Lockheed Martin Corporation
Bethesda, Maryland

Aerospace/Defense

For decades, Lockheed Martin has operated with the belief that the arts spark innovative thinking and enhance its ability to attract and retain a highly-educated, motivated workforce. The company has made a long-term commitment to support the arts to enhance the quality of life in its operating communities, and to bring people together to learn from each other and to celebrate their differences.

Highlights of the company's extensive support of the arts include:

• Sponsoring the annual A Capitol Fourth concert presented by the National Symphony Orchestra on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC, which is nationally broadcast on PBS.
• Providing significant funding to the arts in the Washington, DC area including the Washington Ballet, the Washington National Opera, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, Center Stage and the Maryland Governor's Excellence in the Arts Awards.
• Making a leadership grant of $1.5 million for the opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, and a $150,000 grant for the Museum's 10th anniversary; a $100,000 grant to Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC, enabling it to receive a matching grant; a grant of $75,000 to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, to sponsor Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853; contributing more than $135,000 since 1999 to Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, VA, for educational programming; and more than $250,000 to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, for programming.
• Providing operating support to the Baltimore Museum of Arts, Baltimore, MD, for more than 10 years and recently sponsoring the Museum's School and Teacher Program; providing $1 million to the new Strathmore Concert Hall and Arts Education Center, Montgomery County, MD; contributing $125,000 since 2002 to the Lockheed Martin/MSAC Technology Enhancement Grants-a partnership with the Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore MD, that provides the arts in Maryland with computer technology upgrades; making a five-year $500,000 gift to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore, MD, and supporting its Arts Excel program, which brings classical musicians into inner-city schools; providing multi-year funding to the Arts for Youth program of the Lancaster Performing Arts Center, Lancaster, PA; and funding the Maryland Arts Advocacy Day.
• Supporting United Arts and the Orlando Opera, Orlando, FL; Arts Alive in Seminole, Sanford, FL; the Brevard Cultural Alliance, Viera, FL; the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Cape Canaveral, Melbourne, FL; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Denver, CO; the Jefferson Symphony, Golden, CO; and the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.
• Encouraging its executives to join the boards of arts organizations and its employees to serve as volunteers for the arts.