1994 Interprogram Grants

Arts / Environment

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
Arango Design Foundation
Miami, FL
For a museum exhibition of recycled objects entitled "Refuse," to stimulate environmentally responsible industrial design. $25,000 $25,000
Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
To support "Watermarks: Collaborative Strategies for Eco-Activism," four community-based art projects concerning humankind's use of water. 50,000 50,000
Edmundson Art Foundation
Des Moines, IA
For the "Wetlands Discovery Project" by artist Mary Miss, to increase public appreciation of the scientific and aesthetic attributes of the wetlands. 30,000 30,000
Milkweed Editions
Minneapolis, MN
To support the creation and publication of an anthology of essays and visual art on Native American responses to land issues. (1992 award, returned)   (30,000)
Safe Energy Communication Council
Washington, DC
For the Environmental Media Training and Leadership Development Program, to improve the communications skills of state and local environmental leaders. 35,000 35,000
Skystone Foundation
Flagstaff, AZ 
For James Turrell's environmental art project, the Roden Crater, which combines land restoration with an interactive sculptural environment inside a volcanic cylinder cone. (1993 grant: $60,000/2 years)    $30,000
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
To explore and implement environmentally responsible alternatives to current building construction practices. 50,000 50,000
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
For "Drylands and Ruins," an exhibition that examines environmental issues through the medium of photographic books. 30,000 30,000

Arts / Health

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
Center for Occupational Hazards
New York, NY
To support the efforts of the Center for Safety in the Arts to reduce illness and injury through public information, technical assistance, and advocacy. $40,000 $40,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
New York, NY
To support the Opposition Research Project in its examination of social and political coalitions responsible for arts censorship campaigns and attacks on the reproductive health care community. 38,175 38,175
WNYC Foundation 
New York, NY
To support "In the Mix," a public television program for adolescents about health, careers, relationships, and personal responsibility. 30,000 30,000

Arts / Jewish Life

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
Institute for First Amendment Studies
Great Barrington, MA
For support of the Committee on Religious Freedom's Anti-Semitism Project. $30,000 $30,000
Snitow / Kaufman Productions
Berkeley, CA
To support a one-hour documentary video on the relationship between Blacks and Jews. (2 years) 50,000 35,000

Environment / Health

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
Arkansas Institute for Social Justice
Brooklyn, NY
To organize low-income residents of inner cities to protect their children against the dangers of lead poisoning. (1993 award: $225,000/3 years)  
$75,000
Environmental Health Coalition
San Diego, CA
To support the development of strategies for creating toxic-free communities. 40,000 40,000
Environmental Health Network
Chesapeake, VA
To help meet the needs of people whose health is at risk because of toxic hazards in their communities. 35,000 35,000
Environmental Support Center
Washington, DC
For the Information for Action Program, a pilot project to establish an integrated service-delivery approach for pollution prevention.  
20,000
INFORM
New York, NY
To provide technical and material assistance to state and local environmental organizations working on issues of environmental health. 40,000 40,000
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Washington, DC
To support a program to improve the nation's policies on reducing, controlling, and cleaning up toxic substances. 50,000 50,000
Public Health Institute
New York, NY
To support the "Jobs and the Environment National Training Consortium: A Grassroots Training Program for Local Trade Union and Environmental Community Justice Activists." 40,000 40,000
Tides Foundation / Environmental and Economic Justice Project
San Francisco, CA
To help build the capacity of the environmental justice movement. 25,000 25,000
Water Information Network
Albuquerque, NM
To provide technical, organizational, and financial assistance to grassroots groups fighting environmental contamination in the Southwest. (1993 grant: $25,000) 30,000 55,000

Environment / Jewish Life

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
New York, NY
To support the Environmental Action Unit's work on land use, solid waste disposal and recycling efforts, and protection of Israel's water and wetlands. $50,000 $50,000
New Israel Fund / Israel Union for Environmental Defense
Washington, DC
To support the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Israel's first public interest law firm. 47,000 47,000

Health / Jewish Life

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side
New York, NY
To support the Jewish Healing Center's development as a national institution, influencing the ways that American Jews view issues of illness and health, promoting dialogue between Judaism and medicine, and guiding the Jewish community's own search for spirituality and meaning. (Total award: $450,000, 3 years; $150,000 in each of 1995 and 1996 from the Jewish life program) $150,000 $150,000

Commitment to Philanthropy

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1994 AWARDS 1994 PAYMENTS
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
New York, NY
To continue the group's efforts to increase awareness and support for the conservation of biological diversity. $10,000 $10,000
Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
For membership and general support for this national association of grantmaking organizations. 31,000 31,000
Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
For membership and general support. 3,000 3,000
Foundation Center
New York, NY
For general support of the principal source of information and analysis about foundations. 5,000 5,000
Grantmakers in Health
Washington, DC 
For membership and general support. 5,000 5,000
Grantmakers in the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
For membership and general support. 5,000 5,000
New York Regional Association of Grantmakers
New York, NY
For membership and general support of the organization of grantmakers in the New York area. 7,825 7,825
The Shefa Fund
Philadelphia, PA
For membership and general support of the Jewish Funders Network. 5,000 5,000
Women and Foundations / Corporate Philanthropy
New York, NY
For membership and general support. 2,000 2,000
TOTALS FOR 1994 $989,100 $1,094,100