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Causes: Philanthropy, Private Independent Foundations
Programs: Visual arts journalism prize program in which a panel of 16 nominators put forth candidates for awards based on past achievements; each candidate submits writing samples of previously published work (within the last 3 years) and a brief curriculum vita. Recipients are chosen by a jury of nationally recognized curators, writers, artists, and other thoughtful readers of contemporary art criticism. Expenditures relating to cataloguing, storing, conserving and displaying the abstract and american folk art collections, to include promoting the visual arts through exhibitions, caring for and maintaining the art collection, sharing the collection with students and the general public, and maintaining an archive of data about the collection and the rabkins' lives for use by scholars and researchers.