The Achelis and Bodman Foundation

2017 Grants

Arts and Culture

American Ballet Theatre $25,000 New York, New York For general operating support

American Museum of Natural History $50,000 New York, New York To support a new walk-up overhead scanner for the Research Library ($25,000) and to create archival records of temporary exhibits ($25,000)

Americas Society $15,000 New York, New York For an exhibition, The Metropolis in Latin America (1830-1930)

Bronx River Alliance $25,000 Bronx, New York For general operating support

Brooklyn Academy of Music $50,000 , New York To support BAM Theater

Brooklyn Botanic Garden $50,000 Brooklyn, New York For general operating support

Center for Jewish History $25,000 New York, New York To support an exhibition, 500 Years of Treasures from Oxford

Clarion Music Society $50,000 New York, New York To support the 2017-18 season

Drama League $15,000 New York, New York To support the Directors Project

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Glimmerglass Festival $50,000 Cooperstown, New York To support the 2017 season

Solomon Guggenheim Museum $25,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary $15,000 Short Hills, New Jersey To support forest restoration

Hispanic Society Museum & Library $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Library of America $50,000 New York, New York To support the publication of The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: 1779-1848

Little Orchestra Society $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Metropolitan Museum of Art $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Metropolitan Opera Guild $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Mint Theater Company $15,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Montclair Orchestra $25,000 Upper Montclair, New Jersey For student fellowships

Morven Museum & Garden $15,000 Princeton, New Jersey To support an exhibition, Newark and the Culture of Art: 1900-1960

National Lighthouse Museum $20,000 , New York For general operating support

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Naumburg Orchestral Concerts $15,000 New York, New York To the support the 2018 series of concerts at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park

New York City Ballet $25,000 New York, New York For general operating support

New-York Historical Society $125,000 New York, New York To support an exhibition, The Vietnam War

New York Preservation Archive Project $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

New York $30,000 New York, New York To support the Shared Sacred Sites Project

Next Festival of Emerging Artists $5,000 Fiduciary: Fractured Atlas New York, New York To support the 2018 season

Noble Maritime Collection $20,000 Staten Island, New York To support the restoration of the Robbins Reef Lighthouse and related programming

Paley Center for Media $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Queens Botanical Garden $20,000 , New York For general operating support

Queens Historical Society $15,000 Queens, New York For general operating support

Riverside Symphony $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

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Salon de Virtuosi $15,000 New York, New York For general operating support

School of American Ballet $25,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Second Stage Theater $25,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden $50,000 Staten Island, New York To support Snug Harbor 2020

Staten Island Children’s Museum $25,000 Staten Island, New York For general operating support

Symphony Space $25,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Target Margin Theater $25,000 Brooklyn, New York For general operating support

Wildlife Conservation Society $200,000 Bronx, New York For Zoo: Public Engagement for Conservation

Education

All-Star Code $75,000 New York, New York To support the Summer Intensive in

Audubon New York $20,000 Troy, New York To support the For the Birds! curriculum in New York City

Bill of Rights Institute $30,000 Arlington, Virginia For two Constitutional Seminars for teachers in New York City

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Cathedral High School $50,000 New York, New York For scholarships

Classical Charter Schools $50,000 Bronx, New York For the planning and first-year expenses of South Bronx Classical Charter School IV

Classroom, Inc. $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Cristo Rey New York High School $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Dominican Academy $50,000 New York, New York For scholarships

East School at Exodus House $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

English-Speaking Union of the United States $30,000 New York, New York To support the 35th Annual National Shakespeare Competition

Grace Outreach $40,000 Bronx, New York For general operating support

Harlem Educational Activities Fund $40,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Heterodox Academy $100,000 Fiduciary: Leonard Stern School of Business, New York, New York For general operating support

Newark Boys Chorus School $50,000 Newark, New Jersey For scholarships

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Reading Team $20,000 New York, New York To support the Preschool Program

Regis High School $50,000 New York, New York To support the REACH Program

Saint Ignatius School $35,000 Bronx, New York For general operating support

Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children $50,000 Newark, New Jersey To support the General Scholarship Program

School Sisters of Notre Dame Educational Center $20,000 Queens, New York For general operating support

Student Free Press Association $30,000 Hillsdale, Michigan For general operating support

Xavier High School $50,000 New York, New York For scholarships

Employment

Comprehensive Development, Inc. $50,000 New York, New York To support the Emergency Medical Technician Training Program

Getting Out and Staying Out $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Henry Street Settlement $50,000 New York, New York For the Workforce Development Center

HOPE Program $50,000 Brooklyn, New York To support job training and placement for ex-offenders

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Hot Bread Kitchen $50,000 New York, New York For the Bakers in Training program

New Jewish Home $50,000 New York, New York For the Geriatric Career Development Program for Older Youth

Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute $50,000 Bronx, New York For the creation and piloting of specialty training curricula for homecare workers

Per Scholas $50,000 Bronx, New York To support programs in Brooklyn

Health

Arts Unbound $20,000 Orange, New Jersey To support the Artist Development Program

Healthcare Chaplaincy Network $50,000 New York, New York To support the Hospital On-Site Chaplaincy Program

INCLUDEnyc $50,000 New York, New York To support the Metrics Initiative

Musicians on Call $20,000 New York, New York To support the New York City Bedside Performance program myFace $50,000 New York, New York To support the Newman Family Support Center

Operation Homefront $25,000 San Antonio, Texas To support the Hearts of Valor care groups for the caregivers of severely wounded veterans in New York State and New Jersey

