Abbey of New Clairvaux, Vina, California
First installment of two year grant totaling $30,000 for the Abbey's Sacred Stones project.  In the 1930s William Randolph Hearst acquired the 13th century Cistercian Spanish monastery of Santa Maria de Ovila with the intention of reconstructing the monastery on his properties in California.  The monastery was dismantled and the stones were sent to San Francisco where they were stored pending transportation to a Julia Morgan designed structure on one of Hearst's ranches on the McCloud River in Northern California.  With the depression, the project never proceeded.  For many years the stones were stored behind the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park where they were vandalized and utilized in various construction projects in the Bay Area.  In 1991, the remaining stones were given by the City of San Francisco to the Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California.  The Abbey is reconstructing the chapter house portion of the monastery with the stones still available for use.  This grant will assist in the process of reconstructing the chapter house which will be incorporated into the Abbey's religious buildings.
             $15,000.00

Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
First Installment of two year grant totaling $30,000 to assist in the Center's "Eeirdd Yr Uchelwyr" (The Poetry of the Nobility) project which involves a 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.
             $15,000.00

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
Final 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

Documents of the Coronado Expedition
(New Mexico Highlands University),
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Grant to support research of relevant original documents in Spain,  Mexico and United States relating to the Coronado Expedition of 1540-42 in Southwestern United States.  After the documents have been assembled they will be published in a Spanish/English text volume with the support of the National Historical Records and Publications Commission.
               $7,500.00

Galt Area Historical Society, Galt, California
Contribution to support the McFarland Living History Ranch project supported 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 History Ranch will attract and offer an experience in pioneer history to over half a million children in schools in Northern California.
             $4,000.00

English Heritage, London, England
Final installment of four year grant totaling $100,000.00 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 birthplace 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

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California
Final installment of two-year grant totaling $50,000.00 to fabricate and install statues of St. Mark and St. Matthew in the apse of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. There are four niches in the apse which were designed for statues of the four evangelists.  Statues of St. Luke and St. John were completed and installed before work was halted on Grace Cathedral during the depression of the 1930s. The proposed statues will complete the original plan of the apse statuary.
               $25,000.00

Hangtown's Gold Bug Park, Inc., Placerville, California
Continued support for the interpretive program at the award winning Gold Bug Park, a California historical park of the gold rush era. 
             $5,000.00

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
Final 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
Final installment of three-year grant totaling $45,000.00 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
Fourth installment of five year grant totaling $42,000.00 for field work and research for the archeological projects at Mozan/Urkesh in Syria.  
             $12,000.00

Jean Mudge Productions (Bay Area Video Coalition), Berkeley, California
Grant to assist in development and presentation of a video biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a one hour PBS documentary film with educators guide, dedicated web site and book for Emerson's bicentennial events in the U.S., Europe and Asia in 2003. The program will highlight Emerson's message of seeing Nature as a sign and symbol of what he called a "World Soul" for him the font of a universal spiritual sensibility.
               $2,500.00

Mission San Jose, Mission San Jose, California
Third installment of four-year grant totaling $80,000.00 to assist in the 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, London, England
Final Installment of four-year Grant totaling $500,000.00 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.
Final installment of three-year grant totaling $120,000.00 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 13 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
Final installment of three-year grant totaling $45,000.00 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 are relevant to the mainland of North America from 1500 to 1815.
               $15,000.00

Redstone Tenants Association (San Francisco Foundation), San Francisco, California
Grant to assist the preservation of the San Francisco Labor Temple located at the corner of 16th Street and Capp Street in San Francisco, and the murals located therein.  The building is associated with historic labor events of San Francisco, particularly the events of the 1934 San Francisco general strike.
             $5,000.00

Regional Parks Foundation, Oakland, California
Grant to assist in the restoration of the Herschell-Spillman carousel in Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley.
               $5,000.00

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association,
San Francisco, California
Second installment of three-year grant totaling $75,000.00 to prepare a new interpretive exhibit on the historic sailing ship Balclutha at the Hyde Street pier in San Francisco.  The new 'Tween Deck" interpretive exhibit focuses on conveying the look and feel of a sailing ship transporting cargo to and from San Francisco.  The functional exhibition space is approximately 6,000 square feet and will portray each of the three aspects of the Balclutha's career as a cargo carrier — the European grain trade, the Pacific Ocean lumber market and the Alaskan fish industry.
               $25,000.00

Textile Conservation Center, Winchester, England
Final installment of three-year grant totaling $30,000.00 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                        MORE ON THIS GRANT

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Grant to support the production of The Devil's Rope documentary video project on the history and development of barbed wire.
               $4,000.00                          MORE ON THIS GRANT

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Final installment of two-year grant totaling $50,000.00 to support continued microfilming and cataloging of the contents of the Ambrosia Library in Milan.  The Foundation has supported this project with several grants over the past 20 years and the current grant will focus on the Ambrosiana drawings collection and will support graduate students and others in their cataloging of the collection and making the same available on the Web and otherwise for medieval scholars.
               $25,000.00

        Total:  $575,000.00