Grant Portfolio
Celebrate St. James – Past Present
Grant Year: 2018
Celebrate St. James presented a musical comedy about the wonderful history of our town in the last two centuries to educate and entertain our residents. The show was titled, “99 Minutes from Broadway – a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to St. James.” The opening of the show was a tableau of William Sydney Mount, an American genre painter who lived and painted in in our local community. The . . .
Grant Year: 2018
The Long Island Public Humanities Opportunity is a Humanities New York (HNY) initiative funded by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The initiative will partner with history presenting institutions and community-based organizations in Long Island to enhance networks and programming that resonate with traditionally underserved audiences and communities. To do so, HNY will first conduct four foc . . .
Garden City Historical Society
Grant Year: 2018
Purchase technology and hire consultants to develop long term marketing and strategic plan.
Cutchogue New Suffolk Historical Council
Grant Year: 2018
Exterior oak siding restoration/stabilization; construct barrier free access ramp and related archeological investigations; new electric
Grant Year: 2018
The Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation has provided funding to support college students training senior-citizen volunteers in transcription and annotation of historical manuscripts, and to extend this model for community-engaged collaboration beyond the Rochester region. We will also create a series of short videos narrated by volunteers and students that illustrate and supplement the written training guidel . . .
Grant Year: 2018
Robert David Lion Gardiner (RDLG) Foundation awarded Webb Institute a $250,000 grant over a three-year period to support need-based room and board scholarships. This grant enables the best and brightest students of diverse populations into Webb’s educational programs. Webb joins a list of approximately 70 colleges and universities in the United States that meet the full demonstrated need of its student body.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Grant Year: 2018
Since 1858 the Great Hall of Cooper Union, located in the heart of New York City’s East Village, has played a vital role in the discussion and debate of current affairs. The Great Hall has been the venue where some of history’s most pivotal movements have taken shape, including the earliest workers' rights campaigns, the birth of the NAACP, the women's suffrage movement, and the founding of the Red Cross. . . .
Grant Year: 2018
Speaker series featuring Irish American Historical Michael Doorley.
Babylon Beautification Society
Grant Year: 2018
The Babylon Beautification Society, through the leadership of its Bayman Statue Steering Committee, has been awarded a grant by the Robert David Lion Gardner Foundation in the amount of $50,000. The funds were used for the design, sculpting, casting, delivery and installation of the historic rendition of the period correct Bayman. The sculpture along with educational signage and native plantings is located along the Carll’s River in Babylon Village.
Grant Year: 2018
$25,000 of RDLG Grant funds were awarded a the to the Sag Harbor Historical Society to be matched by the Village of Sag Harbor for repairing Sag Harbor’s Old Jail Museum. Its leaking roof and deteriorated masonry had led to mold growth and corrosion of the iron works.
Grant Year: 2018
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation grant supported the publishing of Preservation Long Island’s latest book, Elias Pelletreau: Long Island Silversmith and Entrepreneur, 1726-1810.Released in November 2018, the book explores the life and work of one of early America’s most accomplished rural artisans. The publication of this book allowed Preservation Long Island to advance its mission to educa . . .
