Press Releases

2009

October 14:

New York Philharmonic Receives $2.4 Million Grant From The Leon Levy Foundation To Digitize 1.3 Million Pages Of The Orchestra’s Archive

Major Gift From The Leon Levy Foundation To Fund Creation Of Archives Center At The Institute For Advanced Study

June 2:

Dr. Leonard Burman named to Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs

May 6:

The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center has announced the 2009-2010 Biography Fellows

April 30:

The Conservation Center at NYU’s Insititute for Fine Arts (IFA) announced a $1 mllion grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to advance graduate training in archaeological conservation

2008

December 23:

The Museum of Modern Art Received Grant From the Leon Levy Foundation to Establish P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Archives

December 4:

Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Receives Grant from Leon Levy Foundation

May22:

Major Gift from Leon Levy Foundation Provides for New Native Plant Garden

Mayor Bloomberg Annouces $25 million gift to New York Botanical Garden and Prospect Park – Largest private “greening” gifts in NYC History

April 16:

Four Writers Receive Leon Levy Biography Fellowships

March 25:

$4.5 million grant funds interdisciplinary fellowships at Rockefeller University

February 1:

Leon Levy Center for Biography Established at CUNY Graduate Center

2007

December 17:

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Awarded $1.4 Million From Leon Levy Foundation to Study Two Little-Understood Neurological Disorders

December 6:

Leon Levy Grant Allows Lower East Side Tenement Museum to Purchase 103 Orchard Street

Nov. 2:

Leon Levy Foundation Donates $437,000 Grant to Support Major Bird Conservation Initiatives

June 14:

Maxwell School Receives $5-Million Gift in Honor of the Late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

2006

November 9:

Harvard University announces Philip J. King Professorship created to study ancient civilizations

March 17:

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World to Be Created at NYU with $200 Million Gift