Arts Program
ARTISTIC CREATION & DISTRIBUTION
Theatre
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
$500,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support a third and final round of the Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant and Travel Subsidy Program, cultivate new or expanded funding resources, and document and disseminate lessons learned to the presenting and theatre fields.
www.artspresenters.org
Multi-Disciplinary Performing Arts
Creative Capital Foundation
$3,300,000 over 3 years
New York, NY – To support the Multi-Arts Production Fund, a national initiative that supports innovative and cross-cultural project creation in dance, theatre and music.
www.creative-capital.org
ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
Nonprofit Finance Fund
$15,125,000 over 5.75 years
New York, NY – To launch the Leading for the Future: Innovative Support for Artistic Excellence initiative, which will provide transformational capital and tailored advisory services over four to five years for up to 10 leading performing arts organizations in the contemporary dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields as they reposition themselves in bold and innovative ways for the future.
www.nonprofitfinancefund.org
NATIONAL SECTOR BUILDING
Core Support Grants for National Organizations
The following eight national arts organizations were selected in 2007 to receive core support grants from DDCF totaling $5 million:
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
$1.12 million over 4 years
Washington, DC – To provide general operating support and support to build cash reserves.
www.artspresenters.org
Chamber Music America
$400,000 over 4 years
New York, NY – To support organizational costs associated with programs and services for the jazz field.
www.chamber-music.org
Creative Capital Foundation
$330,000 over 3 years
New York, NY – To support organizational costs associated with programs and services for the dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields.
www.creative-capital.org
Dance/USA
$500,000 over 4 years
Washington, DC – To provide general operating support and support to build cash reserves.
www.danceusa.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
$145,000 over 4 years
San Antonio, TX – To support organizational costs associated with programs and services for the dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields, and to build cash reserves.
www.nalac.org
National Performance Network
$350,000 over 4 years
New Orleans, LA – To provide general operating support for this national network of performing arts presenters.
www.npnweb.org
Nonprofit Finance Fund
$755,000 over 4 years
New York, NY – To support organizational costs associated with programs and services for the dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields.
www.nonprofitfinancefund.org
Theatre Communications Group
$1.4 million over 4 years
New York, NY – To provide general operating support and support to build cash reserves.
www.tcg.org
Fund for National Projects
The following four organizations were selected in 2007 to receive grants totaling $500,000 for national projects:
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
$150,000 over 2 years
New York, NY – To support the National Health Insurance for Artists Initiative, which seeks to increase access to affordable health care for artists and improve the delivery and structure of such services.
www.lincnet.net
Mu Performing Arts
$100,000 over 3 years
Minneapolis, MN – To support strategic planning, a 2009 conference and a 2010 festival in Minneapolis for the National Asian American Theatre Project, which is a consortium of Asian American theatres in the U.S.
www.muperformingarts.org
Opera America, Inc.
$100,000 over 6 months
New York, NY – To support the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, Colorado.
www.nationalperformingartsconvention.org
Urban Institute
$150,000 over 1.5 years
Washington, DC – To analyze services and living/ work conditions for individual artists in the United States as a follow-up to the 2003 Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists.
www.urbaninstitute.org
Environment Program:
Habitat Conservation
IMPLEMENT LAND PROTECTION
Capital Grants
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
$10,800,000 over 3 years
Des Moines, IA – To work in partnership with The Conservation Fund and Ducks Unlimited to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.inhf.org
The Nature Conservancy
$13,000,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with key conservation organizations in the Rocky Mountain region to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.nature.org
Development of New Conservation Funding
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
$400,000 over 2.25 years
Washington, DC – To launch a campaign to mobilize corporate support for the implementation of state wildlife action plans.
www.nfwf.org
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts
Wildlife Conservation Society
$1,550,739 over 2 years
Bronx, NY – To support the Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund, which competitively awards grants to support projects that will accelerate the implementation of state wildlife action plans across the country.
