Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced eleven grants totaling more than $3.6 million to foster new ideas and practical solutions around the issues of multilateralism and the connections between domestic and foreign policies in the United States.

Selected from more than three hundred proposals, eleven grants were awarded through the Corporation's International Peace and Security program with the potential to generate new ideas, frameworks, policy recommendations, and action plans through studies of global health, counterterrorism, immigration, climate change, federal spending, and government accountability. Recipients include the Center for Civilians in Conflict, which was awarded $300,000 in support of a partnership with the Stimson Center to identify why the accountability of security institutions falls short in the United States and abroad, and explore approaches to increased accountability; Mercy Corps, which will receive $350,000 in support of a partnership with Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration to examine how climate change relates to migration — especially from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America — and how it intersects with poverty and violence; and the Open Earth Foundation, which was awarded $500,000 to build international cooperation and accountability on climate agreements by developing an independent climate accounting network to collaborate with multilateral institutions, national governments, and non-state actors and improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting and enhance trust and accountability in the Paris Agreement.

Additional recipients include the World Conservation Society, which was awarded $500,000 for efforts to mobilize research and networking to advocate for a unified, multilateral One Health approach that highlights the interconnection among people, plants, wildlife, and their shared environment to prevent future pandemics; the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, which will receive $200,000 to examine the implications of the 2021 expiration of the 2011 Budget Control Act, which was designed to balance federal spending between domestic and foreign policy priorities by stipulating that increases for social programs run parallel to increases in defense spending; and Colorado State University, which was awarded $450,000 to track how foreign and national security policies affect local communities across the United States.

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