Una Chapman Cox Foundation

American diplomacy project phase iii: the Cox Foundation contracted with the american academy of diplomacy to secure adoption and funding for key recommendation of the american diplomacy project, phase ii, blueprints for a more modern u.s. Diplomatic service, a 2022 project of the Cox Foundation developed with Arizona state university. In the execution of phase iii, the Cox Foundation has secured support from the department of state in furtherance of the phase ii recommendations and has sought legislative support and funding for said recommendations. The Foundation has also engaged in a wide-reaching public outreach program to build support for the implementation of the phase ii recommendations to strengthen the u.s. foreign service.

Dg scoring rubric tool: with support from the Cox Foundation, the state department's bureau of global talent management developed a rubric to score individual elements of the foreign service promotion precepts, enabling all foreign service employees who competed for promotion to see how selection boards evaluated their accomplishments in each individual precept. This scoring rubric improves transparency in the promotion process and provides useful information to foreign service officers how they could improve overall performance.

Foreign service - congressional communication workshops: the Cox Foundation contracted with the partnership for a secure america to develop content for and host two additional foreign service - congressional communications workshops in 2023-24. The first workshop hosted 14 state department and 16 congressional staff; applications are currently being received for the second workshop scheduled to begin in march 2024. The Cox Foundation and psa will jointly organize and host an additional three workshops in 2024-25.

Grants:cox sabbatical fellowships $80,000fsi training support $15,000fsi pilot management program $118,050dg focus groups for foreign service spouse support $60,000president's contingency project $10,000total $283,050