Blue
Mountain Center
501(c)(3) Private Operating Foundation
PO Box
109
Blue Mountain Lake
, NY 12812
2008 Income: $1,126,246
2008 Assets: $5,687,959
Phone:
518-352-7300
Fax: (518) 352-7700
EIN: 22-2370485
Exempt since
1982
Self-Description:
The Blue Mountain
Center is a working community of writers,
artists, activists and musicians in the heart of
Adirondacks, the largest state park in the
continental US. As a part of our cultural
commons, the Center exists to provide a
peaceful and comfortable environment in which
guests are able to work, free from the
distractions and demands of normal daily life.
Established creative and non-fiction writers,
and artists not requiring exceptional
facilities, are eligible applicants. Residents
are chosen by an Admissions Committee of
accomplished authors and artists. The committee
is particularly interested in fine work which
evinces social and ecological concern and is
aimed at a general audience.
Actual:
An
instrumentality of Adam Hochschild, funded primarily by
HKH
Foundation, the inherited wealth of the AMAX mining fortune of
Harold K. Hochschild.
Currently advocating for the concept of The Commons as defined and
described by Peter Barnes, an original officer of the
Common Assets Defense Fund, which was part of the early
Apollo
Alliance.
Current emphasis:
To mark BMC's
25th Anniversary, we are stepping up our
advocacy on behalf of The Commons.
The Commons is made up of all that we
inherit and create together and should pass
on undiminished to the next generation.
Imagine the
Commons. It consists of gifts of nature
(air, fresh water, the ocean, wilderness,
etc.) and gifts that we as a society have
"gifted" to one another (Social Security,
farmers markets, the Internet, bridges,
scientific knowledge, libraries, etc.).
The Commons
preceed the Market (understood here as
commerce controlled by corporations) and the
Market should be accountable for the well
being of the Commons. For a clear rendering
of this concept, we recommend
"Capitalism 3.0" by Peter Barnes. We
also recommend a lively website about the
Commons:
www.onthecommons.org
Blue Mountain Center
Directors - 2008
| Name |
Title |
Compensation |
| HARRIET BARLOW |
|
$89,193; deferred: $61,563 |
| ADAM HOCHSCHILD |
|
$0 |
| KIRK MARICK WALD |
|
$0 |
| ARLIE HOCHSCHILD |
|
$0 |
35
most recent foundation grants to
Blue Mountain Center
| Grant Total: $2,058,268 |
Number of Grants: 35 |
|
Donor |
Amount |
Year
|
Grant
Description |
|
HKH Foundation |
$1,146,668 |
1999-2008 |
General Support |
|
Desert Community Foundation |
$105,000 |
2005-2008 |
|
|
AAM Foundation |
$36,600 |
2004-2006 |
Mediation services |
|
Fenwick Foundation |
$20,000 |
2003-2005 |
|
|
Warsh Mott Legacy |
$20,000 |
2002 |
Conference |
|
Packard Foundation |
$50,000 |
2002 |
Conference |
|
Tides Foundation |
$10,000 |
2001 |
General Support |
|
Kaplan Fund |
$20,000 |
2001 |
Conference |
|
Joy Family Foundation |
$50,000 |
2001 |
|
|
Rockefeller Foundation |
$100,000 |
2001 |
Conference |
|
Pettus Crowe Foundation |
$40,000 |
2001 |
Conference |
|
Park Foundation |
$75,000 |
2001 |
Conference |
|
Nathan Cummings Foundation |
$15,000 |
2000 |
medical integration |
|
Cedar Fund |
$285,000 |
1999-2000 |
|
|
Panta Rhea Foundation |
$5,000 |
2000 |
|
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Harriet
Barlow, director of the Blue Mountain Center.