Provided operating and capital grants to launch the Full Circle Schools program in Jackson County. The program creates on-campus or central nurseries dedicated to engaging primary and secondary school students in a volunteer program to grow (from seedlings) and then field plant native trees and bushes in rehabilitative and reforestation plantings in ecologically stressed areas of Jackson County, Oregon.
Provided an outreach grant for the Summit Land Conservancy in Summit County, Utah to allow recognition of sponsors and supporters during high-traffic periods.
or engagement, and through the funding of personal offsets.
Provided developmental and project funding for a series of three primers on simple changes individualscan make to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions and to save them money at the same time. Each primer provides background information on each topic as well as our personal experience implementing these changes in our lives.
Provided project funding to Symphony Space in New York City to host a series of three public interest presentations in conjunction with the NY Times. The series includes: Longevity: Living Longer, The Greening of New York City, Global Warming: Local Solutions.
Provided endowment funding for an annual distinguished lecture series to be offered both to the public and to students participating in the master class at the Oregon Bach Festival, which is offered at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
Provided a five-year continuing grant to the Metropolitan Opera’s Save the Met Broadcasts campaign to allow the Met to offer the popular series free throughout all six continents.
Provided developmental funding for a sabbatical leave for Music Theory Professor Timothy A. Smith to develop a multi-author hypermedia web site to allow collaborative explication of musical works by presenting within a single web page window focused scores linked with audio files and graphic enhancement. The model for this project is Professor Smith’s own, widely viewed, site for Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc.html.