Arts / Environment

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
American Architectural Foundation Washington, DC	To conduct a pilot program that brings together environmentalists, architects, engineers, developers, and commercial lenders to work collaboratively to surmount barriers to ecologically sustainable design.	$50,000	$50,000
Independent Production Fund New York, NY	To support Earth: A User's Guide, a television series based on environmental science. (1991 award, $200,000/2 years, canceled)	(190,000)	(40,000)
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)
Skystone Foundation Flagstaff, AZ	For Roden Crater, an environmental art and land restoration program in Northern Arizona. The project will create an interactive sculptural environment within a volcanic cylinder cone and undertake to reseed the surrounding landscape with original range grasses.	60,000	30,000
University of California Humanities Research Institute Irvine, CA	To convene Reinventing Nature, a series of conferences with nationally recognized scholars from the humanities, social, and natural sciences to articulate an environmentalism appropriate for the 21st century. (1991 award, $60,000/3 years)	30,000

Arts / Health

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Foundation for Dance Promotion New York, NY	For a major new dance work by choreographer Bill T. Jones entitled Still Here, which examines survival in the face of lifethreatening illness. The piece will be developed in workshops with terminally ill people across the country and performed in a national tour.	$50,000	$50,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America New York, NY	To support an Opposition Research Project to examine the social and political coalitions responsible for arts censorship campaigns and attacks on the reproductive health care community.	36,400	36,400

Arts / Jewish Life

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Alternative Media Information Center New York, NY	For the development of The Religious Right Video History Project, a sixhour public television series to explore the history of the religious right in America and its involvement in such areas as arts, antiSemitism, reproductive rights, and the environment.	$30,000	$30,000
DataCenter Oakland, CA	For Culture Watch, a monthly annotated bibliographic alert service on issues relating to freedom of expression, censorship, and the debate over public funding of the arts. This grant will focus on broadening distribution through a major marketing effort. (2 years)	70,000	70,000
Institute for First Amendment Studies Great Barrington, MA	To support the Committee on Religious Freedom's Project on Anti-Semitism, to research incidents of antiSemitism in the United States and disseminate information in the Freedom Writer and other publications.	35,000	35,000
Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC	To support Jerusalem/AIQuds/Yerushalayim, a presentation of Jerusalem's Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities at the Festival of American Folklife in Washington, DC.	40,000	40,000

Environment / Health

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Arkansas Institute for Social Justice Brooklyn, NY	To develop a replicable model for organizing and mobilizing the victims of lead paint poisoning. (3 years)	$225,000	$75,000
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation Sacramento, CA	To support the activities of the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment on issues of environmental health and environmental justice.	40,000	40,000
Citizens Fund Washington, DC	To determine the impact of specific health care reform proposals on families and senior citizens, and to provide training and technical assistance to statebased citizen organizations to promote pollution prevention policies.	50,000	50,000
The Environmental Health Coalition San Diego, CA	To package and communicate program guides and strategies for creating toxicfree communities in the region, state, and nation.	40,000	40,000
Environmental Health Network Chesapeake, VA	For followup activities to the publication of a study of the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, to continue and expand the Health Registry Program, and to initiate a formal leadership development program.	40,000	40,000
Environmental Support Center Washington, DC	For the Information for Action Program, a pilot project to establish an integrated servicedelivery approach for pollution prevention. (3 years)	60,000	20,000
INFORM New York, NY	To provide technical and material assistance to state and local environmental organizations working on issues of environmental health.	75,000	75,000
Institute for Public Policy Advocacy Washington, DC	To support the Leadership Fellows Program, to train citizen activists involved in health and environmental advocacy. (2 years)	100,000	100,000
Management Assistance Group Washington, DC	To provide technical assistance services to NCF grantees, especially those involved in grassroots environmental and health campaigns. (2 years)	100,000	100,000
Physicians For Social Responsibility Washington, DC	To launch an intensive three year program designed to make dramatic improvements in the nations' policies to reduce, control and clean-up toxic substances, with special emphasis on pesticides, the Superfund, and issues of international toxic contamination.	60,000	60,000
Water Information Network Albuquerque, NM	To provide technical, organizing, and financial assistance to grassroots citizens fighting environmental contamination in the Southwest and to facilitate cross-cultural communication among diverse populations facing pollution problems.	25,000

Environment / Jewish Life

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot Philadelphia, PA	To support Shomrei Adamah, an environmental organization that seeks to communicate the ecological aspects of Judaism to Jewish leaders and Congregations and bring a Jewish perspective to the interfaith environmental community.	$30,000	$30,000
Cathedral of St. John the Divinet New York, NY	To support Jewish participation in the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. ($150,000/3 years from Interprogram and $150,00013 New York, NYyears from Environment program)		100,000

Health / Jewish Life

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
New Israel Fund/Center for The Advancement of Women's Health in Israel Washington, DC	To enable the Israel Women's Network to establish the Center for the Advancement of Women's Health in Israel.	$30,000	$30,000
Shefa Fund/Jewish Healing Center Philadelphia, PA	To evaluate and define future goals of the Jewish Healing Center.	80,000	80,000

Commitment to Philanthropy

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Alliance for Justice Washington, DC	To support the Foundation Advocacy Initiative, to encourage grantmakers to support public interest organizations, and provide technical assistance to foundations on government regulation of nonprofit activity.	$35,000	$35,000
Council on Foundations Washington, DC	For membership and general support of the national association of grantmaking organizations.	31,900	31,900
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 generl support.	3,000	3,000
Grantmakers in the Arts Philadelphia, PA	For membership and generl 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.	7,700	7,700
The Shefa Fund/ Jewish Funders Network 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 of its efforts to encourage research and philanthropy to assist women and girls.	2,000	2,000
	TOTALS FOR 1993	$1,201,000	$1,266,000