Surdna Foundation 2013 Annual Report
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Thriving Cultures

Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions

Brevard Music Center

Brevard, NC | $100,000 (24 months)

To strengthen Brevard Music Center's Young Artist Division (YA) for high school students through recruitment, student financial aid, high quality faculty, and enhanced programming for the student body.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Brooklyn, NY | $50,000

To support BAM's DanceAfrica Education Program; and planning and development of new arts education programs.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

California State Summer School for the Arts Foundation

Pasadena, CA | $60,000 (24 months)

To support CSSSA's Visiting Artists Residency program, which annually brings 30 distinguished artists to teach, perform and create original work during the School's four-week summer session.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

Center for Cultural Innovation

Los Angeles, CA | $40,000

To investigate and design a California Fund for Artists, a matching gifts program for diverse working artists in the state.

Category: Artists & Economic Development

Center of Creative Arts (COCA)

St. Louis, MO | $75,000

To support COCA's Honors Dance Program including dance training, scholarships, transportation, summer study, dancewear, counseling, tutoring, faculty professional development, strategic planning, and evaluation.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

Chicago Children's Choir

Chicago, IL | $150,000 (24 months)

To provide accessible, high-quality choral music training to teens by exposing them to exemplary artist teachers and to a multicultural repertoire representing diverse musical genres.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

Citizen Engagement Lab

Berkeley, CA | $75,000

Continued support for Culture Strike a project that connects visual artists and writers with advocacy organizations to advance social change causes.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

Community Design Collaborative of AIA Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA | $40,000

To disseminate the findings of Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up, a community-driven design initiative, to a broad, national audience of forward-thinking design professionals, highlighting innovations in Philadelphia.

Category: Community Engaged Design

Community Partnership for Arts and Culture

Cleveland, OH | $40,000

To support CPAC's planning project to explore the intersection of artists, arts and culture with the health and human services sector in Cuyahoga County.

Category: Artists & Economic Development

COMPAS

St. Paul, MN | $35,000

Continued support for ArtsWork and ArtsScope COMPAS' arts-based summer employment and 'pre-employment' programs for teens.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement