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American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution (Washington, D.C.) – International Mediation Leadership Conference
$10,000 to fund the compilation, publication, and distribution of papers and articles developed in conjunction with a 2008 international summit in the Hague, bringing together leading international ADR organizations and practitioners to discuss current trends, develop new collaborations, and advance the field. www.abanet.org/dispute |
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American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution (Washington, D.C.) – “Words Work” Program
$37,000 to promote and teach leadership and communication skills to youth, enabling them to become leaders and productive citizens. The program emphasizes skills, including conflict prevention, rather than particular processes, demonstrating how these skills can turn information into power and conflict into opportunities for greater understanding and meaningful solutions. www.abanet.org/dispute |
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Association for Conflict Resolution (Washington, D.C.) – Peer Mediation Youth Conferences
$10,000 to help support two regional youth conferences bringing together peer mediators from throughout the region and successful professional mediators attending ACR’s annual conferences in Austin, TX and Atlanta, GA. www.acrnet.org |
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Center for Citizen Peacebuilding (Irvine, CA) – Training Materials for Gang-Intervention Workers
$48,000 to develop a training manual and DVD of simulated mediations for counselors and other dispute resolution providers working in communities with high levels of gang violence. The materials will offer constructive approaches to addressing violent conflict between gangs, at-risk youth, and other individuals in troubled areas. www.citizenpeacebuilding.org |
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Community Boards (San Francisco, CA) – LGBT Curriculum
$10,000 to support the development and implementation of a specialized conflict prevention and anti-harassment curriculum and training program for Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) youth. A pilot program in San Francisco, a national epicenter for programs addressing the needs of school-aged LGBT youth, will serve as a model for replicating and expanding the program nationally. www.communityboards.org |
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Community Mediation Maryland (Glen Burnie, MD) – Prisoner Re-Entry Mediation Program
$10,000 to support the development and growth of a pilot program providing re-entry mediation services to inmates preparing for release from Maryland prisons. The program will serve inmates, their families, and other support people by helping them develop a mutually agreeable plan for re-entry into the family and community before inmates are released. www.marylandmediation.org |
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Community Mediation Services (Jamaica, NY) – Intercultural Peacemaking Project for Youth
$10,000 to help fund a program providing communication and conflict resolution training to youth from diverse cultural backgrounds and assisting them in becoming trainers of diversity and conflict resolution education for others. www.mediatenyc.org |
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Consensus Building Institute (Cambridge, MA) – Workable Peace Teachers Guide DVD and Website
$50,000 to develop a training DVD preparing teachers to teach conflict management and dispute resolution using the organization’s Workable Peace curriculum, integrating conflict resolution training into existing history, social studies, and humanities curricula. www.cbuilding.org |
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CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium (New York, NY) – Make Talk Work Video Competition (Year 2)
Building on the success of previous JAMS Foundation grants funding a series of colorful bookmarks featuring tips on conflict prevention and dispute resolution and a video competition based on bookmark themes, this $40,000 grant funds a second year of the video competition, with winning submissions featured in a composite DVD and distributed online through YouTube and other online resources. http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/dispute |
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Educators for Social Responsibility (Cambridge, MA) – Expansion of Conflict Resolution Education Program
$50,000 to help fund a series of training institutes introducing educators nationwide to ESR’s successful and recently revised conflict resolution education curriculum for elementary school students. The updated curriculum includes linkages to national learning standards established under the No Child Left Behind Act as well as state-based standards for social and emotional learning. www.esrnational.org |
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Hamline University (St. Paul, MN) – International Conference on Negotiation
$30,000 to help fund an international conference on negotiation in Rome, providing members of the international business, legal, and academic communities with state-of-the-art training in the theory and practice of cross-cultural and trans-national negotiation. This grant funds the publication and dissemination of conference training materials and post-conference training critiques. www.hamline.edu/law/adr |
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Harvard Kennedy School of Government (Cambridge, MA)/International Bar Assocation – Dispute Resolution Resource and Learning Network
$23,000 to help fund a one-year pilot project to facilitate access to ADR on a worldwide basis. The initiative includes a “wiki” style online resource and learning network for businesses and vulnerable populations affected by their activities, designed to improve access to global conflict resolution mechanisms and address human rights disputes involving companies and their external stakeholders. www.baseswiki.org |
