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.

Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, New Jersey
 
Bestowed 2001

Johnson & Johnson has supported the arts since it was founded in 1886. The arts are a key element in the company's long-standing commitment to improve the quality of life in its operating communities throughout the world, and are often integrated into initiatives that address healthcare issues.

Johnson & Johnson has benefited the arts, business and the community by:

• Supplying, through its divisions Xian-Janssen Pharmaceutical and Janssen Pharmaceutica, fungicides and training for Chinese archaeologists to restore and preserve one of the world's greatest treasures — more than 8,000 terracotta soldiers discovered in 1974 in the grave of the first Chinese emperor on the outskirts of the city of Xi'an, China.
• Helping hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation and health care centers bring the visual arts into their facilities by creating Society for the Arts in Healthcare. The initiative enabled these organizations to request support to begin an art program, expand an existing one or replicate a model that worked elsewhere.
• Commissioning I.M. Pei & Partners to design Johnson & Johnson's world headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• Providing grants, in-kind services and employee volunteer assistance consistently to nearly all the arts organizations in the New Brunswick area. The company is also a leader in the revitalization of downtown Newark, New Jersey, and has provided substantial support to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, major components of the revitalization of the city.
• Spearheading the development of the New Brunswick Cultural Center, which includes the George Street Playhouse, Crossroads Theater Company and the State Theater. The Center has been key to attracting restaurant, retail and other businesses to New Brunswick, New Jersey and ultimately to the city's economic development.
• Underwriting the PBS special, “AMERICAN DREAM: Andrea Bocelli's Statue of Liberty Concert” featuring the artist performing with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey.
• Donating through its subsidiary Neutrogena, a collection of ancient textiles, masks and tribal arts to The Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Students attending Los Angeles, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico public schools were invited to create masks inspired by the exhibition that were then put on view in the museum.
• Supporting Special Eyes on the Environment, which provides creative experiences through photography for children with multiple disabilities. The company also partners with National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill, Inc. to preserve and exhibit art created by mentally disabled artists.
• Providing support for The Artist as Catalyst, a pilot program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, designed to revitalize neighborhoods by placing artists in four New Jersey communities to work with residents and create large-scale public art work.
• Establishing its Corporate Art Program in 1983 to forge relationships with local, regional and state cultural institutions, and to bring art into the workplace. This program includes more than 3,000 works of art, a quarterly newsletter informing employees about upcoming exhibitions and special arts programs, and a guide to area museums and cultural institutions.
• Incorporating the visual and performing arts into the programs of Johnson & Johnson's Child Development Center, established in 1990, for the children of its employees. The programs include a reading initiative that introduces children to original book illustrations on loan from the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• Allocating approximately 9% of its philanthropic resources to the arts and matching employee gifts to arts and cultural organizations on a two-to-one basis. In 2000, the company provided $1,259,000 in matching gifts. Employees also serve on the boards of national, state and local cultural organizations.

General Mills, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
Bestowed 1999

General Mills, Inc. has been supporting the arts since 1954, when the General Mills Foundation was created to support excellence and creativity in the arts, promote artistic diversity, encourage community and employee participation in the arts, and provide hands-on arts education opportunities. Believing that the staffs and boards of arts organizations are best suited to make decisions about how a grant is used, unrestricted grants continue to be the foundation's major focus. In 1998, the foundation allocated 24% of its total philanthropic contributions to the arts in its headquarters community and operating areas.

General Mills has benefited the arts, business and the community by:

