(The LeFraks' foundation financed the renovation).
(The foundation closed for renovation just after Easter, and is scheduled to reopen early next year).
Working with the city government, the foundation led a renovation of the park and its component parts.
LOS ANGELES, May 10 — The Griffith Observatory, the backdrop for dozens of movies, a favored make-out spot for generations of teenagers and, not to be overlooked, a substantial educational and scientific institution, will reopen this fall after a four-year foundation-to-dome renovation.
It took a decade, another $350,000 and a foundation-to-roof renovation to get there, though.
Damaged foundations made a renovation impractical; the couple, founders of the design firm Loom, envisioned replacing it with an architecturally adventurous building to house their home and studio, as well as two residential lofts they hoped to sell and a storefront they planned to rent out.
In contrast, where existing social ministries are ineffective, autonomous SSNs can offer significant short-term gains and even serve as a model or foundation for the ultimate renovation of existing social ministries.
Crawford donated $75,000 from his foundation to pay for renovations of the library.
Another motivation, more akin to the case in point, is to embrace a strategic withdrawal to the foundations to determine how renovation should proceed on a structure that is threatening to collapse due to internal inconsistencies.
Ms. Carle said her foundation had decided to prioritize "renovation and repair projects over new construction and large expansions".
Naftali, who now heads the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at N.Y.U., is particularly worried that the foundation will use a planned renovation as an opportunity to "let Nixon loyalists write the script for the library's story of Vietnam," and he's right to be concerned.
