Grants: Year 1998
Community-Based & Culturally Specific Organizations
Integrated Program Themes
Community-Based Arts Education
| Ballet Tech Foundation Program Support New York, NY |
To sustain the tuition-free dance training for public school students and enable Kids Dance to continue its free performances . |
$50,000
1 year |
| Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration
Corp. Arts Program Stabilization Brooklyn, NY |
Support for the stabilization through increased management- and capacity-building for a multidisciplinary community arts center. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Brandywine Graphic Workshop Visual Technology Center Philadelphia, PA |
To support the Visual Technologies Center in initiating its video training/documentation component, and a program to digitize the fine art collection and produce CD-ROM files as part of an internship program for minority college students. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation Together!, and Education Resource Center Brooklyn, NY |
To support the implementation and evaluation phase of a new education multimedia project that will link the resources of the Children’s Museum and the Brooklyn Museum of Art with 58 Brooklyn branch libraries. |
$60,000
1 year |
| Drawbridge: An Arts Program for
Homeless Children Drawbridge San Rafael, CA |
To stabilize its institution and support art programs to homeless youth. |
$25,00
1 year |
| Hawai'i Alliance for Arts Education 'Ohana Arts: Hula Ki'i Honolulu, HI |
To expand 'Ohana Arts: Hula Ki’i, a traditional performance art form that emphasizes extended family relations. |
$20,000
1 year |
| Japantown Art & Media Workshop Program Support San Francisco, CA |
To diversify its funding base and expand its programmatic offerings. |
$30,000
1 year |
| Mexican Fine Arts Center Youth Initiatives Program Chicago, IL |
To support Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum's (MFACM) Youth Initiatives Program, a year-round training program for students (between the ages of 14 and 18 years) which provides skills and career development opportunities in radio broadcasting, creative expression and arts management. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Mill Street Loft Project ABLE Poughkeepsie, NY |
To support Project ABLE, an arts-based job skills training program for economically disadvantaged youth in the city of Poughkeepsie. |
$35,000
1 year |
| Mind Builders Creative Arts Co. General Operating Support Bronx, NY |
To provide general support for a multidisciplinary community arts center | $35,000 1 year |
| National Foundation for Teaching
Entrepreneurs to Disadvantaged & Handicapped Youth Art-Enterprise New York, NY |
To support NFTE's Art-Enterprise curriculum which teaches young artists the fundamentals of business. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Newark Public Radio, Inc. Children Program Support Newark, NJ |
To expand its jazz performance program for youths to include a new teen program in collaboration with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center as well as a selection of other venues. | $40,000 2 years |
| Old Town School of Folk Music,
Inc. Audience and Program Development Initiative Chicago, IL |
To plan and implement a suite of new programs at its new facility and to reconsider programs at its original site in an effort to sustain current participants while building new audiences. | $50,000 1 year |
| Perseverance Theatre, Inc. SYSTEMS Theatre Education and Integration Douglas, AK |
To develop a new theatre education and integration program. | $30,000 1 year |
| Point Community Development Corporation Re-Envisioning Project Bronx, NY |
To support a project which uses public and utilitarian art made by local youth to change the face of the Hunts Point community. | $25,000 1 year |
| San Francisco Mime Troup Youth Theatre Project San Francisco, CA |
To create plays that validate and reflect the students' own lives and present these works to the students' families, peers, and communities. | $50,000
1 year |
| Village of Arts and Humanities,
Inc. Education Through The Arts Program Philadelphia, PA |
To support its ongoing arts in education programs for youths and their families. | $60,000 1 year |
| World Music Productions Afropop Worldwide Education Initiative Brooklyn, NY |
To expand the impact of its radio programming by developing and disseminating educational curriculum and programs. | $50,000 1 year |
| Young Men's Christian Association Youth Entrepreneurship Programs Chicago, IL |
To develop and implement a Youth Entrepreneurship Program in which participants will develop marketable products and touring performances that will generate revenue for educational programs. | $50,000 1 year |
Community-Based & Culturally Specific Organizations
| 18th & Vine Authority Programming and Marketing Collaborative Project Kansas City, MO |
To continue the development of a three-year collaborative planning and marketing effort for six African American organizations. |
