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1 July 2013 Fung, Archon Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Transparency for Development: From Transparency to Accountability, Delivery and Impact $1,000,000 Hanna, Rema Innovations for Poverty Action Building Partnerships with Janaagraha $15,000 Open Society Presidential Fellowship and the Letts, Christine Open Society Institute Soros Rights and Governance Global Internship $21,581 Liebman, Jeffrey Laura and John Arnold Foundation Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab: Assisting Two Additional Governments $551,134 Ruggie, John Pacific Community Ventures Insight Global Policy Scan $101,378 Agency for International Development (USAID) The Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative $500,000 Amway (China) Co., Limited Executive Program for Civil Servants of the People's Republic of China $1,210,000 August 2013 Bunn, Matthew Carnegie Corporation of New York Nuclear Governance Priorities: Security, Nonproliferation, and Sustainability $800,000 Goldsmith, Stephen Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc. Regulatory Reform for the 21st Century City $200,000 Earthquake Administration of Gansu Province China Provincial Emergency Management Training Program $118,319 Disaster Recovery for Transportation: China's Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 and Japan's Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 $100,000 O'Sullivan, Margaret Pertamina Proposal for Research on Southeast Asia and Indonesian Energy and Geopolitics $200,000 Putnam, Robert Markle Foundation The Opportunity Gap $170,206 Putnam, Robert Ford Foundation The Opportunity Gap $150,000 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam Vietnam Executive Leadership Program Phase II $700,000

2 September 2013 Fung, Archon Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Leadership for State Health Officials (SHO) $522,110 Transparency for Development: From Transparency to Accountability, Delivery and Impact $267,203 Rogers, Todd Character Lab Character Lab Student Achievement Projects $101,329 Russell Sage Foundation New Directions for Research on the Effects of Economic Inequality $34,910 Spencer Foundation New Directions for Research on Effects of Economic Inequality $20,513 October 2013 Bilmes, Linda S.D. Bechtel, JR. Foundation Phase II - Case Studies of the Economic Value of the National Park Service $70,800 Fung, Archon Rockefeller Foundation Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security $50,000 Goldsmith, Stephen Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge Post-Prize Services $100,000 Hanna, Rema Hausmann, Ricardo U.S. International Trade Commission The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Southeast Asia Institutional Design Research and Capacity Building Initiative $58,469 U.S. International Trade Commission Founding Member $150,000 General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Officer Training $138,406 Leadership and Homeland Security $172,997 Curriculum Development for the National Guard Homeland Security Institute, Phase III $88,404 Masoud, Tarek Carnegie Corporation of New York Carnegie Centennial Fellowships $300,000 Pande, Rohini Rogers, Todd Brown University Can Anti-Poverty Programmes be Designed to Improve Women's Psycho-Social Health $240,000 Opening Minds By Exposing the Illusion of Understanding $13,609 Strengthening National Capacity in Developing Countries to Design and Implement Sector-Wide Indicators of Safety and Justice $982,691

3 November 2013 Ferguson, Ronald Raikes Foundation A Study of Middle School Student Engagement Using Tripod Project Data $178,689 Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Republic of China JFK at Harvard University - Taiwan Leadership Program $380,312 Shanghai Administration Institute Shanghai Executive Training Program on Public Management $61,000 December 2013 Goldsmith, Stephen Living Cities, Inc. Project on Municipal Innovation - Advisory Group $323,594 Hausmann, Ricardo Open Society Institute Economic Growth in Albania $1,500,000 Jasanoff, Sheila Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution INSPIRE Track 1: Transforming Remotelyconducted Research through Ethnography, Education and Rapidly-Evolving Technologies $199,063 Khwaja, Asim Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence - India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan $4,484,825 Lee, Henry BP International Limited Energy Geopolitics, Technology, and Markets Policy $2,100,000 Pande, Rohini Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Reducing Imbalanced Fertilizer Use in Bangladesh $169,140 Department of State FY2014 Vietnam Fulbright Economics Teaching Program $1,900,000 Yanagizawa-Drott, David Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Does Poor-Quality Hinder Agricultural Technology Adoption Evidence from the Market for Fertilizers in Uganda $49,999 January 2014 Cohen, Dara Folke Bernadotte Academy Causes and Effects of Rape Culture: Global Evidence from News and Social Media $36,944 Grindle, Merilee Catholic University of Bolivia MpD Program Support at Catholic University of Bolivia $90,000 Hausmann, Ricardo Andean Development Corporation The Product Space Research and Dissemination for CAF Development Bank of Latin America $150,000 Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab: Liebman, Jeffrey Rockefeller Foundation Transition Funding p $150,000 Masoud, Tarek National Science Foundation Religious Scripture and Political Behavior in the Muslim World $61,095 Ruggie, John Philanthropy Northwest Mission Investing $100,000 Executive Session on Finding Permanency Wilson, Julie Until The Last Child Situations for Crown Wards $107,580

4 February 2014 Belsky, Eric Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Achieving Excellence in Community Development $700,000 Goldsmith, Stephen John S. & James L. Knight Foundation The Mayoral Performance Analytics Initiative: Philadelphia and St. Paul $100,000 Khwaja, Asim Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Ministry of Labor Proposal for Policy Research Engagement with the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia $503,126 Masoud, Tarek Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Survey of Political Attitudes in Egypt $113,670 Executive Workshop on Management of Energy Stavins, Robert Enel Foundation and Environmental Policy $310,369 March 2014 Letts, Christine Boston Foundation Haiti Funders Forum $45,600 Leadership for the 21st Century: Delta Leadership Linsky, Martin Delta Regional Authority Institute $139,003 Putnam, Robert Ford Foundation The Opportunity Gap Project, Phase 2 $500,000 April 2014 Letts, Christine UBS AG Private Giving and Social Investment in Latin America $217,113 May 2014 Braga, Anthony Laura and John Arnold Foundation An Analysis of the Field Interrogation and Search Practices by the Boston Police Department $40,000 Ferguson, Ronald Barr Foundation Seeding Success $50,000 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Dr. John Friedman, John Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Friedman in Economics $50,000 Hausmann, Ricardo International Centre for Sport Security Sports Complexity and Governance Indicators $1,369,546 Kalt, Joseph Nathan Cummings Foundation The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development--Honoring Nations $25,000 Lee, Henry The China Sustainable Energy Program China Environmental Sustainability Fellows Program $154,509 Pande, Rohini National Bureau of Economic Research Regulating Industrial Pollution: Experimental Evidence from India $42,473 Putnam, Robert Spencer Foundation The Opportunity Gap: What is known and what do we need to know next $75,000 China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative III $881,000

5 June 2014 Gomez-Ibanez, Jose Transportation Cases Throughout the Curriculum $130,582 General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar $131,127 Letts, Christine Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Sustain Arts in g America $10,000 Levy, Dan University of Washington Inclusive Development: The Role of Mass Movements $25,743 Mayne, Quinton The Politics of Transport Policy in the Greater Copenhagen Region, $31,127 Muehlegger, Erich Land-Use Regulation and Commuting Patterns $84,791 A Randomized Experiment Using Report Card Rogers, Todd ICF International, Inc Content to Nudge Attendance $103,000 Ruggie, John Pacific Community Ventures Impact Investing and Public Policy $95,000

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