Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

toward support of the Development Department of the New York City Opera

Development Department

Opera Project

to assist the Opera to develop ways to increase earned and contributed income

Income Development

20th and 21st Century Opera Projects and Productions

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Income Initiatives

to develop ways to increase both earned and contributed income

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

Artistic Initiatives

Fire Emergency Fund

matching endowment and spendable grant toward its Fund for Artistic Excellence

Fund for Artistic Excellence

to support its Fund for Artistic Excellence

to support the Fund for Artistic Excellence

Showcasing American Composers/ American Programming

to support productions of Margaret Garner and Vanessa and the annual VOX: Showcasing American Composers festival

Productions of "Margaret Garner" and "Vanessa" and "VOX" Festival

in support of family planning services in New York City

New York Family Planning

in support of family-planning services in New York City

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

to support the People’s Commissioning Fund and New York City performances

The People's Commissioning Fund and New York City Performances

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the New York City Ballet

Ballet Program

to support services to the dance field in New York City

Dance/NYC

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

Dance Rehearsal Space Re-granting Planning

to facilitate planning for the maintenance of adequate family planning services in New York City

Family Planning Services

to support mapping of New York City’s Black, Indigenous, People of Color led and serving cultural entities, a collaboration with Hester Street and Museum Hue

Mapping BIPOC Cultural Orgs in New York City

Dance/NYC’s General Operating Support 

to support analyses of New York City neighborhood networks and the development of asset and power mapping tools

Reimagining New York City - From the Neighborhood Up

toward costs of its project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

City Services Access

toward support of the project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

to support food security activities on City University of New York campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

CUNY Campaign for a Food Secure CUNY

to support adjunct faculty impacted by COVID-related budget cuts and sustain humanities offerings at the City University of New York

Adjunct Faculty Support

to support the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

to support food security, health and mental health care, and housing assistance activities on City University of New York campuses

Comprehensive Access to Resources for Essential Services

to support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the City University of New York

Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory at “The People’s University”

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

to provide general operating support, as part of the New York Theater Program

to support development and dissemination of new American opera

Development and Dissemination of New American Opera

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

to continue support for a humanities teacher training and pipeline initiative in partnership with four New York City community colleges

Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative

toward support of a study to develop models for graduate-level consortial arrangements among five institutions in New York City

New York Graduate Consortium Project

in support of the activities of The Fund for New Citizens

New York City's Immigrants

to analyze and demonstrate methods proven successful in raising levels of student achievement in a number of public elementary and secondary schools in New York and other major cities

Public Schools

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the City University of New York 

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons

to support the Foundation’s New York Theater Program

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

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

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

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

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" 