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NEW YORK—DonnerFoundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and MuseumsThe William H. Donner FoundationLimitations: Giving primarily in CA, CO Washington, DC and NY, with somegiving in VA.1032. Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. $5,000, 2006. For L. JordanFilm Preservation/Archival Containers.1033. University of Colorado Foundation, Boulder, CO. $50,000, 2006. ForMoving Image Art Archive in Memoriam to Stan Brakhage.1034. University of Colorado Foundation, Boulder, CO. $40,000, 2007. ForMoving Image Art Archive in Memoriam to Stan Brakhage.Doris Duke Charitable FoundationLimitations: Giving on a national basis. No support for toxic issues, litigation,the visual arts, museums or galleries, or arts programs for rehabilitativeor therapeutic purposes. No grants to individuals (except through specialfoundation programs), or for conferences or publications.1035. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $1,000,000, 2007. 2-yeargrant. For preservation of Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF)supported works and related oral histories.Dyson FoundationLimitations: Giving primarily in Dutchess County, NY, and organizationsproviding services in Dutchess County; limited grants to otherMid-Hudson Valley counties (Columbia, Greene, Orange, Putnam andUlster counties). National and other grants on a solicited basis. Nosupport for international organizations. No grants to individuals, or fordebt reduction, direct mail campaign or fundraising events.1036. George Washington University, Washington, DC. $25,000, 2007. ForEleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, to make Eleanor Roosevelt’s writtenand audio-visual record accessible to scholars, teachers, students,policy makers, and general public.1037. George Washington University, Washington, DC. $25,000, 2008. Forcontinued support for Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, to make EleanorRoosevelt’s written and audio-visual record accessible to scholars,teachers, students, policy makers, and general public.1038. New York State Archives Partnership Trust, Cultural Education Center,Albany, NY. $10,000, 2005. Toward preserving and restoring New YorkState’s documents from Revolutionary War.The Ford FoundationLimitations: Giving on a national and international basis, including the U.S.,and some countries in Africa and the Middle East, Asia, Russia, LatinAmerica and the Caribbean. No support for programs for whichsubstantial support from government or other sources is readilyavailable, or for religious sectarian activities. No grants for routineoperating costs, construction or maintenance of buildings, orundergraduate scholarships; graduate fellowships generally channeledthrough grants to universities or other organizations; no grants for purelypersonal or local needs.1039. African Woman and Child Feature Service, Nairobi, Kenya. $150,000,2008. To plan and oversee preparatory work for establishment ofnational audiovisual archive.1040. Aid Transparency, Dakar, Senegal. $757,300, 2009. 2-year grant. Forinternational conference and book on Africa’s ancient written patrimonyand to study feasibility of establishing regional training center forconservation and study of ancient manuscripts.1041. Archive Administration of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region, SaintPetersburg, Russia. $215,000, 2006. 2-year grant. To preserve andprovide wider access to archive’s photo collections.1042. Arewa House-Centre for Historical Documentation and Research,Kaduna, Nigeria. $300,000, 2008. 2-year grant. For training andoutreach activities to increase participation of young university-basedscholars in auditing, conservation, translation and analysis of ancientArabic manuscripts in Nigeria.1043. Arts Council of Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. $52,300, 2007. 2-yeargrant. To digitize prints, sound, video and photographic archivaldocumentation of artistic performances sponsored by Arts Council from1968 to present.1044. British Library, London, England. $304,700, 2006. 2-year grant. ForInternational Dunhuang Project to promote exchange and capacitybuilding for Silk Road scholarship among young scholars and collectionsin Russia, China and India.1045. British Museum, London, England. $1,000,000, 2007. 3-year grant. Toprovide capacity building and technical assistance for culturalconservation projects in four West African countries: Ghana, Mali, Nigeriaand Sierra Leone.1046. Central European University Foundation, New York, NY. $140,000,2005. 2-year grant. To complete preparatory phase for establishment ofindependent center for private archives for Arab world.1047. Central State Archive of Film, Photographic and PhonographicDocuments, Saint Petersburg, Russia. $243,000, 2008. 2.75-yeargrant. To preserve and provide wider access to archive’s photocollections.1048. Centre for Media and Alternative Communication, New Delhi, India.$80,000, 2008. 2-year grant. To archive, exhibit and disseminate legacyof women performers in 78 RPM era and provide platform for interfacebetween artistic practice, cultural pluralism and technology.1049. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Calcutta, India.$206,600, 2008. 3-year grant. To strengthen and expand archivalcollection on Eastern India, award training, internships and postgraduatefellowships and increase public engagement with exhibits, workshopsand publications.1050. Centre of Contemporary Architecture, Moscow, Russia. $298,000,2006. 2-year grant. For digital and video archive, publications, lectures,exhibitions and other activities to promote creativity and public interestin architecture.1051. Centre of Contemporary Architecture, Moscow, Russia. $141,000,2009. For digital and video archive, international seminar on new artspaces and other activities to promote public interest in architecture.1052. Civic: Centre for Indian Visual Culture, New Delhi, India. $200,000,2007. 3-year grant. To build digital archive of popular visual art fromdiverse regions and social contexts.1053. Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York, NY. $100,000, 2005.1.25-year grant. For archival elements of campaign to preserve artisticaccomplishments of Merce Cunningham and his dance company.1054. Dogged Films Proprietary, Johannesburg, South Africa. $200,000,2006. 2-year grant. For Scribes of Timbuktu, documentary followingSouth African and Malian researchers through translation, analysis andpreservation of manuscripts of medieval African astronomers.1055. Dogged Films Proprietary, Johannesburg, South Africa. $196,000,2008. To complete The Scribes of Timbuktu, documentary followingSouth African and Malian researchers through translation, analysis andpreservation of manuscripts of medieval African astronomers.1056. Education Development Center, Newton, MA. $57,510, 2005.1.25-year grant. For Dancing Forward for Change, book and digital archivedocumenting experience, history and impact of gender equity movement.1057. Egyptian Center for Culture and Art, Cairo, Egypt. $80,000, 2006.1.50-year grant. For research, documentation and presentation ofEgyptian folk music.1058. El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Popular Music, Cairo, Egypt. $225,000,2006. 2-year grant. For tie-off support to develop and implementstrategic marketing plan to help El Tanbura and other folk and popularmusic groups access world music audience and to develop folk musicarchive.1059. Fund for Reconciliation and Development, Dobbs Ferry, NY. $100,000,2007. 2-year grant. To organize, characterize, preserve and catalogrecords of Fund’s work to normalize relations between the U.S. andIndochina, 1985-2005.1060. George Washington University, Washington, DC. $190,000, 2008.2-year grant. For archival and archaeological research to locate,document and preserve remains of slave ships shipwrecked off coast ofSouthern Africa and to develop heritage route for cultural tourism.1061. Howard University, Washington, DC. $82,500, 2006. 2-year grant. Forresearch, cataloguing and planning for development of African DiasporaArchive.1062. Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China. $33,247, 2008. Forresearch, documentation and preservation of Nu Shu, writing systemcreated, used and understood only by women and to establisheco-museum for display of Nu Shu writings and to teach it.1063. Indonesian Visual Art Archive Foundation, Indonesia. $52,000, 2008.2-year grant. To recatalog and digitize collection and make it availableonline.1064. Jackson State University, Jackson, MS. $100,000, 2008. 2-year grant.For Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center for Study of20th Century African American to develop and implement plan to digitizeMargaret Walker archive.32 © 2009 by the Foundation CenterPublished by the Library of Congress and the Foundation Center