the Nuclear Policy Program.

Center for International Policy Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $400,000 for support to the Senior Fellows Program.

Century Foundation New York, NY
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project on transnational trends in citizenship and authoritarianism.

Georgetown University Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $680,000 for advancing scholar-practitioner engagement through workshops, on-line publications, and case studies.

Lancaster University Lancaster, The United Kingdom
24-month grant of $400,000 for a project on sectarianization and proxy actors in the Middle East.


Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Kampala, Uganda
24-month grant of $1,500,000 for support of competitive early-career fellowships.

University World News Durban, South Africa
24-month grant of $345,000 for support of University World News (Africa) higher education editorial projects.



NATIONAL PROGRAM
America's Voice Education Fund
Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $950,000 for general support.

Aspen Institute, Inc. Washington, D.C.
15-month grant of $400,000 for a project on restoring the social contract between education and society.

Bank Street College of Education New York, NY
12-month grant of $450,000 as a final grant to select sustainable residency-based teacher preparation programs in New York State.

Center for Rural Strategies Whitesburg, KY
24-month grant of $250,000 for support of a project to promote immigration and voting rights issues in rural media.

Common Sense Media San Francisco, CA
9-month grant of $325,000 for the project Kids, Technology, and Learning: Building Public Understanding and the School-Home Connection: Phase IV.


Council of State Science Supervisors Salt Lake City, UT
12-month grant of $500,000 for a project to support a fifty-state convening focused on the OpenSciEd initiative.

Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. Bethesda, MD
12-month grant of $500,000 for general support and project support of research and reporting of teacher retention and recruitment.

EdReports.org Durham, NC
18-month grant of $400,000 for a project to increase smart demand for high quality science instructional materials, perform K-12 science market research, and research expansion into high school science review.

Education Leaders of Color Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $750,000 for general support and the Boulder Fund.

Get Schooled Foundation Seattle, WA
12-month grant of $250,000 for a project to build digital content, gamification and individualized support to help young people demand and access quality education and find success in early career.

National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement Alexandria, VA
12-month grant of $300,000 for a project to support the Family Engagement Pre-service Educator Preparation Initiative.

Public Religion Research Institute Washington, D.C.  
24-month grant of $600,000 for core support of its program on immigration research.

Teach Plus Boston, MA
9-month grant of $300,000 for general support.

Teaching Lab Washington, D.C.
15-month grant of $500,000 for a project to develop and pilot professional learning content for state regional service centers, district leaders, and teachers, and document enabling conditions for high-quality instructional materials and professional learning.

Tides Center San Francisco, CA
18-month grant of $500,000 for refining and disseminating school district change management strategies.

University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA
24-month grant of $550,000 for a project to develop and field-test open source end-of-unit summative assessments that align with middle school performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards.

William J. Brennan, Jr., Center for Justice, Inc. New York, NY
24-month grant of $500,000 for core support of its Democracy Program.



SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
New York, NY
12-month grant of $1,000,000 for general support.

New York Public Library New York, NY
12-month grant of $1,025,000 for general support in recognition of the New York Public Library's 125th anniversary.

Trinity Foundation Dublin, Ireland
12-month grant of $500,000 for support of the digitization of the collections of the Library of Trinity College Dublin.