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Partnership for Drug-Free Kids $50,000 New York, New York To support the creation and distribution of an Opioid Guide for Parents

Patton Veterans Project $25,000 New York, New York To support two film workshops for veterans at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx

Rockefeller University $250,000 New York, New York For the High-Performance Computing Initiative

Public Policy

American Islamic Forum for Democracy $25,000 Phoenix, Arizona To support a social media campaign

Anglosphere Society $25,000 New York, New York To support a conference, Strengthening Communities of Faith in Europe and the Middle East

Atlas Network $50,000 Washington, DC To support the Global Policy Perspectives lecture series in New York City

Atlas Network $100,000 Washington, DC To create a fund to support think tanks in the Middle East and North Africa

Committee to Protect Journalists $25,000 New York, New York To support the Journalist Assistance Program

Competitive Enterprise Institute $75,000 Washington, DC To support the Labor Program ($50,000) and the Center for Class Action Fairness ($25,000)

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Encounter Books $50,000 Fiduciary: Encounter for Culture and Education New York, New York For general operating support

Ethics and Public Policy Center $35,000 Washington, DC For continued support of research on federally-funded art and architecture by senior fellow Bruce Cole

Federalist Society $25,000 Washington, DC To support debates at law school chapters in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut

Foundation for Constitutional Government $50,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Freedom House $50,000 Washington, DC For general operating support

Freedom House $50,000 Washington, DC To support the development of new research, advocacy and communications strategies

Garden State Initiative $25,000 Morristown, New Jersey For general operating support

Hudson Institute $150,000 Washington, DC To support the Global Issues Discussion Series in New York City ($75,000) and the work of Walter Russell Mead ($75,000)

Hudson Institute $100,000 Washington, DC To support A New Conservative Internationalist Foreign Policy

Institute for Family Studies $50,000 Charlottesville, Virginia For the Educational Video Initiative

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Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School $50,000 Fiduciary: George Mason University Foundation Arlington, Virginia To support the Federal Judges Initiative

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research $175,000 New York, New York To support: Stress-Testing New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut: The Pension Crisis, Its True Depth and Its Effects on Economic Resiliency ($75,000); Poverty and Progress in New York City: Analyzing Gotham in a Mayoral Election Year ($50,000); and the Severe Mental Illness Initiative ($50,000)

Mental Illness Policy Org $2,500 New York, New York To support the purchase and distribution of DJ Jaffe’s new book, Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill

Matthew H. Ornstein Memorial Foundation $100,000 Washington, DC For a documentary on Judge Steven Leifman

Benjamin Rush Institute $50,000 Dallas, Texas To support programs at medical schools in New York and New Jersey

Smart Approaches to Marijuana $75,000 Alexandria, Virginia To support an expanded report on the impact of marijuana legalization in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska ($50,000) and to support public education efforts in New York State, New Jersey and Connecticut ($25,000)

Treatment Advocacy Center $75,000 Arlington, Virginia For a report, The Costs of Using Law Enforcement to Serve Individuals in Psychiatric Crisis

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Youth and Families

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth and Counties $40,000 Asbury Park, New Jersey For general operating support

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Jersey $50,000 Mountain Lakes, New Jersey To support the 50 Years and Beyond capital campaign

Boy Scouts of America, Greater New York Councils $75,000 New York, New York To support the Scoutreach Program

Boy Scouts of America, Northern New Jersey Council $75,000 Oakland, New Jersey To support the Scoutreach Program

Boys and Girls Clubs of Hudson County $50,000 Jersey City, New Jersey For general operating support

Boys and Girls Club of Paterson and Passaic $50,000 Paterson, New Jersey For general operating support

Coalition for the Homeless $20,000 New York, New York To support Camp Homeward Bound

Connecticut Burns Care Foundation $20,000 Milford, Connecticut To support the Arthur C. Luf Children’s Burn Camp

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hudson County $20,000 Jersey City, New Jersey For general operating support

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County $20,000 Elizabeth, New Jersey For general operating support

Dwelling Place of New York $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

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Happiness is Camping $20,000 Hardwick, New Jersey For the 2017 summer camp

Girl Scouts of Greater New York $75,000 New York, New York To support Urban Day Camp and Girls in Action

Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club $75,000 Bronx, New York To support the Immigrant Outreach Project

NYC Parents in Action $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Supportive Children’s Advocacy Network $20,000 New York, New York To support the Violence Prevention Program

Thrive for Life Prison Project $15,000 New York, New York To support employment and education programs

Others

All Hands and Hearts $25,000 Mattapoisett, Massachusetts For the Puerto Rico Hurricane Response Fund in response to Hurricane Maria

Community Foundation of the Florida Keys $25,000 Key West, Florida For the Florida Keys Emergency Relief Fund in response to Hurricane Irma

Food Bank for New York City $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

Fulfill $20,000 Neptune, New Jersey For general operating support

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Jersey Cares $25,000 Livingston, New Jersey For general operating support

Lunch Break $20,000 Red Bank, New Jersey For general operating support

New York Common Pantry $20,000 New York, New York For general operating support

OneStar Foundation $25,000 Austin, Texas For the Rebuild Texas Fund in response to Hurricane Harvey

St. John’s Bread and Life $20,000 Brooklyn, New York For general operating support

Taproot Foundation $50,000 New York, New York To provide Team-Based Projects for six grantees of the Foundation

Virgin Unite USA $35,000 New York, New York For the BVI Community Support Appeal in response to Hurricane Irma

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