ARTS PROGRAM

ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM

MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM

OTHER DDCF GRANTS

National Public Radio, Inc.

$300,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC – To provide general operating support for NPR’s national and international news coverage, including coverage of science and biomedical issues and reporting on children, youth and families.
www.npr.org

ARTS PROGRAM

ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM

MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM

OTHER DDCF GRANTS

National Public Radio, Inc.

$500,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC – To provide general operating support for NPR’s national and international news coverage.
www.npr.org

Arts Program

Environment Program:
Habitat Conservation

IMPLEMENT LAND PROTECTION

Capital Grants

The Nature Conservancy

$7,000,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with key conservation organizations in the Pacific Northwest region to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Idaho, Oregon and Washington, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.nature.org

Open Space Conservancy

$6,000,000 over 3 years
New York, NY – To work in partnership with key conservation organizations in the Northeast region to protect habitats identified as priorities in the state wildlife action plans for Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships. The Open Space Conservancy is the land acquisition affiliate of the Open Space Institute.
www.osiny.org

Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

Wildlife Conservation Society

$4,400,109 over 3.8 years
Bronx, NY – To renew support for 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

Education, Training & Research

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

$2,849,297 over 2.75 years
Princeton, NJ – To renew support for the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program, which supports future leaders in conservation enrolled in master’s degree programs at eight of the nation’s leading environmental schools, and promotes their employment in the public and nonprofit sectors.
www.woodrow.org

Environment Program:
Climate Change

Design Pricing Policies for Greenhouse Gases

Natural Resources Defense Council

$750,000 over 1 year
New York, NY - To conduct an analysis using economic models of how the value of emission allowances under a cap-and-trade program can be used to accelerate a transition to a clean-energy economy.
www.nrdc.org

Peterson Institute for International Economics

$1,500,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC - To collaborate with the World Resources Institute to examine the interplay between international climate change and trade policies and how they can be mutually supportive.
www.iie.com

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

$247,600 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To conduct educational outreach to federal policymakers on climate policy design.
www.pewclimate.org

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2008 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Awards

$9,000,000 over 5 to 7 years
In 2008, six outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over five to seven years.
View Grantees

2008 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$8,100,000 over 3 years
In 2008, 20 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
View Grantees

African Health Research

African Health Initiative Planning Grants for
Population Health Implementation & Training Partnerships

$1,716,328 over 6 months
In 2008, the foundation awarded planning grants to 11 teams to support their development of plans for establishing research, training and service delivery partnerships that address barriers to delivering integrated primary healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.
View Planning Grant Project Summaries (61 KB PDF)

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Home Visiting

Pew Charitable Trusts

$1,885,962 over 3 years
Philadelphia, PA – To increase access to quality home visiting services for at-risk families by supporting research to build the knowledge base and disseminate information on effectiveness in the home visiting field in partnership with Pew Center on the States’ Home Visiting Initiative.
www.pewtrusts.org

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$289,351 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To provide matching funds that support the creation of a new, federally funded, National Quality Improvement Center for the prevention of maltreatment of infants and young children.
www.cssp.org

Massachusetts Friends of Children’s Trust Fund, Inc.

$1,698,000 over 3 years
Boston, MA – To renew support for the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds’ Early Childhood Initiative, which works with state-based Children’s Trust Funds to promote child abuse prevention in early education systems.
www.mctf.org

Pediatric Health Care

University of Maryland Medical System Foundation, Inc.

$323,770 over 1 year
Baltimore, MD – To support the final phase of the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) research study, which aims to inform, improve and increase the role pediatrics plays in the prevention of child maltreatment.
www.ummsfoundation.org

Research & Special Projects

National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc.

$1,226,179 over 3 years
Atlanta, GA – To support an examination of how a public health approach, specifically community and societal-level prevention strategies, could address child maltreatment.
www.cdcfoundation.org

University of Wisconsin Foundation

$594,049 over 3 years
Madison, WI – To support the Institute for Research on Poverty’s work to address gaps in research related to the prevention of child neglect by conducting a comprehensive review of existing research studies and detailed data analysis of two longitudinal studies, and to develop a neglect risk assessment tool that will be tested in several Wisconsin sites.
www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu

Urban Institute

$400,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support an investigation of the intersection of maternal depression and child abuse and neglect and develop recommendations for how mainstream systems can assist depressed mothers and prevent maltreatment.
www.urbaninstitute.org

Arts Program

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.
View Grantees

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.
View CRF Schools

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.
View Grantees

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

Arts Program

Environment Program

Implement Land Protection – Capital Grants

Conservation Resources, Inc.

$1,051,318 over 2 years
Chester, NJ – To work with nonprofit conservation organizations to begin implementation of the Raritan Piedmont Wildlife Habitat Partnership’s Grassland Conservation Plan, which aims to protect critical wildlife habitat identified in the New Jersey State Wildlife Action Plan and to advance the Central Piedmont Plains’ emerging role as a haven of regional significance for grassland birds.
www.conservationresourcesinc.org

The Conservation Fund

$7,500,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with The Nature Conservancy to protect high-priority lands identified in the state wildlife action plans for North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and to undertake related educational efforts and build strategic partnerships.
www.conservationfund.org

Implement Land Protection –
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

Wildlife Conservation Society

$2,607,221 over 3 years
Bronx, NY – To create a competitive re-granting program (the “Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund”) to support projects that will accelerate the implementation of state wildlife action plans across the country through the creation of new public-private partnerships and the coordination of conservation efforts among the many organizations and agencies that can contribute to conservation.
www.wcs.org

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2006 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Awards

$10,500,000 over 5 to 7 years
In 2006, seven outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over five to seven years.
View Grantees

2006 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Continuation Awards

$600,000 over 3 years
In 2006, 3 former Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award recipients received continuation grants of $200,000 each to support their exceptional mentoring programs.
View Grantees

2006 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$9,315,000 over 3 years
In 2006, 23 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$390,000 over 1 year
In 2006, three of the 10 medical schools participating in the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program received grants of $130,000 each to pilot international fellowship opportunities during the 2007-2008 fellowship year: University of California San Francisco, Columbia University and Yale University. (A fourth pilot site also has been established at Harvard Medical School.)

International AIDS Research –
One-Time Grants

Friends of King’s College London Association, Inc.

$85,000 over 1 year

• Principal Investigator:
  Philippa Easterbrook, M.D., M.P.H., F.R.C.P.
• Project: Epidemiology and Immunogenetics of Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (South Africa)

International AIDS Research –
Operations Research

2006 Operations Research on AIDS Care and
Treatment in Africa Grants

$1,800,000 over 2 years
In 2006, nine teams received two-year grants of $200,000 each to support operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa. (Eleven additional teams received grants in 2005 as part of the same competition.)
View Grantees

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Early Education and Child Care

Zero to Three:
National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families

$1,504,860 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To support a train-the-trainer initiative based on Zero to Three’s Partnering with Parents curriculum, which will work with 12 states’ early education systems to train child care staff and help them develop skills to foster stronger relationships with parents and recognize and reduce risks associated with child maltreatment.
www.zerotothree.org

Pediatric Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics

$412,000 over 15 months
Elk Grove Village, IL – To solicit expert advice, streamline materials and strategies, and refine its approach to changing pediatric practices through the Practicing Safety initiative, which aims to prevent child maltreatment by increasing screening, guidance and resources provided by pediatric practices to parents of children birth to age three.
www.aap.org

Erikson Institute

$1,156,728 over 3 years
Chicago, IL – To support the Fussy Baby Network, a comprehensive program that provides direct home-based and clinical services to families with infants who cry inconsolably, and to provide assistance to programs that want to replicate Fussy Baby services in other locations.
www.erikson.edu

Research & Special Projects

New York State Office of Children and Family Services

$639,563 over 3 years
Albany, NY – To expand the data collection, analysis and dissemination of results associated with year seven of the Healthy Families New York home visiting evaluation.
www.ocfs.state.ny.us

Arts Program

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Mid-Sized Presenting Organizations

Nonprofit Finance Fund

$9,450,000 over 5.25 years
New York, NY – To launch and administer the Mid-Sized Presenting Organizations Initiative, which provides re-grants and customized technical assistance to 17 outstanding mid-sized presenters that were selected to participate in the initiative through a national competition:

