CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK BOARD APPROVES 37 GRANTS TOTALING $28,938,300

At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on September 12, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 37 grants totaling $19,619,800. Brief descriptions of each Board-approved grant are provided below.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA 
12-month grant of $250,000 As a final grant for the Global Nuclear Future Initiative

American Political Science Association, Washington, DC 
24-month grant of $500,000 As a final grant for enriching scholarship and building lasting collaborative networks in the Middle East and North Africa

American University, Washington, DC 
24-month grant of $500,000 For a joint project with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the role of new actors from developing countries and emerging powers in peacebuilding

American University of Beirut, New York, NY 
24-month grant of $500,000 As a final grant for a think tank consortium and partnerships in policy research

Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon
24-month grant of $1,300,000 For reframing knowledge in the wake of the Arab Spring

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, IL 
36-month grant of $750,000 For general support

University of California, Los Angeles, CA 
24-month grant of $600,000 For a project to study political decision making in Russia's changing political order

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC 
24-month grant of $600,000 For U.S. and European task forces on managing the relationship with Russia

Centre for Higher Education Transformation Trust, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa
24-month grant of $1,052,400 As a final grant for the higher education research and advocacy expertise network in Africa

Columbia University, New York, NY 
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through a global hub for research and consultation on cyber policy

Columbia University, New York, NY 
24-month grant of $630,700 For a joint project with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York on great power rivalry

University of Denver, Denver, CO
24-month grant of $995,300 For bridging the gap between the academy and the policy world through research and policy engagement on the role of non-violent, non-state actors in peacebuilding

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 
24-month grant of $763,300 For executive training programs for military officers and policymakers

Middle East Institute, Washington, DC 
24-month grant of $500,000 For a project on challenges and opportunities for conflict management in Egypt and Syria

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 
24-month grant of $900,000 For education and training on nuclear nonproliferation by the James L. Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc., Washington, DC 
24-month grant of $1,500,000 For general support and for the Nuclear Materials Security Index

University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
24-month grant of $1,000,000 As a final grant for a master’s program in information technology within the school of information technology at the university

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For research and writing on international security

University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
24-month grant of $800,000 As a final grant to the African Doctoral Academy for creating excellence in African academic research

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
24-month grant of $947,400 For bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through the creation of a multi-institutional consortium and network of policy relevant scholars

Tufts University, Medford, MA
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through an interdisciplinary project on legitimacy in state-building

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through creation of a policy institute addressing pressing issues on the international security agenda

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC 
24-month grant of $674,200 For research, fellows, and capacity building to elicit and apply local knowledge for peacebuilding and state-building in Africa and inform the American policy dialogue

Yale University, New Haven, CT 
24-month grant of $500,000 As a final grant for the Inter-Asia Initiative, a transregional scholars network

NATIONAL PROGRAM

Asia Society, New York City, NY
24-month grant of $650,000 For expansion of the International Studies Schools Network

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 
24-month grant of $350,000 For a reporting project with the Hechinger Report on effective school designs

Computers For Youth Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For continued integration of Next Generation Learning in mathematics

Digital Promise, Washington, D.C.
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For competency-based micro-credentials for professional educators

Editorial Projects in Education, Inc., Bethesda, MD
24-month grant of $500,000 For continued coverage of innovation in education and school design

Futuro Media Group, New York, NY
22-month grant of $250,000 For its immigration reporting on National Public Radio's Latino USA

Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA
12-month grant of $150,000 As a final grant for general support

National Center for Civic Innovation, New York, NY
27-month grant of $275,000 For development of supports and tools for the field relating to school design and mastery-based learning

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 
55-month grant of $3,000,000 For phase II of the Opportunity by Design initiative evaluation

Relay Graduate School of Education, New York, NY 
15-month grant of $500,000 For innovations in principal training

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $1,000,000 For the Hamilton Project

Equal Justice Works, Washington, DC
12-month grant of $500,000 For general support

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., Arlington, VA 
9-month grant of $500,000 For general support