California Council for the Humanities, San Francisco, CA
Grant to support the 2001 program of the California Exhibition Resources Alliance.  The Alliance develops exhibitions, primarily concerning California history and culture, which circulate through various small regional museums in California.
               $5,000.00

California Historical Society, San Francisco, California
Final installment of two year grant totaling $50,000 to provide for salary support for the  Curator of Photography for the Society which maintains an extraordinary photographic collection of approximately 500,000 images documenting the history of California in both the 19th and 20th century.  The Curator will assist in the preparation of an exhibition to celebrate the centennial of the birth of the famous California photographer Ansel Adams in 1902.  The exhibition opens in September of 2001 in San Francisco and travels to Los Angeles,  Chicago, New York, London and Berlin.  It is being underwritten by the Hewlett Packard Corporation and the Society is organizing an ancillary exhibition on the influence of San Francisco and California on Adams and his work.  The two year grant will enable the Society to allow the Curator of Photography to spend up to 50% of her time curating the collaborative exhibition.
               $25,000.00

Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
Final installment of four-year grant totaling $80,000.00 to assist in the Centre's "Beirdd Yr Uchelwyr" (the Poetry of the Nobility) project which involves the preparation of a series of volumes on the poetry of the Cywyddwyr, the most accomplished bardic wordsmiths of the 15th century.  This project is a continuation of previous projects supported by the Foundation for the research and publication of material on medieval Welsh bards and poets and their works.
             $20,000.00

Church of St.  John the Baptist, Cockayne Hatley, England
Grant to assist in restoration project of historic church in Bedfordshire, England.  The church is famous for its baroque woodwork, mostly from Belgium, installed in the 1820s.  The grant will assist in furthering an ongoing restoration program for the past 15 years supported by English Heritage, as well as the small church congregation.
             $7,500.00

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
First installment of three year grant totaling $120,000.00 to reorganize the Williamsburg interpretative program for the historic area to develop a new "Becoming American" curriculum.
               $40,000.00

Copperopolis Community Center, Copperopolis, California
Grant to support repairs for historic church in Copperopolis which has been converted to use as a community center for this gold rush town in the Sierra Foothills.  The Foundation has supported various projects in the past for the restoration and preservation of the building and its use as a community center.
             $5,000.00

English Heritage, London, England
Second installment of four year grant totaling $100,000 to establish an exhibition area for Whitby Abbey, an historic medieval abbey in Yorkshire, and to present the story of the town of Whitby from its earliest Saxon times through the Viking era, the medieval era and into the present day.  Whitby was the birth place and home of Captain James Cook, the South Seas explorer, and the setting of the novel Dracula.  In addition, the abbey was used as a target for gunfire by German warships during World War I.  The exhibition will be established in a Jacobean banqueting hall on an estate adjacent to the abbey itself and will be prepared by Past Forward, a prominent English interpretive designer.
             $25,000.00

Galt Area Historical Society, Galt, California
Contribution to support the McFarland Living History Ranch Project sponsored by the Galt Historical Society.  The Miwok Indians will have an interpretive center as well as the Nature Conservancy which plans to provide special programs on conservation and natural science.  The living ranch will attract and offer an experience in pioneer history to over a half million children in schools in Northern California.
             $5,000.00

Hangtown's Gold Bug Park, Inc., Placerville, California
Support for development of an interpretive program at the award winning Gold Bug Park, a California historical park of the gold rush era. 
             $7,500.00

Heritage Preservation, Washington, D.C.
Support of project Save Outdoor Sculpture sponsored by this prominent preservation organization.  Most of the projects involve Civil War and mid 19th century public monuments which through neglect are suffering damage.  This grant will assist in the conservation of the Soldiers Monument at Monroe, Maine and the Soldiers, Sailors and Pioneers of Lawrence County monument in Bedford, Indiana.
             $10,000.00

Historic Churches Preservation Trust, London, England
Grant to support conservation and preservation projects at rural churches in England.  The funds will be used as part of a matching program to encourage local support to preserve historic churches, many of whose congregations have been reduced to very small numbers due to population shifts since the time of the church's construction in the medieval era.
             $10,000.00

Historic Mt. Vernon, Mt. Vernon, Virginia
Second installment of four year grant totaling $500,000.00 for the construction of an exhibition gallery in the new visitors center at George Washington's Mt. Vernon.  The gallery which will be named for the Foundation in recognition of the grant will be used for exhibitions devoted to the life and times of George Washington and especially his activities at Mt. Vernon. 
             $125,000.00

