Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation awards grants for "the understanding and preservation of the visual arts".Getty Foundation. About the Foundation.  Retrieved September 18, 2008. It is based in Los Angeles, California, at the Getty Center. In the past, it funded the Getty Leadership Institute for "current and future museum leaders", which is now at Claremont Graduate University.Getty Foundation. The Leadership Institute.  Retrieved September 18, 2008. Its budget for 2006-07 was budget of $27.8 million. It is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

 Grants 
The Foundation was originally called the "Getty Grant Program." That program began in 1984 under the direction of Deborah Marrow.Muchnic, Suzanne. Director wants a wider reach for Getty grants. Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1990. The J. Paul Getty Trust can spend up to 0.75% of its endowment on gifts and grants; by 1990 the Getty Grant Program (then based in Santa Monica) had made 530 grants totaling $20 million to "art historians, conservators and art museums in 18 countries". Among notable grants of the Program were grants to partially fund the publication of books, for example to "provide for additional illustrations or allow a book's purchase price to be lowered". Some books "published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program" were:



In 1998, the Program granted $750,000 for electronic cataloging to art museums in the Los Angeles area.Woolard, John. Getty gives "lifesaver" grants to L.B. arts. Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), January 15, 1998. The program awarded $180,000 in 1999 to the National Gallery in Prague to digitize images of works of art in its collections.The Getty Grant Program supports art digitization project. Information Today, April 1999. In 2005, the program awarded the University of California, Los Angeles and to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston almost $400,000 to "support the documentation and preservation of Latino and Latin American art".Chattopadhyay, Collette. Funds: Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles, California. Art Nexus, April/June 2005.

The name of the Getty Grant Program was changed to "Getty Foundation" in 2005 to "better reflect[] the expanded scope of the Getty's grant-making over the past two decades and reaffirm[] its commitment to philanthropy going forward".J. Paul Getty Trust. The Getty marks 20 years of philanthropy, providing support to the visual arts around the world.  January 24, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2008. Grants made by the Foundation include funding the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program, begun in 1993, "seeks to increase staff diversity within visual arts organizations" in Los Angeles County.Getty Foundation. Getty Foundation Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program celebrates 15th anniversary.  June 12, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2008. Between 2002 and 2007, the Foundation expended over $13.5 million to fund "plans to care for, maintain, and preserve... historic resources" at 86 United States colleges and universities.Getty Foundation. The Getty Foundation announces recipients of 2007 Campus Heritage Grants. Final year of program that has awarded more than $13.5 million toward the preservation of 86 college and university campuses nationwide.  June 26, 2007. Retrieved September 18, 2008. In 2006, the Foundation committed $3.5 million to restore an 80 by 100 foot "America Tropical" mural on Olvera Street in Los Angeles that was painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros.Orlov, Rick. Getty group to restore controversial Olvera St. mural. Daily News of Los Angeles, August 2, 2006. In 2006, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Foundation announced a $2 million fund "to aid New Orleans's visual arts organizations".Pogrebin, Robin. Arts, briefly; Getty Foundation to aid arts in New Orleans. New York Times, February 8, 2006. Retrieved August 30, 2008.

As of June 2008, the Foundation has four priorities for grants:Marrow, Deborah. New funding priorities. Message from the Director.  June 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2008.
 "Strengthening art history as a global discipline"
 "Promoting the interdisciplinary practice of conservation"
 "Increasing access to museum and archival collections"
 "Developing current and future professionals and leaders"

In the summer of 2011, the foundation is funding Multicultural Undergraduate Internships at 70 Los Angeles-area museums and visual arts organizations. The internships seek to attract into museum and visual arts organizations students from historically underrepresented groups: people of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent.

Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University

In addition to the MLI, GLI offers other professional development programs, convenes meetings involving non-profit agencies, and hosts an online forum. The GLI began in 1979 with a headquarters in New York City and classes taught at the University of California Berkeley. From 1999 to 2009, the program was headquartered at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. In 2004, classes moved from Berkeley to the Getty Center.  In 2010, the GLI affiliated with Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California and was renamed The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University. After the transfer, the foundation supports the GLI with a three-year, $2.2 million grant, but the program is headquartered on the Claremont campus. Claremont is paying for GLI's indirect costs. Although the transfer took effect on January 2, 2010, the 2010 MLI was held at the Getty Center. The 2011 MLI will be held on the Claremont campus.

 Senior staff 
The Foundation's senior staff includes:
 Joan Weinstein, Interim Director
 Associate Director, Grants Administration: Rebecca Martin
 Program Officer: Angie Kim
 Senior Program Officer: Nancy Micklewright
 Program Officer: Antoine M. Wilmering
 Head, Leadership Institute: Philip M. Nowlen
 Principal Project Specialist: Kathleen Johnson
Deborah Marrow, who was Foundation Director, now serves as interim president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Employees and budget
During the period July 2006 - June 2007, the Foundation had approximately 30 full-time and part-time employees, and a budget of $27.8 million.

Foundation with similar name
The Getty Foundation should not be confused with the "Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation," which is based in San Francisco, California, and which awards grants largely "to promote the fields of music, the opera, and the symphony".Internal Revenue Service Form 990-PF for Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, calendar year 2006. Williamsburg, VA: GuideStar.org. Retrieved August 31, 2008.

 References 

 Other websites 
 Getty Foundation official site
 Getty Leadership Institute official site
 Reports submitted to the Getty Foundation by recipients of conservation grants, 1985-2009 The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California. The records consist entirely of final and annual progress reports made up of correspondence, reports, surveys, architectural drawings, publications, specifications, print and slide photographic documentation, CD-ROMs, video, and floppy diskettes, dating 1985-2009, submitted to the Getty Grant Program or Getty Foundation by recipients of conservation grants for the purpose of documenting the progress and results of their grant-funded projects.

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