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