Recipients of Doris Duke Fund’s Grants

Following are recipients of the first round of grants made by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation:

Performing Arts

American Dance Festival (Durham, N.C.): $1,826,000 to establish the Doris Duke Awards for New Work, an annual choreography award for dance companies, and to establish the Doris Duke Millennium Awards for Modern Dance and Jazz Collaboration.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, Mass.): $1,000,000 to support new talent by creating a fund for new commissions, residencies, and productions.

Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York): $2,000,000 to support the Duke Ellington Centennial in 1999, a year-long celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the jazz composer’s birth, and to endow a fund to support future Duke Ellington-related activities.

The Joyce Theater (New York): $1,000,000 to establish a fund to support the organization’s two facilities, the Joyce Theater and the Joyce SoHo, over the next three years.

Environment

Duke University (Durham, N.C.): $1,700,000 to help establish the Doris Duke Chair in Conservation Ecology.

Duke University (Durham, N.C.), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): $1,200,000 to create the Doris Duke Environment and Natural Resource Fellowships, a two-year program designed to train future environmental leaders by supporting master’s-degree students in applied conservation and management of natural resources and environmental systems.

Open Space Institute and the Trust for Public Land (Bear Mountain, N.Y.): $5,000,000 to complete a 20-year effort to purchase Sterling Forest, 17,500 acres in Orange County, N.Y. The groups want to create a public park and make it impossible for commercial developers to follow through on their plans to build on the land.

Medical Research

Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Award Program: $4,900,000 to finance up to 10 fellowships for promising young physicians who want to conduct clinical research on cancer, heart disease, AIDS, and sickle-cell anemia and related blood disorders. Candidates will be selected by the foundation’s Scientific Advisory Council.