Grants: Year 2000
Integrated Program Themes
Arts Education
| Artists Collective Inc. Performing Ensembles & Dance Master Workshops Hartford, CT |
To expand its dance department by providing resources and increased performing opportunities for the advanced students in The Choreographer's Workshop and The Performing Ensemble. | $50,000 1 Year |
| Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. Kids Dance New York, NY |
To continue its tradition of excellence in dance training and performance by offering students an integrated arts program that combines professional dance training, performance opportunities, and academics. | $100,000 2 Years |
| Columbia College Project REAL (previously Named Democritizing The Arts and Urban Missions) Chicago, IL |
To increase student and faculty participation, increase community access to programs, and develop additional community collaborations, evaluation, participation, growth and impact to achieve the ongoing missions of this community arts partnership. | $100,000 2 Years |
| East Bay Institute for Urban Arts Images Creating Unity 2000-2002 Oakland, CA |
To sustain and expand this community arts program and to focus on family issues, and in addition develop new curriculum web-page art and work with local groups. | $100,000 2 Years |
| Humboldt Arts Council Arts As A Primary Resource for Youth and Families Bayside, CA |
To more fully implement a community plan to engage artists and service providers who will bring the arts into the lives of every child growing up in this rural community. | $50,000 1 Year |
| Madison County Cultural Center Mississippi Young Persons Cultural Exchange Program Madison , MS |
To continue to provide free quality arts instruction to at-risk youth in diverse Mississippi communities, and to develop traveling exhibition, replication and collaborative programs. | $25,000 1 Year |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Knowledge in Technology (KIT) New York, NY |
To provide training, technical assistance and peer-learning opportunities in technology planning and implementation for small and mid-sized arts organizations. | $120,000 2 Years |
| Tucson-Pima Arts Council Multimedia Arts Education & ArtWORKS Tucson, AZ |
To sustain and expand a multimedia arts technology training program for middle school youth. | $100,000 2 Years |
| Urban Institute Research Study on The Support System for American Artists Washington, DC |
To implement comprehensive study that will document current financial mechanisms that support artists and suggest ways to significantly enhance the overall system of support. | $35,000 1 year |
| Zeum Collaborative Residency Program San Francisco, CA |
To expand its audience and offer more teens the opportunity to use new technology to explore their own creativity in collaboration with professional artists. |
$100,000
2 Years |
Community-Based Arts Organizations
| Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. General Support New York, NY |
To implement its four-step plan to develop its organizational capacity for financial stabilization. | $100,000 2 Years |
| Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Outreach Program - Julia Tutwiler Prison |
To support theater programs at two correctional facilities and to train new faculty who will sustain the program. |
$20,000
1 year |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center
Stabilization |
To support the development of earned income strategies, and the implementation of an audience development plan for this new cultural center. |
$35,000
1 year |
| Aljira Stabilization Newark, NJ |
To diversify its income base, establish a formal development department and add a business development component to Aljira Design—its earned-income graphic design project. | $120,000 2 Years |
| Alternative Center for International Arts,
Inc. General Support New York, NY |
To develop more efficient and productive methods of presenting highly interactive online arts programming, cultural forums, and the promotion of new works by emerging artists. | $20,000 1 year Ref. #22114 |
| Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation
Ailey Camp |
To develop curriculum and stabilize this summer dance program that informs several replication programs around the country. |
$150,000
3 years |
| Appalshop MACS Renewal Whitesburg, KY |
To continue the implementation of organizational strategies addressing effective leadership development through the implantation of a revised governance and management structure. | $80,000 1 Year |
| Armory Center for the Arts MACS Renewal Pasadena, CA |
To develop long-term collaborative partnerships with community organizations to expand the role of arts in the community, and to enhance working conditions for artists/teachers. | $70,000 1 Year |
| BCA Development Corporation
Fine Arts and Arthandling Services Initiative |
To support the creation of jobs for the underemployed in the Bronx as skilled art handlers, and to provide services for the non-profit and for-profit fine arts industry of the Greater New York Metropolitan area. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Diversifying Revenue Sources Birmingham, AL |
To establish a self supporting financial base by pursuing diverse sources of revenue, and implementing a media campaign that will lead to increased attendance and earned income. | $35,000 1 Year |
| Boys Harbor, Inc.
Harbor Conservatory for The Performing Arts |
To support pre-professional training and classes in music, dance and theater arts for low-income, inner city students, who receive high-quality training in a professional environment. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Inc.
