Carneigie Corporation Awards $3.6 Million to New York Institutions
New York City seems to be in the news a lot this week. In a press release issued yesterday, the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced grants totaling $3.6 million in support of education and enrichment programs in the greater New York City region.
The awards form part of the foundation’s 2015 Presidential Discretionary Grants program. Pursuant to that program, eighteen museums, libraries, and performing arts and science centers received grants of $200,000 each for existing programs aimed at K-12 students. Grant recipients include the American Museum of Natural HistoryAsia SocietyBrooklyn Academy of MusicCarnegie HallCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumLiberty Science CenterLincoln Center for the Performing ArtsMetropolitan Museum of ArtMorgan Library & MuseumMuseum of Modern ArtNational September 11 Memorial & MuseumNew Jersey Performing Arts CenterNew York Botanical GardenNew York-Historical SocietyNew York, Brooklyn, and Queens public libraries; and Studio in a School.
Commenting on the awards, Carnegie president, Vartan Gregorian, said:
New York City, one of the cultural capitals on the United States, has the largest public school system in the nation. Carnegie Corporation is proud to support the City’s cultural institutions in order to enhance the curriculum of our public as well as private and parochial schools with the riches these museums, libraries, and centers possess. It speaks well of these organizations’ leaders that they have developed education programs to help students overcome deficiencies in the arts and sciences that our schools can’t provide due to financial factors.
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