Carnegie Corporation of New York

Leadership & Staff

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William J Poorvu Co-founder and chair of the Baupost Group; Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus at Harvard Business School

• investment committee member

Shirley Malcom Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Board Member (past)

Meredith Jenkins Vice President & Co-Chief Investment Officer , Carnegie Corporation of New York

• Co-Chief Investment Officer ('11→'16)

Kim Lew CEO, Columbia University endowment; former chief investment officer, Carnegie Corp.

• Chief investment officer ('07→Oct '20)

Jane Holl Lute President and CEO of SICPA North America; former Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

• Executive Director, Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict ('94→'99)

Fred Hechinger NY Times Education Writer, Later Advisor to Carnegie Corporation

• Senior Advisor ('91→?)*

Eli Evans Historian, Involved with Various Foundations

• Program Officer ('68→'78)*

John W Gardner Common Cause founder, former Carnegie Corp. president, LBJ HEW secretary

• 1946 ('67→?)*

Lloyd Morrisett Co-founder of Children's Television Workshop

• Executive Assistant to President John Gardener ('59→'69)*

Alan Pifer Former President Carnegie Corporation

• President ('53→'82)*

Board Members

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Stephen A Oxman Senior advisor, Morgan Stanley

• Trustee

Ana Palacio Senior Vice President for International Affairs and Marketing at Areva

• Trustee

Newton N. Minow Former FCC chair, law professor, PBS/NET board chair, Carnegie Corp. trustee

• Board of Trustees chair (past)

John J DeGioia President, Georgetown University

• Board Member

Vincent A Mai Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Cranemere Group Limited; founder and former CEO, AEA Investors

• Board Member (past)

Margaret Carnegie Only daughter of robber baron Andrew Carnegie

• Trustee ('34→'73)

Robert Rubin Clinton Treasury Secretary; co-chair of Council on Foreign Relations

• Trustee (past)

Kurt L Schmoke Former Mayor of Baltimore; Dean of the Howard School of Law

• Trustee

Janet L Robinson President & CEO of The NY Times Co

• Trustee

Thomas R Pickering Former SVP, International Relations, Boeing

• Trustee

Donors

New American Schools Education Nonprofit established by George HW Bush

• Funder

Task Force On Teaching As A Profession Carnegie Funded Initiative Run By Marc Tucker 1986

• Funder

A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the Twenty-First Century Carnegie Corporation Funded Paper Reimagining The Teaching Profession, Marc Tucker 1986

• Funded ('86)

National Assessment of Educational Progress

• Grant ('64)

Digital Promise National center created by Congress with bipartisan support to advance technologies that can transform teaching and learning

• Donation/Grant [+4]

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• Donation/Grant

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Donations

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Centre for International Security Studies (Sydney, Australia) Research and education unit within the University of Sydney, Australia

• Donor · 1,600,000 USD ('15)

Digital Promise National center created by Congress with bipartisan support to advance technologies that can transform teaching and learning

• Grant · 1,300,000 USD ('15)* [+6]

• Donation/Grant

• Donation/Grant

• Donation/Grant

• Donation/Grant

• Donation/Grant

• Donation/Grant

Regents Research Fund Privately funded think tank within the NYS Education Dept

• Donation · 1,200,000 USD

Leading Educators

• grant · 1,000,000 USD

UnboundEd Standards Aligned Curriculum

• Grant for OER Development · 1,000,000 USD ('19) [+2]

• Donation · 800,000 USD ('18)

• Grant ('16)*

Corporation for Public Broadcasting non-profit corporation to promote and help support public broadcasting

• Donation · 1,000,000 USD ('67)

Teach for America Leadership training & short term K12 teaching program oriented around districts with poverty

• Grant · 1,000,000 USD

National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education Reformer-Funded Teacher Training

• Grant · 800,000 USD ('16)* [+4]

• Grant · 650,000 USD ('15)*

• Grant · 200,000 USD ('16)*

• Grant · 50,000 USD ('14)*

• Grant · 25,000 USD ('12)*

The Learning Accelerator Advocate for Blended Learning in K12 Education

• Grant · 500,000 USD ('15)*

Brookings Institute Major Washington think tank

• Donation · 500,000 USD ('09)

Child Organizations

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Pittsburgh based legacy of Andrew Carnegie

• Child Org

Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy Became National Center on Education and the Economy (Mark Tucker)

• Child Org ('86→?)*

Public Television a Program for Action Whitepaper Laying Out Public Television System 1966, Carnegie Corp Sponsored

• Prepared for ('66→?)*

Carnegie Commission on Educational Television Carnegie Corporation Project Researching Role of Noncommercial Television

• Project ('65→?)*

Memberships

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

• Member

STEM Funders Network

• Member

Nudge4Mission / UVA Nudge Solutions Lab Digitally Managed Behavioral Economics

• Partner ('18→?)*

Miscellaneous Relationships

Nelson Gonzalez Social Impact Investor, Education and Tech

• Collaborator*

Eric J Gertler Chairman US News and World Report

• Honored as "Great Immigrant" ('17→?)*

Sesame Street Predecessor of Sesame Workshop, Renamed 2000

• Initiative ('67→?)*

Joan Ganz Cooney Founder of the Children's Television Workshop the creator of Sesame Street; married to billionaire banker Pete Peterson.

• Prepared TV Pre-K Studu ('66→?)*

Bellwether Education Partners

• Affiliation

Education Strategy Group

• Affiliation

Springpoint Schools School Redesign Consultant / Program

• Grantee

American Youth Policy Forum Professional Development Youth Issues

• Grantee*