Foundation News Archive 2025
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
GHHN's Awards For Excellence program seeks to recognize and commend exceptional efforts among GHHN members. Awards are made to projects that exemplify creativity and professional vision resulting in a contribution to the preservation and interpretation of the historic scene, material culture, and diversity of the region.
Awards will be presented at the 2025 New York Statewide Preservation Conference, held at the Hilton DoubleTree in Poughkeepsie, May 6-8.
As a reminder, this year, the Conference is presented in partnership by the Landmark Society of Western NY, GHHN, the Preservation League of New York State, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, and the City of Poughkeepsie. GHHN is excited to partner in this Conference for the first time and this will act as our Annual Conference for 2025. The GHHN Awards for Excellence awards ceremony will be held on the morning of May 7 and the poster session will be held later that same day.
Awards may be made to organizations or individuals in the following areas:
Program
Individual/Staff Achievement
Project
Publication
Program: can include programming for schools, children, adults, groups with special needs, lecture series, demonstrations, etc.
Individual/Staff Achievement: to celebrate the efforts of an individual or staff as a collective group towards promoting and furthering a knowledge and appreciation of New York history.
Project: can include exhibition (physical or online - but not your organizational website), a restoration or preservation project, special research initiative, etc.
Publication: can include book, exhibition catalog, audio, visual, etc. Nominated books should contain accurate citations, an index and a bibliography or list of works cited. We will no longer accept nominations for newsletters or pamphlets.
Nominations reflecting work in creative re-interpretation of collections are strongly encouraged; nominations of collaborative or regionally focused projects are especially welcome. Any GHHN member (organizational or individual) can be nominated for projects completed in the last 12 months prior to April 2025 (conducted from April 2024 through April 2025). Nominations submitted to the 2024 GHHN Awards for Excellence may not be resubmitted.
Anyone may nominate, but the nominee must be a GHHN member. Projects not yet completed must have reached a point sufficient to permit judgment of merit. You are encouraged to nominate your own organization.
Questions?
Give us a call at 914.592.6726 or email director@greaterhudson.org
Nominations are due April 1, by 11:59 PM
The Board of Trustees of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is pleased to announce the initiation of our fourth year of offering to our historic community for 2025:
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 $1,600.00 to be paid to the Scholar.
Gardiner Youth Scholar 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, along with a time sheet showing the hours worked by the scholar, a letter from the historical society describing the work performed by the scholar and a copy of the cancelled check paying the scholar.
Hard copy requests must be received by July 31, 2025.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation
30 West Main Street
Suite 309
Riverhead, New York 11901
Attention: The Gardiner Young Scholars Program
