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The City - Each year, about 1,000 birds injured by hitting buildings are brought to the Wild Bird Fund, the Manhattan-based rehabilitation center she directs. Many arrive with double concussions from first smacking into windows and facades then tumbling to the pavement.  Some additionally get hypothermia from the shock of the cold ground. Lots suffer...

Columbia University and The New York Public Library have launched a public health initiative—in partnership with the National Black Leadership Commission on Health (Black Health)—to bring free education and resources to New York City residents who face lack of access and cultural barriers to behavioral health care. The Community Mental Health Project, supported by the...

As anti-Holocaust denial and antisemitism rises in the Us, a symposium, “Confronting Antisemitism: Activating Archives, Libraries, and Museums in the Fight Against Antisemitism”, at the Center for Jewish History in New York on 17 October investigates what museums and archives can do to counteract modern, endemic and commonplace forms of racial and ethnic hatred towards...

The new Burle Marx Institute in Rio de Janeiro celebrates the legendary landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx with the opening of it's first exhibition with more than 1000 visitors in attendance over the weekend.

The annual Archivists Round Table Awards celebrate distinguished work and lasting achievements in the Archives profession. The Leon Levy Foundation is being honored with a 2021 Outstanding Support of Archives Award, for its notable contributions to archival records or archives programs through political, financial or moral support.

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The Leon Levy Foundation’s $4.5 million grant honors the foundation’s trustee Elizabeth Moynihan and her extensive work as an architectural historian in South Asia by endowing the Elizabeth Moynihan Curator for South and Southeast Asian Art and establishing the Elizabeth Moynihan Research Fund for South Asian Art.

Columbia's Department of Psychiatry has developed an innovative new outreach initiative as psychologists and psychiatrists prepare for a tsunami of mental-health issues caused by the collective trauma of the pandemic. The Post-COVID Community Mental Health Project, funded by the Leon Levy Foundation, sets out to increase public access to mental-health information. In...

Landscape designer Raymond Jungles was awarded the prestigious ASLA Honor for his design of the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve in Eleuthera, Bahamas. The site is home to a designated research center for traditional bush medicine, a facility for the propagation of indigenous plants, and an educational center focusing on the importance...

A.R.T/New York is thrilled to announce the 2021 recipients of the Leon Levy Foundation COVID Relief Fund, initiated with a major grant from the Leon Levy Foundation and with additional contributions from the ​​Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, the Seth Sprague Foundation, and individual donors. The A.R.T./New York Relief Fund...