INSPIRED TO CREATE GRANT

$50,000 Grant
Art and Beyond, Inc.

Art and Beyond, Inc. serves at risk youth from economically disadvantaged areas through the implementation of arts educational programming, fostering creativity and expression. Youth in this community are frequently denied access to art programs in their schools due to administrative constraints. These programs help increase student achievement.

$50,000 Grant
Art from Ashes

Art from Ashes (AfA) is a Colorado nonprofit that encourages creative empowerment through artistic expression for struggling youth age 9 to 24. For more than 18 years, AfA’s art programs have encouraged marginalized youth to tell their stories and find creative empowerment through poetry and spoken word in the award-winning Phoenix Rising program.

$50,000 Grant
ArtReach – Orlando

ArtReach Orlando provides art programs for youth experiencing difficult economic and social situations who may not have access to the arts. Through the creative process, they are exploring the link between art, social justice, and the healing process.

$50,000 Grant
ARTreach – Texas

ARTreach focuses on collaborating with community partners to deliver art programs in public places such as schools, community centers, libraries, and foster care centers, serving vulnerable populations in the community. These art programs help students build self-esteem and prepare for a more positive future.

$50,000 Grant
Art Spark Texas

Art Spark Texas challenges perceptions of how people contribute by creating an arts-inspired, inclusive community of individuals with diverse abilities.

$50,000 Grant
Art Works Now

Art Works Now’s mission is to create a stronger community through the arts. They achieve this with affordable, content-rich art classes and projects.

$50,000 Grant
ARTS for ALL – Wisconsin

ARTS for ALL Wisconsin exists to improve the quality of life for all people with disabilities throughout the state of Wisconsin by providing opportunities in the arts for non-artists and artists alike. Research has shown that participation in the arts improves community cohesion, which leads to better understanding of people with disabilities and the people who support them.

$50,000 Grant
Arts For All – New York

Arts For All offers accessible artistic opportunities to children in the New York City area who face socio-economic, physical, or emotional barriers to exploring the arts. Through Arts For All, professional artists work with youth organizations to build self-confidence, self-expression, teamwork, resilience, and creativity in children.

$100,000 Grant
Artwell

ArtWell was founded in response to chronic community violence in Philadelphia, as a means of providing healing to underserved communities. Young people and their communities are supported through multidisciplinary arts education.

$50,000 Grant
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Green Bay

The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay offers a safe, inviting, place to learn and grow – all while having fun. Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of local youth (7-17) by instilling a sense of belonging, passion, and confidence, and the arts is one of six core elements for programming at Club.

$50,000 Grant
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

The Center for Arts-Inspired Learning ignites creativity, success, and learning through the arts. Over the past 60 years, it has served around 7 million children in 18 different counties in arts education, including dance, theater, music, digital arts, visual arts, and professional development.

$50,000 Grant
Children’s Chorus of Washington

Children’s Chorus of Washington nurtures artistic excellence and empowers young singers by celebrating our shared humanity and the value of every voice.

$50,000 Grant
Create Now

Create Now empowers at-risk youth and young adults from ages 3 to 24 through a variety of arts programs that help them to heal and thrive. They partner with agencies that directly work with vulnerable youth who have been neglected, abused, victims of domestic violence, the incarcerated, or any other highly severe life circumstances.

$50,000 Grant
Creative Action

Creative Action programs are designed to help young people develop holistically—blending arts education and youth development. They create dynamic and engaging learning experiences that allow youth to develop measurable creative expression, a commitment to social justice, 21st century skills, and social and emotional skills.

$50,000 Grant
Dallas Black Dance Theatre

Dallas Black Dance Theatre creates and produces contemporary modern dance through excellence in performance and educational programs, bridging the gap between cultures and diverse communities. It is the oldest continuously operating professional dance company in Dallas, and includes dancers performing a variety of jazz, modern, and ethnic works.

