Foundation Funding

Additional Information:

The Foundation works with local communities to build IXPs in markets where they are needed, level up existing IXPs to realize their full potential, and further develop regional organizations and communities that support peering and interconnection. Grant funds are available to assist in training, capacity building, community development, and equipment purchases (switches, optic modules, servers, and routers).

The Foundation’s peering and interconnection work endeavors to:

• Further our 50/50 Vision to ensure half of all Internet traffic in emerging economies stays local by 2025
• Strengthen collaboration with regional partners on IXP development in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and other regions
• Implement the IXP initiative of the Coalition for Digital Africa

Program Objectives

• Increase the amount of Internet traffic within local infrastructure, reducing costs associated with traffic exchange between networks
• Provide support to build new and enhance existing IXPs to ensure their long-term sustainability
• Champion the development of peering and interconnection by building local capacity in collaboration with regional entities

Focus Regions

• Emerging economies
• Low-income economies
• Small island developing states

NOTE: This is probably best for those with strong collaborative partnerships in the above regions.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu

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Additional Information:

Arnold Ventures (AV) is a nonpartisan philanthropy whose core mission is to invest in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. AV focuses on correcting system failures in the United States through evidence-based solutions. AVs’ Criminal Justice Initiative seeks to generate new evidence to inform policies that will make communities safer and make the criminal justice system more fair and effective. This Request for Proposals (RFP) from the Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) seeks letters of interest to conduct causal research projects of policies, practices, and interventions related to community safety and the criminal justice system.

To be eligible to submit through this funding opportunity, research projects must adhere to the following criteria:

• Propose a strong causal research design, which can reliably and validly isolate the treatment effect of a policy, practice, or intervention. Examples of such research designs include difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variable, and randomization.

• The policy, practice, or intervention being tested is in the United States.

• Outcomes include measures of real-world behaviors (such as crime rates or criminal justice involvement), as opposed to measures collected in a controlled lab setting or measures of perceptions.

Submissions are welcome across all issues of crime and criminal justice that meet the above criteria. The ultimate goal of this RFP is to build credible evidence on policies, practices, and interventions that can improve crime and justice system outcomes and grow the number of policies and practices rigorously shown to produce improvements in community safety and to make the justice system fairer and more effective.

AV will prioritize studies that:

• Focus on interventions where there is a clear path to federal and/or state policy adoption or implementation. Is there a state or federal policy lever available to scale this intervention?

• Outcomes are measured using administrative data, where they exist.

• Are led by researchers who have not previously received funding from Arnold Ventures as the primary or principal investigator, or are early-career/junior researchers (those who received their PhD in the past 6 years).

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

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