In hopes of persuading students to stay, community elders in Roscoe, Texas, have banded together to invest in school-to-career pipelines that create jobs near home. (Credit: Carnegie Corporation of ...

An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer (31 percent) see negative effects in their own communities New York, NY, ...

Moncef Slaoui was born in Agadir, Morocco, and grew up in Casablanca. Even though both of his parents had only high school educations, they were dedicated to creating educational opportunities for ...

Since 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has supported high-caliber scholarship and research in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our ...

Earning a PhD in biochemistry from Rice University, Joe Wong went on to become a successful scientist at the pharmaceutical company Aventis. In the evenings, however, Wong pursued his dream of comedy, ...

Congratulations to the 2024 Great Immigrants honorees! Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and ...

Teresa Romero was born into a large family of Spanish and indigenous Zapotec ancestry in Mexico City, and grew up in Guadalajara. Her father, who worked for a tortilla machine manufacturer, and her ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

Dimitri Simes was born in 1947 in Moscow in the former Soviet Union and graduated from Moscow University. Though he served as an analyst of international affairs at the IMEMO institute, he decided to ...

To strengthen Africa’s higher education sector by improving the training, retention, and research productivity of academics in select countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...

Vartan Gregorian served as the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grantmaking institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, from 1997 until his unexpected death on April 15, ...