Aaron Davis Hall

New York, NY
www.aarondavishall.org

Bang on a Can

Brooklyn, NY
www.bangonacan.org

Contemporary Arts Center

New Orleans, LA
www.cacno.org

Danspace Project

New York, NY
www.danspaceproject.org

DiverseWorks

Houston, TX
www.diverseworks.org

Kuumbwa Jazz Society

Santa Cruz, CA
www.kuumbwajazz.org

La Pena Cultural Center

Berkeley, CA
www.lapena.org

Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild

Pittsburgh, PA
www.manchesterguild.org

Miami Light Project

Miami, FL
www.miamilightproject.com

Myrna Loy Center

Helena, MT
www.myrnaloycenter.com

National Black Arts Festival

Atlanta, GA
www.nbaf.org

New World Theater

Amherst, MA
www.umass.edu/fac/nwt

On the Boards

Seattle, WA
www.ontheboards.org

Outpost Productions

Albuquerque, NM
www.outpostspace.org

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

Philadelphia, PA
www.livearts-fringe.org

World Music Institute

New York, NY
www.worldmusicinstitute.org

Youth Speaks

San Francisco, CA
www.youthspeaks.org

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
College and University Presenters Program

Association of Performing Arts Presenters

$1,500,000 over 3.25 years
Washington, DC – To launch and administer the Creative Campus Innovations Re-Grant Program, which will competitively award grants to college and university presenters proposing innovative ideas for integrating their work into academic life, the community or for working collectively with other university partners to maximize resources; and to support knowledge-exchange activities.
www.artspresenters.org

National Service Organizations

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

$210,000 over 1.25 years
New York, NY – To continue coordination of the Performing Americas Program.
(212) 219-9401, www.lmcc.net

National Performance Network

$3,375,000 over 3 years
New Orleans, LA – To support national and international touring for contemporary performing artists and companies committed to engaging communities; organizational partnerships that extend NPN’s reach; meetings of NPN Partners, artists and colleagues in national and regional conferences; NPN’s role as an advocate for cultural equity for artists and artist-centered organizations; and the addition of three staff positions to strengthen NPN’s organizational and fundraising capacity.
(504) 595-8008, www.npnweb.org

Special Projects

Jazz at Lincoln Center

$500,000 over 7 months
New York, NY – To support the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Fund, which will award re-grants to help New Orleans-based musicians re-establish their careers and nonprofit arts organizations re-open their doors after Hurricane Katrina by assisting both with immediate concerns and longer-term goals.
www.jalc.org

Environment Program

Identify Critical Lands

National Wildlife Federation

$904,248 over 3 years
Reston, VA – To promote the implementation of wildlife action plans in Georgia, Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina and Wisconsin by working with NWF affiliates in each state to reinvigorate their state-based Teaming With Wildlife Coalitions around a shared agenda for implementation of the action plans; identify the best opportunities within the action plans for proactive, incentive-based habitat conservation; implement high-priority conservation actions from the action plans; and disseminate lessons learned, best practices and success stories to other states.
www.nwf.org

Implement Land Protection – Capital Grants

Massachusetts Audubon Society

$1,000,000 over 1 year
Lincoln, MA – To protect high-priority habitats identified in Massachusetts’ wildlife action plan.
www.massaudubon.org

The Nature Conservancy-Florida Chapter

$1,000,000 over 1 year
Altamonte Springs, FL – To protect high-priority habitats identified in Florida’s wildlife action plan.
www.nature.org

Implement Land Protection –
Development of New Conservation Funding

The Nature Conservancy

$3,999,642 over 4 years
Arlington, VA – To work in partnership with the Trust for Public Land to establish a Conservation Finance Initiative that will assist a group of states in identifying and evaluating options for funding habitat conservation through public means.
www.nature.org

Implement Land Protection –
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into Other Conservation Efforts

NatureServe

$1,209,440 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To provide $1 million for NatureServe’s endowment for the natural heritage network, to raise matching endowment funds on a ratio of at least 1:1, and to expand development capacity.
www.natureserve.org

Build Conservation Knowledge – Education

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

$3,717,482 over 3 years
Princeton, NJ – To manage and continue to improve the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program, and to increase the number of participating universities from five to eight through a national competition in 2006.
www.woodrow.org

Build Conservation Knowledge – Research

National Council for Science and the Environment

$3,338,334 over 4.5 years
Washington, DC – To create and administer the Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program to strengthen policies and approaches to protecting wildlife habitat in the U.S. by awarding three rounds of competitive, peer-reviewed research grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.
www.ncseonline.org

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2005 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

$4,455,000 over 3 years
In 2005, 11 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$240,000 over 2 years
In 2005, each of the 10 medical schools participating in the Clinical Research Fellowship program received grants of $24,000 each to increase fellowship stipends to $25,000 for 2006-2007 and to $27,000 for 2007-2008.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2005 Clinical Interfaces Awards

$6.75 million over 5 years
In 2005, 3 multidisciplinary teams each received five-year grants of $2.25 million to address challenging questions in human disease.
View Grantees

International AIDS Research

2005 Operations Research on AIDS Care and
Treatment in Africa Grants

$2,200,000 over 2 years
In 2005, 11 teams each received two-year grants of $200,000 through the foundation's first competition to support operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa. (Nine additional teams received grants in early 2006 as part of the same competition.)
View Grantees

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Early Education and Child Care

Michigan Children’s Trust Fund for the
National Alliance of Child Abuse Prevention Funds

$1,248,260 over 3 years
Lansing, MI – To implement the alliance’s new Early Childhood Initiative by holding three regional training institutes to educate trust fund staff on integrating prevention techniques and strategies into early education and child care centers, and administering a matching grants competition to award seed funding to eight to 12 trust funds for programming that promotes child abuse prevention in early education settings.

National Head Start Association

$300,000 over 1 year
Alexandria, VA – To provide direct assistance to families who request help to meet their children’s basic needs following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; provide materials and training to Head Start centers in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama; and coordinate delivery of donated goods from across the country for the hurricane victims.
www.nhsa.org

Pediatric Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics

$349,100 over 6 months
Elk Grove Village, IL – To enable AAP chapters in Mississippi and Louisiana to organize a series of trainings for local health care personnel to prepare them to treat emotional problems resulting from Hurricane Katrina; deploy teams of mental health experts to reach out to families and staff in schools and child care centers; disseminate directories and set up a temporary toll-free telephone number to connect relocated families to new pediatric practices; and provide AAP books, manuals, and other publications to pediatric practices to replace materials destroyed by the storm.
www.aap.org

Research & Special Projects

National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Inc.

$3,034,885 over 4.75 years
Atlanta, GA – To enable the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention to competitively award three four-year grants of $1.2 million each to effective child abuse prevention programs with innovative proposals for using technology to improve their operations.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

Foundation for the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey

$1,843,884 over 4.75 years
Newark, NJ – To support the next phase of a longitudinal research study on the intergenerational transmission of childhood abuse and neglect.
www.umdnj.edu/foundweb

Arts Program

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Leadership Presenting Institutions

American Dance Festival

$600,000 over 3 years
Durham, NC – To continue the Doris Duke Awards for New Work, which support the creation and presentation of dance works by established, mid-career and emerging choreographers.
www.americandancefestival.org

National Service Organizations

Chamber Music America

$2.215 million over 4 years
New York, NY – To continue and expand the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project to support the creation of new work by composer-led jazz ensembles; promote the performance of jazz in rural and urban communities throughout the U.S.; increase audience appreciation and understanding of jazz by supporting residency opportunities; and support and advance the careers of jazz artists.
(212) 242-2022, www.chamber-music.org

Creative Capital Foundation

$350,000 over 2 years
New York, NY – To support creation funds and professional development assistance for individual performing artists, and to support research and planning for the development of a state-based program to support performing artists not yet established on the national level.
(212) 598-9900, www.creative-capital.org

Theatre Initiative –
Leading National Theatres Program

The following six theatres were selected in 2004 to receive DDCF matching endowment support; they also are eligible to receive additional artistic program support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Actors Theatre of Louisville

Louisville, KY
$400,000 over 3 years
www.actorstheatre.org

American Repertory Theatre

Cambridge, MA
$700,000 over 3 years
www.americanrepertorytheater.org

Center Stage Associates

Baltimore, MD
$600,000 over 3 years
www.centerstage.org

Intiman Theatre

Seattle, WA
$400,000 over 3 years
www.intiman.org

The Public Theater

New York, NY
$700,000 over 3 years
www.publictheater.org

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Chicago, IL
$700,000 over 3 years
www.steppenwolf.org

Theatre Initiative –
New Generations Program

Theatre Communications Group

$1.6 million over 2 years
New York, NY – To administer the fifth and sixth rounds of the New Generations Program, a re-granting program that provides support to nonprofit theatres for mentoring new theatre leaders and for building younger and/or culturally specific audiences.
(212) 609-5900, www.tcg.org

