2000 Annual Report

Higher Education

$30,000	Alverno College For the discretionary fund of President Sister Joel Reed.
$5,000	For support of two School Sisters of St. Francis, Sister Tryphina and Sister Godberta, to teach computer literacy in Tanzania.
$1,000	Americans for Oxford, Inc. For the support of the Bodleian Library.
$50,000	Bellarmine University Sixth payment of a $500,000 grant for international study scholarships through the Foreign Language Department.
$71,040	Third payment of a $426,300 grant for the Parker Palmer-inspired Teacher Formation and the Core of Student Learning.
$25,000	Community Foundation of Louisville A contribution to endow the Brice Simpson Memorial Scholarship Fund. The fund will be used to defray college expenses for the outstanding senior member of the Fern Creek High School Junior Marine ROTC unit.
$4,000	Indiana University Foundation For the Acquisition Fund of the Joseph and Matthew Paton Philanthropic Studies Library.
$85,000	Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary First of two payments funding scholarships which permit foreign and domestic seminary students to study at the seminary and then pursue ministry elsewhere, where needed.
$100,000	Middlebury College For annual fund.
$32,000	University of Louisville For funding a study on attracting immigrant talent to Louisville. Written in three parts, the first evaluated the national and international experience of immigrants, the second provided a detailed analysis of immigrant flow into Greater Louisville, and the third provided recommendations to help local leaders attract more immigrants to Louisville, and increase their education and professional skills.
$55,000	For support of the final year of the Torre de Palma Project, an archeological excavation project in Portugal. Torre de Palma was one of the largest Roman villas discovered on the Iberian Peninsula. The main goal of the project was to trace development and growth of the villa.
$353,000	Second payment of a multi-year grant to fund the Liberal Studies Program's Visiting Professor project.
$5,000	University of Memphis Foundation For establishing the Matt Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund, which will fund five $1,000 scholarships over the next five years in memory of the late Matt Smith.
$6,000	University of San Diego Law School For one need-based scholarship for summer study abroad in foreign law, arranged by the Institute on International and Comparative Law, USD.
$30,000	University of the South For three $10,000 grants to specific programs at the University: one for the Dean of the College Discretionary Fund, which will help faculty with individual projects; the second for the Center for Teaching; and the third for the Instructional Technology Workshop, to support individual faculty projects, especially those in collaboration with students.
$20,200	Virginia Center for Digital History For the identification and convening of an advisory committee of distinguished scholars in June 2000 at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Virginia Center's project partner on "The Electronic Law and Business Archive: Communities and the Development of American Capitalism" - ELBA.
$75,000	Yale University First payment of a $300,000 grant for Yale Law School's China Institute - a new, university-based center to advance legal reform and the rule of law in China, and to increase American understanding of the legal system in China and its process of reform.
$120,000	Last payment of a $600,000 grant for foreign language instruction.
$27,500	Yale in Kentucky For Bulldogs in the Bluegrass summer internship program.
$1,094,740	Total for Education

Disaster Relief and Prevention

$25,000	American Red Cross For support in coordinating public response to disastrous tornadoes that struck Owensboro, KY and surrounding areas on January 3, 2000. The Red Cross sheltered more than 307 people and served more than 36,062 meals to victims and volunteers. It established a telephone HOTLINE and sent out Outreach teams for those unable to come to a Service Center.
$20,000	For relief to victims of the flooding in Mozambique that killed thousands and left more than 1,000,000 people with stranded. The Red Cross offered relief in the form of financial support, tent distribution, medicines, plastic sheeting, cooking equipment and clean water.
$25,000	CARE, Inc. For relief to the victims of flooding in Mozambique. In Polana Canico, one of the hardest hit areas, CARE rallied efforts to clear silt from storm drains, aid engineers to ensure that homes in the area were stable, distribute plastic sheeting for shelter, and arrange the delivery of food to stranded families.
$30,000	Doctors Without Borders (MSF) For relief to the victims of the flooding in Mozambique. Doctors Without Borders used the already in-place relief response system to quickly aid victims by sending medical teams, relief supplies, water tanks and logistical kits. MSF also set up cholera treatment centers in the cities of Maputo and Matola and arranged for people evacuated from their homes to stay with host families.
$100,000	Total for Disaster Relief and Prevention

International Cooperation

$20,000	British American Arts Association, U.S. For support of the continued implementation of the British American Arts Association's mission of innovation and creativity in international policy and practice.
$100,000	Yale-China Association For the first payment of a $500,000 grant to fund the endowment of the Yale-China Association as part of the Yale-China's Centennial Campaign.
$2,500	For a special, year-end addition of general operating support.
$122,500	Total for International Cooperation

