Highlighted in blue are grants that were awarded in 2001 under old funding guidelines, but are illustrative of grants that could be awarded under the new funding guidelines.
Arts & Other Programs
| Auburn University Foundation
Performing Ensembles & Dance Master Workshops |
To continue support of the Rural Studio which directs student architects in the design and construction of affordable housing and community facilities for the poor using innovative materials and construction techniques. | $195,000 3 Years |
| Avodah, Inc.
The Forgiveness Project |
To support "The Forgiveness Project," a community-based initiative that explores forgiveness through dance and sacred texts. | $22,000 1 year |
| Ike ?Aina
General Support |
To support Ike ?Aina native land trust in implementing a strategic plan for land conservation that views land and its resources holistically, including the function of people on the land, and a place?s relationship to history, art, spiritual beliefs, genealogy, and resources. | $50,000 1 year [$40,000-Environment; $5,000-Arts; $5,000-Interprogram] |
| LA Arts
HereAfter |
To continue HereAfter, a community-engagement, collaborative dance piece that explores issues pertaining to death and dying and end of life care. | $27,500 1 year |
Community-Based Arts Organizations
| African American Dance Ensemble Inc.
Organizational Development Marketing and Fundraising Support |
To develop a long-range plan that will strengthen and stabilize the board and staff, and prioritize management and programmatic goals. | $47,500 1 year |
| Afro-American Cultural Center, Inc. General Support Charlotte, NC |
To strengthen its senior administrative staff and develop and implement marketing, development and communications plans. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center, Inc.
Building on Our Strengths |
To ascertain the feasibility of several proposed income generating projects. |
$35,000
1 year |
| Artists for Humanity Inc.
General Support |
To increase organizational capacity for an entrepreneurship program that targets at-risk youth in Boston. | $50,000 1 year |
| Artists Rights Foundation
The Story of Movies |
For "The Story of Movies" to develop curriculum to test out a series of pilot sites and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum based on feedback from site instructors and students. | $50,000 1 year |
| Boys Harbor, Inc.
The Harbor Conservatory for The Performing Arts |
For a final year of general operating support for a wide range of performing arts programs for youth and adults. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Bread and Roses Cultural Project, Inc.
Unseen America |
To support "Unseen America", a project that enables artists, students and workers to document the working conditions of low-wage employees, America's working poor. | $30,000 1 year |
| Bronx Museum of the Arts
General Support |
To build audiences by strengthening and broadening important partnerships with cultural, educational and service organizations. | $50,000 1 year |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc.
General Support |
To continue the implementation of its strategic plan that will lead to stabilization. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Children's Museum
Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Community |
To engage in a planning process that will enhance its strategic partnerships with community constituents. | $50,000 6 months |
| Citykids Foundation, Inc.
Citykids Repertory Company |
To strengthen and sustain its model Repertory Company that targets urban youth. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Art-at-Work |
To strengthen and stabilize "Art-at-Work," an arts intervention program designed to prevent status offenders and first-time juvenile offenders from becoming more involved in the juvenile court system. |
$40,000
1 year |
| Cornerstone Theatre Company, Inc.
Community Partnership Program |
To support the expansion of its "Community Partnership Program," that will lead to deeper and more sustained collaborative relationships over time. |
$45,000
1 year |
| Creative Capital Foundation
General Support |
To continue direct support and services to innovative individual artists throughout the United States. |
$50,000
1 year |
| Crow's Shadow Institute
Professional Advancement Project |
Pendleton, OR To attract strong faculty and provide studio art, printmaking and traditional art making opportunities to diverse audiences. |
$70,000
2 years |
| East Bay Institute for Urban Arts
Images Creating Unity 2000-2002 |
To sustain and expand a community arts program and develop new curriculum, web-page art and community-based projects |
. $100,000
2 years |
| Fund for Independent Publishing
A New Generation At The New Press |
To support recruitment, training and development of a new generation of editors with the hopes that this new staff will be groomed to eventually take over the editorial direction of the Press. |
$100,000
2 years |
| Hampton Institute
Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Community |
To use data collected through a visitors survey and an audience analysis to increase visitation and engagement by specifically targeted audiences. | $50,000 6 months |
| Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education
The ARTS at Marks Garage |
To support "The ARTS at Marks Garage," a community-based arts incubator that will provide offices and support for the programming efforts of several small arts institutions. | $40,000 1 year |
| Hip Hop Theatre Junction
New York City Hip-Hop |
To implement the "2nd annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival," and to increase the number of young people who attend theater and cultural events. | $25,000 6 months |
| Humboldt Arts Council
Arts As A Primary Resource |
To support a community-wide program that provides arts programming for every child in one county. | $50,000 1 year |
| Kings Majestic Corporation
Building Income-Generating Capacity |
To build capacity and implement a strategic plan that includes increasing and diversifying sources of organizational income. | $50,000 1 year |
| National Black Arts Festival Inc.