Theatre Initiative –
Ensemble Theatres Program

Association of Performing Arts Presenters

$200,000 over 6 months
Washington, DC – To conduct research, convene practitioners in the theatre and presenting fields, and design an ensemble theatres re-granting program that will encourage collaboration among ensemble theatres, resident theatres and presenters.
(888) 820-2787, www.artspresenters.org

Association of Performing Arts Presenters

$1.335 million over 2.5 years
Washington, DC – To implement the Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant and Travel Subsidy Program, which will fund creation and touring projects that build collaborations among ensemble theatres, arts presenters and host theatres throughout the U.S.
(888) 820-2787, www.artspresenters.org

Environment Program

Identify Critical Lands –
Strengthening State Wildlife Action Plans

America’s Wildlife Association for Resources Education

(for the Int'l. Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)
$600,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To work in partnership with The Nature Conservancy to build support for state wildlife action plans at national and state levels through briefings, workshops and educational outreach; and to develop a strategic communications plan to build support for state plans among traditional and non-traditional audiences.
www.iafwa.org

Defenders of Wildlife

$375,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To increase the focus of state wildlife action plans on all species and habitats (rather than individual game species) and identify specific areas for protection; to track progress in development of state plans and post on website; to educate federal, state and local agencies on the state plans; and to educate key stakeholders on opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency of existing policies and programs.
www.defenders.org

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$1.5 million over 3 years
Washington, DC – To administer a three-year re-granting program to strengthen state wildlife action plans and promote their implementation, with a focus on conservation actions that cross jurisdictional and organizational boundaries.
www.nfwf.org

NatureServe

$342,000 over 3 years
Arlington, VA – To develop capabilities to produce species-wide summaries, evaluate state wildlife action plans across state lines, and report on regional and national trends; to produce a national summary that highlights the nation’s conservation priorities; to ensure state plans can adapt to changing conditions by updating maps with new information and using Vista software to integrate state strategies into other planning efforts; to develop a new module for Biotics software to monitor progress in plan implementation, and detect and document changes in species or habitat status; and to produce an annual report on implementation and impact of state plans.
www.natureserve.org

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

$300,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To create and distribute broad communications about the nature and importance of state wildlife action plans for 9 million members of its partner organizations; to conduct outreach with field staff by visiting hunting and fishing organizations and union locals in specific regions; and to present expert analysis of state plans and their implementation status to member organizations, key state and federal policymakers, and gatherings of conservation professionals.
www.trcp.org

New Jersey & Rhode Island

The foundation awarded a series of small grants to existing partners in New Jersey and Rhode Island – two of the seven focus regions supported by the foundation to date – to work with state wildlife agencies to strengthen their wildlife action plans.

The Nature Conservancy, Rhode Island

$49,616 over 1 year
Arlington, VA
www.nature.org

The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey

Arlington, VA
$50,020 over 1 year
www.nature.org

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Far Hills, NJ
$50,000 over 1 year
www.njconservation.org

New Jersey Future

Trenton, NJ
$50,190 over 1 year
www.njfuture.org

Trust for Public Land

New York, NY
$50,000 over 1 year
www.tpl.org

Implement Land Protection –
Capital Grants

The foundation awarded a series of capital grants totaling $6 million to continue land conservation activities in four of the seven focus regions it has supported to date.

Northern Forest

Open Space Conservancy

$1.5 million over 1 year
New York, NY – To protect lands critical to wildlife in the Northern Forest by supporting large-scale land protection projects, building region-wide consensus on wildlife conservation priorities, and increasing resources for conservation.
www.osiny.org

East Gulf Coastal Plain

The Conservation Fund, Southeast Office

$750,000 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To protect lands critical to wildlife habitat in the Red Hills region by administering a $500,000 capital fund for land protection efforts in consultation with Tall Timbers Research Station; and to provide support to partner organizations for complementary statewide land use planning activities in Georgia and Florida.
www.conservationfund.org

The Nature Conservancy, Southeast Region

$750,000 over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To protect lands critical to wildlife in the Northwest Florida Greenway, and to build support for the Greenway plan and advance its implementation; and to provide support to a partner organization (1000 Friends of Florida) for capacity-building and land use planning activities.
www.nature.org

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

The Nature Conservancy, Montana

$1.5 million over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To lead a partnership that will protect lands critical to wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by providing support for land protection, establishment of a region-wide easement defense fund, administration and capacity building, and land use planning and public education.
www.nature.org

Southern Appalachians

The Conservation Fund

$1.5 million over 1 year
Arlington, VA – To protect lands critical to wildlife in the Southern Appalachian region of North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, and to provide support to partner organizations (Western Carolina University and The Nature Conservancy) for capacity building, landowner outreach, research, and work with the state wildlife agencies on their state wildlife action plans.
www.conservationfund.org

Implement Land Protection –
Integrating State Wildlife Action Plans into
Other Conservation Efforts

Defenders of Wildlife

$450,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue its work to integrate state wildlife action plans into federal transportation policy and state transportation planning; to articulate and implement a new vision for more effective habitat mitigation; and to research the economic benefits to local communities of investments in open space systems as identified in state plans.
www.defenders.org

Environmental Law Institute

$450,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To identify opportunities to integrate state wildlife action plans into water and waste-water infrastructure investments; to assess the amount of funding in state and federal mitigation programs; and to determine whether state and local governments have the authority to use existing open space programs to implement state wildlife action plans.
www.eli.org

NatureServe

$450,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To support dissemination of Vista (a decision support software program that aids conservation planning) to state and local organizations nationwide.
www.natureserve.org

Build Conservation Knowledge - Education

Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program

$1.055 million over 2 years
The foundation awarded 5 grants totaling $1.055 million to the following universities to administer Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships for one additional class of fellows:

Duke University

Durham, NC
$275,000 over 2 years
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
$275,000 over 2 years
www.snre.umich.edu

University of Montana

Missoula, MT
$115,000 over 2 years
www.umt.edu

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI
$115,000 over 2 years
www.ies.wisc.edu

Yale University

New Haven, CT
$275,000 over 2 years
www.yale.edu/forestry

Build Conservation Knowledge - Training

Land Trust Alliance

$1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC – To strengthen its Standards and Practices for land trusts; to design a training, assessment and accreditation program for land trusts; to establish a national easement defense program; to keep its membership abreast of emerging developments in land conservation; and to leverage funds from other sources.
www.lta.org

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2004 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$6 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2004, four outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of up to $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$5 million over 3 years
To renew the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program at 10 U.S. medical schools for three new classes of fellows that will collectively support at least 150 fellowships between 2005 and 2008.

International AIDS Research

University of Cape Town Fund, Inc.

$312,428 over 3 years
Principal Investigator: Robin Wood, M.D.
To expand the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre’s training program for health care workers participating in clinical research on HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
www.uct.ac.za

Yale University School of Medicine

$256,200 over 2 years
Principal Investigator: Gerald Friedland, M.D.
To assess the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of integrating anti-retroviral therapy into existing tuberculosis treatment programs at Tugela Ferry in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Home Visiting

Nurse Family Partnership

$978,000 over 3 years
Denver, CO – To support the expansion of Nurse-Family Partnership home visiting services by analyzing, improving and expanding its information systems and training of nurses.
www.nursefamilypartnership.org

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$1.306 million over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue its prior DDCF-supported work and promote implementation of the Strengthening Families approach in several pilot states by conducting a national competition; providing technical assistance to selected states to adapt the approach to their child care programs; developing and deploying the resources and tools needed to support implementation; and working with other public and private funding sources to promote the approach within their jurisdictions.
www.cssp.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children

$961,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue to increase the role of child care workers in reducing risks for child maltreatment by creating a new Leadership Academy to train leaders who are well positioned to influence early education practice; conducting additional research and developing new products that encourage families to turn to child care staff to help cope with the stresses of parenting; and developing and disseminating new resources for teachers that provide more in-depth strategies for preventing maltreatment.
www.naeyc.org

Pediatric Health Care

University of Washington

$1.2 million over 3 years
Seattle, WA – To support the implementation and evaluation of the Period of PURPLE Crying program, which seeks to prepare parents for infant crying and is a partnership between the Harborview Injury Prevention Center at the University of Washington, the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, and a leading researcher on infant crying at the University of British Columbia.
depts.washington.edu, www.dontshake.org

Arts Program

National Service Organizations

New England Foundation for the Arts

$2.5 million over 3 years
Boston, MA - To continue support for the National Dance Project.
(617) 951-0010, www.nefa.org

Theatre Initiative -
Leading National Theatres Program

Seven theatres were selected in 2003 to receive the following DDCF matching endowment support, which will be augmented by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation artistic program support:

Arena Stage

Washington, DC
$500,000 over 3 years
www.arenastage.org

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Berkeley, CA
$500,000 over 3 years
www.berkeleyrep.org

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA
$750,000 over 3 years
www.centertheatregroup.com

Lincoln Center Theater

New York, NY
$500,000 over 3 years
www.lct.org

Perseverance Theatre

Douglas, AK
$500,000 over 3 years
www.perseverancetheatre.org

Roundabout Theatre Company

New York, NY
$500,000 over 3 years
www.roundabouttheatre.org

South Coast Repertory, Inc.

