Foundation News Archive 2022
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 31, 2023
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is pleased to announce the 2022 Honorable Peter Fox Cohalan Scholarship in American History for Nassau/Suffolk County High School Seniors. The scholarship is awarded to a graduating Nassau/Suffolk County high school senior who will pursue an undergraduate degree with a concentrated study of a minimum of 24 credit hours in American History and/or American Government.
The awardees must attend a 4-year accredited college or university or academic institution subject to Board approval.
The scholarship award is $10,000 yearly for 4 years of degree completion. Application will be closed on March 31, 2023 and notifications will be sent out in the first week of May 2023.
Join us in Syracuse, NY next April 15 - 18 for our annual conference Finding Center: Access, Inclusion, Participation, and Engagement.
Deadline to apply for a conference scholarship is Friday, December 16.
Syracuse University Alumni Museum Professional Scholarship
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, School of Design, Syracuse University, this scholarship is awarded to a museum professional who is a graduate of Syracuse University and working at a NYS museum. Scholarship includes conference registration, one workshop or special event registration, two nights at the Hotel Syracuse, up to $400 transportation/parking reimbursement, and complimentary individual MANY membership for one year.
BIPOC Museum Professional in Museum Administration
Awarded to a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color working in museum administration who has played a leadership role in advancing the capacity and sustainability of their museum. Scholarship includes conference registration, one workshop or special event registration, two nights at the Hotel Syracuse, up to $400 transportation/parking reimbursement, and complimentary individual MANY membership for one year.
William G. Pomeroy Foundation
Ten scholarships sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation for museum professionals working in a history-related NYS museum with an annual operating budget of $250,000 or less and who have not attended a MANY annual conference in the past. Scholarship includes conference registration, one workshop or special event registration, two nights at the Hotel Syracuse, up to $400 transportation/parking reimbursement, and complimentary individual MANY membership for one year.
Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation
Ten scholarships sponsored by the Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation for museum professionals employed by museums and historical societies on Long Island with an annual operating budget of $250,000 or less and who have not attended a MANY annual conference in the past. Scholarship includes conference registration, one workshop or special event registration, two nights at the Hotel Syracuse, up to $400 transportation/parking reimbursement, and complimentary individual MANY membership for one year.
Central NY Community Foundation
Five scholarships sponsored by the Central NY Community Foundationavailable for museum professionals working in Onondaga, Cayuga, Oswego, Cortland or Madison Counties. Scholarship includes conference registration and meals, transportation/parking reimbursement up to $50, and one special event ticket.
Museum Professional in a Facilities Position
Sponsored by Fireline Corporation, this scholarship is awarded to a museum professional working in a facilities position at a NYS museum.Scholarship includes conference registration, one workshop or special event registration, two nights at the Hotel Syracuse, up to $400 transportation /parking reimbursement, and complimentary individual MANY membership for one year.
Applications are due by 5 PM Friday, December 16, 2022.
If you have any questions regarding the 2023 conference scholarships,
Please Email conference@nysmuseums.org
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation celebrated their local 2022 Second Round Grantees at the historic Ketchum Inn.
Bert Seides, the Executive Director of the Ketchum Inn Foundation hosted a luncheon for 22 representatives from the Long Island historic community.
At the event, the individual grant contracts were signed and awards were made.
Introduction to the Ketchum Inn and the story of its restoration were shared by Mr. Seides.
He then introduced The Honorable Peter Fox Cohalan, Suffolk County Historian and RDLGF Board member, who spoke to the mission of the RDLG Foundation.
Kathryn M. Curran, Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner, welcomed the attendees and praised their shared excellence in promoting Long Island’s regional history.
Ketchum Inn educator, Diane Schwindt, prepared an incredible period lunch on the 1700’s kitchen hearth of the Inn.
The Ketchum Inn staff and volunteers created a festive, delicious and informative afternoon celebration.
Remaining RDLGF 2022 Second Round Grantees will be hosted by New York State Archives in Albany, NY. Awards will be made to the Museum Association of New York, the New York Preservation League and the New York Archives Partnership Trust.
The entire 2022 yearly RDLGF Awards totaled $4,515,390
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is sponsoring ten (10) scholarships for Long Island museum professionals to attend the 2023 annual conference Finding Center: Access, Inclusion, Participation, and Engagement annual conference in Syracuse, NY, April 15 to 18.
Scholarships will be awarded to museum professionals employed by museums and historical societies on Long Island with an annual operating budget of $250,000 or less and who have not attended a MANY annual conference in the past.
Each scholarship includes conference registration, one workshop or special event registration, two nights at the Hotel Syracuse, up to $400 transportation/ parking reimbursement, and complimentary individual MANY membership for one year.
Applications are due by 5 PM Friday, December 2, 2022.
If you have any questions regarding the 2023 conference scholarships, please email conference@nysmuseums.org
Students are carefully scanning and capturing images of documents and photos from the collections of historical societies throughout Long Island.
