Foundation News Archive 2025
The NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Grant Program, now in its 25th year, is made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation supports projects from Long Island and New York City. For 2025, additional funding for textile conservation treatment projects is available from the Coby Foundation.
This statewide program offers three opportunities for collecting institutions in New York State.
APPLICATION NOW OPEN: PRESERVATION SUPPLIES
Application Portal opened May 1, 2025
Application Deadline: June 2, 2025
Support of up to $650 is available to purchase collections management supplies.
APPLICATION NOW OPEN: SITE ASSESSMENT
Application Portal opened May 1, 2025
Application Deadline: June 2, 2025
Support of $1,000 for a half-day site visit by a collections consultant to discuss specific areas of stewardship, including identifying collections issues and prioritizing basic steps to improve the care of your collections, followed by a written report.
SAVE THE DATE: CONSERVATION TREATMENT
Application Portal opens June 3, 2025
Application Deadline: September 2, 2025
Support of up to $7,500 is available for conservation treatment of paintings, works on paper (including individual drawings, watercolors, prints, or photographs), textiles (including costumes, domestic textiles, and upholstery), furniture, frames, sculpture, historical, ethnographic, and decorative objects by professional conservators.
Organizations may apply for all three opportunities. Requests for conservation treatment, preservation supplies, or site assessments for library or archival collections or materials (i.e., books, ledgers, log books, letters, photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspapers, ephemera, mass produced printed maps, or any item primarily used for informational/research value) are ineligible. Our application process is PAPERLESS - the application portal is located on our website. You may log in when the application portal opens and work on your application at any point until the deadline.
For more information on the application process, grant guidelines, budget forms, and to access the online portal, please visit our website and select the opportunity you are interested in: www.greaterhudson.org/nyscaghhn-grants
Questions?
Give us a call at 914.592.6726 or email at director@greaterhudson.org
YS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Grant opportunities are currently available through the Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) located on the Regional Economic Development Councils website. In addition to the online application there is also an Application Manual, Resource Guide, pre-recorded webinars, and registration for Regional Workshops and Live Agency Webinars offered statewide.
Basic information for the Parks Programs:
- 50/50 match requirement
- Funding per application is capped at $675,000
- Applicant must have an ownership interest in the property
- NFP applicants need to be prequalified in the Statewide Financial System to apply and up-to-date with the -Charities Bureau to execute a contract
Additional information and resources for the programs administered through our agency are also available at NYS Parks - Environmental Protection Fund.
NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Grants Bureau | PO Box 247, Babylon NY 11702-0247
(631) 321-3543 | traci.christian@parks.ny.gov
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
