Press Releases

 

2012

               January 25, 2012

               The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, Celebrates A Major Gift From The Leon Levy Foundation for the Museum’s ”Restoring the Past” Gallery.

                New College, Oxford University announces the establishment of  the Anthony Quinton Chair in Ancient Philosophy endowed by the Leon Levy Foudation.

 

2011

                November 28, 2011

                Mayor Bloomberg announces expansion of legal services for immigrants who cannot afford to pay for legal counsel.

               September 15, 2011

                Human Rights First Announces New Leon Levy Fellow

                 May 11

                   Human Rights First Awarded Grant for Asylum and  Immigration Fellowship

                   April 21

                   Brooklyn Botanic Garden Announces Gift

                   March 17:

                   Leon Levy Center for Biography Names 2011-2012 Fellows

2010

June 30:

Leon Levy Foundation Awards Additional $860,092 Grant to Center for Jewish History for Preservation of Archival Materials

June 1:

Cold War International History Project Receives Major Grant from Leon Levy Foundation:  Award to support digitization and publication of major archive

May 24:

Brooklyn Public Library Receives The Largest Private Gift In Its History From The Leon Levy Foundation: $3,250,000 Grant to Create the Leon Levy Information Commons at Central Library

May 10:

American Bird Conservancy to Launch Campaign to Reduce Wind Turbine Risks to Birds – Supported by Three Quarters of a Million Dollar Grant From the Leon Levy Foundation

April 27:

“Gods of Angkor” at the Sackler Gallery Presents Bronze Masterworks.

April 2:

Leon Levy Center for Biography Announces 2010-2011 Fellowships

March 18:

Groundbreaking on Sadie Samuelson Levy Immigrant Heritage Center at Lower East Side Tenement Museum

February 22:

Leon Levy Fellows at Memorial Sloan Kettering Use Mathematical Models to Understand Cancer

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