Costa Mesa, CA
$750,000 over 3 years
www.scr.org

Environment Program

Protecting Places

The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina

$4 million over 3 years
Columbia, SC - To support the Lowcountry Forest Conservation Partnership, a strategic alliance that will work to protect biological diversity across 2.9 million acres of coastal forest in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The seven partner organizations are:

• Clemson University
• The Conservation Fund
• Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
• South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
• Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
• Lowcountry Open Land Trust
• The Nature Conservancy

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Frontiers

2003 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$1.88 million over 2 years
In 2003, 9 grants of $200,000 and 1 grant of $76,196 were awarded to investigators to support research to develop point-of-care diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring of AIDS in resource-poor countries.
View Grantees

2003 Clinical Interfaces Award

$1.07 million over 3 years (full grant)
$400,000 over 18 months (planning grants)
In 2003, one full grant of $1.07 million and five planning grants of $80,000 each were awarded to multi-disciplinary teams of investigators working to catalyze activity at the interface of clinical and other research disciplines.
View Grantees

International AIDS Research

General Hospital Corporation

$300,000 over 1 year
Boston, MA - To support construction of Phase 3 of the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
www.mgh.harvard.edu, http://www.nu.ac.za

Johns Hopkins University

$742,000 over 2 years
To support the Rakai Research Collaboration based in rural Uganda, a partnership among researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Makerere University, and the Uganda Virus Research Institute. Funds will be used to complete the partially built new Rakai Project Clinical Laboratory and Training Centre in Kalisizo, Uganda, and to fund up to eight 2- to 4-month research fellowships at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for Ugandan investigators working on the Rakai project.
www.jhu.edu

Clinical Research Systems

Johns Hopkins University

$50,000 over 1 year
Baltimore, MD - To enable the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics to complete a study assessing Institutional Review Board costs and a number of pending manuscripts, as well as explore other funding mechanisms to support the Consortium's long-term activities.
www.jhu.edu

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Early Education and Child Care

Zero to Three:
National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families

$1,482,600 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To support a project entitled "Child Care as Family Support: Strengthening Families to Prevent Abuse and Neglect," in which Zero to Three will partner with 60 Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (chosen through a competitive request-for-proposal process) to train child care staff and help them develop skills to foster stronger relationships with parents and recognize and reduce risks associated with child maltreatment.
www.zerotothree.org

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

$873,037 over 3 years
Madison, WI - To support the research project entitled "Preventing Child Maltreatment through Early Educational Intervention," which will further examine the Chicago Longitudinal Study's finding that participation in an early education intervention was associated with a 52% lower rate of substantiated child maltreatment to better understand how program participation leads to lower rates of maltreatment; disseminate knowledge about the impact of the intervention to policymakers and practitioners; and conduct economic analysis of the benefits of preventing child maltreatment.
www.waisman.wisc.edu/cls/index.htmlx

Special Projects

Princeton University

$793,390 over 4 years
Princeton, NJ - To support the coverage of issues related to parenting and the prevention of child abuse and neglect in The Future of Children journal.
www.futureofchildren.org, www.princeton.edu

Arts Program

National Service Organizations

Arts International, Inc.

$2.1 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To support the presentation of American performing artists in new venues throughout the world and to increase the presentation of international performing arts in the United States through projects including Performing Americas, MEX/NEXT, and the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals.

National Performance Network

$2.25 million over 3 years
New Orleans, LA - To support core programs and activities, including the Partners' Artistic Residency Subsidies, Creation Fund and Community Fund; collaborations with the Network of Cultural Centers of Color and La Red; annual meetings, artist retreats and regional meetings; and the administration, documentation and evaluation of its programs.
(504) 595-8008, www.npnweb.org

Jazz Initiative

Nonprofit Finance Fund

$4.932 million over 3 years
(212) 868-6710, www.nonprofitfinancefund.org
New York, NY - To administer the second phase of the JazzNet program, which provides programming, administrative and matching endowment support, as well as technical assistance and evaluation services, to 14 regionally recognized jazz presenters:

American Jazz Museum

Kansas City, MO
www.americanjazzmuseum.com

Artists Collective, Inc.

Hartford, CT
http://artistscollective.org

CITYFOLK

Dayton, OH
www.cityfolk.org

Contemporary Arts Center and
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

New Orleans, LA
www.cacno.org, www.nojhf.org

Earshot Jazz

Seattle, WA
www.earshot.org

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts

Burlington, VT
www.flynncenter.org

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

Pittsburgh, PA
www.manchesterguild.org

Newark Public Radio/WBGO

Newark, NJ
www.wbgo.org

Outpost Productions, Inc.

Albuquerque, NM
www.outpostspace.org

San Francisco Jazz Organization

San Francisco, CA
www.sfjazz.org

Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz

Los Angeles, CA
www.monkinstitute.com

Tri-C JazzFest at Cuyahoga Community College

Cleveland, OH
www.tricjazzfest.com

University Musical Society

Ann Arbor, MI
www.ums.org

Theatre Initiative - New Generations Program

Theatre Communications Group, Inc.

$1.6 million over 2 years
New York, NY - To administer the third and fourth rounds of the New Generations Program, a re-granting competition that provides support to nonprofit theatres for mentoring new theatre leaders and for building younger and/or culturally specific audiences.
(212) 609-5900, www.tcg.org

Talented Students in the Arts Initiative -
Leading National Performing Arts
Training Institutions

Six upper-division performing arts training institutions were selected in 2002 to receive the following DDCF matching endowment support, which is augmented by additional program support from the Surdna Foundation:

Ballet Hispanico

New York, NY
$450,000 over 3 years
www.ballethispanico.org

Eastman School of Music

at the University of Rochester, NY
$760,000 over 3 years
www.rochester.edu/eastman

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.

Lee, MA
$760,000 over 3 years
www.jacobspillow.org

The Juilliard School

New York, NY
$760,000 over 3 years
www.juilliard.edu

New World Symphony, Inc.

Miami, FL
$510,000 over 3 years
www.nws.org

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association

Seattle, WA
$760,000 over 3 years
www.pnb.org

Special Projects

New York Foundation for the Arts

$250,000 over 4 months
New York, NY - To support the New York Arts Recovery Fund's emergency re-granting program for artists and arts organizations adversely affected by the events of September 11, and to encourage community interaction and audience participation in the arts.
www.nyfa.org

Environment Program

Protecting Places

Selection of a Seventh Region for Support

$80,000 over 2 months
Following a competitive application process in 2002, the foundation awarded four planning grants of $20,000 each to the following organizations to develop full proposals for a $4 million grant, which will be awarded in 2003 to support conservation activities in one of the finalists' regions based on an expert panel's review of the proposals:

EcoTrust, Portland, OR

Region: Central Coastal Pacific Forests
www.ecotrust.org

Sustainable Northwest, Portland, OR

Region: Klamath Siskiyou Forests
www.sustainablenorthwest.org

The Nature Conservancy Hawaii Chapter

Region: Hawaii Moist and Dry Forests
http://nature.org

The Nature Conservancy South Carolina Chapter

Region: Mid Atlantic Coastal Forests
http://nature.org

Improving Conservation Practice

Environmental Defense, Inc.

