Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship
Release Date:
08/05/2014
The New Museum has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand scholarship on emerging art and ideas.
Arts
Rauschenberg Foundation Weighing Options Following Ruling Awarding Trustees $24.6 Million
Release Date:
08/04/2014
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is evaluating its legal options, following a Florida judge's decision to award $24.6 million to three trustees who had administered the late artist’s estate, Christopher Rauschenberg, president, said on Monday.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces 10-Fold Increase in Grant Distributions
Release Date:
07/25/2014
Brooklyn Community Foundation fund holders directed over $200,000 in grants—more than 90 percent going to Brooklyn nonprofits—for the first six months of 2014, a 10-fold increase over the same period last year.
William Simon President Questions Motives of "Liberal" Foundations Working To Advance Democracy
Release Date:
07/23/2014
Citing efforts dating back to the 1960s, the president of the William E. Simon Foundation argues that major foundations--including Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller--have pursued "an obvious, politically liberal, ideological agenda" in the name of...
Nineteen Ford-Funded Films Nominated for 2014 Emmys
Release Date:
07/17/2014
The nominees for the 35th Annual News and Documentary Emmys and the 66th Annual Primetime Emmys include 19 documentaries and film projects that have received support from the Ford Foundation's JustFilms initiative.
Dodge Foundation Awards $4.4 Million In Grants For Arts, Education, Environment, Media
Release Date:
07/16/2014
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation recently approved $4.4 million in 90 grants to arts, education, environment and media nonprofit organizations throughout New Jersey.
Springboard for the Arts Receives $750,000 From Surdna Foundation
Release Date:
07/08/2014
Springboard for the Arts has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Surdna foundation to support its community development programs.
Lincoln Center Partnership To Train and Place Arts Teachers In NYC Schools
Release Date:
07/07/2014
An initiative supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund will help educate, certify and fast-track the placement of music, dance, theater and visual art teachers in up to 120 NYC public schools currently without...
New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds
Release Date:
07/06/2014
The Ford Foundation will be part of a new nonprofit, the Foundation for Detroit's future, which will administer the $366 million in private money pledged as part of a "Grand Bargain" to save the Detroit Institute of Art's collection from the auction...
Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards
Release Date:
06/30/2014
Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris Kearns Goodwin won for nonfiction.
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