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The Olin Foundation is not making new endowment grants, Mr. Piereson said.
The remaining 60percentt will be set aside for individual arts projects competing for Endowment grants.
In total, $19.4 million was awarded to 819 organizations nationwide in this first major round of endowment grants for the fiscal year beginning next October.
There will be limited money for capital investment and there will be no money for large Catalyst endowment grants, a scheme intended to encourage philanthropy.
The foundation said it was giving a total of $20 million in endowment grants to three arts institutions and holding a $20 million contest for projects that would advance the arts in South Florida.
Nancy Burd, director of the Nonprofit Finance Fund of Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey, said capital and endowment grants are rarely awarded to local charities because of the risk involved in turning over large amounts to smaller, less stable groups whose long-term prospects are uncertain.
Randy Shaw, a longtime Tenderloin activist, is most enthused about the national endowment grant's focus on using public spaces.
The conducting program of the Curtis Institute of Music has been awarded a $1 million endowment grant by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund.
The national endowment grant and accompanying money are earmarked for street-level projects, like a weekly arts market, lighted "gateways" at UN Plaza and Sixth Street, public performances and a continuation of the Art in Storefronts program.
The Arts Council, armed with a $20,000 Endowment grant, chose to organize events around Hurston's book, one of the Big Read's 12 options, along with "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Great Gatsby" and other American classics.
Westhab of Elmsford, which provides housing for the homeless in Westchester, received $30,000 - its first endowment grant - to help develop the artistic skills of children at the Coachman Family Center in White Plains and the Westhab Family Center in Greenburgh.
