REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS
Pre-Collegiate Education
arts-in-education
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation – $5,000
Brooklyn, NY
for Arts-in-Action, providing quality artistic instruction in drama, storytelling and writing, as well as dance and music, at P.S. 41 in Brooklyn
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts – $7,500
Katonah, NY
for "A Day in the Renaissance," and "What's in a House" arts-in-education programs for low income public school students in New York City and Westchester
Children's Art Carnival – $12,500
New York, NY
to help maintain the core arts program offerings for children and youth, and for the reserve fund to maintain operational solvency during a period of extraordinary challenges
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center – $15,000
New York, NY
continued support for the partnership with Manhattan School for Children
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. – $3,000
Brooklyn, NY
continued support for Sequential Art for Kids, utilizing "hands-on" methods to enhance literacy and cognitive development
Henry Street Settlement – $5,000
New York, NY
for the 2007 Arts-in-Eduction Program, providing learning opportunities in the visual arts, story telling/drama, dance and movement, architecture, and design/community studies
Orchestra of St. Luke's – $200,000
New York, NY
for the Arts Education Program, now in its 30th anniversary year
The Rotunda Gallery – $7,500
Brooklyn, NY
to provide contemporary visual arts programming in Brooklyn's inner-city schools
Theatre for a New Audience – $15,000
New York, NY
for the Arts in Education programs introducing Shakespeare to New York City students
Young Concert Artists – $10,000
New York, NY
support for YCA's New York City Educational Residency Program
Young People's Chorus of New York City – $10,000
New York, NY
funding to continue and expand the Satellite In-School chorus program in inner-city public schools
math and science
Academy for Educational Development – Educational Equity Center – $10,000
New York, NY
for After School Math PLUS in Queens, New York, creating a partnership between after-school programs and local science museums
Black Rock Forest Consortium – $10,000
Cornwall, NY
support for selected New York City public schools to enable students to participate in The School in the Forest program
Hudson Guild – $8,000
New York, NY
funding for the Guild's Early Childhood Education math and science programs
New York Botanical Garden – $8,000
Bronx, NY
support for the Garden's Professional Development Program for Teachers, providing educators with basic science content and raising their comfort level and self-confidence with regard to teaching science
Peabody Museum of Natural History – Yale University – $36,340
New Haven, CT
support for the Peabody Global Change Education Program that will train teachers and produce curriculum resources for enriched science education for primary school students
Rocking the Boat – $10,000
Bronx, NY
for the math and science components of the On-Water Program, training students in Maritime Skills and Habitat Restoration
national school change
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education – $15,000
New York, NY
to help underwrite the high school program, Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21st Century
Education Commission of the States – $80,000
Denver, CO
continued support for the National Center for Learning and Citizenship working with state and district education and legislative leaders to ensure that students have the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills, and dispositions critical to democracy
NYU/Steinhardt School of Education – $150,000
New York, NY
continued support for the initiatives, training responsibilities, and outreach of the National School Reform Faculty
Shelburne Farms – $100,000
Shelburne, VT
funding for the expansion of the "Sustainable Schools Project," including participation in the development of Schools and Communities that Learn for Sustainability, a nationwide consortium led by Peter Senge
Vermont Community Works – $20,000
South Burlington, VT
to enhance their national and international impacts by strengthening the partnership for professional development between VCW, Shelburne Farms and other NGO's
Vermont NSRF Center of Activity – $133,350
Montpelier, VT
continued support for their work to make the National School Reform Faculty model of reflective practice integral to Vermont's school reform agenda
Washington Central Friends of Education – $8,000
Montpelier, VT
support for the Cultural Links Program, providing opportunities for Vermont students to gain an increased understanding of global cultures
Youthlinks – $6,000
Rockland, ME
support for "Youthlinks by Design," a service learning program that allows adults and youth to work together to assess a community need and undertake a service project to address it
student voice
Arts Engine, Inc. – $20,000
New York, NY
to continue their media work with pre-collegiate students
Early Stages – $15,000
New York, NY
for the Early Stages Power Writing Program, enhancing multiple literacies for inner city youth, and providing teacher training
LA Youth – $5,000
Los Angeles, CA
continued support for the Foster Youth Writing and Education Project helping children research the causes of teen crime and the response of the juvenile justice system
Northern Stage – $10,000
White River Junction, VT
support for Project Playwright, a literacy and mentoring program for elementary school children in central Vermont and New Hampshire
WNYC Radio – $5,000
New York, NY
support for Radio Rookies, a program that trains teenagers from underserved neighborhoods to use the media arts to tell true stories about themselves, their communities, and their take on the broader world
Women's Expressive Theater, Inc. – $7,500
New York, NY
support for The Risk Takers Film Series, a program teaching high school girls to look at media with critical intelligence and to make independent choices
Conserving Biodiversity
American Bird Conservancy – $10,000
The Plains, VA
protecting neotropical migrant birds in southwestern Dominican Republic
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies – $100,000
Corpus Christi, TX
continued support for the Project of the Northwest Coast: A Comprehensive Research and Conservation Program for Cuba's Gulf of Mexico Coast
Houston Zoo – $6,000
Houston, TX
to fund a project focusing on several threatened amphibian species native to Panama; and to establish an in-country, state-of-the-art facility to quarantine, treat, exhibit and breed native amphibian species
Marine Biological Laboratory – $200,000
Wood Hole, MA
to help establish a Faculty Support Fund at the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, critical to the retention of current investigators and the recruitment of additional junior scientists
Yale University/ Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies – $10,000
New Haven, CT
funding for the research project entitled "Merging DNA and Field Studies to Manage Giant Galapagos Tortoises: Looking for a Mate for Lonesome George"
Zoological Society of San Diego – $11,500
San Diego, CA
for the collection and preservation of African Bull Elephant semen
Collections Care and Conservation
Columbia University Libraries – $15,000
New York, NY
to continue the work at the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research and to continue the care for its archives of several human rights organizations
Friends of Hildene – $8,000
Manchester, VT
for UV protected interior storm windows for the Lincoln Family Archive and Research Center
Lower Hudson Conference – $7,500.00
Elmsford, NY
to fund the Practicum for Museum Professionals in 21st Century Historic House Museums, to meet the need for training for museum professionals in historic house museums in the Hudson Valley and Greater NY Region
Museum Development Associates – $7,075
Santa Fe, NM
general operating support to conduct ten training workshops in collections care for small and rural museums in New Mexico
North Suburban Library System – $5,000
Wheeling, IL
to create digital photos of Native American dolls, toys and games, so that they may be available to the general public for research through the NSLS Digital Past Web Site
Queens Library Foundation – $10,000
Jamaica, NY
to fund the preservation, conservation, cataloguing, storage and digitization of the Library's Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project permanent collection of nearly 400 works on paper
Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples
First Nations Development Institute – $150,000
Longmont, CO
general operating support over five years
First Peoples Human Rights Coalition – $5,000
Brooklyn, NY
renewed funding to make available reliable legal and educational human rights materials for use by American Indian leaders, nations, tribes, and organizations
Native American Rights Fund – $50,000
Boulder, CO
general operating support over two years
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