At its quarterly meeting held in New York on September 22, 2011, Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Board of Trustees approved 40 grants totaling $34,289,800 . 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
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, www.amacad.org | 36-month grant of $500,000 for an initiative on minimizing the risks of nuclear energy expansion
American University in Cairo, New York, NY, www.aucegypt.edu | www.aucegypt.edu 24-month grant of $400,000 for improving academic communication and the visibility of scholars, experts and research
American University of Beirut, New York, NY, www.aub.edu.lb | 36-month grant of $500,000 for a think tank consortium and partnerships in policy research
Atlantic Council of the United States, Inc., Washington, DC, www.acus.org |24-month grant of $249,000 for a program to bring young Pakistani leaders to the United States to expose them to a wide range of American people and institutions
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, www.bibalex.org | 36-month grant of $1,000,000 for publications and programming on history and science
Bridgeway Group, Cambridge, MA, www.bridgewaygroup.org | 24-month grant of $300,000 as a final grant for an International Network of Centers for Excellence in Negotiation
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, IL, www.thebulletin.org | 36-month grant of $500,000 for activities to inform public policy about nuclear and other major dangers to global security
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc., Washington, DC, www.csis.org | 18-month grant of $260,000 for research on relations among Russia, Turkey and Iran and the implications of these for the United States
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.uchicago.edu | 36-month grant of $500,000 for research and outreach by the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism
Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Washington, DC, www.case.org | 24-month grant of $450,000 for improving educational advancement capacity at selected African universities
George Washington University, Washington, DC, www.gwu.edu | 24-month grant of $2,000,000 for projects at the Elliott School of International Affairs
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, www.mak.ac.ug | 36-month grant of $1,000,000 for a challenge grant to match fundraising by the university to continue the Female Scholarship Initiative
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, www.miis.edu | 36-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
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, www.national-academies.org | 24-month grant of $300,000 for a scientific and policy dialogue with Russia on tactical nuclear weapons
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., New York, NY, www.nrdc.org 24-month grant of $450,000 for analysis on reducing risks from enrichment facilities and spent nuclear fuel
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, www.gc.cuny.edu | 24-month grant of $400,200 as a final grant to identify the conditions under which an emerging norm of the 'responsibility to protect' actually emerges and shapes government policy to prevent or react to mass atrocities in states at risk
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, www.princeton.org | 36-month grant of $900,000 for a project on controlling fissile material and nuclear energy
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, www.usc.edu | 21-month grant of $100,000 as a final grant for building the capacity of Muslim leadership in America through programs at the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute
University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, www.sun.ac.za | 36-month grant of $1,000,000 for the African doctoral academy, creating excellence in African academic research
Tobin Project, Cambridge, MA, www.tobinproject.org | 24-month grant of $300,000 for a project on linking national security scholarship to policy.
World Affairs Councils of America, Washington, DC, www.worldaffairscouncils.org | 15-month grant of $200,000 for a speakers series on Muslim societies
National Program
Achieve, Inc., Washington, DC, www.achieve.org | 24-month grant of $275,000 for a project to engage states in the next generation science standards
Achievement First, Brooklyn, NY, www.achievementfirst.org | 30-month grant of $1,527,600 for the implementation of the teacher career pathway, a systemic model for recognizing and motivating excellent teaching
Alliance for Excellent Education, Washington, DC, www.all4ed.org | 24-month grant of $1,500,000 for general support and the Center for Secondary School Digital Learning and Policy
Education Trust, Inc., Washington, DC, www.edtrust.org | 24-month grant of $980,000 for general support
Envision Schools, Oakland, CA, www.envisionschools.org | 24-month grant of $800,000 for the deeper learning student assessment initiative
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Washington, DC, www.edexcellence.net | 36-month grant of $500,000 for informing policymakers and the public on the many issues with current education governance and to explore school governance alternatives
James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc., Durham, NC, www.hunt-institute.org | 24-month grant of $378,000 for the next generation science standards
National Center on Time and Learning, Boston, MA, www.timeandlearning.org | 24-month grant of $1,000,000 for expanding learning time in the school turnaround model
New Teacher Center, Santa Cruz, CA, www.newteachercenter.org | 24-month grant of $920,000 for the implementation of iterative improvement processes to enhance the impact of the new-teacher induction program
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France, www.oecd.org | 12-month grant of $500,000 for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) pilot project
Philadelphia Youth Network, Philadelphia, PA, 12-month grant of $250,000 for planning to become a school design and development intermediary
State Voices, Detroit, MI, www.statevoices.org | 24-month grant of $600,000 for general support
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO, www.wiche.edu | 24-month grant of $550,000 for a pilot project to develop an interstate student passport for block transfer of general education courses
Special Opportunities Fund
National Public Radio, Inc., Washington, DC, www.npr.org | 24-month grant of $200,000 for expanded news reporting on education reform issues
Public Radio International, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, www.pri.org | 24-month grant of $150,000 for in-depth coverage of international affairs for 'The World,' a daily global news program.
Centennial Grants
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, www.ceip.org | 60-month grant of $10,000,000 for its 'Global Vision' in order to assist the Endowment to become a truly global think tank
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, www.ceip.org | 36-month grant of $950,000 for strengthening the Endowment's development and fundraising capacity
Initiatives Fund\Leadership
Miami Dade College Foundation, Miami, FL, www.mdcalumni.com | 12-month grant of $500,000 academic leadership award in recognition of Miami Dade college president Eduardo J. Padrón's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Foundation, Baltimore, MD, www.umbc.edu/exceptional/faq.php | 12-month grant of $500,000 academic leadership award in recognition of university of Maryland, Baltimore county president Freeman a. Hrabowski, III's outstanding academic and institutional leadership