The following are selected examples of what's been accomplished with Trust grants.
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The Trust made $8 million in grants to 12 City nonprofits in February and March of 2009 to help needy New Yorkers who are being devastated by the recession. We’re impressed with what they’ve already accomplished—and they aren’t done yet. | |  |
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| Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lynn Nottage is an inspiration to playwrights everywhere. But in 1993, long before receiving this honor, she received a New York Community Trust Van Lier fellowship with New Dramatists, an organization that helps playwrights develop their work. | |  |
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With a grant of $35,000 from The Trust in 2003, Friends of the High
Line was able to hire a fundraiser to help attract public money for the High Line, resulting in commitments of $74 million in City and federal
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To help Lincoln Center stay true to its mission, The Trust has made three grants since 2005 totaling $275,000 that have helped plan a discount ticket center and other projects that will welcome diverse audiences onto the campus and into theaters. | |  |
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Grants made from unrestricted funds left by generous donors resulted in tougher City regulations that require landlords to fix unsafe and unhealthy housing. |
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Our city has some of the purist drinking water in the country, and The Trust has worked for decades to protect this natural resource that is at constant risk of contamination. |
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The Bronx River, the City's only freshwater river is beautiful, but, until recently, was just too hard to get to. With support from The Trust, a coalition of more than 70 community groups and government agencies, came together to open the river to Bronx residents. |
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The Trust has preserved many City community gardens by helping the land trusts that manage them to become self-sufficient. |
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With Trust support since 2003, Row New York has helped hundreds of girls learn to row, improve their grades, and see college as a real possibility. |
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Terrence Fisher, a 19-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant teenager, wanted to show how guns were destroying his neighborhood. So, with guidance and assistance from Pro-TV, a project of the Downtown Community Television Center he was enrolled in to learn media arts, he began a documentary in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn about gun violence and culture. |
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