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Grants: Year 1994 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) |
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(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) |
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$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) |
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$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. |
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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 |
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TOTALS FOR 1994 |
$989,100 |
$1,094,100 |
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