Grants: Year 1999
Museum Initiative
Community-Based Arts Organizations
| 18th And Vine Authority
Business & Marketing Plan Implementation |
To implement their marketing plan and to consider a next level of collaborative work which can help stabilize all of the participating organizations. | $100,000 2 years |
| Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
Audience Development Initiatives and Board And Staff Development |
To implement aspects of their long range plan designed to increase recognition of, and enhance, their visibility through expanded marketing efforts; and strengthen staff and board to build capacity and insure financial security. | $50,000 1 year |
| Aljira
Aljira Design |
To stabilize the organization and manage growth by diversifying income sources and strengthening the board. | $50,000 1 year |
| American Indian Services
Cultural and Arts Program |
To expand their services by including more educational, economic and promotional opportunities for Native artists, and by involving the performing arts in expanded program planning. | $30,000 1 year |
| Americans for the Arts
Youth Arts Summit |
To support the National Youth Arts Summit's efforts to identify and foster the development of partnerships, research, projects and policies that make a compelling case for a strong national commitment to arts for youth, and to provide the tools for local implementation of arts-based programs for young people. | $30,000 1 year |
| Art In General, Inc. Project Reach/CASES New York, NY |
For renewed support for their work with Project Reach, a youth advocacy and counseling center located in Chinatown that serves multiracial constituents, and to expand a recent pilot program in which they are partnering with the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES). | $30,000 1 year |
| Artists Collective Incorporated
Artists Collective Performing Ensembles and Dance Master Workshop |
To support selected advanced students participating in the Artists Collective Performing Ensembles and Dance Master Workshops. | $50,000 1 year |
| Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
Kids Dance |
To help stabilize their programs so that they may continue their extensive audition practice, provide high quality training for talented young dancers and develop new audiences through affordable performances for families. | $50,00 1 year |
| Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
Stabilization Project |
To stabilize by planning and restructuring operations and integrating their model economic development and media diversity programs into the fabric of their operations, developing and retaining staff, and leveraging new opportunities in expanded markets. | $120,000 2 years |
| Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration
Corporation
Center for Arts & Culture |
To develop a plan to manage its growth, sustain existing programs at the current level or higher, develop and document formal curriculum for programs, develop programs and exhibitions addressing communities and families of artists, and attract new funders. | $120,000 2 years |
| Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Diversifying Revenue Sources |
To decrease dependence on public support by implementing a Diversifying Revenue Sources Project. | $35,000 1 year |
| California Institute for the Arts
Community Arts Partnership (CAP) |
For support of the Community Arts Partnership's (CAP) Multimedia Digital Arts Program which will encourage cross-cultural, cross-territory communication among youth from diverse Los Angeles neighborhoods to digitally collaborate on art making and cross-cultural exchange projects. | $50,000 1 year |
| College Art Association of America
Professional Development Fellowship Program for Artists and Art Historians |
For renewed support of their Professional Development Fellowship Program for Artists and Art Historians, which focuses on bridging the gap between graduate study and professional careers and strengthening and diversifying the arts profession as a whole by nurturing outstanding scholars and artists at the beginning of their careers. | $100,000 2 years |
| Columbia College
Democratizing The Arts/Building Sustainable Communities |
For the implementation and ongoing planning/evaluation process of "Democratizing the Arts/Building Sustainable Communities." | $50,000 1 year |
| Contemporary Arts Center
Neighborhood Artreach |
To build new audiences through collaborations with neighborhood organizations that shape and serve a multicultural population. | $50,000 1 year |
| Esperanza Center
Arte Es Vida |