• Encouraging new ideas, fostering innovation and stimulating creativity among employees through The General Mills Art Collection. Established in 1958, the collection includes more than 1,100 works that are displayed throughout the company's headquarters and research facilities, and loaned to museums for special exhibitions. In 1987, the company established an outdoor sculpture garden that includes 11 commissioned site-specific works.
• Giving a $1.5 million leadership gift for the construction of the Science Museum of Minnesota, a new science museum being built in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
• Providing $1.5 million since 1991, and committing an additional $500,000 through 2001, to the New Beginnings Campaign of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to support a computerized information program. This learning system offers the institute's 500,000 annual visitors access to touch-screen terminals that provide educational information about the collections. Additionally, the company provided $635,144 in annual operating support during the same time period.
• Granting $300,000 to the Minnesota Opera Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for an initiative designed to reduce expenses by sharing scenery and costumes with opera companies in other cities.
• Making a $400,000 capital grant in 1996 to the Minnesota Orchestral Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of a $2 million commitment to the orchestra. In addition to the capital grant, General Mills has supported the orchestra with additional operating grants since 1994.
• Providing grants through the General Mills Foundation since 1995 to public radio and television organizations including: Public Radio International, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Community Communication, Inc., Orlando, Florida; and Twin Cities Public Television and Minnesota Public Radio, Inc., both of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
• Underwriting the educational initiatives of many of the projects it supports. For example, in 1993 it funded the educational programs of “The Africa Exhibit,” an exhibition seen by more than 250,000 schoolchildren in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. In 1995, it supported the educational programs for the exhibition “Patrick Desjarlait and the Ojibwa Tradition” in the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
• Sponsoring arts-related activities for company employees, retirees and family members through the Art Club division of the General Mills Employee Club. Activities included tours of the company's art collection, lunchtime talks by artists, trips to museums and local galleries, and architectural tours of the Twin Cities. Additionally, the Performing Arts Committee of the General Mills Employee Club subsidizes more than 1,800 tickets to approximately 30 arts events each year for employees and their families.
• Creating and supporting the Request for Proposals program from 1991-1994, an initiative designed to spark innovative ways to increase access to the arts among underserved segments of the population. Through this initiative, 32 grants totaling $1.5 million were awarded to arts organizations. Recipients included the Minnesota Orchestral Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for research and development of artistic products geared to reach new and non-traditional audiences; the Toledo Orchestra Association, Toledo, Ohio, for music lessons for 75 children living in low-income housing; the Paramount Arts Center, Aurora, Illinois, for artists' fees and tickets for students; the Great Falls Symphony, Great Falls, Montana, for performances in rural communities; and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, Illinois, for performances and demonstrations in five inner-city Chicago schools. While this initiative was formally completed in 1994, the company continues to support projects with similar goals.
• Matching employee gifts on a two to one basis for the first $100, and on a one-to-one basis thereafter through the Arts and Culture Gift Matching Program. In FY98, 302 organizations received a total of $603,000, resulting from 1,609 gifts. The company also encourages its employees to serve as volunteers on the boards of arts organizations throughout the country.

Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, Michigan
 
Bestowed 1997

Ford Motor Company has been supporting the arts for more than 50 years throughout the United States and in its global markets to foster understanding and appreciation of various cultures, to broaden access to the arts, to increase educational opportunities, and to enhance the quality of life.

Ford has benefited the arts, business and the community by:

• Sponsoring museum exhibitions in the United States and abroad. To increase understanding of African cultures, Ford collaborated with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois to develop “Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds.” This exhibition traveled to 12 venues in the United States through 2000. The company also sponsored the first major exhibition of Latin American folk art, “Visiones del Pueblo: The Folk Art of Latin America,” which showcased the folk art traditions of Latin America, and underwrote a bilingual educational program which accompanied this exhibition. To share the art from many of the historic houses of Great Britain, Ford underwrote “The Treasure Houses of Great Britain” in 1989 in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Company also sponsored “El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and its Transformation in the Americas,” an exhibition that explored the nature of Spanish folk art and the vital role it plays in past and present Spanish society. It opened in the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas and traveled to six cities across the country through 1999.
• Sponsoring the international exhibition “British Art Treasures from Russian Imperial Collections in The Hermitage.” This exhibition, which opened in 1996, traveled to three venues in the United States and closed in The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. The following year, the company underwrote the opening of the Globe Theatre in London, England; “Jasper Johns,” a major retrospective in the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; and “Roloff Beny,” an exhibition shown in Budapest, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Ottawa, Paris and Prague through 1998. Ford also sponsored “India: A Celebration of Independence: 1947-1997,” an exhibition of 200 photographs taken in India since its independence from Great Britain. This exhibition opened in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and traveled to nine additional venues in the United States and five in India through 1999.
• Becoming one of the first companies to assist the museum community in the exploration of new ways to address shifts in funding and in the development of new audiences. For example, it encouraged five museums — The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri and The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio — to collaborate to present a major exhibition of Impressionist works drawn from their permanent collections. Ford encouraged the museums to share the tasks of organizing, promoting and touring the exhibition — “Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums” — and it worked with the consortium to create an educational component. As part of this component, Ford worked with its dealers to display works of art in their showrooms that were created by children who attended the exhibition.
• Fostering broad participation in the arts by encouraging its dealers to underwrite student and teacher visits to exhibitions it sponsors, and providing vans decorated with images from the exhibitions to transport students and teachers to and from the exhibition venue. To broaden community participation, Ford often appoints a “Committee of Honor” — comprised of community leaders, Ford dealers and company employees — to serve as a liaison between the museum presenting the exhibition and the community. Many Ford dealers also distribute exhibition materials in local public schools.
• Providing general operating and project support to more than 300 visual and performing arts organizations throughout the United States, and encouraging its employees to serve the arts as volunteers and members of their boards of directors.