Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions
San Francisco Jazz Organization
San Francisco, CA | $50,000 (24 months)
To support High School All-Stars (HSAS), a pre-professional training program for exceptional high school jazz musicians. HSAS provides rehearsal, workshop, and performance experiences and includes the HSAS Orchestra and Combo.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA | $100,000 (24 months)
To support the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in providing free, pre-professional orchestral training for more than 100 gifted instrumentalists of the Bay Area.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Springboard for the Arts
Saint Paul, MN | $180,000
To support the pilot of Springboard's new Artist Organizer program in Richfield and Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
Category: Community Engaged Design
Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc.
Baltimore, MD | $25,000
Support for SNAE's two-day symposium that will explore the relationship between gentrification and artist communities.
Category: Artists & Economic Development
STREB Inc.
Brooklyn, NY | $75,000
Support for STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM), an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community organization.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
The Foundry Theatre
New York, NY | $70,000
To support the premiere production of a new theatrical work exploring the contemporary US policing and prison practices and transformative justice, and an accompanying Foundry Dialogues series.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
The New School
New York, NY | $100,000 (24 months)
To increase access to educational and career opportunities in art and design for underserved New York City public high school students through Parsons' free, intensive, three-year Parsons Scholars college-prep program.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
The Wooden Floor
Santa Ana, CA | $300,000 (36 months)
To strengthen The Wooden Floor's core year-round programs and advance assessment of its impact serving low-income youth to equip them with necessary skills through holistic youth development centered on dance education.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC | $150,000 (24 months)
To support musical training in jazz to students from five public high schools in Los Angeles.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Tulane City Center
New Orleans, LA | $120,000
To support a community-engaged approach to three University and Community Design Partnership projects in the area of water infrastructure and urban agriculture.
Category: Community Engaged Design