$50,000 Grant
Dancewave

Dancewave has been diligent in its mission to create equitable access to quality dance education. They are committed to developing programs that honor the cultural and historical significance of dance forms and uplift participants through movement exploration, empathy, and self-expression.

$50,000 Grant
Education Through Music

At Education Through Music, they believe that every child, at every school, deserves access to high-quality music education. It is part of a well-rounded education, essential for students’ social and emotional well-being, and a critical tool for establishing equity and access.

$50,000 Grant
El Sistema Colorado

El Sistema Colorado serves youth ages 3-18 by offering free string instruments and free music lessons in the setting of an orchestra. They exist to provide access to high quality music education no matter what, and are committed to the whole child, cultivating a community of support for the whole family and greater community, which is impacted by young musicians’ growing self-confidence, social-emotional development, and leadership skills.

$50,000 Grant
Exploring the Arts

Exploring the Arts works with partner schools to help create sequential, school-day arts programs and to increase out of school opportunities for the arts. They currently serve a roster of 52 partner schools throughout New York and Los Angeles, all public schools, majority with a Title I designation.

$50,000 Grant
Feel the Beat

Feel the Beat is a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the expressive world of dance and music education to individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and with special needs. They use bone-conduction dancefloors that allow students to feel sound through vibrational energy and a tailored curriculum that suits student’s needs, ensuring no one feels left out in the experience of music.

$50,000 Grant
Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club

The mission of the Frank Callen Boys & Girls Club is to enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Through exposure to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) programming, members learn self-expression and problem-solving skills.

$50,000 Grant
Girls Write Now

Girls Write Now breaks down barriers of gender, race, age and poverty to mentor and train the next generation of writers and leaders for life. Together, their community channels the power of girls’ voices and stories to shape culture, impact industries, and inspire change.

$50,000 Grant
In A Perfect World

In A Perfect World serves kids in foster care, abuse shelters, and classrooms. Through the Dreamcatcher and Love 4 One Another programs, young people are engaged in art, music, music therapy, and creative expression to unlock their full potential.

$100,000 Grant
Ingenuity

Ingenuity ’s mission is to ensure that every student, in every grade, in every school in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), has access to the arts as part of a well-rounded education. As Chicago’s leader in arts education, Ingenuity focuses on four primary strategies: Data & Research, Partnerships & Learning, Advocacy, Creative Schools Fund.

$50,000 Grant
Ingenuity

Inner-City Arts is considered one of the most accomplished art schools in the country. Working with kids from the Skid Row areas of Los Angeles, they give kids from an already disadvantaged community a space to practice the various art forms, including digital, media, and performing arts, leading to higher graduation rates.

$50,000 Grant
Kids in Focus

Kids in Focus (KIF) is dedicated to empowering and equipping at-risk youth to shift from surviving to thriving. Through the healing power of photography and the guidance of caring mentors, KIF builds resilience, inspires hope, and fosters positive outcomes in vulnerable children starting at age 7.

$50,000 Grant
Levine Music

Levine Music is a non-profit community music center serving the Greater Washington DC metropolitan area. Levine welcomes students of all ages and abilities, from all economic backgrounds.

$100,000 Grant
Miami Music Project

Miami Music Project utilizes music as an instrument for societal change, by empowering children to affect their communities through the study and performance of music. The study of music helps develop discipline, perseverance, and self-esteem in children.

$50,000 Grant
Music Center LA

The Music Center LA’s Spotlight program engages high school students in music and empowers them to develop the skills and confidence to pursue success in any field. Each year, extensive outreach efforts are made in underserved communities to ensure that Spotlight is even more inclusive, equitable, and the program is completely free.

$50,000 Grant
Oklahoma A+ Schools Initiative

The Oklahoma A+ Schools Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma works with schools to make learning more intuitive and fun. By integrating other academics with the arts, they create an environment where every student can thrive.