$5 million over 5 years
New York, NY - To establish the Center for Conservation Incentives to promote more efficient and effective approaches to conservation of biodiversity on the nation's private lands.
www.environmentaldefense.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

The Conservation Fund

$200,750 over 2 years
Arlington, VA - To manage the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program at five universities.
www.conservationfund.org

Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program

$2.11 million over 4 years
The foundation awarded 5 grants totaling $2.11 million to the following universities to administer Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships for two additional classes of fellows:

Duke University

Durham, NC
$550,000 over 4 years
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
$550,000 over 4 years
www.snre.umich.edu

University of Montana

Missoula, MT
$230,000 over 4 years
www.umt.edu

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI
$230,000 over 4 years
www.ies.wisc.edu

Yale University

New Haven, CT
$550,000 over 4 years
http://www.yale.edu/forestry/

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2002 Clinical Scientist Development Award

Up to $5.455 million over 5 years
In 2002, 10 young physician-scientists received awards as follows: 6 at the junior faculty level each received grants of $100,000 per year for up to 5 years, and 4 at the fellow level each received five-year grants of $65,000 per year for up to 2 years, after which they are expected to transition to faculty-level awards of $100,000 per year for 3 years.
View Grantees

2002 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$7.25 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2002, five outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of up to $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Frontiers

2002 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$2.2 million over 2 years
In 2002, 11 investigators or pairs of investigators each received awards of $100,000 per year for 2 years for research on cardiovascular diseases (including stroke) and sickle cell anemia and other blood disorders (excluding cancer).
View Grantees

International AIDS Research

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

$472,500 over 1 year
Santa Monica, CA - To support one of three grants to be awarded through the International Leadership Award Program, an open competition that provides 3-year grants to trained scientists in resource-limited countries for research, program costs and mentoring activities.
www.pedaids.org

Massachusetts General Hospital

$2.25 million over 4 years
Boston, MA - To support the bilateral HIV Pathogenesis Program between Harvard Medical School and the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
www.mgh.harvard.edu, www.nu.ac.za

Massachusetts General Hospital

$1.5 million over 1 year
Boston, MA - To support construction of Phase 1 of the new Medical Research Institute at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, which will house the bilateral HIV Pathogenesis Program.
www.mgh.harvard.edu, www.nu.ac.za

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation

$127,000 over 1 year
San Francisco, CA - To support the pilot phase of the South African HIV Research Partnership's initiative designed to test the feasibility and efficacy of providing HIV antiretroviral drugs to people in resource-limited settings.
www.pgaf.org

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Home Visiting

Prevent Child Abuse America

$1 million over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To implement a strategic plan for strengthening and sustaining Healthy Families America by establishing two Regional Resource Centers that will assume responsibility for training, technical assistance and fundraising activities for local HFA programs.
www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org

Early Education and Child Care

Joseph L. Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University

$1,476,625 over 2 years
New York, NY - To enable the Free to Grow program to provide direct support to 15 Head Start centers across the country to expand their family services; fund training and technical assistance to sites on child abuse prevention; and support documentation and dissemination of the Free to Grow strategy.
www.freetogrow.org

Pediatric Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics

$1.5 million over 3 years
Elk Grove Village, IL - To support a new initiative called Practicing Safety, which will identify and promote successful strategies for involving pediatric practices in the prevention of child maltreatment.
www.aap.org

Erikson Institute

$750,000 over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To support the Fussy Baby Initiative, a comprehensive demonstration project that provides direct clinical and home-based services for families who have inconsolable infants. The initiative will develop new training and program capacity to respond to families under great stress and to protect vulnerable babies before abuse occurs.
www.erikson.edu

Arts Program

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Leadership Presenting Institutions

Regents of the University of California

$2.1 million over 5 years
Los Angeles, CA - To expand the role of UCLA Performing Arts as a major commissioner and presenter of innovative programs, to augment its programs for younger audiences, to increase collaborations with regional and national presenters, to strengthen educational outreach programs, to work with UCLA's Program on Digital Cultures - Latin American Center to help performing artists explore the impact of "new technologies" on their work, and to augment the UCLA Performing Arts endowment with $1.5 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis over 5 years.
www.uclalive.org

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Mid-Sized Presenting Organizations

Asia Society

$1 million over 5 years
New York, NY - To support Asian and Asian American performing artists, to increase and diversify its audiences, to strengthen programming relationships with collaborative partners, to facilitate long-term planning, and to establish an endowment for the Performing Arts Program with $625,000 to be matched on a one-to-one basis over 5 years.
www.asiasociety.org

Japan Society, Inc.

$1 million over 5 years
New York, NY - To strengthen the performing arts season, to create a commissioning program that will help American and other Western artists expand their creative repertoire to include Japanese art and culture, and to establish an endowment for the Performing Arts Program with $625,000 to be matched on a one-to-one basis over 5 years.
www.japansociety.org

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

$1 million over 5 years
Portland, OR - To strengthen commissioning, residency development and presentation efforts, and to establish an artistic programming endowment with $625,000 to be matched on a one-to-one basis over 5 years.
www.pica.org

Jazz Initiative

Nonprofit Finance Fund

$150,000 over 9 months
New York, NY - To provide ongoing management, asset-building and technical assistance to JazzNet grantees.
www.nonprofitfinancefund.org

Theatre Initiative -
Leading National Theatres Program

The theatre below was selected in 2001 to receive the following DDCF matching endowment support, which is augmented by additional program support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.
dba Goodman Theatre

Chicago, IL
$1.5 million over 3 years
www.goodman-theatre.org

Talented Students in the Arts Initiative -
Leading Public Performing Arts High Schools

Five public performing arts high schools were selected in 2001 to receive the following DDCF matching endowment support, which is augmented by additional program support from the Surdna Foundation:

Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School, Inc.

New York, NY
$750,000 over 5 years
www.laguardiahs.org

Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation, Inc.

Baltimore, MD
$750,000 over 5 years
www.bsfa.org

Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts

Cleveland, OH
$750,000 over 5 years
www.clevelandschoolofthearts.org

Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation

Los Angeles, CA
$750,000 over 5 years
www.lachsa.org

Miami-Dade Community College Foundation, Inc., for the New World School for the Arts

Miami, FL
$750,000 over 5 years
www.mdc.edu/nwsa

Talented Students in the Arts Initiative -
Leading National Performing Arts
Training Institutions

Four upper-division performing arts training institutions were selected in 2001 to receive DDCF matching endowment support, which is augmented by additional program support from the Surdna Foundation:

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation

New York, NY
$750,000 over 3 years
www.alvinailey.org

Music Associates of Aspen, Inc.
for the Aspen Music Festival and School

Aspen, CO
$750,000 over 3 years
www.aspenmusicfestival.com

California Institute of the Arts

Valencia, CA
$1.25 million over 3 years
www.calarts.edu

North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation, Inc.

Winston-Salem, NC
$1.25 million over 3 years
www.uncsa.edu

Special Projects

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc.

$210,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC - To collaborate with the Urban Institute on "Performing Arts Presenting: Challenging the Field for the Future" by conducting a survey of U.S. presenters to capture baseline financial, organizational and programmatic information on the field; disseminating a white paper on the findings; and communicating results through the Internet and mass media.
www.artspresenters.org

New York Foundation for the Arts

$250,000 over 1 year
New York, NY - To support the New York Arts Recovery Fund's emergency re-granting program for artists and arts organizations adversely affected by the events of September 11, and to encourage community interaction and audience participation in the arts.
www.nyfa.org

Environment Program

Protecting Places -
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Inc.

$500,000 over 3 years
Bozeman, MT - To train and help strengthen citizen groups, to conduct research and disseminate information, and to develop a media campaign to raise awareness about the importance of growth management in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
www.greateryellowstone.org

Land Trust Alliance, Inc.

$500,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with land trusts in the Greater Yellowstone region to increase the quality of land protection plans, improve stewardship of acquired lands, increase organizational capacity and diversify financial support.
www.lta.org

Sonoran Institute

$521,927 over 3 years
Tucson, AZ - To work with the National Association of Counties to train and educate county commissioners in the Greater Yellowstone ecoystem about best practices in land use planning, and to help develop the Greater Yellowstone Business Council, a business voice for improved planning.
www.sonoran.org

The Conservation Fund

$2.14 million over 4 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Henry's Fork Foundation, Teton Valley Land Trust, Jackson Hole Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy to protect 10,000 acres in Idaho and Wyoming, and to raise $10 million in public and private matching funds for conservation.
www.conservationfund.org

The Nature Conservancy, Inc.

$2.6 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Montana Land Reliance to protect at least 40,000 acres in Montana and Wyoming and to raise $15.6 million in public and private matching funds for conservation.
http://nature.org

Trust for Public Land

$1.8 million over 4 years
San Francisco, CA - To work with the Gallatin Valley Land Trust and various public agencies to protect 10,000 acres in Gallatin County and western Montana and to raise $9 million in public and private matching funds for conservation.
www.tpl.org

University of Wyoming Foundation for the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources

$200,000 over 4 years
Laramie, WY - To conduct research on trends in land use, best practices in financing for open space acquisition and growth management, and to disseminate information to decision-makers in Wyoming in collaboration with the Sonoran Institute.
www.uwyo.edu/enr/ruckelshaus-institute/

Protecting Places -
Southern Appalachians

The Nature Conservancy, Inc.

