Permanent staff are also offered stock grants, which have added an average 12% to base pay.
Call their gifts voter grants, which might even be tax deductible.
The grants, which ranged from $200,000 to $2 million, went to 63 organizations.
It provides loans (which must be repaid), rather than grants (which are not).
Federal grants, which helped create the first greenhouse, are threatened in next year's budget.
(He counts things like Pell Grants, which help low-income students attend college, and Community Development Block Grants, which help low-income neighborhoods finance everything from sewers to crime prevention).
The grants, which are part of the federal Urban Areas Security Initiative, is for emergency equipment, training, planning and exercises.
Pell grants, which now reach an annual maximum of $4,050, would increase by $50 a year.
Another driver of debt is the eroding value of Pell grants, which are targeted to low-income families.
The council distributes the grants, which cannot be more than 15percentt of a group's budget for the previous year.
The grants, which were given to 142 artists this year, are awarded by a jury, based on submitted slides.