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Institute for Local Government (Sacramento, CA) – Inter-Governmental Dispute Resolution Project
$44,000 to fund an educational and promotional campaign to encourage and develop public sector demand for, and experience with, the mediation of inter-governmental disputes. This pilot program will serve as a model for local governments and public entities nationally. www.cacities.org/index.jsp?zone=ilsg |
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Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility (New York, NY) – Peace Helper Program
$10,000 to support their Peace Helper program, introducing K-2 students to conflict resolution by partnering with older peer mediators to learn and apply the basics of mediation. Each K-2 classroom in participating schools maintains a ‘peace corner’ where students go if they are upset or have a conflict, with Peace Helpers available to listen and, in appropriate cases, mediate disputes. www.morningsidecenter.org |
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Morris K. Udall Foundation/U.S. Institute for Environmental Dispute Resolution (Tucson, AZ) – Native Skills Exchange Workshop (Year 4)
$25,000 to support a continuing series of training workshops for ADR practitioners and parties involved in environmental, land use, and natural resource disputes involving Native American communities. The workshops are part of a wider effort to create a centralized, multi-cultural referral network for ADR practitioners and parties engaged in these disputes. www.udall.gov |
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Mosaic Project (Oakland, CA) – Companion Curriculum for Conflict Resolution CD
$10,000 to support the creation and distribution of a curriculum book to accompany an award-winning music CD. The songs and accompanying materials provide experiential, music-based lessons in conflict resolution to elementary school students. www.mosaicproject.org |
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Partners for Democratic Change (Washington, D.C.) – Symposium on Corporate-Community Diplomacy
$25,000 to help fund an invitational Symposium exploring opportunities for managing conflict and resolving disputes in evolving democracies. The Symposium will bring together corporate and governmental leaders to develop effective strategies for implementing dispute resolution systems supported by public policy and professional standards. www.partnersglobal.org |
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Peace Learning Center (Indianapolis, IN) – Peace Navigator
$20,000 to develop and launch an innovative, computer-based and DVD learning tool, incorporating live action video, animation and gaming to provide peacemaking and conflict resolution education that is interactive, accessible and fun to children aged seven to twelve. www.peacelearningcenter.org |
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Public Conversations Project (Watertown, MA) – “Bridging Divides” Training Videos
$50,000 to support the creation of two training videos on fostering dialogue, one geared to practitioners, providing tools and methods for successfully facilitating dialogue in a variety of settings, the other to community groups and underserved populations, offering practical guidance for addressing conflict within their organizations and communities. www.publicconversations.org |
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Quabbin Mediation (Orange, MA) – Training Active Bystanders Program
$10,000 to expand their Training Active Bystanders (TAB) program, teaching skills for safely intervening to prevent harm, developing bystander awareness, and encouraging positive action from others. In partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this grant will pilot the expansion of the TAB program from elementary and middle schools into institutes of higher education. www.quabbinmediation.org |
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Rand Institute for Civil Justice (Santa Monica, CA) – Conference on Transparency in the Civil Justice System
$15,000 to support a conference and related research regarding transparency in the civil justice system, including issues affecting public policy, data availability, and legal reform. www.rand.org/icj |
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Seattle University (Seattle, WA) – Out of the Ashes
Beginning as “Solomon’s Dilemma,” a documentary film about the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, the project was extended to a series of educational films on various aspects of the law related to this tragic event. This $40,000 grant will fund the production of the film focusing on alternative dispute resolution. The project has received the enthusiastic support of Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the Victim’s Compensation Fund and recipient of the JAMS Foundation’s first Distinguished Public Service Award. www.law.seattleu.edu |
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Temple University/Educators for Social Responsibility/Creative Response to Conflict – Conflict Resolution Training For Teachers
An ambitious initiative to substantially increase the number of public school teachers provided conflict resolution education and training. In partnership with graduate level departments of education and school districts nationwide, this two-year, $300,000 grant will provide conflict resolution training to pre-service and in-service teachers and administrators and develop support services intended to build capacity, sustainability, and a expanded culture of conflict prevention and resolution in schools. www.temple.edu/education; www.esrnational.org; www.crc-ny.org See CRETE workshop video. |