General Support |
To support the revision of the strategic plan and the implementation of a modified plan that includes the diversification of income. |
$150,000
2 years |
| Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
Brooklyn Expedition/Explainer Corps |
To support the Brooklyn Expedition website project and for the development of an Explainer Corps which will test, revise and orient other youths to the Brooklyn Expedition. |
$150,000
2 years |
| Center for Contemporary Arts
Pre-Professional Dance Program-3 Year Grant |
To strengthen COCA's pre-professional dance program and to offer expanded opportunities for low-income dance students who participate in year-round community education programs. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc. General Operating Support New York, NY |
To hire a full-time artist in residence to vision, craft and implement Reach's Cultural Work/Cultural Activism program component, which would be developed in conjunction with the anti-discrimination and youth organizing training components. | $8,000 1 year |
| Community Arts Project MACS Renewal Columbus, OH |
To further implement its marketing and development strategies. | $80,000 1 Year |
| Crow's Shadow Institute
General Support |
To support arts programming which includes Arts Education for at-risk tribal youth and traditional arts workshops led by artists from a variety of tribes. |
$20,000
1 year |
| Drawbridge: an Arts Program for Homeless Children
Art Program |
To provide art programs to homeless children in an environment that fosters their sense of childhood joy, creativity and exuberance and that promotes the well being and stability of the family by creating a supporting community. |
$25,000
1 year |
| East Bay Center for the Performing Arts MACS Renewal Richmond, CA |
To complete development of a five-year business plan and to increase programming and replication opportunities. | $70,000 1 Year |
| Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center MACS Renewal San Antonio, TX |
To enable new leadership to complete a strategic assessment and develop an organizational financial and programmatic plan. | $80,000 1 Year |
| Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition
The Big Picture |
To support a 3-year initiative that brings ongoing sequential mural instruction to youth, ages 10-18, in Philadelphia. |
$25,000
1 year |
| Hawaii Consortium for the Arts Envisioning 2000 Honolulu, HI |
To publish and disseminate its findings from their initiative to map Hawaii's cultural community, to build a Web site, and complete an economic impact study on the arts to further the development of its strategic plan. | $25,000 1 Year |
| Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc. MACS Renewal Jamaica, NY |
To implement marketing initiatives that will generate increased visibility and earned income. | $70,000 1 Year |
| Jobs for the Future, Inc.
General Support |
To support a program that focuses on the importance of youth development and community revitalization using arts education, service learning and school-to-career fields of practice. |
$25,000
1 year |
| Kings Majestic Corporation Udu Brooklyn, NY |
To complete the final production phase of the full evening music theater piece, Udu, that includes community dialogue. | $7,500 1 year Ref. #21986 |
| Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center Community Heritage Project San Pablo, CA |
To increase the depth and breath of the Heritage Project's impact in the community, specifically through increased training and mentoring activities, evaluation, and expanded programming. | $60,000 2 Years |
| Manchester Craftmen's Guild MACS Renewal Pittsburgh, PA |
To clarify its strategic position and take advantage of its leadership position as a major presenter of Jazz. | $80,000 1 Year |
| Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Upcoming Grant Projects |
To support the museum’s efforts to market and expand its audiences; to generate additional earned income through their Young Entrepreneurs Program and Gift Shop Business; and for the Yollocalli Youth Museum to develop a small pilot project that would include product design. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Mind Builders Creative Arts Co.
Youth and Family Programs |
To support planning and sustain programs during this leadership transition that include: dance, music, theater, a Community Folklife Program and other community outreach programs. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Museum of Chinese in the Americas General Support New York, NY |
To develop a business plan to help raise funds needed to accomplish its major programming objectives. | $100,000 2 Years |
| New Federal Theatre General Support New York, NY |
To further implement its marketing campaign, reach boarder audiences and increase earned income. | $60,000 2 Years |
| New Freedom Theater General Support Philadelphia, PA |
To support the stabilization and measured growth of it fundraising and marketing functions. | $120,000 2 Years |
| Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
Educational Department Planning and Development |
To support research and planning for the creation of curriculum for an expanded educational program. |
$50,000
1 year |
| People's Institute for Survival and Beyond General Operating Support New Orleans, LA |
To expand the base of cultural workers trained in "Undoing Racism" by providing scholarships and general support to The Institute. | $10,000 1 year |
| Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection,
Inc.
Stabilization Drive |
To support board training, program development, and cash reserve fund development for this theater rooted in Puerto Rican traditions and popular artistic expressions. |
$60,000
2 years |
| Regents of the University of Colorado
Arts Street |
To support an arts-to-career project program where adolescents are mentored by working artists who hone their skills and teach them the business of art. |
$50,000
1 year |
| San Francisco Mime Troup, Inc.
