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.
Arts
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Awards $100,000 for Community Arts Projects
Release Date:
06/25/2014
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has awarded $100,000 to ArtPlace America to help two New Jersey arts organizations enhance their contributions to their local communities.
NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project
Release Date:
06/23/2014
The New York Public Library has won $500,000 for an internet access project from the Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation.
Fate of Detroit’s “Grand Bargain” In Hands Of City Workers, Pensioners
Release Date:
06/20/2014
City workers and pensioners will decide the fate of Detroit's "Grand Bargain," an effort to save the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection from the auction block—and to which the Ford Foundation has pledged $120 million and Andrew W. Mellon...
New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens
Release Date:
06/19/2014
A symposium that will explore the role of women in landscape design will be the first event at New York Botanical Garden's Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Make Music New York To Present Record-Setting 1,350 Shows
Release Date:
06/18/2014
The boroughs of NYC will be filled with the sound of music Saturday, June 21, thanks to support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for the Make Music New York festival, which will feature a record-setting 1,350 free...
NY's Joan Mitchell Foundation Invests $20 Million For New Orleans Arts Center
Release Date:
06/12/2014
By the time it completes work, the foundation will have invested roughly $20 million for an artists' retreat, where promising painters and sculptors from across the country can commune together In New Orleans to hone their skills.
Mellon Foundation Pledges $10 Million to Detroit Institute of Arts to Help with "Grand Bargain"
Release Date:
06/11/2014
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pledging $10 million to the Detroit Institute of Arts to support a "Grand Bargain" designed to prevent the sale of art to cover the city's financial woes.
New York Community Trust Grants $7.3 Million to 69 Nonprofits in All Five Boroughs and Nationwide
Release Date:
06/09/2014
Nonprofits throughout NYC working to help victims of human trafficking, stop gang violence and build young leaders are among the 69 groups sharing in $7.3 million in grants from The New York Community Trust
New York Botanical Garden Gets $28M Windfall Donation
Release Date:
06/05/2014
A $5.6 million donation from The Leon Levy Foundation helped the New York Botanical Garden surpass its goal and raise $28 million.
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