www.wcs.org
BUILD CONSERVATION KNOWLEDGE
Monitoring & Evaluation
Defenders of Wildlife
$300,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support the testing, refinement and national launch of the Conservation Registry, which is a Web-based database that will enable organizations and individuals to report on and track conservation actions across the country.
www.defenders.org
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
$125,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC – To support the design of a comprehensive database of all protected areas in the United States.
www.nfwf.org
Education, Training & Research
Keystone Center
$153,979 over 7 months
Keystone, CO – To conduct a national dialogue within the wildlife conservation community to identify the major challenges and opportunities facing the community over the next five to 10 years, and what philanthropy can do to address those challenges and opportunities.
www.keystone.org
Environment Program:
Climate Change
Design Pricing Policies for Greenhouse Gases
Environmental Defense
$500,000 over 1 year
New York, NY – To contribute to an analysis of options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and their associated costs.
www.environmentaldefense.org /
Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
How Much at What Cost? (McKinsey & Company)
Harvard University
$750,000 over 2 years
Boston, MA – To support the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, which is being led by researchers from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Resources for the Future. The project will develop options for an international policy regime to address global climate change after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$500,000 over 2 years
Cambridge, MA – To support a project based at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research to help inform the U.S. policymaking process related to climate change by analyzing the European Union’s carbon dioxide Emissions Trading Scheme, options for limiting the economic burden of a federal regulatory regime, and options for harmonizing federal climate policies with evolving state and regional policies.
www.mit.edu
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
$395,000 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To produce Congressional briefing books on key design questions regarding U.S. climate policy, including the design elements of a cap-and-trade system and other key, complementary policies such as those related to coal use, transportation, carbon taxes and technology.
www.pewclimate.org
Resources for the Future
$750,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support work by RFF’s Climate and Technology Policy Program to research and write papers on the attributes, strengths and weaknesses of various climate policy design elements; conduct an in-depth quantification of the costs of carbon-control policies on various industry sectors, along with an assessment of policy options for ameliorating those costs; and assist in the development of a proposed post-2012 international framework for addressing climate change that will be acceptable to the U.S.
www.rff.org / Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options
World Resources Institute
$750,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support the work of WRI’s Climate and Energy Program to demonstrate the need for a mandatory federal greenhouse gas registry that is consistent with global greenhouse gas accounting standards; inform the debate regarding various climate policy design elements through the production of issue briefs and communication efforts; and identify ways to integrate climate impacts and opportunities into the national energy security debate.
www.wri.org
Deploy & Develop Clean-Energy Technologies
Bipartisan Policy Center
$490,000 over 1.5 years
Washington, DC – To support work by the National Commission on Energy Policy to determine a feasible mix of low-carbon technologies for the U.S. and recommend policy changes to facilitate their development and deployment.
www.bipartisanpolicy.org
Carnegie Mellon University
$1,850,000 over 2.5 years
Pittsburgh, PA – To enable a team of investigators at Carnegie Mellon, University of Minnesota, Vermont Law School and other institutions to work with a wide range of stakeholders and experts to design a regulatory structure for the capture, transport and deep geological sequestration of carbon dioxide in the United States.
www.cmu.edu
Clean Air Task Force
$845,000 over 1.5 years
Boston, MA – To create a strategy for investing in public and private research, development and demonstration of technologies that use coal for power generation without adding appreciably to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on innovative gasification and post-combustion capture pathways. A sub-grant to the Climate Policy Center of Clean Air-Cool Planet will enable that organization to develop specific recommendations for implementing ARPA-E, a recently authorized federal agency aimed at accelerating transformational advances in energy technology.
www.catf.us
Energy Foundation
$21 million over 3 years
San Francisco, CA – To support the Energy Foundation’s work in four areas: developing efficient building codes and building technologies in the U.S.; transforming U.S. utility regulation to make efficiency profitable and create vibrant markets for renewable energy; greening China’s building boom; and supporting the Energy Foundation’s core U.S. programs to build strategic flexibility.
www.ef.org
Harvard University
$1,460,000 over 3 years
Cambridge, MA – To support work by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to develop policy recommendations for an expanded U.S. federal energy-technology innovation endeavor; evaluate the U.S. federal energy research, development, and demonstration budget on an annual basis; and assess energy technology innovation activities in the private sector of the United States, as well as in the public and private sectors of China, India, Japan and Europe.