Youth Theater Project |
To support a two-phased program promoting inter-group understanding and the positive creativity of youth where young participants create and produce their own plays. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Self-Help Graphics and Arts Organizational Stabilization Los Angeles, CA |
To focus on board development, and fortify and diversify the financial base of the organization so the financial and leadership resources are intact to maintain the integrity and creativity of its programming. | $50,000 1 Year |
| Social and Public Art Resource Center
General Operating Support/Stabilization |
To support the next phase of implementation of their strategic plan which would include stabilizing staff and strengthening their infrastructure. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. MACS Renewal Philadelphia, PA |
To strengthen its management under new leadership, and to sustain resource development, marketing and programming efforts and planning for a new facility. | $70,000 1 Year |
| UBW, Inc.
General Support/Institute Evaluation |
To support the on-going work of the company while they complete the evaluation of the first three years of the Summe Dance Institute and reevaluate their capacity for the next three years.. |
$65,000
1 year |
| World Studio Foundation
Help Kids Create Mentoring Program |
To support a nationwide mentoring initiative that links "at-risk" teenagers from school-and community-based arts programs with practicing professionals of art, architecture, and design for a program of creative expression, learned skills and shared experiences. |
$50,000
2 years |
Integrated Program Themes
| California Indian Basketweavers Association
General Support |
To support the stabilization and the year-round efforts of this organization serving weavers and the basketweaving tradition of California Indians. |
$50,000
2 years |
| Center for Arts and Culture Art, Culture and The National Agenda Washington, DC |
To research, commission, edit and publish background documents, briefing papers, and a collected volume on cultural policy issues, and to disseminate this work to the next Presidential administration, Congress, opinion makers and policy leaders. | $50,000 1 Year |
| Kinnara Documentary of Buddhist and Navajo Ritual Music Los Angeles, CA |
To document via film, the cultural and spiritual exchange of Buddist and Navajo Ritual Music. | $10,000 1 year |
| Museum of Science
Secrets of Aging |
To plan, develop and implement a major new interdisciplinary traveling exhibition entitled Secrets of Aging, which examines the processes and effects of human aging from scientific, social, humanistic, and cultural perspectives. |
$50,000
1 year |
Museum Initiative
| 18th & Vine Authority Re-Envisioning The Role of Museum in Communities Kansas City, MO |
To engage in a planning process that will result in restructuring the board of the American Jazz Museum, developing a leadership transition plan, and clarifying structural issues around the museum's relationship with its funding authority. | $50,000 6 months |
| American Association of Museums
Community Initiative |
To support a field-wide dialogue to determine how museums can respond to serving communities' changing needs. | $100,000 2 years |
| Amigos del Museo del Barrio Re-Envisioning The Roles of Museums in Communities New York, NY |
To do an updated audience assessment that would provide more accurate information about newly engaged constituents and to plan for a sustained marketing and public relations campaign for targeted audiences. | $50,000 6 months |
| Heard Museum Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities Phoenix, AZ |
To convene representatives of regional Native American tribes to help plan and implement the reinstallation of Native Peoples of the Southwest, the museum's signature exhibition, and its most important tool for dispelling stereotypes about native peoples. | $50,000 6 months |
| Japanese American National Museum Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities Los Angeles, CA |
To work with the International Institute of Los Angeles, the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, Self-Help Graphics and the Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School to develop an exhibition and programs that underscore multicultural and multigenerational interaction and exchange. | $50,000 6 months |
| Please Touch Museum Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities Philadelphia, PA |
To engage in a strategic planning process that will allow it to assess the impact of its current community programs and allow it to target audiences that the museum has not yet served. | $50,000 6 months |
| Studio Museum in Harlem Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities New York, NY |
To plan and implement a program called "Expanding the Walls," a multi-layered, multigenerational program that uses James VanDerZee's collection as a point of entry for citizens of all ages. | $50,000 6 months |
| Washington Area Lawyers For the Arts, Inc. National Coalition of Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts Washington, DC |
To support WALA’s Establishment of a National Coalition of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Organizations that will support, coordinate, and promote the activities of the 44 existing VLAs across the country. | $25,000 1 year |
| Wing Luke Memorial Foundation Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Community Seattle, WA |
To implement a project, "Strengthening Community Response", that will lead to a more efficient service delivery and program and exhibition development models. | $50,000 6 months |
Out of Program
| Washington Area Lawyers For the Arts, Inc. National Coalition of Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts Washington, DC |
To support WALA’s Establishment of a National Coalition of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Organizations that will support, coordinate, and promote the activities of the 44 existing VLAs across the country. | $25,000 1 year |
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