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A direct gift: Natural History Museum gets a targeted boost

A direct gift: Natural History Museum gets a targeted boost

A generous gift from an anonymous donor helped settle the strike at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, reducing the salary cut the musicians had to bear. But the PSO is not the only organization to benefit from a key gift recently. Daniel and Carole Kamin are giving $5 million to endow the director’s position at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, an institution to which they already have given much. 

Their gift, ensuring that the museum’s good work will continue for years to come, is a blessing at a time when so many cultural organizations are experiencing financial challenges.

Daniel Kamin owns Kamin Realty Co., and Carole Kamin is a Museum of Natural History board member. Previously, she worked as manager and buyer for the gift shops operated by the Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The couple support the arts through the Daniel G. Kamin and Carole L. Kamin Fund.

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Earlier this year, the Museum of Natural History received a grant of nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to catalog and exhibit its collection of amphibians and reptiles, and director Eric Dorfman made headlines for his work against illegal wildlife trafficking. As the Kamins would be the first to say, this is work worth supporting.

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First Published: November 30, 2016, 5:00 a.m.

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