The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is offering a comprehensive grant workshop at the Vanderbilt Museum. The workshop is to inform the Long Island and metropolitan area historic 501 (c) (3) organizations on funding support that is currently available.
Presenters will include:
- Landmarks Conservancy Sacred Sites
- The Preservation League of New York
- Greater Hudson Heritage Network
- Cemetery Restoration
- LIU POST in collaborations with the East Hampton Library Digital Long Island Collection.
“The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation views this introduction to funding opportunities as an active effort to assist our historic organizations to achieve sustainability. Each of the workshop presenters is supported by RDLGF to aide our region’s historic outreach and growth,” said Kathryn M. Curran, Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
The attending organizations must have a historic mission and support the study, stewardship and promotion of educational aspects relating to Long Island and New York’s role in American history, scholarships and historic preservation. Approval for participation is required.
The purpose of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is to educate, cultivate and encourage the study and understanding of Long Island and New York’s role in the American experience.
- Limit of 2 attendees from each organization.
- This event is free.
- Light breakfast and lunch will be served.
Mandatory RSVP no later than January 8, 2026 to gardiner@rdlgfoundation.org
You will be contacted with the location of the workshop with approval notice.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation was established by Robert David Lion Gardiner in 1987. He was, until his death in 2004, the 16th Lord of the Manor of Gardiner’s Island. The Island was obtained as part of a royal grant from King Charles 1 of England in 1639. The Gardiner family has owned Gardiners Island for 385 years. The Island remains private and is owned and maintained by Gardiner family descendants to this day.