Program Areas • Grants
Education
The aim of the education program is to help make government more representative of, and more responsive to, its citizens by enhancing their participation in public life.
Grants — 2006
| CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL STUDIES Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 |
| To continue the development of PolicyArchive.Net, a new Internet archive of public policy research. | |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES NATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC. Brookline, MA | $50,000 |
| For support of the first phase of a new project Pursuing Human Dignity: The Role of Law and Education, in conjunction with Harvard Law School. | |
| MEDIA ACCESS PROJECT Washington, D.C. | $150,000 |
| To support Media Access Project’s efforts to effect universal, inexpensive broadband access to the Internet and to ensure “net neutrality.” | |
| MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION Chappaqua, NY | $40,000 |
| To help support the planning phase of this project designed to collect, post, and create programming based on a digital archive of testimonies by 20th century women. | |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND (D/B/A THE NEW YORK TIMES COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM) New York, NY | $50,000 |
| To enable up to five students to work in public interest organizations over the next two summers and to contribute to the administrative expenses of this program. | |
| TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, NY | $50,000 |
| To continue the development of an online archive of over 50 years of interviews with historic figures, jurists, elected officials and academics from the public television series The Open Mind. | |
| TIDES CENTER San Francisco, CA | $20,000 |
| To help support the pilot phase of a new “expert” Wikipedia, designed to test whether the quality and reliability of information in the on-line encyclopedia can be significantly improved by adding expert editors and by requiring contributors to use their real names, instead of pseudonyms, when making changes.
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| Total: | $560,000 |