Longtime boosters of the arts in the Lowcountry and Chicago, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (GDDF) collaborated with Together SC and the SC Arts Commission to survey 3,782 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the spring of 2021. They aimed to take a pulse…
New Staff We are pleased to welcome two new staff members! Baronica Roberson will join our team on August 30th as Director, Finance and Administration. She comes to us after serving as Deputy Commissioner/Chief Financial and Operating Officer for the Chicago Public Library. More about Baronica here. Natalie…
GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES COLLECTIONS PROJECTS FUNDED BY GROUNDBREAKING “BROADENING NARRATIVES” GRANT INITIATIVE TO ILLUMINATE UNDERREPRESENTED STORIES Grants total $579,000 to ten organizations in Chicago and Lowcountry of South Carolina; Grant recipients to each receive a range of $20,000 to $100,000 to fund…
!["Family, place, tradition. These three strands are intricately braided through Ceara Donnelley’s life, much like the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto rivers intertwine to create the ACE Basin. “My grandparents lived out their civic ethics [here]." Her father, Strachan Donnelley, a philosopher and philanthropist... developed deep ties to... the Lowcountry, rooting much of his environmental ethic here. “This landscape was transportive to him."" Ceara embodies the legacy of our founders, her grandparents Gaylord and Dorothy, in her life as a conservationist, designer, patron of arts and culture, and parent. https://bit.ly/3zgBdMY
Image is Ceara with her parents and sisters at her grandparents' Lowcountry home in the 1980s.](https://gddf.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)