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Pew Trusts Awards $1.8 Million to Election
Improvement Center
Reprinted from:
Philanthropy News Digest
December 26, 2001
Copyright 2001, The Foundation
Center.
All rights reserved.
The Philadelphia-based Pew
Charitable Trusts have announced a two-year, $1.8 million
grant to the University of California at Berkeley's Institute
of Governmental Studies to fund the newly established
Center for Campaign Leadership, part of a project that seeks
to improve the quality of election campaigns by instituting
appropriate standards for candidates and their advisors.
Initially, the Improving Campaigns project
will work on developing a set of best practices based on academic
research and case studies to demonstrate how practicing better
politics can be a winning campaign strategy. At the same time,
the Center for Campaign Leadership will host one- and two-day
nonpartisan training institutes across the nation designed
to spread the knowledge and use of best-practices approaches
to campaigning within the context of a broader campaign training
and instruction program.
"Our mission is to have a fundamental impact
on the nation in the areas of politics and public policy through
research and training of individuals engaged in public service,"
said IGS director Bruce E. Cain. "This generous grant from
the Pew Charitable Trusts helps us to fulfill that mission."
Political strategists Dan Schnur, a Republican
consultant, and Darry Sragow, a Democratic consultant, have
been appointed co-directors of the new Center. Both Schnur
and Sragow team-teach undergraduate courses in campaign communication
and political management at UC Berkeley.
"UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
Announces $1.8 Million Grant From Pew Charitable Trusts to
Fund Center for Campaign Leadership." Pew Charitable Trusts
Press Release. 12/19/01.
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