Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

to support capacity building and general operations

Dancing into the Future 

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

Theatre Inc.

to support participation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the New Africa Theatre Academy

New Africa Theatre Academy

to support services to the dance field in New York City

Dance/NYC

toward completion of its new theatre facility

New Theatre Facility

to support a creative “bubble” residency

Dance Theatre of Harlem's Camp Quarantine

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

Modern Dance Program

to support the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

The Future of Dallas Black Dance Theatre

to continue support for the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Short-Season Theatre/Dance Program

to support planning for a re-granting program for dance rehearsal space in New York City

Dance Rehearsal Space Re-granting Planning

to develop and extend its artistic activity

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

to support the New Dance Horizons project

New Dance Horizons 2016

to support programs for emerging dance and theatre artists

Dance Related Organizations

to continue support for the New American Dance Initiative

New American Dance Initiative

to support Dance Art New York (DANY Studios)

Dance Art New York Studios

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

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

Ballet Program

to support dance archive assessment and future preservation planning

Dance Archives

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

to support the planning and selection process for the New York Theater Program

New York Theatre Program Planning

2004 Dance Festival

to support Yale Repertory Theatre’s Center for New Theatre

Yale Center for New Theatre

to support the National Dance Project regranting program

National Dance Project

to support an expansion of the Center for Creative Research, and an increase in national dance touring grants

CCR & National Dance Tours

to support artistic fees and new productions

New York Theater Program

to support dance rehearsal space subsidies

Fall for Dance Festival

to support the 2005 Fall for Dance Festival

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

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