Surdna Foundation 2014 Annual Report
2014 Approved Grants > Thriving Cultures
Thriving Cultures

Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI | $80,000

To support the provision of access to high quality art instruction, exhibition experiences and mentoring support to talented but underserved teens.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

Self Help Graphics & Arts, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA | $25,000

To support programming and operations between as the organization celebrates its 40th Anniversary and implements its current strategic plan.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

Skid Row Housing Trust

Los Angeles, CA | $50,000

To support Skid Row 2050 to engage vulnerable and often excluded residents to create a community-driven neighborhood plan that prioritizes people and place-making.

Category: Community Engaged Design

Springboard for the Arts

Saint Paul, MN | $750,000 (36 months)

To expand existing pilot artist-led community development projects in Minnesota to create project sustainability, and tools and resources to inspire other communities to value and work with their own artists.

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

Studio Museum in Harlem

New York, NY | $50,000

Continued support for Expanding the Walls : Making Connections between Photography, History and Community, an eight-month residency for New York City teens.

Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement

Sundance Institute

Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 (24 months)

Support for the Native American and Indigenous Program to assist Native film artists, and to provide community programming for Native audiences.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

The Loft Literary Center

Minneapolis, MN | $225,000 (36 months)

To support spoken word artists of color through self-designed, community-based immersion fellowships, and performance opportunities.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

The Theater Offensive

Boston, MA | $75,000

Support for Boston neighborhood programming, which creates work about diverse LGBT experiences, and empowers neighbors to collectively build community equity, health and safety.

Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA | $250,000 (24 months)

To document growth of arts-based creative clusters in two to four cities through construction of a social-justice based index of social wellbeing and new approaches for measuring social displacement and neighborhood change.

Category: Artists & Economic Development