The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced third-quarter grants totaling $52.3 million.

Grants were awarded across all areas of Carnegie's grantmaking portfolio, including its Centennial, International, National, and Special Opportunities Fund programs. Centennial grants totaling nearly $3 million were awarded to nine organizations, including grants of $300,000 over twenty-four months to American, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale universities in support of social scientists from the Arab region; and one-time grants of $295,000 over twenty-four months to the University of Denver, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, and the University of North Carolina to provide mobility fellowships to social scientists from the Arab region.

International program grant recipients include the London-based Alexandria Trust, which was awarded $300,000 for an online publication; the D.C.-based America Abroad Media, which will receive $299,990 in support of media programming that connects citizens in the United States, Middle East, and South Asia; and the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., which was awarded $375,000 for a project to build consensus on a comprehensive nuclear waste management plan. In addition, the foundation awarded a $1.5 million general support grant to the Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, D.C.; $1 million to Denver Public Schools in support of its efforts to develop and open new secondary schools under the Opportunity by Design initiative; and $9 million to the New York City-based National Center for Civic Innovation for the ongoing growth, development, and sustainability of the 100Kin10 initiative.

Grants from the foundation's Special Opportunities Fund include an award of $250,000 to the Council of Independent Colleges in Washington, D.C., for a research and dissemination campaign in support of liberal arts colleges; $1 million to the Detroit-based Education Achievement Authority of Michigan to develop a leadership pipeline to support next generation schools; and $150,000 to the Public Radio Exchange in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for an oral history project focused on increasing public awareness of significant events during John F. Kennedy's political career.

For a complete list of grants awarded by the foundation during the quarter, see the Carnegie Corporation Web site.