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The Environment

Conservation Resources Inc.
Mendham, New Jersey
$10,000
For continued support for open space and farmland preservation in New Jersey.

The Coral Reef Alliance
San Francisco, California
$100,000
To support its efforts to build conservation alliances and implement
coral reef preservation projects in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, New York
$50,000
General support for its 2005 retreat.

Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability
Falls Church, Virginia
$200,000
To design and implement a program to help remediate social
and environmental problems associated with artisanal mining
in the alluvial fields of Sierra Leone.

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Boston, Massachusetts
$60,000
To support the development of computer simulations for abandoned
mine land reclamation in the U.S. and for its Project for
Reclamation Excellence (P-REX), which promotes excellence
in mine reclamation practices through better design solutions.

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Redmond, Washington
$100,000
General support for its efforts to create a new agenda for coral reef conservation.

National Parks Conservation Association
Washington, DC
$500,000 over three years
To restore the 26,000 acres of marsh and coastal park known as
Gateway National Recreation Area (GNRA).

The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York
$100,000
For continued work on the Garden's Orchid Research Collection and to sponsor The Orchid Show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to be held in 2006.

The Ocean Foundation
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support The Ocean Foundation, which uses the internet to create a marketplace where ocean conservation organizations can freely and efficiently showcase their work to a broad network of potential funders that might otherwise be difficult to reach.

Support Center for Sustainable Development (SUCEDE)
Miami, Florida
$100,000
For its work with Fundacion Amigos Del Chocó on its Green Gold (Oro Verde)
Program, which seeks to promote responsible mining practices and market
access to underprivileged mining communities in the Chocó rainforests
of Colombia.

Trout Unlimited
Arlington, Virginia
$450,000
To build upon its successful abandoned mineland watershed restoration
project that is currently located at Utah's American Fork Canyon and
to extend its model for implementing on-the-ground watershed
restoration efforts to other sites in the western United States.

University of Vermont School of Natural Resources
Burlington, Vermont
$43,500
To support research on the environmental and social benefits of artisanal
gemstone mining in Burma/Myanmar, Brazil and Madagascar.

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
$100,000
For continued work on its Coral Reef Conservation Program.

World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC
$100,000
For its work to conserve coral reefs in the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas
marine ecoregion, located in the heart of the Indo-Pacific
coral triangle.

World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC
$100,000
In support of its work on developing a framework for socially and environmentally responsible practices.

Arts & Culture

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, Virginia
$300,000
To establish the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Fund for the
Silversmith Trade at Colonial Williamsburg, which will help
to preserve the traditional silversmith trade in which artisans
will be able to continue to create objects that reflect the
history of American craftsmanship.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas
$100,000
To support the Museum's traveling exhibition, Modernism in American
Silver: 20th Century Design,
which will focus on the design and
manufacturing of silver in America between 1925 and 2000.

The Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, Michigan
$50,000
For the reinstallation of the completely renovated American Wing and
the development of engaging educational material and interpretive media
that will tell the story of the rich tradition of 19th century
American decorative arts.

Exhibitions International
New York, New York
$50,000
For publication of the catalogue for its exhibition Louis Comfort
Tiffany: Artist for the Ages
.

Historic New England
Boston, Massachusetts
$50,000
To fund its research project to catalogue and make their extensive
jewelry collection accessible. The majority of research on the
collection was completed through a formal 12-month curatorial
fellowship entitled The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Fellowship, awarded
to a graduate decorative arts student.

John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
$25,000
In support of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage
public display cases that will showcase the Profiles in Courage award
designed by Tiffany & Co. and other decorative art materials, and make
them accessible at the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
$450,000
In support of its upcoming exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall-An Artist's Country Estate, which will feature work from Tiffany's personal collection, including some of his best windows, paintings, glass vases, pottery and enamel work.

National Jewelry Institute
New York, New York
$20,000
To support the Masterpieces of American Jewelry exhibition as it tours
to the Gilbert Collection in London.

New York City Opera
New York, New York
$50,000
To support the New York City Opera's trip to Japan for the World EXPO 2005.

Somerset House Art History Foundation
Merion Station, Pennsylvania
$20,000
To sponsor the public relations effort for the Masterpieces of American
Jewelry
exhibition as it tours to the Gilbert Collection in London.

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
$1,100,000
To establish The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Collection in the Smithsonian. To create an endowment that will be dedicated to the acquisition of important and unusual gemstones to be displayed in a custom-designed case at the Smithsonian's National Gem Collection Gallery.