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Public Knowledge

The Future of Dallas Black Dance Theatre

to support change capital, as part of the Foundation's Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

to support Black Theatre United's strategic planning process

Black Theatre United

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

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

The Black Seed

to assist in producing earlier work that merits revival

Regional Theatre Program

Advancing Black Dance

to support a creative “bubble” residency

Dance Theatre of Harlem's Camp Quarantine

to support the Ignite/Arts Dallas initiative

Ignite/Arts Dallas

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Short-Season Theatre/Dance Program

to support the programmatic expansion of the new Ignite/Arts Dallas initiative

to support Chicago-based Black dance companies and strengthen their financial and operational capacity, ensuring the long-term survival of their work

The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project

to develop and extend its artistic activity

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

to support a professional training and development hub for Black theatre artists and technicians and to produce six plays by Indiana Black playwrights

District Theatre Project

to support a regranting program to artists and companies driving the future of Black dance

Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative Legacy

to support research focusing on the relationship between Black Dance practices, location, and racialized identity

Race, Black Dance, and the Embodied Geographies of Freedom

to support programs for emerging dance and theatre artists

Dance Related Organizations

to create new work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Nikolais Dance Theatre

Modern Dance Program

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

The Black Schoolhouse

to support subsidized rehearsal space for the professional nonprofit dance field

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Nikolais Dance Theatre

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

Exhibitions/Publications

to support a remount of The Gathering: A Sonic Ring Shout at the Kennedy Center

The Gathering 

to assist the Goodman Theatre in producing earlier work that merits revival

Ballet Program

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

to support a national convening of leaders of major ballet companies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in ballet

DEI Convening

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to develop and extend artistic activity at the La Jolla Playhouse

to support artistic expansion and exploration for DANCE IQUAIL!

Dance for Social Change

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

Black Reconstruction Collective

to assist the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to develop ways to increase earned and contributed income

to support capacity building and general operations

Dancing into the Future 

Regional Opera Program

to create new work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Dance Archives

toward support of the Dance Television Workshop

Dance Television Workshop

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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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" 