Grant Portfolio
Grant Year: 2017
$70,000 from two grants awarded by The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Fund Fenimore Art Museum’s New Publication and Programs based on their Hamilton-Burr Letter Collection.
The Whaling Museum & Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor
Grant Year: 2017
The Whaling Museum & Education Center has received a grant of $11,900 for a new HVAC system to aid in the preservation of artifacts in its climate-controlled collection storage. The funding will replace an outdated HVAC unit and ensure that school groups, visitors, and scholars will be able to continue to appreciate in the artifacts that remain from the region’s maritime history.
Grant Year: 2017
The $25K match grant funds will be used to create a Prohibition exhibit using items from the Museum of Democracy (MoD) collection for display at the Bridgehampton Museum in Long Island, NY. The exhibit showcases Long Island's prominent and prosperous role in smuggling, as well as items depicting the rest of America's varied opinions during that Era.
Grant Year: 2017
The RDLG Foundation provided New York University with a $1 million grant to expand its Community College Transfer Opportunity Program (CCTOP). The grant will provide financial aid and supportive programming to enable a total of 20 high-need students from New York and Long Island community colleges to transfer into NYU’s College of Arts and Science where they will major in the humanities, devoting a portion . . .
Smithtown Historical Society Going Forward
Grant Year: 2017
The Smithtown Historical Society received a $10,568.00 grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the purpose to develop a new website with a walking tour mobile app and new technology equipment.
Grant Year: 2017
LIU Post’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science was awarded a $1 million grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to expand an important project to both preserve Long Island’s history and make it more accessible.
Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society
Grant Year: 2017
The Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society (HLPS) is the recipient of a $145,000 matching grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation (RDLGF) to continue restoration and preservation efforts on the 105-year old historic lighthouse.
The New York Landmarks Conservancy's Sacred Sites Program
Grant Year: 2017
The New York Landmarks Conservancy has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to underwrite 2018 Conservancy Sacred Sites Grants on Long Island.
Grant Year: 2017
Nassau Community College has been awarded a $49,000.00 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to create a central repository for Long Island local history and family genealogy, and to document the suburban transformation of Long Island.
Grant Year: 2017
St. Joseph's College has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to host a presidential lecture series on each of its two campuses featuring filmmaker Rory Kennedy. The lecture, "The Camera Doesn't Lie: Social Change Through Documentary Filmmaking" sought to educate and inform audiences about culture, art and history through documentary filmmaking.
Grant Year: 2017
The grant is to be used for the Shed Stabilization of the Caroline Church of Brookhaven.
Cutchogue New Suffolk Historical Council
Grant Year: 2017
The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council, founded in 1960 and now administering six historic buildings on the local Village Green, is funded to inventory its artifacts and digitize the data to facilitate the efficient management, exhibition and security of its varied collections.
