News Backlog in Immigration Cases Continues to Climb Backlog in Immigration Cases Continues to Climb Cases awaiting a hearing in the nation's Immigration Courts reached an all-time high of 228,421 in the first months of fiscal year 2010, accordin...
News The Faces of Contemporary Islam The Faces of Contemporary Islam The Faces of Contemporary Islam a new report of the Women's Foreign Policy Group focuses on the diversity and complexity of Islam and on ways to promote a better...
News Turning Around Struggling Urban Schools is Aim of Grantee Initiative Turning Around Struggling Urban Schools is Aim of Grantee Initiative Mass Insight Education & Research Institute will create a series of Achievement Zones—intensive local partnerships—to turn cl...
News Technology and the Future of Student Assessment Technology and the Future of Student Assessment A new Carnegie Corporation-funded report argues that technology has the potential to drastically improve our current assessment systems and practices,...
News Bioterror Threat Perceived as Real but Low, Says Survey of Scientists Bioterror Threat Perceived as Real but Low, Says Survey of Scientists Researchers working in the biological sciences perceive a potential—but not overwhelming—risk of a bioterror attack in the next ...
News ReligionLink.org: Covering Islam 101 ReligionLink.org: Covering Islam 101 A Carnegie Corporation grant to the Religion News Writers Foundation has supported the creation of ReligionLink.org, a virtual Covering Islam 101 site for news m...
News Iran’s Nuclear Standoff Iran’s Nuclear Standoff A new path for nuclear energy in Iran is laid out in an analysis co-authored by Carnegie Corporation grantee Siegfried S. Hecker with Stanford University Iran scholar Abbas M...
News The High Cost of Principal Turnover The High Cost of Principal Turnover The turnover rate for school principals is among the worst of any industry in the country—coming in fourth behind mining and logging, retail, and leisure and hosp...
News Funders Discuss Moving Immigration Reform Forward Funders Discuss Moving Immigration Reform Forward On March 5th at 3pm ET, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy will be hosting a webinar on what local and national funders have done an...
News Researcher Chronicles the Lives of African Immigrants in the Bronx Researcher Chronicles the Lives of African Immigrants in the Bronx A Carnegie Corporation-funded research project sheds light on one of the largest West African enclaves in the northeastern United S...
News Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation in STEM Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation in STEM A new Carnegie Corporation-funded report published by the National Academies cites relatively low levels of minority representation in scien...
News Nuclear Disarmament Will Require Shared Responsibilities, Say Authors of New Carnegie Corporation-Funded Papers Nuclear Disarmament Will Require Shared Responsibilities, Say Authors of New Carnegie Corporation-Funded Papers Achieving the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons will require the increased engag...
News Today’s Global Nuclear Dangers Documented in New Film "Nuclear Tipping Point" Today’s Global Nuclear Dangers Documented in New Film "Nuclear Tipping Point" Nuclear Tipping Point is a new Carnegie Corporation-funded documentary film that focuses on conversations with four men ...
News Five Questions for LaVerne Evans Srinivasan Five Questions for LaVerne Evans Srinivasan LaVerne Evans Srinivasan, Vice President, National Program and Program Director, Education at Carnegie Corporation of New York, speaks with Deanna Lee, th...
News Investing for Real and Permanent Good Investing for Real and Permanent Good Hear Carnegie Corporation's own co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew and Meredith Jenkins interviewed for the podcast Investing for Real and Permanent Goo...
News The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education The best strategies for improving the lives of low-income students are the subject of a new book called Restoring Opportunity. The v...
News Big Foundations' Africa Partnership Offers Lessons for U.S. Universities Big Foundations' Africa Partnership Offers Lessons for U.S. Universities After 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education, a major philanthropic effort t...
News Three National Foundations Launch "New Century High Schools Consortium for New York City" with New York City Public High Schools Three National Foundations Launch "New Century High Schools Consortium for New York City" with New York City Public High Schools FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Carol Rava Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati...
News The 'Root' of Strategic Grantmaking The 'Root' of Strategic Grantmaking Elihu Root, statesman, Nobel Peace Laureate and the man whom Andrew Carnegie credits with encouraging him to establish the Corporation, is recalled by Andrés Henr...
News Michele Cahill Rejoins Carnegie Coporation of New York as Vice President A leader in New York City education reform, Cahill will coordinate education and domestic grantmaking
News Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees Honors Retiring Member Dr. Susan Hockfield Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees Honors Retiring Member Dr. Susan Hockfield New York, New York, December 4, 2014 — The Board of Trustees of Carnegie Corporation of New York honored board membe...
News Carnegie Corporation Trustee Senator Sam Nunn and Senator Richard G. Lugar Honored With Tenth Annual Heinz Awards Carnegie Corporation Trustee Senator Sam Nunn and Senator Richard G. Lugar Honored With Tenth Annual Heinz Awards FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carnegie Corporation of New York Office of Public A...
News First Andrew Carnegie Medals of Philanthropy Announced Walter and Leonore Annenberg, Brooke Astor, Irene Diamond, the Gates Family, the Rockefeller Family, George Soros and Ted Turner Will Be Honored at Celebration Marking Centennial of Carnegie's Philanthropy
News Former Carnegie Corporation President Alan Pifer Dies At 84 Led Corporation's Focus On Social Justice and Strengthening the Rights of the Disadvantaged from 1967 to 1982
News Carnegie Corporation Announces Staff Changes Carnegie Corporation Announces Staff Changes Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, announced to the Board of Trustees at the October board meeting the promotion of Narciso...