To support Arte Es Vida, a project that encompasses all of Esperanza's goals and arts programs for artists and youth and to generate a consistent source of diversified income to support the goals and objectives of the organization. | $50,000 1 year |
| Hawaii Consortium for the Arts
General Support/Envisioning 2000 |
For general support and for Envisioning 2000, a community-building project designed to identify, document and empower the arts community of Hawaii through processes of research, convening and dialogue which will lead to the development of a statewide database of arts and cultural resources and a community-driven vision statement for the twenty-first century. | $20,000 1 year |
| Japanese American National Museum
Media Arts Center |
To create a media center, and develop a comprehensive media arts program integrating documentation and production with training and internships. | $50,000 1 year |
| Junebug Productions
Organizational Development |
To engage in a planning process that will examine the organization's potential for long-term stability and leadership succession. | $50,000 1 year |
| Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Community Heritage Project |
For the Community Heritage Project, an integrated program of participatory traditional arts training. | 1 year |
| Madison Square Cultural Center
for the Arts
Mississippi Young Person's Cultural Exchange Program |
For the planning and implementation of a collaborative cultural arts exchange program serving four through seven year olds. | $25,000 1 year |
| National Alliance for Media &
Arts Culture
The Peer Leadership Initiative |
To support NAMAC's Peer Leadership Program, which will address the challenge of how the media arts field's knowledge is preserved and passed on from a founding generation of directors of media organizations to a new leadership generation. | $35,000 1 year |
| National Association of Artists
Organizations
Program Support |
To support the ongoing development and implementation of the Peer Arts Service Organization Partnership Project, NAAO's Leadership Initiative (The Co-Generate Project), and related membership services. | $34,300 1 year |
| Network of Cultural Centers of
Color Corporation
Phase II-Strategic Plan Implementation |
For general operating support to advance the findings and recommendations of Phase I of their Strategic Plan, which includes a 14-month process of intensive evaluation and assessment of all aspects of NCCC's governance/ operations, its programs/services, organizational and fiscal management, and a newly revised Mission Statement. | $50,000 1 year |
| New Freedom Theater
Performing Arts Training Program |
For their Performing Arts Training Program for urban youths. | $30,000 1 year |
| New York Foundation for the Arts
Knowledge in Technology |
To initiate a pilot program called Knowledge in Technology (KIT), which will offer nonprofit arts administrators a means to improve daily operations, while insuring that information technology evolves as a meaningful part of the sector's infrastructure. | $60,000 1 year |
| Nueva Esperanza, Inc.
Program Development |
For program development, to increase their organizational capacity and effectiveness, to further develop and refine a three year strategic plan and to complete the first year of that plan. | $25,000 1 year |
| Philadelphia Dance Company
Funding and Marketing Project |
To develop a funding and marketing plan that will lead to a diversified funding base, an assessment of the institution's ability to respond to increased requests, and a plan for the growth and responsible maintenance of successful programs. | $100,000 2 years |
| Research Foundation of CUNY
Medgar Evers College/National Black Writers Conference |
To support the fifth National Black Writers Conference, bringing together close to 100 nationally and internationally known and emerging black writers and literary critics to discuss with the public topics of concern related to black literature. | $20,000 1 year |
| San Jose Taiko Group
Artistic Training and Administrative Development |
For administrative development, training their board, developing new leaders, and refining existing programs. | $30,000 1 year |
| Self-Help Graphics and Arts
Organizational Assessment and Implementation |
To implement an organizational assessment and planning process. | $25,000 1 year |
| Society for the Preservation of
Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant History
General Support |
For general support and to conduct an institutional audit and to develop a fundraising plan. | $100,000 2 years |
| Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc.
