ARTISTIC CREATION & DISTRIBUTION
Dance
New England Foundation for the Arts
$295,740 over 4 months
Boston, MA - To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive National Dance Project Production and Touring grants in 2009.
www.nefa.org
Jazz
Chamber Music America
$180,000 over 16 months
New York, NY – To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive jazz presenting and residency re-grants in 2009-2011.
www.chamber-music.org
French American Cultural Exchange
$55,000 over 2 months
New York, NY – To support an evaluatory meeting of the French American Jazz Exchange Program.
www.facecouncil.org
Multi-Disciplinary Performing Arts
Creative Capital Foundation
$427,800 over 16 months
New York, NY – To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive Multi-Arts Production Fund grants in 2009-2010.
www.creative-capital.org
ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
$50,000 over 2 years
Saint Paul, MN – To create the Doris Duke Leaders in the Arts Fund to subsidize participation of leaders in the fields of dance, jazz, presenting and theatre in the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute.
www.wilder.org
Arts Midwest
$5,000 over 1 month
Minneapolis, MN – To support professional development sessions at the 2009 Midwest Arts Conference.
www.artsmidwest.org
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
$310,000 over 1 year
Washington, DC – To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive Creative Campus Innovations Grants in 2010.
www.artspresenters.org
Dance/USA
$255,750 over 16 months
Washington, DC – To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive Engaging Dance Audiences project grants in 2009-2010.
www.danceusa.org
EmcArts, Inc.
$93,000 over 4 months
New York, NY - To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive 2009 project grants through the Innovations Lab for the Performing Arts.
www.emcarts.org
Jazz at Lincoln Center
$75,000 over 9 months
New York, NY – To support Jazz at Lincoln Center’s customer relationship management initiative.
www.jalc.org
LA Stage Alliance
$50,000 over 7 months
Los Angeles, CA – To support expansion of LA Stage Alliance’s customer relationship management system.
www.lastagealliance.com
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
$210,800 over 16 months
Baltimore, MD – To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive project grants in 2009-2010 through the Jazz.NEXT program.
www.midatlanticarts.org
Theatre Communications Group
$2,500,000 over 5.25 years
New York, NY – To support Rounds 10 and 11 of the New Generations Program, a national re-granting initiative that nurtures emerging theatre practitioners through a hands-on mentoring program and strengthens the efforts of theatres to extend their reach to more diverse audiences and engage more deeply with their communities.
www.tcg.org
Theatre Communications Group
$711,746 over 28 months
New York, NY – To provide supplemental core operating support to organizations selected to receive New Generations Program grants in 2009-2011.
www.tcg.org
NATIONAL SECTOR BUILDING
Fund for National Projects
The following 8 organizations were selected in 2009 to receive grants totaling $1,075,650 for national projects:
August Wilson Center
$100,000 over 15 months
Pittsburgh, PA – To support the National Black Theater Initiative Convening, a national gathering of Black playwrights and theater practitioners to identify critical issues of common concern and plan for collaborative development.
www.augustwilsoncenter.org
Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
$110,000 over 2 years
New York, NY – To implement, in collaboration with American Composers Orchestra, a two-part Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute consisting of a five-day Intensive (part one) and Readings and Concert (part two).
www.jazz.columbia.edu
DANCECleveland
$120,000 over 2 years
Cleveland, OH – To support a consortium comprised of DANCECleveland, Dance St. Louis and Dance Affiliates-Philadelphia to stem the decline of dance in the Midwest via the stimulation of presenter growth, enhanced opportunities for dance companies and presenter mentorships.
www.dancecleveland.org
Fractured Atlas
$100,000 over 1 year
New York, NY – To develop ATHENA Tix, a new open-source ticketing application for the national performing arts community.
www.fracturedatlas.org
Jazz Arts Group of Columbus
$200,000 over 21 months
Columbus, OH – To support the Jazz Audience Initiative, which will develop strategies to overcome perceptual, practical and experiential barriers to participation in jazz performance, as well as develop strategies to expand jazz audiences.
www.jazzartsgroup.org
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
$145,650 over 2 years
New York, NY – To support the National Health Insurance for Artists Initiative, which connects independent performing artists with information on access to affordable health insurance and health care, and provides knowledge building and advocacy efforts that engage performing artists in national and local policy discussions.
www.lincnet.net
Network of Ensemble Theaters
$150,000 over 2.25 years
Los Angeles, CA – To support the design, pilot phase and evaluation/ documentation of the Ensembles All-together Building Capacity (Ensembles ABC) Program, which will use field experts and peer exchange to build ensembles’ organizational capacity, secure the artistic future of ensemble theater-making, and share ensembles’ expertise in group leadership process and practice.
http://ensembletheaters.net
Youth Speaks
$150,000 over 19 months
San Francisco, CA – To support the LIFE branding initiative, which will host eco-equity interdisciplinary performance events in parks in underserved neighborhoods in a community-based convening that intersects environmental activism, interdisciplinary performance and next-generation artistic creation.
www.youthspeaks.org
National Sector Building
Dance/USA
$60,000 over 20 months
Washington, DC – To support Dance/USA’s internal leadership transition process.
www.danceusa.org
Grantmakers in the Arts
$50,000 over 1 year
Seattle, WA – To support core programs and services and the 2009 annual conference.
www.giarts.org
National Performance Network
$15,970 over 4 months
New Orleans, LA – To support a Nonprofit Business Analysis conducted by the Nonprofit Finance Fund.
www.npnweb.org
New England Foundation for the Arts
$34,030 over 5 months
Boston, MA – To support the National Dance Project convening.
www.nefa.org