$2.5 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To work with The Nature Conservancy's Alabama chapter and the Chattowah Open Land Trust to create conservation plans in the northern and southern Cumberland Plateaus, to protect at least 12,000 acres in the southern Plateau, and to raise at least $6 million in matching public and private funds for conservation.
http://nature.org

The Conservation Fund

$3.5 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, Western Carolina University and The Nature Conservancy's Tennessee Chapter to create a science-based conservation plan, to conduct forestry extension to private landowners, to protect at least 15,000 acres in the Little Tennessee River Basin and the northern Cumberland Plateau, and to raise at least $10 million in matching public and private funds for conservation.
www.conservationfund.org

Improving Conservation Practice

National Council for Science and the Environment

$3 million over 5 years
Washington, DC - To support the research program of the National Commission for Science on Sustainable Forestry, which will competitively re-grant funds to research institutions to support projects that aim to strengthen the knowledge base for forest management in the United States.
http://www.ncssf.org

Rainforest Alliance

$700,000 over 3 years
New York, NY - To complement DDCF-funded land protection in Southern Appalachia and the Northern Forest by working with landowners to certify at least one million acres of land under the internationally recognized standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
www.rainforest-alliance.org

Yale University - School of Forestry and Environment Studies

$350,000 over 2 years
New Haven, CT - To determine the effectiveness of forest certification under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in improving forest management.
www.yale.edu/forestry/

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2001 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$10.5 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2001, seven outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
View Grantees

2001 Clinical Scientist Development Award

Up to $8.175 million over 5 years
In 2001, 15 young physician-scientists received awards as follows: 10 at the junior faculty level each received grants of $100,000 per year for up to 5 years, and five at the fellow level each received five-year grants of $65,000 per year for up to 2 years, after which they are expected to transition to faculty-level awards of $100,000 per year for 3 years.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$1.44 million over 4 years
To establish the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program at three additional medical schools that will collectively support an additional total of at least 15 fellows each year of the program.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2001 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$2.2 million over 2 years
In 2001, 11 investigators or pairs of investigators each received awards of $100,000 per year for 2 years for research on cardiovascular disease, stroke and blood disorders.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Systems

Duke University Medical Center

$830,000 over 2 years
Durham, NC - To establish the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics - a multidisciplinary group of clinical researchers, industry representatives, Institutional Review Board members and bioethicists from across the nation - to re-evaluate the systems in place to oversee research with human participants and to provide data and analysis that will help inform public policy discussions.
www.mc.duke.edu

International AIDS Research

General Hospital Corporation

dba Massachusetts General Hospital
$125,000 over 1 year
Boston, MA - To complete the purchase of a flow cytometer for ongoing collaborative studies between investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
www.mgh.harvard.edu

Johns Hopkins University

$325,000 over 1 year
Principal Investigator: J. Brooks Jackson, M.D.
Project: A Pilot Project of Universal Nevirapine Access to Prevent HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in Kampala, Uganda
www.jhu.edu

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$1.193 million over 2 years
Washington, DC - To identify and promote model child abuse prevention practices in the child care field, to identify improvements in the training of child care staff to prevent maltreatment, to implement a communications plan that articulates and promotes promising approaches to child abuse prevention in child care settings, to help DDCF assess the overall effectiveness of supporting prevention strategies in child care settings, and to investigate specific opportunities for future DDCF investments.
www.cssp.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children

$430,000 over 18 months
Washington, DC - To research, assess and publish its findings about the current knowledge, sources of information, and skills of childcare staff in areas related to preventing child maltreatment and promoting the healthy development of pre-school children, and to update its position statement on child abuse and neglect and devise new communication vehicles for increasing the statement's impact and utility for the field.
www.naeyc.org

Special Populations

Family Violence Prevention Fund

$949,400 over 2 years
San Francisco, CA - To develop, test, disseminate and evaluate child abuse prevention materials - specifically practice guidelines, staff training curricula and public education materials - designed to help integrate child abuse prevention strategies into three types of programs that work with fathers and young men to reduce domestic violence.
http://endabuse.org/

Applied Research

Child Trends, Inc.

$698,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC - To design new, more meaningful indicators that measure child well-being, to work with three to four pilot sites to test a new approach for assessing child abuse prevention strategies, to publish research briefs and reports for opinion leaders, decision makers and practitioners, and to improve the quality and depth of media coverage of child abuse and neglect issues.
www.childtrends.org

Arts Program

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Leadership Presenting Institutions

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

$2 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To provide artistic programming support for the 2001-2003 Lincoln Center Festival, and to establish an endowment for the Festival with $1.5 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis over 3 years.
www.lincolncenter.org

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

$3 million over 3 years
Newark, NJ - To expand the presentation of performing artists who reflect America's changing demographics, and to augment the Center's endowment with $2.25 million.
www.njpac.org

Washington Performing Arts Society

$1.1 million over 1 year
Washington, DC - To establish The Doris Duke Fund for Artists' Development, which provides support to artists for commissioning, residencies and performances.
www.wpas.org

Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University

$1.5 million over 3 years
Columbus, OH - To expand the scope of its commissions, to strengthen its creative lab residencies for performing artists, to develop technology-based performances, and to create an endowment with $1.2 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis over three years.
www.wexarts.org

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Mid-Sized Presenting Organizations

Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center

$1 million over 4 years
New York, NY - To expand opportunities for artists of the African diaspora to work through commissions, residencies and community-based projects, and to establish the Center's endowment with $750,000 to be matched on a one-to-one basis over four years.
www.caribecenter.org

Hayti Heritage Center of the
St. Joseph's Historical Foundation

$1 million over 4 years
Durham, NC - To preserve the original structure, to renovate the interior as a performing arts center, and to establish an endowment with $500,000 to be matched on a one-to-one basis over four years.
www.hayti.org

Performance Space 122

$1 million over 5 years
New York, NY - To support artistic programs, to create an endowment with $600,000 to be matched on a one-to-one basis over five years, and to develop staff capacity for long-term fundraising.
www.ps122.org

National Service Organizations

Arts International

$4.5 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To support the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, The Americas Project, and Women's Voices/Africa.

Creative Capital Foundation

$500,000 over 2 years
New York, NY - To augment the Creation Fund, which awards grants to individual performing artists creating new work, and to provide comprehensive technical assistance.
(212) 598-9900, www.creative-capital.org

National Performance Network

$1.45 million over 2 years
San Francisco, CA - To continue support for artist residencies and commissions for Primary Partners organizations and to help support an annual convening.
(504) 595-8465, www.npnweb.org

New England Foundation for the Arts

$6 million over 3 years
Boston, MA - To continue support for the National Dance Project.
(617) 951-0010, www.nefa.org

Jazz Initiative

Chamber Music America

$1 million over 4 years
New York, NY - To continue administering the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, and to increase CMA's capacity to provide services to jazz musicians nationwide.
(212) 242-2022, www.chamber-music.org

Americans for the Arts

$1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC - To develop a national public service campaign with the Ad Council promoting arts education.
www.artsusa.org

Theatre Initiative -
Leading National Theatres Program

Nine theatres were selected in 2000 to receive the following DDCF matching endowment support, which will be augmented by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation artistic program support:

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation

San Francisco, CA
$750,000 over 3 years
www.act-sfbay.org

Long Wharf Theatre

New Haven, CT
$750,000 over 3 years
www.longwharf.org

McCarter Theatre Company

Princeton, NJ
$750,000 over 3 years
www.mccarter.org

New York Theatre Workshop

New York, NY
$750,000 over 3 years
www.nytw.org

Playwrights Horizons

New York, NY
$750,000 over 3 years
www.playwrightshorizons.org

Repertorio Español

New York, NY
$750,000 over 3 years
www.repertorio.org

The Shakespeare Theatre

Washington, DC
$750,000 over 3 years
www.shakespearedc.org

Trinity Repertory Company

Providence, RI
$750,000 over 3 years
www.trinityrep.com

Sundance Institute

Salt Lake City, UT
$1.5 million over 3 years
www.sundance.org

Theatre Initiative —
New Generations Program

Theatre Communications Group, Inc.

$2 million over 2 years
New York, NY - To establish the New Generations Program, a two-year re-granting program that supports theatres in mentoring young theatre professionals and in building younger and/or culturally specific audiences.
(212) 609-5900, www.tcg.org

Special Projects

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.

$3 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To establish a Technical Operations Center within the new Jazz at Lincoln Center facility at Columbus Circle, and to provide support for facilities operations and programmatic expansion.
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org

Library of Congress

$1 million over 2 years
Washington, DC - To purchase the Katherine Dunham archives, preserve materials that document and augment the Dunham legacy, and expand educational programs at the Dunham Center in East St. Louis, Illinois.
www.loc.gov

Environment Program

Protecting Places -
East Gulf Coastal Plain

1000 Friends of Florida

$500,000 over 4 years
Tallahassee, FL - To identify, analyze and promote policies that protect flora and fauna and encourage ecologically appropriate growth and development.
www.1000friendsofflorida.org

The Conservation Fund

$3.5 million over 4 years
Arlington, VA - To work with the Tall Timbers Research Station and Trust for Public Land to protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes, and to raise public and private matching funds on a four-to-one basis.
www.conservationfund.org

The Georgia Conservancy

$581,600 over 4 years
Atlanta, GA - To identify, analyze and promote policies that protect flora and fauna and encourage ecologically appropriate growth and development.
www.gaconservancy.org

The Nature Conservancy

$6.3 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes, and to raise public and private matching funds on a seven-to-one basis.
http://nature.org

Protecting Places -
Northern Forest

Beaverkill Conservancy, Inc.