Thalia Beyond 2000 |
Renewed support to serve the cultural needs of the Hispanic community in Queens, reconsider their staffing plan, develop a succession plan, and examine the organization's fiscal and administrative flexibility and strength to adapt in the future. | $60,000 2 years |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College
African Grove Institute for The Arts |
For the development of a membership program and the establishment of regional councils for the African Grove Institute for the Arts. | $100,000 2 years |
| Tucson Pima Arts Council
Multimedia Arts Education Program & ArtWORKS |
For ArtWORKS, art education programs for youth that include a youth employment program as well as a Multimedia Arts Education Program. | $35,000 1 year |
| Village of Arts and Humanities
Education Through Arts Program |
To strengthen existing programs and to design and pilot an Education-through-the-Arts Training Program for 40 teachers, artists, parents and other professionals who work with at-risk youth. | $50,000 1 year |
| Washington Drama Society
Arena Stage/Living Stage Theater Company |
To support Living Stage's efforts to collaborate with community groups in the Columbia Heights-Shaw communities. Groups will engage in community-building efforts and will strive to integrate creative arts into a process of envisioning and planning alternative futures for their community. | $50,000 1 year |
| Western Folklife Center
Voices of Youth |
To enable teens to document in sound and photographs the culture bearers of their community and create portfolios and audio vignettes that reflect their personal interests and community concerns. | $35,000 1 year |
| Zeum
Collaborative Residency Program |
To commission celebrated artists in the visual, media and performing arts to work in sustained collaborations with diverse teens that culminate in Zeum's signature public programming. | $35,000 1 year |
Museum Initiative
| Heritage Harbor Corporation
Laying The Foundation |
To create an organizational structure that will make their collaborative model concrete, workable and durable, and funding for training to facilitate this work. | $50,000 1 year |
| Queens Museum of Art
ArtAccess |
To expand the ArtAcces disabled audiences program to serve an additional 1,000 students. | $10,000 1 year |
Integrated Program Themes
| Auburn University
The Rural Studio |
To provide preprofessional training for architecture students who, through the use of recycled and inexpensive materials, design homes for America's poorest citizens. | $50,000 1 year |
| California Indian Basketweavers
Association
1999 Western Regional Indigenous Basketweavers Gathering |
To educate the field about traditional practices through workshops and gatherings, offer participants technical assistance, and develop a culminating report and evaluation of its programs and publish a resource directory. | $25,000 1 year |
| Dance Exchange
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange/Hallelujah |
To support Hallelujah, a series of evening-length performances involving participants from their home community and the host communities in each site where it will be performed. The work explores how we move from a point of crisis to a point of praise. | $100,000 2 years |
| Earth Ways Foundation Citywide Celebration Malibu, CA |
A citywide celebration, which includes 70 events in both sacred and public spaces. They are presenting these events in collaboration with a range of civic, community, arts and cultural organizations, but have particular funding needs to underwrite direct Festival expenses such as artist fees and producing costs. | $25,000 1 year |
| East Bay Institute for Urban Arts
Images Creating Unity |
To support Images Creating Unity, a six-month after-school arts and social change program for high school juniors and seniors from diverse ethnic, class and gender backgrounds across Oakland. | $35,000 1 year |
| Jewish Film Festival
SF Jewish Film Festival/On-Line Library of Independent Jewish Film |
To support an On-line Library of Independent Jewish Film, a one-of-a-kind library and archive of Jewish-subject films and filmmakers. | $35,000 1 year |
| New School University Talking Book Festival New York, NY |
To renew support for programming,
producing and managing a literary arts festival which will guide people
to the profound recognition that democracy is defined by the value it places
on both difference and commonality. |
$30,000 1 year |
| Smithsonian Institution Locating The Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in Aftican American Art Baltimore, MD |
To support the implementation and
production of an upcoming exhibition and colloquium, Locating the Spirit:
Religion and Spirituality in African American Art. The exhibition focuses
on the works of more than 60 artists who visualize and give shape to an
experience that is often overlooked in the larger art world— the "spirit."
How the spirit is defined in art, and who is looking at this imagery today,
are the questions at the core of the exhibition. |
$15,000 1 year |
| World Studio Foundation, Inc.
Help Kids Create |
To create a community based mentoring program where working professionals engage with at-risk youth to help them develop creative sensitivities to the earth and their communities and to document the program for replication and/or expansion. | $35,000 1 year |
Out of Program
| J. Mandle Performance, Inc.
General Support |
Create two important commissioned performances for the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. | $5,000 1 year |
| Art In General, Inc. Project Reach/CASES New York, NY |
For renewed support for their work
with Project Reach, a youth advocacy and counseling center located in Chinatown
that serves multiracial constituents, and to expand a recent pilot program
in which they are partnering with the Center for Alternative Sentencing
and Employment Services (CASES). |
$30,000 1 year |
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