GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal profiles Anne Hawley, who has been director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for over twenty years. Hawley is currently overseeing a 70,000 square foot addition to the museum that will open in 2012.
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Featuring the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a grantee of the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation, the Schrafft Charitable Trust and the Jessie B. Cox Trust.
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Associated Press
As a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Buddhist monk Ly Van Aggadipo wrote poetry to help heal from the tragedy and pain he witnessed. The poems were discovered on the day of Ly Van’s death in 2008, and they are now being released as a book, O! Maha Mount Dangrek. A number of local individuals and organizations from Lowell, Massachusetts have collaborated to produce the book, including Light of Cambodian Children, Cambodian Expressions and Glory Buddhist Temple. The book will be celebrated on a cross-country tour stopping at fourteen locations with significant Cambodian American populations.
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Featuring Light of Cambodian Children, a grantee of the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation.
GMA Foundations founder Newell Flather recently donated a painting to the new Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting is “Black Tie” by Robert Freeman, a prominent Boston artist. The gift was commemorated in a reception at the museum on March 17, 2010.