Foundation-Initiated Projects

$2,500	Actors Theatre of Louisville For professional development site visit expenses of the newly-appointed Director of Annual Fund, Brian Smith.
$33,000	Boys & Girls Club of Kentuckiana Second payment of a $100,000 grant to benefit the Shawnee branch's capital campaign.
$27,500	Canaan Missionary Baptist Church For a challenge grant to acknowledge the Church's realization of financial goals for the year 1999 - its first year in a new location on Hikes Lane - in terms of income and membership.
$5,000	Elm Research Institute For research of disease resistant genus of elm and reintroduction in US.
$3,500	English-Speaking Union, Kentucky Branch For a summer fellowship for one KY high school teacher to study Shakespeare at Oxford University and the Old Globe Theatre, Bankside.
$5,000	Kentucky Country Day School For the Annual Giving program.
$15,000	For the "Building Friendships, Building Futures" 1998 campaign.
$1,500	The Lincoln Foundation A contribution in honor of Dr. Sam Robinson's retirement.
$5,000	Nature Conservancy, Kentucky Chapter For the Nature Conservancy's efforts to promote biodiversity in Kentucky.
$15,000	Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society For general operating support.
$12,000	A special contribution to the USS Cole Memorial Fund, established to assist spouses and children of those killed or critically injured in the attack on October 12th, 2000.
$85,000	Public Radio Partnership For challenge grant support of the Capital Campaign for the new home of the Public Radio Partnership. The grant assisted the Public Radio Partnership in building new facilities at the HSA Broadband Building.
$25,000	Wabash Valley Community Foundation, Inc. For creation of the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department Fund as an advised fund in the Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc. The fund was used for innovations to the Deming Park Playground.
$235,000	Total for Foundation-Initiated Projects

Miscellaneous

$15,000	Clothe-A-Child & Food for the Elderly For 150 children in the Back-to-School, Christmas School Shopping, and Uniform Voucher and Clothes Closet programs.
$3,000	Council on Foundations For annual subscription support.
$7,500	Dare to Care For food purchases to benefit the needy during the Christmas Season.
$3,000	ECOLOGIA For ECOLOGIA's Director's Fund.
$1,000	Louisville Free Public Library Foundation For the library to continue its reading initiative programs, and to help first- and second-grade students get their first library cards.
$15,000	The Salvation Army For holiday-related assistance and winter relief to the needy in Louisville.
$1,000	Trinity Episcopal Church For the Meridian Song Project and is work in chamber music.
$300	Visually Impaired Pre-School Services For the Director's discretionary fund.
$45,800	Total for Miscellaneous

Urban Environment

$20,000	The Asia Institute First payment of a $40,000 grant to install a major speakers series, to help raise the profile of the Crane House, and attract new members.
$5,000	Second payment of $15,000 grant for the Crane House's annual speakers program, which seeks to increase understanding of Asian culture, history, and political trends.
$69,500	Cathedral Heritage Foundation For the completion of a community dining hall for the homeless at the Cathedral of the Assumption.
$2,500	Community Foundation of Louisville For general operating support of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, which offers services to nonprofits in Louisville.
$1,300	For honorarium, accommodation, and guest speaker fee for the September meeting of the Donors Forum of Kentuckiana.
$2,500	For the defray of consulting expenses in the drafting of a proposal to the New Ventures in Philanthropy program of the Forum of Regional Grantmakers.
$40,000	For distribution to specific charitable purposes, from the Depository account.
$25,000	Third payment of a $100,000 grant for Lac Viet's Vietnamese Parent/Children School Project.
$30,000	Historic Homes Foundation First payment of $60,000 challenge grant.
$500	Kentucky Foundation for Women For expenses related to bringing nationally known philanthropist Tracy Gary, to Louisville on November 9th and 10th, 2000, to speak to the understanding of community-based philanthropy and its importance in greater Louisville.
$1,000	Lincoln Heritage Council, Boy Scouts of America For the Urban Emphasis Program, a program encouraging inner city youth to participate in the Boy Scouts of America. The Urban Emphasis program aims to provide the traditions and values of Scouting as an alternative to the negative influences in today's society.
$50,000	Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Parks Department For creation of an endowment fund for the maintenance of Thurmond-Hutchins Park, which the Foundation donated to Jefferson County.
$791,318	For the Thurmond-Hutchins Park project.
$1,150	Louisville Suzuki String Association For strategic planning consultancy fee.
$25,000	Louisville Urban League Third payment of $125,000 challenge grant for their capital campaign
$98,995	Metro United Way First installment of a $898,995 challenge grant to benefit their New Business project.
$24,600	Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing For a strategic planning program at this historic site.
$30,400	St. Stephen's Baptist Church For a challenge grant.
$1,218,763	Total for Urban Environment
$2,816,803	Grand Total, 2000 Grants