For over 160 years, The Cooper Union’s Great Hall has been a bastion of free speech, social activism, education, culture, and civic engagement – a place where leaders, performers, and everyday people have convened to address the most important issues of their time. Join us to celebrate those moments again and the launch of The Cooper Union’s extraordinary new digital resource, Voices from the Great Hall, with a special one-night-only evening of performances by some of the very artists who have previously appeared in the Great Hall. Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Sam Waterston hosts the evening, returning to the very stage where he reprised Abraham Lincoln’s famous Right Makes Might address, which Lincoln originally gave at The Cooper Union in 1860. The event will feature segments of the archive’s original recordings, brought to life with large-scale projection imagery that surrounds you. Be among the first to experience again the voices of the thinkers, leaders, and creators who helped shape our city and nation, including Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, National Organization for Women co-founder Betty Friedan, and author and activist Larry Kramer. WNYC's Kai Wright, host of The United States of Anxiety, will join us and, returning to the Great Hall stage for live encores will be Lincoln expert and author Harold Holzer. Ensembles from the New York Phil Teaching Artist Ensemble and Resistance Revival Chorus will perform.
Abigail Horn will graduate from Longwood High School with a Regents diploma with Advanced Distinction with Honors. She has also earned her Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish. During her time in high school, Abigail has been an active participant in her school community. She has held many leadership positions in Student Government and Council including Class Representative, Secretary, Parliamentarian, and Vice President. Abigail was selected to participate in annual NYS CLSA State Student Leadership Conferences. Abigail was an athlete on the Varsity Track and Cross Country teams and performed in her school’s drama and musical productions. Abigail has taken many Advanced Placement and Honors courses and she maintained a high academic average. She was an active member of the National Honor Society, Foriegn Language Honor Society and Tri-M Music Honor Society. In addition to school activities, Abigail has been an active volunteer in her local community. She volunteered with Brookhaven Youth Court serving as a Judge, Attorney and Jury to help determine restorative consequences for teens who have already confessed their guilt to a variety of crimes. She also volunteered annually with the Nassau County Empire State Victory Challenge Games. Where she helped students with physical disabilities compete in events such as distance kick, shotput and discus. Abigail plans to attend the University of Albany this fall and is enrolled in the Honors College. She is excited to pursue her passion is United States government and history with a major in Political Science.
Congratulations Abigail!
Mapping Early New York and Long Island: A Demonstration
A joint presentation sponsored by the NNI, NAHC, and NYG&B
Alexandra Shehigian graduated from St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in 2021 as the valedictorian. While in high school, she served as Co-President of the Drama Club, for which she directed the Fall 2019 production of Darcy and Elizabeth, a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Alexandra was also a core captain for her school’s freshman orientation program. She was also a member of the Nora Cronin Presentation Academy Mentorship Program, as well as her school’s chapters of the National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, and Tri-M National Music Honor Society. Additionally, she was a student researcher for her school’s science research program, conducting two studies examining the effects of viewing blockbuster movies dealing with historical events on high school student’s retention of accurate historical information. She is also an active member of her church, Trinity Lutheran Church in Hicksville, New York, and volunteered as a Sunday School teacher throughout high school. Alexandra has also volunteered with the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association since 2020, where she has assisted the Curator with various projects related to cataloguing and researching items in the museum’s collection. Most recently, she contributed to an ongoing project of researching and writing biographies on significant figures in the Birthplace’s history. Alexandra now attends Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where she is studying Public History and working in the University Archives.
Congratulations Alexandra!
The Board of Trustees of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is pleased to announce the initiation of our second year of offering to our historic community for 2022:
The Gardiner Young Scholars Program
This opportunity is available to Long Island historical societies.
It requires the completion of 100 hours of service to a historic society accompanied by a stipend of $1500 to be paid to the Scholar.
Gardiner Youth Scholars candidates are selected at the discretion of the individual historical society which oversees their hours and activities.
Candidates must be between the ages of 15 to 22.
To apply for this RDLGF award organizations must submit a hard copy letter of request along with:
An IRS determination letter establishing them as a 501c3 (3 year minimum)
A copy of their mission statement
At the completion of the GYS term the historical society is required to submit a short video presentation created by the scholar on their experience.
Hard copies requests must be received by June 24, 2022.
2022 current membership to LIHS required. Renewal application form is on the LIHS website: lihsocieties.org
Please provide RDLGF a copy of the check with your Gardiner Young Scholar application material.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation
Suite 1
148 East Montauk Highway
Hampton Bays, NY 11946
Attention: The Gardiner Youth Scholars
For over 160 years, The Cooper Union’s Great Hall has been a bastion of free speech, social activism, education, culture, and civic engagement – a place where leaders, performers, and everyday people have convened to address the most important issues of their time. Join us to celebrate those moments again and the launch of The Cooper Union’s extraordinary new digital resource, Voices from the Great Hall, with a special one-night-only evening of performances by some of the very artists who have previously appeared in the Great Hall.
Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Sam Waterston hosts the evening, returning to the very stage where he reprised Abraham Lincoln’s famous Right Makes Might address, which Lincoln originally gave at The Cooper Union in 1860. The event will feature segments of the archive’s original recordings, brought to life with large-scale projection imagery that surrounds you. Be among the first to experience again the voices of the thinkers, leaders, and creators who helped shape our city and nation, including Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, National Organization for Women co-founder Betty Friedan, and author and activist Larry Kramer. WNYC's Kai Wright, host of The United States of Anxiety, will join us and, returning to the Great Hall stage for live encores will be Lincoln expert and author Harold Holzer. Ensembles from the New York Phil Teaching Artist Ensemble and Resistance Revival Chorus will perform.
LINK TO VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVt_NHOPhs
BROOKVILLE, N.Y. -- A treasure trove of historical documents from Long Island's past is now online and open to the public.
It's part of an effort by historical societies to digitize history, CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported Monday. "We are telling the stories of Long Islanders and making certain that people who would not be remembered are remembered," said Dr. Gregory Hunter from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at LIU Post.
History is coming to life at Long Island University. Professors and grad students have hands delicately on Long Island history, using high-resolution scanning and photography to preserve everything from the mundane to the monumental. "With oversized books, fragile books, bound volumes, those are things that the historical societies would never be able to do on their own," Hunter said. "So the treasures and the stories they preserve are known to people across Long Island, but around the world."
One artifact now online confirmed tactics used to help win the Revolutionary War. "George Washington's spy ring used simple, business documents, bills of lading, bills of sale and those were the way they communicated the messages," Hunter said.
For five years, LIU's Palmer School of Library and Information Services students have digitized 75,000 images from 45 historical societies and more to come. Sometimes they're the simplest documents, like a school superintendent's calendar.
"He wrote in the day where he learned the death of one of his former students in Pearl Harbor," Hunter said. The 1920s diary of a school girl, baptism records of enslaved people and the origins of the Fire Island LGBTQ community are now searchable and accessible. Stacks of fragile albums from the Vanderbilt family are now digitized.
"We have this really incredible race course that happened here on the island. It's going on like Old Country Road. It's going from Mineola, all public places that many of us travel through every day, but we wouldn't know 100 years ago there were cars going almost 60 plus miles an hour," said Killian Taylor from the Vanderbilt Museum's archives and records department. Grad students like Alexis Durante are on a mission to preserve the past. "There's just nothing like physical history to really fascinate you and make you aware of the grand scheme of things," Durante said.
Archivists said they're in a race with time to not only preserve materials that are literally crumbling, but also the work of historical society volunteers whose numbers are dwindling. This project is also creating the next generation of history keepers.
The Digitizing Local History Sources project is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
LINK TO ARTICLE & VIDEO https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/liu-post-digitizing-local-history-sources/
On Sunday, April 17th, Newsday published a special story on LIU Post's project: Digitizing Long Island History.
To read the entire article in PDF format, click the DETAILS link below.
If you have an online subscription to Newsday, click HERE to login and read the article on the Newsday website.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is proud to have made possible three concerts that were produced by Islip Arts Council's Historic Homes and Places of Worship project.
The concerts and background stories were filmed by Waldo Cabrera, Executive Producer | Islip.TV LLC and linked below.
Sayville
Yeou-Cheng Ma & Elinor Zayas Piano and Violin Concert at Meadow Croft Estate — Sayville, NY
Bay Shore
IAC presents Rachel Wong Performance at First Congregational Church — Bay Shore, NY
Islip
IAC and RDLG Present Serenade Duo Full Performance at St Marks Episcopal Church — Islip, NY
Videographer Credit: Waldo Cabrera, Executive Producer | Islip.TV LLC, MyLITV.com and BroadwaywandMain.com
The Museum Association of New York is excited to announce a new regrant partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to distribute 100 grants of $5,000 to assist New York museums with capacity building.
Partnership Grants for Capacity Building will be made to:
- Respond to pandemic challenges
- Build financial stability
- Strengthen board engagement
- Grow community engagement
- Update technology
- Change internal systems to address equity, diversity, access, inclusion, and justice
Grant projects cannot begin before June 15, 2022 and must conclude by June 15, 2023.
If a museum is interested in a project that does not fit into the above capacity building categories, please reach out to MANY staff to discuss if the project is the right fit for this funding opportunity.
Grant Application portal opens February 15 and closes on April 1.
James Kneuer, a Southold Senior High School student, was awarded $10,000 toward his upcoming Political Science studies. The Honorary Peter Fox Cohalan Scholarship is awarded to graduating Nassau and Suffolk County high school seniors who will pursue undergraduate degrees with a concentrated study of a minimum of 24 credit hours in American History and/or American Government.
STUDENT BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Kneuer is a graduate of Southold Jr./Sr. High School in Southold, New York. He was Student Body secretary and president of the National Honor Society. He ran Cross Country and threw shot put throughout high school. After school hours he was the captain of the school’s Quiz Bowl team which travelled to Washington, D.C. to compete in national championships. He was the recipient of a National Merit Scholarship commendation and was recognized by the College Board. He is now a freshman at Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts where he is pursuing a major in Political Science.
