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Helderberg Brewery gets $25K in new grants – Times Union Dowd on Drinks
Posted on July 25, 2014 | By Bill Dowd The Carey Institute for Global Good today reported it has received $25,000 in new grant money for its brewing initiatives. A $15,000 grant comes from the Workforce Development Institute toward purchase of equipment to operate the Helderberg Brewery, making it possible for New York State’s first model farm brewery and incubator to […]
Winter 2014-15 Newsletter
United Nations Secretary General U Thant (rear left) meets with international diplomats in Rensselaerville in 1966. Photo credit: Bob Richet, Knickerbocker News. Make A Contribution – The Carey Institute for Global Good is recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS under Section 501(c)(3). Click here for a printable version of our Winter 2014 – 15 newsletter. […]
Happy New Year From the New Leadership Team at the Carey Institute for Global Good!
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Featured Artist: Susan Story
Artist’s Statement: My passion as an artist is to express the many moods and emotions evoked by nature’s landscapes with soft pastels. I choose to work outside whenever possible so I can immerse myself in the sensual riches of nature. There are constantly new perspectives to be discovered. Nature is always in flux, as is […]
Featured Artist: Virginia Cantarella
Artist’s Statement: Virginia Cantarella resides in South Westerlo, NY. She attended Connecticut College for Women. Not happy with the her education there she left after two and a half years to spend five months in Italy, first in Florence and then with a family living near Genoa. On returning she attended the Boston Museum School graduating […]
Top Tips: More Productive Meetings
Click here for a downloadable version of these tips to share with your colleagues >> Get away from your day-to-day. It was Albert Einstein who said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Similarly, you will keep producing the same results, even with your best people, if […]
Featured Artist: Patrick Milbourn
Artist’s Statement: Patrick Milbourn’s work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Time magazine, the New Yorker, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Business Week, New York Magazine, Forbes and the like. His paintings have appeared as covers in over forty books published by Random House, Putnam, Ballantine and Doubleday. Patrick has received awards and accolades from the Pastel Society […]
Carey Institute for Global Good Appoints Terry Gach, New Director of Development
Media Contact: Sarah Gordon, (518) 797-5100 RENSSELAERVILLE –The Carey Institute for Global Good, a non-profit organization dedicated to making a better world by contributing to a strong, educated and just society, is pleased to announce the appointment of Terry Gach as the organization’s new director of development. He begins his role at the Carey Institute […]
Top Tips: Team Building for Success
Click here for a downloadable version of these tips to share with your colleagues >> Be honest with yourself. We would all like to think that our teams are already in peak performance mode, but it takes time and effort to get a bunch of individuals functioning as an effective group. Psychologist Bruce Tuckman classifies […]
Featured Artist: Krzysztof Marek Bak
Artist’s Statement: The Carey Institute and Marvin Bolotsky are pleased to present an exhibition of graphics by the noted Polish digital artist Krzysztof Marek Bak. The artist has created more than 1000 editions of images implemented in digital techniques and has won numerous awards in the more than 70 solo exhibitions he had in Poland, Germany, […]
Media Release: International Music Festival Celebrates ‘Bohemian’ History of the Catskills
Region’s Gilded Age Comes Alive at High Peaks Festival in Helderberg Hilltowns This August, the hills will be alive with the sounds of Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, and other titans of Romantic music at the Catskill High Peaks Music Festival. A creation of internationally acclaimed cellist and festival director Yehuda Hanani, the festival was inspired by the role of […]
Featured Artist: Susan M. Story
Artist’s Bio: Susan M. Story is a nationally recognized “plein air” artist and instructor. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America as well as a juried member of the Academic Artist’s Association, Audubon Artists, the Hudson River Valley Art Association and the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Susan serves on the Board […]