Funding Circle: Grantees

2007-2008 Grantees ~ 14 grants totalling $136,389

Art project

Young Chicago Authors (youngchicagoauthors.org)

Funding Focus #1: Community Development

  1. Art in the Public Interest, Saxapahaw, NC communityarts.net
    To support a global website on community-based arts (Infrastructure)

  2. All-Ages Movement Project, San Francisco, CA allagesmovementproject.org To strengthen youth-run music centers across the country

  3. Co-Operative Image Group, coopimage.org
    Institute of Puerto Rican Art and Culture, iprac.org, Chicago IL
    To create a youth-driven art installation addressing racial tensions in Humboldt Park

  4. Lava Studio, Brooklyn, NY lavalove.org
    To provide free Saturday acrobatics classes to youth in Prospect Heights

  5. Chicago Freedom School, Chicago, IL chicagofreedomschool.org
    To support an art institute for 40 teens from low-income neighborhoods across Chicago

Funding Focus #2: Social Action

  1. Ananya Dance Theatre, Minneapolis, MN ananyadancetheatre.org
    To create dance performances and workshops on environmental justice

  2. Choral Earth, Charlottesville, VA ChoralEarth.com
    To help millions of choir members across the country to reduce their carbon footprints

  3. The League of Young Voters, Brooklyn, NY TheLeague.com
    To engage thousands of young hip-hop fans in politics through The Hip-Hop Olympics

  4. In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis, MN hobt.org
    To create a day-long community arts celebration focused on issues of water

Funding Focus #3: Dialogue

  1. Art Corps, Beverly, MA artcorps@nebf.org
    For 8 artists to work for a year in grassroots organizations in Guatemala and El Salvador

  2. Centre for Playback Theatre, New Paltz, NY playbackcenter.org
    To train international Playback practitioners to work with communities in crisis (Infrastructure)

  3. Young Chicago Authors, Chicago, IL youngchicagoauthors.org
    To create a webzine and video PSA by young men of color working against sexism

  4. Iraqi/American Reconciliation Project, Minneapolis, MN ksvien@ties2.net
    To connect Americans and Iraqis via art sales and letters between schoolchildren

  5. Toronto Playback Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada torontoplayback.com
    To engage at-risk youth in dialogues about class, culture, and sexual identity