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$1,987,000 over 2 years
Cambridge, MA – To support a comprehensive assessment by the MIT Industrial Performance Center of the energy technology innovation system in the United States, including recommendations for improvements to federal and state research, development and demonstration policies, as well as mechanisms for early adoption and large-scale deployment of supply and demand-side innovations.
www.mit.edu
Medical Research Program
Clinical Research Career Ladder
2007 Clinical Scientist Development Awards
$8,100,000 over 3 years
In 2007, 20 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
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Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students
$9,000,000 over 3.5 years
In 2007, 12 medical schools received grants to support three classes of fellows for the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program (with fellowships commencing in 2008, 2009 and 2010), with six schools offering an international fellowship component.
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African Health Research
2007 Operations Research on AIDS Care and Treatment in Africa Grants
$2,000,000 over 2 years
In 2007, 10 teams of researchers received two-year grants of $200,000 each to support operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa.
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Child Abuse Prevention Program
Home Visiting
Georgia State University
$1,321,403 over 3 years
Atlanta, GA – To develop the National SafeCare Training and Research Center to increase the availability and use of the SafeCare home visitation program throughout the U.S.
www.gsu.edu
Early Education and Child Care
Center for the Study of Social Policy
$1,864,667 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue expansion of the Strengthening Families Initiative, which integrates child maltreatment prevention strategies into early education and child care systems, by creating and managing a National Network; providing technical assistance to states; developing and disseminating additional materials and tools focused on quality assurance; and tracking the progress of states and other jurisdictions implementing the Strengthening Families Initiative.
www.cssp.org
United Way of America
$1,835,585 over 3 years
Alexandria, VA – To launch a competition and award matching grants to up to six local or state United Way chapters to demonstrate how United Way can promote and integrate the prevention of child abuse and neglect into its early education work. United Way of America will provide training and technical assistance; coordinate learning activities; create and disseminate materials on promising practices; and evaluate the initiative.
www.liveunited.org
Pediatric Health Care
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$2,146,012 over 5 years
Chapel Hill, NC – To support a five-year statewide demonstration and research project in North Carolina for the Period of PURPLE Crying program, which provides educational materials to all new parents with information about the characteristics of infant crying, ways to deal with the frustration of not being able to soothe a baby, and emphasizes the importance of never shaking an infant.
www.unc.edu
Research & Special Projects
Princeton University
$209,941 over 2 years
Princeton, NJ – To support the production, dissemination and outreach activities for an upcoming edition of the Future of Children journal focusing specifically on prevention of child abuse and neglect.
www.princeton.edu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$666,670 over 2 years
Chapel Hill, NC – To hold two PREVENT Institutes focused on preventing child maltreatment, which will provide intensive training, coaching and technical assistance to a total of 20 teams from states, cities or local communities across the country. Competively selected teams will be comprised of leaders from relevant agencies and systems working on prevention in their locale (e.g., health, law enforcement, early education, social services).
www.unc.edu
10th Anniversary Grants
In recognition of its 10th year of grant-making in 2007, DDCF awarded grants to two organizations that presented unique and compelling opportunities to increase the public's knowledge and understanding about the work supported by the foundation (more details):
National Public Radio
$1.5 million over 2 years
Washington, DC – To provide general support for its news programming and to help underwrite its Climate Connections series.
www.npr.org
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
$1 million over 2 years
New York, NY – To document DDCF-funded works and conduct oral histories of DDCF-funded artists in contemporary dance, jazz and theater for its collections, as well as preserve deteriorating archival footage of Martha Graham.
www.nypl.org