Skytruth
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
www.skytruth.org$100,000 over two years
General support for the organization, which works to eliminate the information technology gap between environmental advocates and large corporate and governmental interests. Funding will underwrite administrative costs incurred while providing mining reform advocacy partners with maps, analyses and graphics obtained from satellite images and aerial photographs.
world resources institute
Washington, District of Columbia
www.wri.org$50,000
To support the development of a pilot analysis for an environmental and social risk assessment tool, which was created with data from the Mining and Critical Ecosystems project.
American museum of natural history
New York, New York
www.amnh.org$50,000
For its Center for Biodiversity Conservation and its Bahama Biocomplexity project.
Wildlife conservation society
Bronx, New York
www.wcs.org$25,000
For continued work of the organization's Coral Reef Conservation Program.
conservation resources inc.
Mendham, New Jersey
www.conservationresourcesinc.org$10,000
In support of general operations and to help match a grant from the William Penn Foundation.
the cumberland land trust
Cumberland, Rhode Island
www.cumberlandlandtrust.org$10,000
As part of a matching grant to a State of Rhode Island Open Space grant to purchase 23 acres of land in a unique habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp.
american academy in rome
New York, New York
www.aarome.org$30,000 over three years
For a newly created lecture series entitled The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Lecture in Design, to be held in New York City and Rome.
cooper-hewitt national design museum
New York, New York
cooperhewitt.org$150,000
For the Museum's upcoming exhibition entitled Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
educational foundation for the fashion industries
New York, New York
www.fitnyc.edu$42,500
For The Tiffany & Co. Foundation International Scholarship in Jewelry Design, which supports a Japanese student majoring in jewelry design to study abroad at the Fashion Institute of Technology for one year.
metropolitan museum of art
New York, New York
www.metmuseum.org$75,000 over three years
To support The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Internship in the Museum's department of American Decorative Arts.
national jewelry institute
New York, New York
www.nationaljewelryinstitute.org$20,000
To support the Masterpieces of American Jewelry exhibition, which celebrates the unique attributes of American jewelry, its creators and innovators.
newark museum
Newark, New Jersey
www.newarkmuseum.org$50,000
To support its exhibition Baubles, Bangles and Bling Bling: A World of Jewelry.
New York landmarks conservancy
New York, New York
www.nylandmarks.org$25,000
For The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Stained Glass Preservation Fund, which will be used toward the preservation of Tiffany stained glass in New York's historic religious buildings.
New York university
New York, New York
www.scps.nyu.edu$10,000
For its arts and crafts conference, Meet Me at the Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Arts and Crafts Movement on Display.
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island
www.risd.edu$150,000
To endow a scholarship fund in the Department of Jewelry and Metalsmithing that will support an undergraduate student for the duration of his/her junior and senior year or a graduate student in the Department of Jewelry and Metalsmithing for two years.
World Monuments Fund, Inc.
New York, New York
www.wmf.org$250,000 over two years
For conservation of Emperor Qianlong's Lodge of Retirement in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.