$10.55 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To work with the Open Space Institute to establish the Northern Forest Protection Fund to protect ecologically significant forestland for nature preserves, wildlife corridors and working forests, and to raise public and private matching funds on a four-to-one basis.
www.osiny.org

The Nature Conservancy

$600,000 over 3 years
Bangor, ME - To revise and complete an ecological assessment of the Northern Forest, to help design working forest easements that protect biological diversity and encourage responsible forest management, and to develop new sources of private funding for forest conservation.
http://nature.org

Appalachian Mountain Club

$725,000 over 3 years
Boston, MA - To advance large landscape conservation in the Northern Forest by providing technical data and maps to shape proposed private land transactions and forest policy on public lands; to guide land protection through the re-licensing of hydroelectric dams; and to increase community support for forest conservation transactions in Maine.
www.outdoors.org

Forest Society of Maine

$225,000 over 4 years
Bangor, ME - To increase its capacity for conservation transactions, and to increase and diversify its funding base.
www.fsmaine.org

Improving Conservation Practice

Association for Biodiversity Information, Inc.

$2.2 million over 3 years
Arlington, VA - To develop, test and market new and improved computer tools that integrate information about biological diversity into land-use decision-making, and to establish an endowment for the project with $400,000 to be matched on a three-to-one basis over three years.
www.natureserve.org

Center for Resource Economics / Island Press

$1.1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with Defenders of Wildlife and the Environmental Law Institute to research and disseminate information about the connection between biodiversity protection and land-use planning.
www.islandpress.org

Defenders of Wildlife, Inc.

$437,430 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with the Center for Resource Economics and the Environmental Law Institute to research and disseminate information about the connection between biodiversity protection and land-use planning.
www.defenders.org

Environmental Law Institute

$515,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To work with Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Resource Economics to research and disseminate information about the connection between biodiversity protection and land-use planning.
www.eli.org

U.S. Working Group, Inc. dba Forest Stewardship Council

$800,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To increase the acreage of certified forests in the United States, particularly among small landowners; to build the communications and public information capacity of FSC-US; and to develop markets for certified wood.
www.fsc.org

Pinchot Institute for Conservation

$750,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC - To increase the amount of certified forestland in Washington, Vermont, Maine, North Carolina and Tennessee.
www.pinchot.org

World Resources Institute

$1 million over 3 years
Washington, DC - To help shift the purchase of wood in North America from ecologically sensitive forests to forests managed in environmentally sound ways.
www.wri.org

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

2000 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$10.5 million over 5 to 7 years
In 2000, seven outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $1.5 million to be used over 5 to 7 years.
View Grantees

2000 Clinical Scientist Development Award

Up to $8.04 million over 5 years
In 2000, 17 young physician-scientists received awards as follows: 13 at the junior faculty level each received grants of $100,000 per year for up to 5 years, and four at the fellow level each received grants of $65,000 per year for up to 2 years, after which they are expected to transition to faculty-level awards of $100,000 per year for up to 3 years.
View Grantees

Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students

$5.055 million over 4 years
To establish the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship program at seven medical schools that will collectively support a total of at least 35 fellows each year of the four-year program.

Clinical Research Frontiers

2000 Innovation in Clinical Research Award

$1.4 million over 2 years
In 2000, seven investigators or pairs of investigators each received awards of $100,000 per year for 2 years for research on cardiovascular disease.
View Grantees

International AIDS Research

Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

$178,000 over 1 year
Principal Investigator: Taha E.Taha, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Nevirapine/AZT at Birth to Reduce Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (Malawi)
www.jhu.edu

Child Abuse Prevention Program

Home Visiting

Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.

$623,000 over 2 years
St. Louis, MO - To enhance the capacity of the center to ensure the quality and assess the effectiveness of Parents as Teachers programs nationwide.
www.patnc.org

Prevent Child Abuse America

$560,000 over 2 years
Chicago, IL - To strengthen the quality and sustainability of Healthy Families America, a national home visiting program.
www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org

Regents of the University of Colorado
on behalf of the Health Sciences Center

$629,000 over 2 years
Denver, CO - To support expansion of the national Nurse-Family Partnership Program.
www.nursefamilypartnership.org

Early Education and Child Care

Joseph L. Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University

$1.452 million over 2 years
New York, NY - For the Free to Grow national demonstration project that will provide support to 20 Head Start sites across the country to develop programs that strengthen families and communities, improve parenting practices and prevent child maltreatment.
www.freetogrow.org

Zero to Three:
National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families

$1.184 million over 2 years
Washington, DC - To develop resources for parents, childcare providers and other practitioners that promote the healthy development of infants and toddlers.
www.zerotothree.org

Primary Prevention

Prevent Child Abuse America

$1.43 million over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To develop with the Ad Council a national public service campaign to educate the public about positive actions individuals can take to prevent child abuse and neglect.
www.preventchildabuse.org

Arts Program

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Leadership Presenting Institutions

American Dance Festival

$600,000 over 3 years
New York, NY - To continue the Doris Duke Awards for New Work in Modern Dance.
www.americandancefestival.org

Brooklyn Academy of Music

$3.5 million over 3 years
Brooklyn, NY - To support the presentation of dance, theatre, music, music-theatre and opera, and to augment BAM's endowment with $2 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis over three years.
www.bam.org

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

$3 million over 3 years
Washington, DC - To support three international festivals, and to augment the Millennium Endowment Fund with $2 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis over three years.
www.kennedy-center.org

Spoleto Festival USA

$1.5 million over 3 years
Charleston, SC - To support artistic programs, to augment the Festival's cash reserve, and to provide endowment support of $1 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis.
www.spoletousa.org

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Mid-Sized Presenting Organizations

651 Arts

$1.5 million over 3 years
Brooklyn, NY - To support Black Dance: Tradition and Transformation, and to create an endowment of $1 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis over three years.
www.651arts.org

Appalshop

$1.4 million over 3 years
Whitesburg, KY - To support the presentation of Appalachian arts, to match an endowment challenge by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and to undertake capital improvements.
www.appalshop.org

National Service Organizations

New England Foundation for the Arts
National Dance Project

$2 million over 1 year
Cambridge, MA - To continue support for the Doris Duke Fund for Dance.
(617) 951-0010, www.nefa.org

Jazz Initiative

Chamber Music America

$250,000 over 1 year
New York, NY - To design and administer the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, a re-granting program that supports ensembles in expanding their jazz repertoire and gaining critical performing, teaching and career experience.
(212) 242-2022, www.chamber-music.org

Nonprofit Finance Fund

$3.48 million over 2 years
www.nonprofitfinancefund.org
New York, NY - To administer JazzNet, which provides programming, administrative and matching endowment support, as well as technical assistance and evaluation services, to the following regionally recognized jazz presenters:

American Jazz Museum

Kansas City, MO
www.americanjazzmuseum.com

Artists Collective, Inc.

Hartford, CT
http://artistscollective.org

Asociacion de Musicos Latino Americanos and
Painted Bride Art Center

Philadelphia, PA
www.amla.org, www.paintedbride.org

CITYFOLK

Dayton, OH
www.cityfolk.org

Contemporary Arts Center and
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

New Orleans, LA
www.cacno.org, www.nojhf.org

Earshot Jazz

Seattle, WA
www.earshot.org

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts

Burlington, VT
www.flynncenter.org

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

Pittsburgh, PA
www.manchesterguild.org

Outpost Productions, Inc.

Albuquerque, NM
www.outpostspace.org

San Francisco Jazz Organization

San Francisco, CA
www.sfjazz.org

Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz

Los Angeles, CA
www.monkinstitute.com

Newark Public Radio/WBGO

Newark, NJ
www.wbgo.org

Tri-C JazzFest at Cuyahoga Community College

Cleveland, OH
www.tricjazzfest.com

University Musical Society

Ann Arbor, MI
www.ums.org

Americans for the Arts

$250,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC - To create and air two Performance Portraits and four public service announcements that focus on contemporary jazz and target younger audiences.
www.artsusa.org

National Public Radio

$2.2 million over 5 years
Washington, DC - To sustain current NPR jazz programming, to expand the presence of jazz on the Internet, and to provide endowment support of $1 million to be matched on a one-to-one basis.
www.npr.org

WETA The Greater Washington Telecommunications Association, Inc.

