Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a national meeting of African-American women playwrights

African American Women Playwrights Annual Meeting

to support four playwright commissions and related costs associated with the Cyber Narrative Project

Cyber Narrative Project

to support the National Playwrights Conference

National Playwrights Conference

to support student recruitment, expansion of the National Playwrights Conference, and a convening of Master of Fine Arts playwriting programs

National Playwrights Conference and Recruitment

to support a collaborative project among public media stations to help shape the future of classical music on radio

Station Resource Group Inc - Classical Music Rising

to support the construction of the Black Schoolhouse building and to continue support for organizational capacity and community-focused artist programs

The Black Schoolhouse

for use by its Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in support of a feasibility study to examine the provision of family-planning services in refugee settings

Refugee Women

to support an increase in the number of performances of new plays in the studio theater

National Theater Program

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the organization's annual convening and the launching of an annual prize to proposals investigating the work of reconstruction

Black Reconstruction Collective

for use by the Southern Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group

Southern Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group

Expanded Programming

National Theater Program  

to support a multiyear playwright residency with Dan LeFranc

Playwright Residency Program

Cash Reserve Fund

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

to strengthen its artistic development and strengthen its administrative capacity

New York Theater Program

to support artistic development and production costs

to support the Japanese-American translation project

US/Japan Playwright's Exchange

to support a new US/Japan playwright exchange and translation program

US/Japan Playwright Exchange

to support developmental activities and collaborations with producing theaters

Developmental Activities and Producing Theater Collaborations

to support the development and production of new musical theater works in partnership with regional theaters

Musical Theater Partnership Program and Fund

to support the Core Writers’ Lab and initiatives to promote writers’ work to producing theaters

Core Writers Lab and Initiatives Aimed at Theaters

for the planning of a Center for Education and Career Advancement for minority women in downtown Manhattan

Women's Program

to support the development of a model for the long-term preservation and documentation of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective

Sacred Work: The Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective

to continue support for organizational development, capacity building, and succession planning for Women of Color in the Arts

Women of Color in the Arts

to support a Black artist-led initiative to enhance its digital archive

Counter Histories: Black Lunch Table Archives and Wikipedia work

to help establish educational programs and supporting counseling services for its Center for Education and Career Advancement for minority women

Women's Center for Education and Career Advancement

Artistic Director Discretionary Fund

National Playwrights Conference - Part II

toward costs of a one-day workshop to train women business owners in Poland in new initiatives and communication techniques

EEP - Training Women Business Owners - Poland

for use by its Center for Research on Women to expand scholarship on women and to encourage its incorporation into undergraduate liberal arts curricula

Scholarship for Women

to support The Black Seed, a collaborative national ecosystem for Black theater institutions

The Black Seed

to support research on the provision of education to displaced populations for its Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Emergency Education Programs [Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children]

for use by the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children to support a survey of educational programming in emergency settings

Emergency Educational Programs [Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children]

to strengthen libraries at private black colleges

Black College Libraries

Black Orchestral Network

Center for Education and Career Advancement

to support Black Theatre United's strategic planning process

Black Theatre United

to support capacity building for a leading Black theater during a period of significant institutional change

Building Capacity for The National Black Theatre

to support capital costs and programming at the Boylston Black Box

Boylston Black Box 

to administer a program to improve the libraries in leading private black colleges

in support of a program to strengthen the libraries of leading private Black colleges

The Future of Dallas Black Dance Theatre

to provide support for members of the Research Libraries Group to develop their collections and to improve services through a cooperative effort

General Support

to support the production of Western Women, a collaborative project with the Minnesota Orchestra

Western Women

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 