Rising to the Challenge
In 2014, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Thomas Cole National Historic Site a Challenge Grant for $300,000 that must be matched with $900,000 within five years, resulting in a $1.2 million endowment that will fund our educational programming in perpetuity. We are happy to announce that the Cole site has met the challenge for both 2015 and 2016, and the total amount raised has just passed the milestone of $500,000! Our challenge between now and July 31, 2017 is the highest hurdle of the entire challenge: $300,000 must be raised in order to receive an additional $100,000 from the NEH. We invite you to be a part of this historic campaign to create a permanently restricted fund that will support exhibitions, lectures, performances, school visits and community programs.
Our sincere thanks to the individuals and foundations below who have helped us so far:
Peter Bakal
Dr. Richard & Jean Bassin
Matthew & Phoebe Bender
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
Stephen & Jacqueline Dunn
Barbara Ettinger & Sven Huseby
David & Mimi Forer
Michel Goldberg & Frances Spark
Pamela Graf
Kevin Grant & Valerie Kinkade
Millicent LeCount
Jay Lesenger & Hudson Talbott
Lisa Fox Martin
Nina Matis & Alan Gosule
Johnnie Moore & Ashton Hawkins
Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust
Alfred & Betsy Scott
Maynard & Kay Toll
Willow Springs Charitable Trust Foundation
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