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The Environment

The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York
$125,000
To support development of the Garden's Orchid Research
Collection, to be undertaken in advance of the Garden's
orchid exhibition in 2003.

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
$100,000 over two years
For its Coral Reef Conservation Program, which gathers data on the
influence of biological and human factors that affect the health
of coral reefs.

World Resources Institute
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the Mining and Critical Ecosystems Project, which will
develop comprehensive international standards for environmentally
sound mining by providing a framework for examining potential risks
to ecosystems from mining.

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
$25,000
To sponsor The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Internship
in American Decorative Arts. Funding is designated for one graduate
student over a one-year period beginning June 2003.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$50,000
For the acquisition of a Louis Comfort Tiffany mosaic glass column.
The column is one of six made by Tiffany at the turn of the century
and will be installed along with the Museum's collection of Tiffany
objects in the new Victorian galleries of the American Wing.

Public Radio International
Minneapolis, Minnesota
$50,000
To support the weekly arts and culture radio program Studio 360,
which illuminates the role of art in everyday life. The program
is hosted by Kurt Anderson and is carried by nearly 700 affiliate
stations reaching approximately 20 million listeners worldwide.

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
$105,000
For its School of American Crafts' Tiffany & Co. Scholarship,
which will help RIT further enhance the world's artistic culture
through fine metal craftsmanship and creation of beauty.

The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc.
Winterthur, Delaware
$10,000
In support of its exhibition Byrdcliffe: An American Arts
and Crafts Colony
, which is part of a changing exhibition series,
American Craftsmanship. The exhibition features work from
Winterthur's own collection as well as those on loan from
other institutions.