Hoghton Tower Preservation Trust, Lancashire, England
First installment of three year grant totaling $45,000 to assist in the restoration of the roofs of the buildings surrounding the inner courtyard at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire.  The Foundation has supported several restoration and conservation projects at Hoghton Tower and this current grant supports the continuing restoration of this historic house.
             $15,000.00

International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, Malibu, California
Second installment of five year grant totaling $42,000 for field work and research for the archeological projects at Mozan/Urkesh in Syria.  
             $12,000.00

Marin Museum of the American Indian, Novato, California
Grant to support development of an exhibit, "The California Cradle Basket as a Symbol of Cultural Continuity." The complete project will examine cradle baskets as social documents and will include a traveling exhibition, curriculum materials, a catalog, an exhibit guide, a video, and public programs which will include cradle basket making demonstrations.  
             $5,000.00

Mission San Jose, Mission San Jose, California
First installment of four year grant totaling $80,000 to assist in the project for seismic retrofitting of the Mission's museum building, originally constructed in 1810 as Mission San Jose's administrative wing.  The building is the oldest building in Alameda County and is a state designated historical landmark. The Foundation supported Phase I of the restoration program at the Mission which was the successful reconstruction of the original adobe mission church which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 1868.   
               $20,000.00

National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
First installment of two year grant totaling $30,000 for the restoration program of the Trust at Newhailes, the Dalrymple home in East Lothian on the outskirts of Edinburgh.  The house which was constructed over a period of 100 years commencing in 1686 has been successfully restored through fund raising appeals by the National Trust.  The Foundation's grant will assist in the development of an interpretive program about the house, its history and architecture and the Dalrymple family and their contributions of many generations to Scottish affairs. 
             $15,000.00

National Trust, London, England
Second Installment of four-year Grant totaling $500,000 for the conservation of the collection of embroideries at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.  The collection numbers over 200 items and dates predominantly from between 1580 and 1610 and is considered to be most important collection in the Western world. A 30 year study of the embroideries has been completed through the Victoria and Albert Museum which will now direct the conservation to ensure that the collection is preserved for the future.  The collection will be cleaned and repaired at the National Trust Textile Conservation Center at Blickling and the project will be phased over the four year period.
               $125,000.00

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
First installment of three year grant of $120,000 to assist in funding the position of Director of Interpretation and Education in the Stewardship of Historic Sites Department of the National Trust. The Foundation has supported projects over the past 12 years to develop and strengthen the Stewardship of Historic Sites Department and this grant will assist in realizing the full potential of this Department.  The Department creates and implements public programs that interpret the Trust's sites in a broad context of American history and culture and engages a diverse audience of adults, families and school children.  
             $40,000.00

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
First installment of three year grant totaling $45,000 in further support of the Institute's book publication program which has been supported for many years by the Foundation.  The Institute publishes works in early American history and assists writers and scholars in preparing the books.  The Institute scope also encompasses the Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe and Africa insofar as the histories and cultures of these places is relevant to the mainland of North America from 1500 to 1815.
               $15,000.00

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury, England
Grant to support the conservation of the collections of Bronze Age Ceramics from Stonehenge and Avebury which are curated by the Salisbury and South Wiltshire in Salisbury and the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society in Devizes.  Three-quarters of the necessary funds have been received from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other funds have been locally raised.    
               $8,000.00

Textile Conservation Center, Winchester, England
First installment of three year grant totaling $30,000 to support the "Deliberately Concealed Garments" project at the University of Southampton, Winchester campus.  In construction of medieval buildings there was a practice of concealing garments and shoes in the walls and foundations of buildings to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck and fortune to the inhabitants.  A number of these garments have been located as buildings have been torn down or restored and this project collects the garments, conserves them, describes them and relates them to the medieval culture in England. 
               $10,000.00

York Archaeological Trust, York, England
Final installment of two year grant totaling $50,000 to support an atlas of the City of York in the British Atlas of Historic Towns program.  Since the 1960s the International Commission for the History of Towns has been promoting a project for the publication of atlases of historic towns in Europe.  A forthcoming volume will be devoted to York and the Trust has been working with the British Historic Atlas Committee to prepare material for the York volume.  A map derived from the 1852 large scale Ordinance Survey of York will be the basis for the atlas with numerous period by period subsidiary maps. The maps are to be supported by a gazetteer and by essays written by scholars expert in the study of various periods of York's history and will be published by the Oxford University Press. 
               $25,000.00

        Total: $575,000.00