Carnegie Corporation Announces $27.2 Million in Grants
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced fourth-quarter grants totaling more than $27.2 million to twenty-five organizations.
Grants awarded through the foundation's international program include $936,000 over three years to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in support of the center's Nuclear Proliferation International History Project; nearly $500,000 over two years to ReThink Media to help strengthen the media capacity of the arms control and disarmament sector; and $839,500 over thirty months to Georgetown University to advance scholar-practitioner engagement through workshops, online publications, and case-study development.
Grants awarded through the foundation's national program include $1 million over eighteen months to the Relay Graduate School of Education in support of its Leverage Leadership Institute; $2 million over two years to Achieve, Inc. in support of efforts to advance state adoption and implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards; $3 million over three years to identify, incubate, and scale promising Next Generation Learning school designs; $4.5 million to NEO Philanthropy in support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative focused on immigrant civic integration at the state level; and $1.5 million to the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in support of its voting rights working group.
In addition, the foundation awarded a three-year, $500,000 special opportunity grant to the University of St. Andrews American Foundation in support of the Martyrs Kirk Postgraduate Research Library and Special Collections Reading Room.