$1 million over 2 years
Arlington, VA - To support production costs for Ken Burns' ten-part JAZZ series for public television.
www.weta.org

Special Projects

Dance Umbrella

$100,000 over 1 year
Boston, MA - To support an independent assessment of the organization's operating systems, and to assist with deficit reduction.

Library of Congress

$1 million over 2 years
Washington, DC - To purchase the Martha Graham archives and produce and document up to five choreographic works.
www.loc.gov

Theatre Communications Group

$150,000 over 1 year
New York NY - To support the planning of regional and national nonprofit theatre meetings to explore the field's needs, and to prepare and disseminate a paper on the findings.
www.tcg.org

Environment Program

Protecting Places -
New Jersey & Rhode Island

Grow Smart Rhode Island

$350,000 over 4 years
Providence, RI - To identify, research and promote policies that protect flora and fauna while facilitating ecologically sound growth management and economic activity.
www.growsmartri.com

The Nature Conservancy, Rhode Island Chapter

$4.391 million over 4 years
Providence, RI - To protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes, to increase the effectiveness of local conservation organizations, and to raise public and private matching funds on a three-to-one basis.
http://nature.org

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

$500,000 over 4 years
Far Hills, NJ - To increase the effectiveness of local conservation organizations, and to promote more diverse conservation constituencies and funding.
www.njconservation.org

New Jersey Future

$450,000 over 4 years
Trenton, NJ - To identify, research and promote policies that protect flora and fauna while facilitating ecologically sound growth management and economic activity.
www.njfuture.org

Trust for Public Land - Mid Atlantic Region

$8.4 million over 4 years
New York, NY - To protect ecologically significant landscapes for natural preserves, development buffers and working landscapes in partnership with the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and to raise public and private matching funds on a four-to-one basis.
www.tpl.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

The following six universities received four-year grants ranging from $245,000 to $625,000 in 1999 to offer Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships to graduate students focusing on environmental studies at their institutions:

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY
www.cornell.edu

Duke University

Durham, NC
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
www.snre.umich.edu

University of Montana

Missoula, MT
www.umt.edu

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI
www.ies.wisc.edu

Yale University

New Haven, CT
www.yale.edu/forestry

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

1999 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

$12.55 million over 5 years
In 1999, four outstanding physician-scientists at the mid-career level each received grants of $600,000 per year for 5 years.
View Grantees

1999 Clinical Scientist Award

Up to $7.1 million over 3 to 5 years
In 1999, 15 promising young physician-scientists each received grants of $100,000 per year for 3 years, plus additional funds for indirect costs and training. Funding for up to two additional years will be considered on an individual basis.
View Grantees

Arts Program

Environment Program

Protecting Places

Greater Yellowstone Coalition

$600,000 over 3 years
Bozeman, MT - To promote conservation while enhancing the local economy and communities in the 18-million-acre Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
www.greateryellowstone.org

Improving Conservation Practice

American Planning Association

$1.275 million over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To develop and manage the City Parks Forum, a national training and education program for mayors of mid-sized cities on urban parks, in partnership with the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
www.planning.org

Certified Forest Products Council

$350,000 over 2 years
Beaverton, OR - To launch a two-year campaign to encourage greater commitment by business, public and nonprofit entities to purchase certified wood products.
www.certifiedwood.org

Environmental Defense Fund

$500,000 over 2 years
New York, NY - To develop, test, and implement incentive-based approaches to conservation of imperiled biodiversity on privately owned land.
www.environmentaldefense.org

Institute for Agriculture and Trade

$150,000 over 1 year
Minneapolis, MN - To help promote independent third-party forest certification among cooperatives of private landowners in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
www.iatp.org

Land Trust Alliance

$725,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To increase the quality, professionalism and effectiveness of the land trust movement.
www.lta.org

National Association of Counties

$575,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC - In collaboration with the Sonoran Institute, to launch the Western Community Stewardship Forum, a three-year program to educate and train up to 75 county commissioners and their public and private stakeholders in the Western states about best practices in conservation and growth management.
www.naco.org

Natural Resources Defense Council

$325,000 over 2 years
To protect forest biodiversity and conservation in the Northwest by working with landowners to undertake more sustainable forest management, and by encouraging increased use of wood products derived from sustainable managed forest ecosystems.
www.nrdc.org

The Nature Conservancy

$2,351,149 over 3 years
Leesburg, VA - To implement an integrated conservation program consisting of: community-based conservation projects at five sites; technical support and development of conservation tools for these and other projects; targeted training of promising TNC field leaders in community-based conservation and compatible development; and establishment of the working reserve for the proposed Forest Bank, which provides private forestland owners in Virginia's Clinch Valley with economic incentives for sustainable forest management.
http://nature.org

Wildlife Conservation Society

$700,000 over 3 years
Bronx, NY - To incorporate ecosystem and biological research into local land use planning, and educate public, private and nonprofit leaders about promising approaches to mitigating urban sprawl in the tri-state region of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
www.wcs.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

Duke University Nicholas School of Environment

$126,500 over 2 years
Durham, NC - To provide support for summer internships in environmental conservation to 20 Doris Duke Fellows over two years as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources & Environment

$113,850 over 2 years
Ann Arbor, MI - To provide support for summer internships in environmental conservation to 18 Doris Duke Fellows over the next 2 years as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.snre.umich.edu

Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

$126,500 over 2 years
New Haven, CT - To provide support for summer internships in environmental conservation to 20 Doris Duke Fellows over the next 2 years as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.yale.edu/forestry

Other

Massachusetts Audubon Society

$2 million over 4 years
Lincoln, MA - To develop community and environmental education programs and create a permanent endowment for programming for the Boston Nature Center at the former Boston State Hospital site.
www.massaudubon.org

Shorebank Enterprise

$1.3 million over 2 years
Ilwaco, WA - To expand its revolving loan fund and develop new tools to assist promising enterprises that promote the preservation and restoration of the environment along the coastal temperate rainforest of Washington and Oregon.
www.sbpac.com

Medical Research Program

Clinical Research Career Ladder

1998 Clinical Scientist Award Program

Up to $6.8 million over 3 to 5 years
In 1998, 14 promising young physician-scientists each received grants of $100,000 per year for 3 years, plus additional funds for indirect costs and training. Funding for up to two additional years will be considered on an individual basis.
View Grantees

Arts Program

Presenting Institutions Initiative –
Leadership Presenting Institutions

American Dance Festival

$1.826 million over 3 years
Durham, NC - To support the Doris Duke Awards for New Work in Modern Dance and the Doris Duke Millennium Awards for Modern Dance and Jazz Collaboration.
www.americandancefestival.org

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.

$1.826 million over 3 years
$1 million over 2 years
Lee, MA - To support a capital campaign goal of $10.5 million, and to commission new dance works, artists-in-residence programs and choreographic workshops and professional leadership forums.
www.jacobspillow.org

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.

$2 million over 3 years
New York, NY - To support transcription and music publication, artist's fees and associated overhead, and hall rental in connection with the year long Duke Ellington Centennial. In addition, $450,000 will be used to establish an endowment fund to support Ellington-related activities in the future.
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org

The Joyce Theater Foundation

$1 million over 2 years
New York, NY - To provide support for capital improvements at the Joyce Theater and to augment services and programs at their satellite space, Joyce SoHo.
www.joyce.org

Environment Program

Protecting Places

Trust for Public Land and Open Space Institute

$5 million over 1 year
To complete the acquisition of Sterling Forest, a 17,500-acre tract of undeveloped and environmentally sensitive land on the New Jersey-New York border that is to become a park and nature preserve.
www.tpl.org

Promoting Conservation Leadership

Duke University Nicholas School of Environment

$1.7 million over 2 years
Durham, NC - To create a Doris Duke Chair in Conservation Ecology in which the senior professor holding this chair would act as a catalyst at Duke University and in the broader environmental world on issues of human dominated landscapes.
www.env.duke.edu

Duke University Nicholas School of Environment

$400,000 over 3 years
Durham, NC - To support incoming graduate students in the Fall of 1998 and 1999 as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.env.duke.edu

University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources & Environment

$400,000 over 3 years
Ann Arbor, MI - To support incoming graduate students in Fall of 1998 and 1999 as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.snre.umich.edu

Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

$400,000 over 3 years
New Haven, CT - To support incoming graduate students in the Fall of 1998 and 1999 as part of the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowship Program.
www.yale.edu/forestry