General Support |
For the implementation of its strategic and business plans so that it may transition into a year-round organization | $100,000 2 years |
| National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to Handicapped
Art Enterprise Program |
To build partnerships with community-based arts organizations and arts-based high schools, and train youth workers to teach NTFE's art enterprise. |
$100,000
2 years |
| New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
The NOVAC Teen Video Workshop |
To strengthen and stabilize this media arts education program, which focuses on inner-city teens residing in the Greater New Orleans area. |
$40,000
1 year |
| New York University
National Graduate Seminar and First Amendment Rights Forum |
To provide funding for the continuation of the National Graduate Seminar Program for two years while it builds a board of directors and achieves financial stability. |
$70,000
2 years |
| Penumbra Theatre Company Inc
Educational Department Expansion Implementation |
To expand and stabilize their education programs. | $120,000 2 years |
| Smithsonian Institution
A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging School and Community |
To continue the adaptation, evaluation and dissemination of "A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging School and Community," a design education program. | $35,000 1 year |
| Social and Public Art Resource Center
General Support |
To implement its business plan which was developed under the auspice of the Working Capital Fund Initiative. | $100,000 2 years |
| University of Colorado Foundation, Inc.
Arts Street |
To continue Art Street, an art-based job training program for adolescents that teaches youth to apply their creative talents to the workplace through the use of visual, performing and multimedia arts. |
$120,000
2 years |
| Urban Gateways
Technology Enhancement and Stabilization |
To hire a technology coordinator who can assess staff training needs and fully integrate new scheduling and account systems. | $35,000 1 year |
| Washington Drama Society, Inc.
The Community Engagement Initiative |
To implement a Community Engagement Initiative that will integrate the needs of the community into program planning and implementation. | $120,000 2 years |
| Young Aspirations Young Artists Inc.
Technology - Centered Learning Environment |
To create a computer graphics laboratory to train and service its constituency in the competitive area of computer generated graphic arts. |
$50,000
1 Year |
Museum Initiative
| 18th and Vine Authority
Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities
|
To develop programming and establish decision-making roles for diverse stakeholders that will result in increased community support for and ownership of the institution. |
$200,000
2 years |
| Amigos del Museo del Barrio, Inc.
Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities |
To strengthen its board, support constituencies and increase its capacity to raise funds. | $50,000 1 year |
| Children's Museum
Re-Envisioning The Role of Museums in Communities |
To re-envision its relationship with Boston's many communities by creating teams that will work to implement a diversity plan. | $200,000 2 years |
| Heard Museum
Increasing Native American Ownership of The Heard Museum |
To re-envision and inspire a sense of ownership on the part of the Native American tribes in the Southwest whose culture is being interpreted. | $200,000 2 years |
| Japanese American National Museum
Boyle Heights: Neighborhood Sites and Insights |
To implement a partnership with other ethnic communities through the "Boyle Heights Neighborhood Sites and Insites Project." |
$200,000
2 years |
| Studio Museum in Harlem
Expanding The Walls |
To continue "Expanding the Walls," a multi-generational program that uses James VanDerZee's photographs as a point of entry to the museum's collections and involves the diverse photo-documentation of Harlem's residents. | $200,000 2 years |
| Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Strengthening Community Response |
To develop "Strengthening Community Response," which includes a refining of the museum's process for the creation and execution of exhibitions by using a community response model. | $200,000 2 years |
Out of Program
| Camera News, Inc. ABA Third World Newsreel
Where Are They Now? |
To support a video album of comparative vignettes of African American and South African young people, exploring the challenges of youth in the two cultures. | $8,025 1 year |