At its quarterly meeting held in New York on June 3, Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Board of Trustees approved 33 grants totaling $25,174,200. Brief descriptions of each board-approved grant are provided below. For additional information on these and other grants, please visit Carnegie Corporation’s Grants Search page.
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., Arlington, VA
12-month grant of $250,000 toward support
ProPublica, Inc., New York, NY
24-month grant of $150,000 toward support
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $600,000 toward the foreign policy program
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, NY
24-month grant of $500,000 toward promoting ethics through global education
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $350,000 toward developing a new security architecture for the Euro-Atlantic region
Center for Policy Studies in Russia, Monterey, CA
24-month grant of $225,000 toward a program to train and nurture security specialists
eThekwini Municipality, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
36-month grant of $3,000,000 as a one-time grant toward a model city library
Friends of the British Council, USA, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $500,000 toward an American and transnational network and public education campaign on Muslim relations, identity and historical coexistence
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
24-month grant of $299,800 toward a project on strengthening the security of nuclear facilities and materials globally
University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
36-month grant of $2,000,000 toward a research commons at the University of Ghana Legon - Balme library
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
24-month grant of $885,000 toward executive training programs for military officers and policymakers
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
24-month grant of $500,000 toward collaborative research and seminars on historical and social developments involving Islam
Institute for State Effectiveness, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $400,000 as a final grant toward the creation of handbooks for support of specific functions of states at risk
Institute of International Education, Inc., New York, NY
7-month grant of $100,000 for a meeting on developing and retaining the next generation of African academics
International Crisis Group, New York, NY
24-month grant of $350,000 as a final grant toward research, analysis, dialogue, and dissemination on preventing state collapse
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
24-month grant of $600,000 toward the security studies program
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
48-month grant of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a master's program in information technology within the school of information technology at the university
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
24-month grant of $295,400 for an analysis of post-conflict Afghanistan and its future
Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
12-month grant of $175,000 toward a project on enhancing public security and the rule of law in post-conflict states at risk
The New School, New York, NY
24-month grant of $380,000 as a final grant toward the journal donation project
NATIONAL PROGRAM
Battelle For Kids, Columbus, OH
18-month grant of $650,000 for the expansion and refinement of a system of assessment-based professional development to drive student success in high schools
Center for Public Interest Research, Inc., Boston, MA
24-month grant of $275,000 toward the new voters project, an initiative to promote youth civic engagement, especially at community colleges
Committee for Economic Development, Washington, DC
12-month grant of $750,000 as a final grant toward support
Fiscal Policy Institute Inc., Albany, NY
24-month grant of $200,000 toward research on the impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy
League of Women Voters Education Fund, Washington, DC
18-month grant of $200,000 toward a comprehensive nonpartisan elections website and its pilot high school voter registration project
MDRC, New York, NY
18-month grant of $185,000 for the design and development of a multi-campus study of promising programs in college-level developmental English and mathematics
National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $635,200 toward an action agenda to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education
New Schools Fund, San Francisco, CA
24-month grant of $5,000,000 toward support
Public Interest Projects, New York, NY
6-month grant of $250,000 toward supplementing the Four Freedoms Fund's immigrant integration activities, especially in the area of strategic communications
U.S. Education Delivery Institute, Washington, DC
24-month grant of $2,500,000 toward support
WestEd, Oakland, CA
12-month grant of $368,800 for transformative assessments for science
CROSS-CUTTING
The State of the U.S.A. Inc., Washington, DC
24-month grant of $500,000 toward developing national educational indicators
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
6-month grant of $100,000 for monitoring the accuracy of independent 2010 political advertisements