Art Program Grants
Environmental Program Grants
Learning Disabilities Program Grants
Associates Program Grants
ART PROGRAM GRANTS
2005
California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA
University
To teach one semester of a course designed for Master of Fine Arts students to equip them with critical skills to manage their careers as visual artists.
$22,000/1 year
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago IL
To plan and implement a program to provide assistance to Chicago artists in strategically planning their careers and enhancing their professional development.
$178,000/2 years
Creative Capital, New York NY
For year 5 of their Professional Development Workshop program to provide strategic planning skills to artists throughout the nation.
$100,000/1 year
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
To teach one semester of a course for Master of Fine Arts students to equip them with critical skills to manage their careers as visual artists.
$22,000/1 year
Parsons School of Design at the New School University, New York, NY
To teach one semester of a course designed for Master of Fine Arts students to equip them with critical skills to manage their careers as visual artists.
$22,000/1 year
New York Foundation for the Arts , New York, NY
To plan and implement a program to provide assistance to New York artists in strategically planning their careers and enhancing their professional development.
$75,000/1 year
Urban Institute, Washington DC
To continue phase two of their work to assess the EHTF MEA program as well as set up evaluation measures that can be used during and after the pilot phase of the program.
$25,000/1 year
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
To teach one semester of a course for Master of Fine Arts students to equip them with critical skills to manage their careers as visual artists.
$22,000/1 year
2004
Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
To support years three and four of the implementation of The Edge program which teaches professional practices to visual artists.
$75,000/3 years
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA
To support years three and four of the implementation of a set of skills-building workshops and lectures.
$75,000/2 years
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY
Street Art, Street Life
Lydia Yee, Curator
Exhibition Date: Winter, 2008
$125,000/3 years
Columbia University, New York NY
To teach two semesters of a course designed for Master of Fine Arts students to equip them with critical skills to manage their careers as a visual artist.
$44,000/2 years
DiverseWorks, Houston TX
To support years three and four of the implementation of their Professional Artists retreat.
$75,000/2 years
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Washington University, St Louis MO
Art Awards, Reality Bites
$125,000/3 years
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Travel support - Skin Tight
$20,000/1 year
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego CA
Past In Reverse: Contemporary art of East Asia
$20,000/1 year
Side Street Projects, Pasadena CA
To support the enhancement and implementation of a program to assist visual artists in Los Angeles with obtaining skills that will help them in their lives as artists.
$45,000/2 years
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, Boston MA
To support the development and implementation of a program to assist visual artists in Boston to obtain critical life and career management skills.
$90,000/2 years
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS
2005
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, Harrisburg PA
To provide support for public education and outreach efforts about the proposed Advance Energy Portfolio Standard in Pennsylvania.
$125,000/1 year
Clean Air-Cool Planet, Portsmouth NH
To support the creation and maintenance of the Connecticut Science Center Collaborative that focuses on using science centers to educate the public about climate change.
$100,000/1 year
Clean Air-Cool Planet, Portsmouth NH
To support the development and implementation of a Climate Change Competition for Grade School Students.
$70,000/1 year
Connecticut Clean Air Through Renewable Energy (SmartPower), Washington DC
To continue their work to realize 20% of Connecticut's energy needs to be generated from clean, renewable, energy sources by the year 2010.
$100,000/1 year
Environment Northeast, Rockport ME
To support their work to implement various initiatives under the diesel reduction initiatives in key locations in Connecticut and the Northeast region.
$225,000/1 year
Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz NY
To support the Green Assets program, which educates and assists local towns within the Shawangunk Ridge with open space planning.
$50,000/1 year
Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Harrisburg PA
To provide support for PEC's leadership role in the convening of Pennsylvania's State Advisory Council on Global Warming.
$100,000/1 year
The Trust for Public Land, New Haven CT
To support TPL's work in the Connecticut River Watershed and to support the TPL national office dissemination of results from this region throughout the entire organization.
$50,000/1 year
World Resources Institute, Washington DC
To support Safe Climate-Sound Business initiative which will work to spur corporate action on climate change in the Northeast region.
$75,000/1 year
2004
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, Harrisburg PA
To provide support for public education and outreach efforts about the proposed Advance Energy Portfolio Standard in Pennsylvania.
