The HRBT Foundation has awarded a major grant of $25,000 to the Historic Robert Jenkins House Campaign to replace its slate roof, rebuild its box gutters, and make masonry repairs.

In the late 1990s, Hudson Hall (then Hudson Opera House) took the first tentative step to introduce a wintertime Warren Street festival to draw visitors to Hudson, stimulate holiday shopping, and create community goodwill.

HRBT Foundation recently completed a 5-year $50,000 grant cycle with The Olana Partnership in support of the $14.2 million campaign to design and construct the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape.

The rise in food insecurity in the Columbia County area has been reflected in the strengthening of HRBT Foundation ties to the Regional Food Bank over the past several years.

A $10,000 HRBT Foundation grant to the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society has helped fund engineering studies needed to determine how best to stabilize the structure and arrest the foundation deterioration that threatens its slow-motion collapse into the Hudson River.

The Columbia County Libraries Association would like to express their collective gratitude for grant awards received by all of the libraries of Columbia County from HRBT Foundation.

The Jacob Leisler Institute is pleased to announce a $1,000 grant to support or public engagement programs, including our 2023 Lecture Series and Student Internship Program.

A 2022 grant helped Friends of the Public Square in Hudson get a reconceptualization of Hudson’s primary uptown park space launched. Working with Starr Whitehouse landscape architects produced a three-phase plan.

An $18,000 grant to the Columbia Land Conservancy has spearheaded improvements to the much-used and much-loved Greenport Conservation Area. Funds from HRBT Foundation have been used specifically to repair and rebuild the Gazebo that sits on an overlook of the main trail.