$30,000
1 year |
| Afro-American Historical and Cultural
Museum, Inc. Museum Store Philadelphia, PA |
To generate additional earned income by developing its Museum Store. |
$35,000
1 year |
| Atlatl Moving Native Arts Into The 21st Century Phoenix, AZ |
To support the implementation of Atlatl's long-range plan, which has been developed in collaboration with five other Native cultural centers across the country |
$65,000
1 year |
| Camera News Strategic Planning New York, NY |
To support Third World Newsreel's 30th Anniversary strategic plan and to implement the second phase of an on-line marketing plan |
$35,000
1 year |
| Caribbean Cultural Center Workplan New York, NY |
To implement the second stage of their earned income plan, develop a master business plan, and an interactive Web site |
$35,00
1 year |
| Crossroads, Inc. Marketing Initiative New Brunswick, NJ |
To implement a new board-driven business plan, and build on grassroots initiatives put in place last year. |
$120,000
2 years
|
| Gowanus Arts Exchange General Support Brooklyn, NY |
To implement the first phase of its strategic plan. |
$50,000
2 years |
| HandMade in America Foundation Program Support Asheville, NC |
To continue the investment bank, craft gardens, and documentary photography exhibits, and to expand its programs |
$65,000
1 year |
| Japanese American National Museum Coming To Terms Los Angeles, CA |
To support the educational mission of America's Concentration Camps which includes cross-cultural dialogues on immigration and race. |
$25,000
1 year |
| Kings Majestic Corporation General Support Brooklyn, NY |
To implement its recently developed long-range plan and to continue its collaborative technical assistance efforts with neighborhood art centers. |
$50,000
1 year |
| New York Chinese Cultural Center,
Inc. Program Support New York, NY |
To diversify its income and enhance its communications and community outreach efforts. |
$30,000
1 year |
| Rochester Institute of Technology Program Support Rochester, NY |
To convene a second Deaf Play Creators Festival and to advance the work of Sunshine Too, a performance company that works with Deaf and hearing children. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Smithsonian Institution Center for Museum Studies Washington, DC |
To foster community linked partnerships with community-based museums. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Urban Bush Women Summer Dance Institute New York, NY |
To support its Summer Dance Institute for young choreographers to master dance skills and methodologies for community engagement. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Wing Luke Memorial Foundation,
Inc. General Operating Support Seattle, WA |
To provide general support to the Wing Luke Asian Museum, a community-based institution that encourages community participation in exhibition development. |
$150,000
2 years |
Integrated Program Themes
| American Jewish Committee CommonQuest, The Magazine of Black/Jewish Relations New York, NY |
To support its magazine, CommonQuest, which explores issues of identity, tolerance, civility, and belonging. |
$25,000
1 year |
| Center for Arts and Culture Support for The Cultural Policy Annual and Calling The Question Washington, DC |
To support its core programmatic efforts. |
$75,000
1 year |
| Civil Rights Project I'Ll Make Me A World Boston, MA |
To expand the reach of Blackside's I'll Make Me A World: A Century of African-American Arts, Artists, and Communities by collaborating with small and large cultural institutions in key cities. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Fund for Independent Publishing Program Support New York, NY |
For the New Press to develop curriculum in partnership with organizations that do not have publication capabilities. |
$60,000
1 year |
| Jewish Centers Association TArt in The Dark Los Angeles, CA |
To support My Jewish Discovery Place Children's Museum's arts education initiative called "Art Can Make a Difference: Art in the Dark." |
$50,000
1 year |
| Junebug Productions Environmental Justice Festival New Orleans, LA |
To heighten the participants' understanding of environmental racism and issues related to the struggle for justice, as well as to explore their perspectives on the various roles of artists, arts and community organizations and scholars in the larger environmental movement. |
$50,000
1 year |
| National Yiddish Book Center Pahn Treger Fund for Jewish Arts Amherst, MA |
To increase understanding and insight of Jewish creativity and identity, particularly among young people by offering arts-related features in its publication, Pakn Treger, and through its public programs. |
$25,000
1 year |
| President and Trustee of Bates College Hallelujah Lewiston, ME |
To support Bates Dance Festival's Dancing at the Crossroads for outreach, in-reach, and training opportunities for dancers, students, and community members associated with the residency of Liz Lerman. |
$20,000
1 year |
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