To strengthen Africa’s higher education sector by improving the training, retention, and research productivity of academics in select countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Carnegie Corporation of New York has been a major American philanthropic supporter of higher education in Africa for over two decades. Our grantmaking seeks to deepen and expand the continent’s advanced academic communities, networks, and universities, and promote policies that inform the growing higher education sector.
The Power to Thrive
Encompassing all of our core program areas, Community Impact Grants respond to the diverse needs in each of the communities we serve across Arizona. Additional consideration is given to programs that serve under-resourced populations.
Core Program Areas:
The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States that support the preservation, promotion, and advancement of American Indian self-sufficiency and culture.
The Foundation’s charter mandate encompasses the preservation, promotion, and advancement of American Indian self-sufficiency and culture in the United States, including programs for:
The Domestic Public Policy Program supports projects that will help the public and policy makers understand and address critical challenges facing the United States. To that end, the Foundation supports research on and evaluation of existing public policies and programs, as well as projects that inject new ideas into public debates.
Arnold Ventures’ (AV) Evidence-Based Policy team invites grant applications to conduct randomized
controlled trials (RCTs) of social programs in any area of U.S. policy in which:
(i) AV will fund the RCT, and government or another entity will fund the program’s delivery; and
(ii) The RCT meets the additional selection criteria set out below.
Arnold Ventures (AV) is a nonpartisan philanthropy whose core mission is to invest in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. This Request for Proposals—a joint effort of AV’s Criminal Justice and Evidence-Based Policy initiatives—seeks grant applications to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of criminal justice programs and practices (“interventions”) in the United States that fall into one of three tiers:
The U.S. Department of Education’s Guidance for state agencies overseeing early childhood education recognize that children who receive a high quality education in the early years are more likely to read, write and do math at grade level; graduate from high school; go to college; secure a good job and support stable families. These children are also less likely to be referred for special education, held back in school, become a parent at a young age and enter the juvenile justice system.
Arizona State University President Michael Crow honored staff and faculty members during the 2021 President’s Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday.
The annual event recognizes collaborative initiatives that have demonstrated excellence in advancing the university’s mission: the President's Award for Innovation, which went to two programs, and the President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness, which went to three programs this year.
Individual employees were also honored with Serving University Needs (SUN) Awards, which are decided by peers.
For many, Halloween is a time to have fun with costumes and haunted houses. For creatives, it can also be an inspiring time.
Just ask Craig A. Mertler, an associate professor in the EdD Program in Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
When’s he’s not teaching, writing textbooks or working on a research paper, Mertler writes murder mystery novels. His first one, “Tequesta University” (2018), takes place on a college campus.
Is he trying to tell us something? Maybe or maybe not, but he certainly is entertained.
The education system that exists today was never designed to meet the needs of all students — or teachers, says Amy Junge, director of Teacher-Powered Schools at Education Evolving.
