February 1, 2012
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In this issue of Arts Funding Watch, the Foundation Center's newsletter devoted to arts-related topics, you'll learn about a large gift to help expand a program that guarantees affordable tickets to a New York City theater company's productions. You'll also find links to other arts-related news, resources, funding opportunities for individuals and organizations, and job listings. Arts Funding Watch is available exclusively to visitors who register at the Foundation Center's Web site. |
Signature Theatre Receives $25 Million From Pershing Square Foundation
Recent Arts News in Philanthropy News DigestCarnegie Hall Receives $2 Million for Digital Archives ProjectCarnegie Hall will use the funds to launch a multiyear, $5 million effort to digitize archival collections documenting its 120-year history.... Posted: 1/31/12 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Awards $1.4 Million to NYC Arts and Cultural OrganizationsThe grants to fifteen New York City arts and cultural organizations will support their use of emerging technologies to further educational programming, reach new audiences, and maximize their organizational efficiency.... Posted: 1/27/12 Westmoreland Museum Receives $8 Million From Richard King Mellon FoundationThe largest gift ever received by the museum includes funds to support construction of a new wing, renovation of an existing building, and a complete redesign of the museum's grounds.... Posted: 1/26/12 Miami Art Museum Receives $1 Million Challenge GrantThe grant, which must be matched on a one-to-one basis, will be used to purchase contemporary art in anticipation of the museum's move to a new and expanded facility in 2013.... Posted: 1/22/12 Ohio State Receives $6 Million From AlumnusThe gift to the university's College of Arts and Sciences will be used to establish a new collaborative center and support renovations at Sullivant Hall.... Posted: 1/19/12 Herb Alpert Foundation Increases Support to Arts Scholarship ProgramThe additional support will enable CSSSA to broaden the Herb Alpert Scholarships for Emerging Young Artists program from six to seven scholarship areas, benefitting an additional three students per year.... Posted: 1/18/12 Juilliard Receives $20 Million Gift to Endow Its Historical Performance ProgramThe gift from board chair Bruce Kovner, who recently retired as chairman of Caxton Associates, a $10 billion hedge fund, will make it possible for all students in the graduate-level historical performance program to receive full scholarships.... Posted: 1/18/12 Funding OpportunitiesArtist Trust Invites Fellowship Applications From Washington State Professional ArtistsProfessional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability working in the craft, literary, media, or music arts in Washington State are invited to apply for fellowship awards of $7,500.... Deadline: 2/26/12 National Endowment for the Arts Invites Applications for Our Town Creative Placemaking ProjectsGrants of $25,000 to $150,000 will be awarded for arts projects designed to improve the overall quality of life in communities of all sizes across the United States.... Deadline: 3/01/12 Native American Public Telecommunications Invites Applications for Public Media Content FundGrants of $5,000 to $100,000 are available for video projects that can be part of a public television series designed to represent the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations.... Deadline: 3/16/12 Endangered Language Fund Invites Proposals for Language Maintenance and Linguistic Field Work WorldwideGrants averaging $2,000 are available for linguistic field work and maintenance involving a language in danger of disappearing within a generation or two.... Deadline: 4/20/12 Send Us Your FeedbackWe'd like to know what you think of Arts Funding Watch. Please send your comments to artswatch@foundationcenter.org. Advertise in Arts Funding WatchArts Funding Watch is e-mailed every first Wednesday of the month to more than 73,000 subscribers with a stated interest in the arts. For information about our advertising rates, contact Mitch Nauffts at (212) 807-2433 or mfn@foundationcenter.org. |
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Let's Talk Arts!
Have you visited GrantSpace, the Foundation Center's new learning community for the social sector? In the Arts area of the site, you'll find arts-themed videos and podcasts, sample grant proposals, the latest arts-related reports from PubHub, funding facts and figures, an FAQ, a Twitter feed featuring the tweets of arts funders, and more. Stop by and join the conversation!
JustFilms
Talk about impact. Five independent films that received a total of $2 million in support through the Ford Foundation's year-old
JustFilms
initiative had their world premieres at the recently concluded
Sundance Film Festival. The films — The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki; DETROPIA, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; How to Survive a Plague, by David France; Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire Is Changing the World, directed by Macky Alston; and Red Hook Summer, directed by Spike Lee — embody the foundation's vision that independent film can "illuminate the world in which we live and inspire people to engage in pressing social challenges."
Learn more.
Choreographer Commissioning Awards
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode
and
William and Flora Hewlett foundations have announced the recipients of six $50,000 grants for dance and movement works by innovative California choreographers who reflect the cultural and aesthetic diversity of contemporary dance. At least $12,500 of each grant will go to a choreographer working with a Bay Area nonprofit organization as a commissioning fee, while the remaining funds will help finance the creation and world premiere of the work between December 2012 and December 2015.
Learn more.
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