Special Projects

In the Graph of the Day series by The Century Foundation, data will illustrate findings in public policy research.

In this series, fellows and staff from The Century Foundation investigates how citizens and infrastructure in the United States would be affected by the president's proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2012.

Reality Check is a series that separates the facts from the political rhetoric about the important policy issues of our time.

The Century Foundation, with the support of the Knight Foundation, formed a working group in the summer of 2002 to examine the decisions made by both government and media since the September 11 attacks.

A set of policy papers intended to assess and critique the policy approaches of recent years and to propose a new framework for approaching U.S.-Russia relations.

A nonpartisan group of prominent election law scholars and voting reform experts produced a groundbreaking set of policy recommendations to help state legislators and election officials improve their voting procedures in upcoming federal elections.

insideIran.org is a website looking at five core areas of the Republic of Iran: Domestic Relations, Foreign Relations, Nuclear Program, U.S. Iran Relations and Clerics through a lens of current feature news, media analysis and critical commentary.

The project featuring an international task force co-chaired by Ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas Pickering, has released its report, Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace. It recommends a political path that might lead to ending the war. TCF received major support for the project from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and additional support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung of Germany and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Century Foundation, in cooperation with the National Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and former colleagues of Peter A. A. Berle, created an award intended to recognize environmental integrity demonstrated by public officials and private citizens in the United States. Peter A.A. Berle was a Century Foundation trustee.

A Task Force to focus on strengthening community colleges with the intention of saving them from becoming “separate and unequal” institutions.

The project featuring an international task force co-chaired by Ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas Pickering, has released its report, Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace. It recommends a political path that might lead to ending the war. TCF received major support for the project from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and additional support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung of Germany and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform urged policymakers to focus on reducing the economic vulnerability of older Americans and improving their health, rather than basing policy primarily on the Medicare's potential financial difficulties