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"The pressure of the Met — whether it be the board, staff, fund-raising, patrons — to be relieved of that, I feel like a real person," he said.
Only a few years later, he was the host of Bird Cage, a library fund-raiser (patrons drop donations through the bars of a decorative bird cage) first held in the 1950's.
Beacon Hill is associated with a network of ultra-conservative groups working with the American Legislative Exchange Council and funded by patrons of anti-government causes such as the Koch brothers and Searle Freedom Trust.
Now, libraries are competing for funds and patrons.
"They've been funded by patrons or non-government organisations".
She was the widow of Roger Lacey Stevens, the New York real estate magnate, Broadway producer, fund-raiser, arts patron and founding chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The Patrons' Fund also paid for a late-15th-century German poly chromed wood altarpiece "The Holy Kinship," which includes 17 carved figures representing the extended family of Mary and Jesus as enumerated in the Apocrypha.
Bucks County Museum was able to cover the whole £13,500 cost of buying the piece through grants from the Headley Trust, the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Patrons of the Museum.
The not-for-profit event will also raise money for a newly created Patron's Fund, which will be used to support specific initiatives and projects run by the Queen's charities.
The gallery's Patrons' Permanent Fund paid for the purchase along with Mitchell P. Rales, a collector who is on the trustees' council.
