Good Morning, Brooklyn: Thursday, September 29, 2022
RECORD INVESTMENT FOR NEW YORK’S ARTS PROGRAMMING: A record $150 million in capital funding will be available for arts and culture organizations through the New York State Council on the Arts’ Capital Projects Fund, Governor Kathy Hochul announced today. This unprecedented investment, representing the includes $100 million in new, multi-year funding to facilitate large-scale capital projects that prioritize community development and placemaking.
It is the State’s largest ever commitment to NYSCA for capital projects for the arts, following on already record-level funding for the arts in the FY 2023 Budget. Governor Hochul is expected to discuss her commitment to supporting the arts at the Carnegie Hall 2022-2023 Season Opening later this evening.
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CATHOLIC CHARITIES HONORS LEADERS AT HUMANITARIAN AWARD DINNER: The president of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP, will receive the 2022 Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Service Award tonight at the 2022 Bishop’s Humanitarian Award Dinner of Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens. Also honored at the annual dinner, being held at Cipriani Wall Street, and which benefits Catholic Charities’ 160-plus programs and services, are Paul Capurso, NYC District Council of Carpenters; Dave T. Ferguson, E-J Electric Installation, Co.; and William J. Peterson, Neuberger Berman, who are receiving the 2022 Humanitarian Award.