At its quarterly meeting held in New York on December 2, Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Board of Trustees approved 22 grants totaling $22,216,000. 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.
National Program
America's Voice Education Fund, Washington, DC,
18-month grant of $2,000,000.00 for support
The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC,
www.aspeninstitute.org
36-month grant of $375,000.00 for educational policy seminars for Congressional staff
Charter Fund, Inc., Broomfield, CO,
www.chartergrowthfund.org
24-month grant of $1,500,000.00 for identification, incubation and development of next generation hybrid instructional school designs
Hope Street Group, Los Angeles, CA,
36-month grant of $600,000.00 for engaging teachers in designing and implementing new teacher-evaluation systems
Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, www.massinsight.org
24-month grant of $1,500,000.00 for implementation of school turnaround partnership zones in states
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC,
www.national-academies.org
18-month grant of $100,000.00 for a national research council committee to define the knowledge and set of key skills that are reflected by the labels 'deeper learning', '21st century skills' and 'college and career readiness' in K-16 education
New York University, New York, NY,
www.nyu.edu
18-month grant of $325,000.00 for a pilot study examining civic trust and engagement among immigrant young adults
Public Interest Projects, New York, NY,
12-month grant of $5,000,000.00 for the four freedoms fund's immigrant integration activities
Turnaround for Children, Inc., New York, NY, www.turnaroundforchildren.org
24-month grant of $1,500,000.00 for capacity building to achieve increased impact and scale
International Program
American Security Project, Washington, DC,
12-month grant of $200,000.00 for a comprehensive strategy for a bipartisan nuclear security consensus
The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC,
www.aspeninstitute.org
12-month grant of $600,000.00 for the work of the congressional program on nuclear security
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal,
36-month grant of $1,200,000.00 for research on African higher education governance, leadership and policy
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ,
sites.ias.edu/sig/
36-month grant of $5,000,000.00 for the regional initiative in science and education (rise), supporting development of science professionals in sub-Saharan Africa
Truman National Security Project Educational Institute, Washington, DC,
www.trumanproject.org
24-month grant of $250,000.00 for a project on building capacity among emerging Congressional leaders
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, www.wilsoncenter.org
24-month grant of $425,000.00 for a nuclear proliferation international history project
Special Opportunities Fund
The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC,
www.aspeninstitute.org
24-month grant of $100,000.00 for its program on philanthropy and social innovation
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc., Washington, DC,
www.citizensforethics.org
24-month grant of $200,000.00 for support
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., Arlington, VA,
www.weta.org
24-month grant of $100,000.00 one-time funding for the women's 2.0 media project digital oral history archive
The Project on Government Oversight, Inc., Washington, DC,
www.pogo.org
24-month grant of $400,000.00 for support
Taxpayers for Common Sense, Washington, DC,
24-month grant of $200,000.00 for support