$100,000/1 year
Clean Air-Cool Planet, Portsmouth NH
To support the design and implementation of a Connecticut Science Center Collaborative that focuses on educating the public about global warming.
$100,000/1 year
Connecticut Fund for the Environment, New Haven CT
Diesel Initiative Clean Air Campaign
$35,000/1 year
Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, Rocky Hill CT
To support the final definition and implementation of a state action plan on global warming.
$75,000/1 year
Environment Northeast, Rockport ME
To support their work on diesel reduction initiatives in key locations in Connecticut and the Northeast region.
$100,000/1 year
New England Governors' Conference, Inc., Boston MA
To support their on-going work as it relates to the New England Governors climate action plan.
$50,000/1 year
Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Harrisburg PA
To provide support for PEC's leadership role in the convening of Pennsylvania's State Advisory Council on Global Warming.
$100,000/1 year
LEARNING DISABILITIES GRANTS
2005
Arizona Literacy & Learning Center, Phoenix AZ
To develop and implement the Recognition and Response system for helping parents and educators address learning difficulties among young children.
$200,000/2 years
Association for Children of New Jersey, Newark NJ
To explore policy issues related to the successful implementation of the Recognition and Response system at a state level in New Jersey, and in other key states.
$20,000/1 year
Communications Consortium Media Center, Washington DC
To support work related to learning disabilities and early childhood education.
$49,000/1 year
Communications Consortium Media Center, Washington DC
For the purpose of conducting a poll, by Roper ASW, on learning disabilities
$93,000/1 year
Connecticut State Department of Education, Hartford CT
To develop and implement the Recognition and Response system for helping parents and educators address learning difficulties among young children.
$200,000/2 years
Franklin Porter Graham Child Development Institute, Chapel Hill NC
To develop and disseminate best practices related to “Recognition and Response: An Early Intervening System”
$221,320/2 years
Eye to Eye, Inc., New York NY
For teacher training related to the Eye to Eye model
$50,000/1 year
Maryland Committee for Children, Baltimore MD
To develop and implement the Recognition and Response system for helping parents and educators address learning difficulties among young children.
$200,000/2 years
National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington DC
To develop and implement a training model for professional development related to the Recognition and Response system for helping parents and educators address learning difficulties among young children.
$200,000/2 years
The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation, Miami FL
To develop and implement the Recognition and Response system for helping parents and educators address learning difficulties among young children; and to develop web based resources to assist this effort in Miami-Dade County.
$250,000/2 years
2004
All Kinds of Minds, Chapel Hill NC
To explore an integration of learning technologies with AKOM curriculum and to support implementation of AKOM's national expansion plan.
$350,000/2 years
$25,000/1 year
CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology), Peabody MA
To support development of Thinking Writer and national networking around transformative technologies for learning
$325,000/2 years
CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology), Peabody MA
Support for a strategic planning initiative related to Universal Design for Learning, and other purposes.
$50,000/1 year
Communications Consortium Media Center, Washington DC
To convene LD Roundtables on several key topics related to early intervention and Learning Disabilities
$40,000/1 year
Learning Disabilities Association of America, Pittsburgh PA
To support LDA's organizational restructuring
$150,000/2 years
ASSOCIATES PROGRAM GRANTS
2005
Groundwork Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT
To provide support for GB's Butterflies are Teachers program and to help fund the organization's garden maintenance endowment.
$30,000/1 year
Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Bridgeport CT
Support for the MACH/Music School, a community-based school of the arts that offers private and group instruction to children in the Greater Bridgeport region.
$20,000/1 year
Regional Youth/Adult Substance Abuse Project, Bridgeport CT
Funding for RYASAP's Youth As Resources: Developing Bridegeport Youth Initiative, which works by identifying and building on the inherent strengths of urban children and engaging them as active participants in improving their schools and neighborhoods.
$20,000/1 year
2004
Groundwork Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT
Support for expansion of the organization's Butterflies are Teachers program, through which elementary school students gain math and science skills by designing butterfly gardens and learning about the garden ecosystem.
$53,000/1 year
Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Bridgeport CT
Support for the MACH Music School and the Music Academy, which together provide subsidized private music lessons to economically disadvantaged children, offer an after-school music program at seven Bridgeport schools, and give students and parents the chance to attend professional music performances throughout Fairfield County.
$20,000/1 year
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