Thriving Cultures
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
- Newark, NJ
- $225,000 (3 years)
To support NJPAC's Wachovia Jazz for Teens program in which students study with professional jazz musicians to learn the theory and practice of jazz performance, record a professional CD, and perform live at NJPAC.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
National Hispanic Cultural Center
- Albuquerque, NM
- $100,000 (2 years)
To support two tuition-free summer arts intensives for New Mexico teens: Voces, a four-week writing institute; and the Manoa Project, a state-wide teen playwriting competition and seven-week theatre ensemble apprenticeship.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
New York University-Tisch School of the Arts
- New York, NY
- $240,000 (3 years)
To help support the programmatic expenses of the William H. Cosby Future Filmmakers Workshop and scholarships and programmatic expenses of the Summer High School Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
North Carolina Dance Theatre
- Charlotte, NC
- $50,000
To support the training of students in the Pre-Professional Division of its school by Patricia McBride; the expansion of the program's recruitment and alumni outreach; financial and academic supports; and career transition resources.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Northwestern University - National High School Institute
- Evanston, IL
- $30,000
To help students in Chicago area public schools from difficult socioeconomic situations participate in the Music and Theatre Divisions of the Northwestern National High School Institute.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
North Carolina Dance Theatre
- Charlotte, NC
- $50,000
To support the training of students in the Pre-Professional Division of its school by Patricia McBride; the expansion of the program's recruitment and alumni outreach; financial and academic supports; and career transition resources.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, MD
- $30,000
To provide scholarships for motivated Baltimore City public school teens to study music at Peabody Preparatory through Tuned-In, a program within Peabody's Public School Engagement Initiative.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Perseverance Theatre
- Douglas, AK
- $50,000
To improve Perseverance Theatre's efforts to engage Alaskan teens in the creation of theatre through Next Generation projects.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Raw Art Works
- Lynn, MA
- $70,000 (2 years)
To enhance artistic development of teen artists through ongoing relationships with teaching artists, rigorous and diverse curriculum, and exposure to the world outside RAW through guest artists and enrichment activities.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco)
- Philadelphia, PA
- $50,000
To strengthen Philadanco's dance training program for teens ages 12-18, including support for instructors' salaries and dancewear for students.
Category: Strengthening The Quality Of Training and Students' Access to it
San Francisco Ballet Association
- San Francisco, CA.
- $75,000
To support the San Francisco Ballet School's pre-professional training programs, including Levels 7, 8 and its Trainee Program.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
- Pittsburgh, PA
- $65,000
To support scholarships, housing stipends, guest faculty and a choreographer fee for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School's pre-professional High School Program and Intensive Summer Program.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Stanford Jazz Workshop
- Stanford, CA
- $35,000
To provide support for SJW's core programs serving youth: Jazz Camp, Residency, and Youth Scholarship Fund. The grant will also support recruitment efforts for these programs.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy
- Concord, MA
- $65,000
To support high school students' participation in Summer Stages' 2010 Dance Workshop, recruitment and scholarship support for gifted students from diverse backgrounds, and purchase of a database.
Category: Teens' Artistic Advancement
Sweet Home New Orleans
- New Orleans, LA
- $30,000
To help ensure New Orleans' musicians and cultural tradition bearers receive earned income from performances and benefit from professional development, helping to preserve New Orleans rich cultural heritage and contributing to the city's cultural economy. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
The Lens
- New Orleans, LA
- $100,000
To enable The Lens to create a sustainable business development strategy and further develop investigative journalism focusing on the environment and impediments to prosperity in the New Orleans region.
Village of Arts and Humanities
- Philadelphia, PA
- $50,000
To support Learning Through the Arts, a free multidisciplinary arts education and leadership initiative that offers year-round after-school, weekend and summer programs for teens from the Fairhill/Hartraft community of Philadelphia.
Urban Bush Women (UBW, Inc.)
- Brooklyn, NY
- $150,000
To support its intensive 10-day 2010 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) at Tulane University in New Orleans. The SLI connects art-making to community organizing.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
