Support
Funding for “The Meeting Room” is being raised through a combination of private and foundation support for both construction and future maintenance.
The Doris Duke Monument Foundation has received major funding commitments from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, van Beuren Charitable Foundation, Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust, Hamilton Family Foundation, the Dana Foundation, the Newport Restoration Foundation and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
Enthusiasm for this project has been widespread, and to date we have reached over 90% of our fundraising goal. We welcome donations of all sizes, to help realize the completion of this exciting project. Download a donation form and mail it to:
Doris Duke Monument Foundation
Attention: Barbara Schlubach
51 Touro Street
Newport, RI 02840
barbara@ddmf.org
The DDMF was formed in 2010 under the auspices of the NRF, as an independent, private foundation with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. It is administered in parallel with the NRF board and staff. The DDMF will become a self-supporting friends’ organization which will oversee maintenance and administration for the park in the future. The DDMF has established an endowment to provide for ongoing maintenance.
“ The Maya Lin sculpture for Queen Ann Square is just the sort of project that Newport needs now and that Doris Duke would have loved. In a low-key manner, it connects Newport's present with its past through the inspired imagination of one of the world's great artists. The work awakens an historic site with powerful visual ideas in a discreet manner to make it a place for public gatherings and events. Newport residents should be proud to have added, at no public expense, a great work of art that elegantly speaks of its history in today's visual vocabulary. Maya Lin's important sculpture adds to the cultural heritage of Newport as her work has to our nation's capital and to other cities around the world. ”
Dr. E. Roger Mandle
Executive Director, Qatar Museums Authority
Member, NRF Board of Trustees
