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   Milestones in Water Conservation

  WWF ,  July 2006

  Since 1961, WWF has been active with governments, local communities and many other stakeholders to save the health of some of the most threatened ecosystems and safeguard the livelihoods they sustain.

   Reducing Gun Violence: Community Problem Solving in Atlanta
   by Arthur L. Kellermann, Dawna Fuqua-Whitley, and Constance S. Parramore

   National Institute of Justice , June 2006

   The fifth report in NIJ's Reducing Gun Violence series examines the lessons learned from an ambitious program implemented during the late 1990s in Atlanta to reduce juvenile gun violence.

The city adopted a problem-solving approach within an existing program called "Project PACT." Atlanta PACT formed strategic partnerships with Federal, State, and local law enforcement and community-based groups to break the chain of illegal events leading up to juvenile gun violence. Some of the partnerships and strategies formed then endure today within Project Safe Neighborhoods. The report describes the program's methods and lessons for other communities.

   Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR)

  London September 2002

  The Commission was set up by the British government to look at how intellectual property rights might work better for poor people and developing countries. The first Commission meeting was in London on the 8th-9th May 2001, and the final report was published on 12th September 2002.

"An important new study shows the promise, and pitfalls, of intellectual-property rights for the poor."

    The Business of News: a Challenge for Journalism’s Next Generation

   by Cynthia Gorney, June 2002

   Carnegie Corporation of New York , Forum on the Public Interest and the Business of News

   American journalists have a major responsibility: working on democracy’s free press to inform citizens and officials about local, national and world events aswell as to provide a measure of public accountability for all institutions and their members.

In June 2002, a number of prominent journalists, publishers, news executives and deans of journalism and communications schools came to a daylong Carnegie Corporation forum to discuss a concern raised by many of us;namely, that the nation’s truly admirable journalism profession currently lacks sufficient tools to do its work—and, hence, democracy’s work—in a competitive environment of parsimonious corporate support and expanding global complexity.

    Ruassia: Facing the Future

   A Report of Carnegie Corporation of New York

   By Adam N. Stulberg, 2001

   Carnegie Corporation of New York Convenes Experts to Assess Russia Ten Years After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

   An assessment of Russia ten years after the fall of Communism focuses on the complexities, challenges and capacity of Russia to create a powerful democratic society and argues strongly that the United States has a vested interest in strengthening ties with its former superpower competitor. It calls for an "extensive re-engagement" by America with Russia that avoids "the pitfalls of either micromanaging or abandoning the cause of reform, while building on realistic expectations of Russia's internal development." 

   Lesbians and Gays in the Newsroom - 10 Years later

  A report from the Annenberg School for Communication

  University of Southern California , 2000 

  A national survey of gay and lesbian journalists' perceptions of coverage of sexual-orientation issues.

  Our goal in the 2000 survey was threefold: to assess how lesbians and gays are treated in present-day newsrooms; to assess coverageof lesbians and gays by news institutions; and last, but notleast, to assess the degree of change over the past 10 years.

  In this landmark study, lesbian and gay print journalists were asked to assess their own workplace conditions as well as coverage of lesbian and gay issues.

   The Information Commons, A Public Policy Report

    Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

   Free Expression Policy Project, 2004

   The Information Commons. Authored by former American Library Association President Nancy Kranich, this report is the first comprehensive, easy-to-read summary of a new movement that offers exciting alternatives to today's increasing restrictions on access to information, scholarly research, and other resources so necessary for democracy.