At its quarterly meeting held in New York on September 16, Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Board of Trustees approved 20 grants totaling $18,312,500 . 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.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA,
36-month grant of $157,500.00 for the center for International Higher Education's publication, International Higher Education
Brown University, Providence, RI, www.brown.edu
24-month grant of $300,000.00 for a project to promote global engagement through new media
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, www.uct.ac.za
24-month grant of $2,500,000.00 toward postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC, www.csis.org
24-month grant of $325,000.00 as a final grant toward policy research and outreach on alternatives to centralized statebuilding in states at risk
Columbia University, New York, NY, www.columbia.edu
24-month grant of $200,000.00 toward the Gulf 2000 project
EastWest Institute, New York, NY, www.ewi.info
24-month grant of $300,000.00 toward a U.S.-Russia Working Group on Afghan Narcotrafficking
University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, www.ug.edu.gh
24-month grant of $1,800,000.00 toward postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden,
36-month grant of $1,535,000.00 for a competitive fellowship program for early-career scientists in African universities
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, www.mak.ac.ug
24-month grant of $1,900,000.00 toward postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
National Council for Tertiary Education, Accra, Ghana,
36-month grant of $845,000.00 for senior academic leadership training in West Africa
National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, www.neh.gov
36-month grant of $1,200,000.00 toward distribution of books and other resources reflecting the diversity of Muslim cultures to U.S. libraries
New America Foundation, Washington, DC,
18-month grant of $200,000.00 for producing a series of online video dialogues on foreign affairs in collaboration with the web site bloggingheads.tv (bhtv)
New York University, New York, NY, www.nyu.edu
24-month grant of $400,000.00 as a final grant toward a project on enhancing governmental and intergovernmental capacity to support state-building
Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions, Abuja, Nigeria, www.forum.org.ng
24-month grant of $400,000.00 as a final grant toward technical training and planning of a national research and education network
Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc., Washington, DC, www.nti.org
24-month grant of $1,000,000.00 toward support
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, www.stanford.edu
24-month grant of $750,000.00 toward research and training in international security
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Solna, Sweden,
24-month grant of $250,000.00 toward analysis on the Trans-Atlantic dimension of the next round of arms reduction negotiations with Russia
Tides Foundation, San Francisco, CA,
24-month grant of $400,000.00 toward connect U.S. fund's operations and efforts to build ties between NGOs.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, www.wits.ac.za
24-month grant of $2,050,000.00 toward postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
NATIONAL PROGRAM
Education Resource Strategies Inc., Watertown, MA, www.educationresourcestrategies.org
36-month grant of $1,500,000.00 for development and dissemination of knowledge products
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Council for Educational Change, Weston, FL, www.changeeducation.org
12-month grant of $200,000.00 one-time only grant toward support
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, www.stanford.edu
12-month grant of $100,000.00 one-time only grant toward the center on philanthropy and civil society center's acquisition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review