$100,000 Grant
Open Door Arts

Open Door Arts works annually with more than 3,000 students, teaching artists, educators, and leaders of cultural organizations through innovative and inclusive programming, training, events, and exhibits designed to improve access, expand participation, challenge the status quo, and share practices to ensure equitable representation by people with disabilities in the arts.

$50,000 Grant
Paint Love

Paint Love delivers exceptional art programming to children facing trauma and poverty. Through art, children are taught that their voice and ideas matter, and are empowered to take actions to shape their own future.

$50,000 Grant
People’s Music School Inc.

The People’s Music School is the largest completely free music school serving Chicago metropolitan area children. Their mission is to deliver access to the benefits of high-quality, tuition-free music education, through intensive instruction and performance.

$50,000 Grant
Pianos for Peace

Pianos for Peace uplifts lives and transforms communities by engaging artists in volunteer service programs to make the arts accessible to all. Pianos for Peace believes in the soft power of art, and that music unites people and nations through the shared human values of beauty, truth, and PEACE.

$50,000 Grant
Positively Arts

Positively Arts is a non-profit that empowers kids by building confidence through performance and artistic discovery. They support students’ social and emotional development and help them develop confidence and resilience to excel in every aspect of their lives.

$50,000 Grant
Project Create DC

Project Create DC provides opportunities for creative youth development through accessible, multidisciplinary arts education to empower young people and amplify their voices. They collaborate with children, youth and families in an inclusive and supportive community where art is healing and transformative.

$50,000 Grant
Rainey Institute

Rainey Institute is where the arts changes lives by enabling youth to imagine and create a future in which they are positive contributing citizens.

$50,000 Grant
The SCAD Museum of Art

The SCAD Museum of Art is a premier contemporary art museum with more than 10 dynamic gallery spaces featuring exhibitions and commissioned works by international emerging and established artists. As a teaching museum, it serves visitors and students alike with the twin goals of enriching the high caliber of education at SCAD and the cultural life of the Savannah community and beyond.

$50,000 Grant
SHOWAbility

SHOWAbility creates opportunities that empower performing artists across the disability spectrum to share their talents, both within the disability community and the wider world.

$50,000 Grant
Sitar Arts Center

Sitar Arts Center offers afterschool, Saturday, and summer arts education programs in the visual arts, music, drama, dance, digital arts, and creative writing.

$50,000 Grant
Spy Hop

Spy Hop is a nonprofit digital media arts center offering in-school, after-school, summer camps, youth-in-care, and satellite programming for students ages 9-19 of all skill levels and aspirations in film, music, audio and design. Their mission is to mentor young people in the media arts to help them to find their voice, tell their stories, and effect positive change in their lives, communities, and the World.

$100,000 Grant
TGR Foundation

TGR Foundation Learning Lab believes that positive youth development and quality education go hand in hand. They provide a vast curriculum focused on art, creativity, video production, podcast development, and design.

$100,000 Grant
That’s My Child

That’s My Child’s mission is to mentor the youth through arts, education, and work-force development ending hopelessness and generational poverty within the community.

$50,000 Grant
The Wooden Floor

The Wooden Floor has a mission to empower low-income youth to strengthen self-esteem, self-discipline, and their sense of accomplishment through dance, academic, and family programs.

$50,000 Grant
Totally Positive Productions

Totally Positive Productions’ mission is to produce Positive Rap, Singing, Dance, Theater and Spoken Word Talent Competitions as well as produce positive “Off the Street” activities for youths ages seven and up and adults as a deterrent to gang and drug involvement.

$50,000 Grant
Young Arts Arizona

Young Arts Arizona serves challenged children through the arts. They exhibit children’s art in public galleries, collaborate with agencies and schools, and teach art, focusing on children with physical illnesses and conditions, as well as those who are socioeconomically, physically, emotionally, or learning disabled.

$100,000 Grant
Young At Art Children’s Museum

Young At Art Children’s Museum enriches the community through interactive art experiences, helping to broaden children’s perspective so they better understand the world. Activities include a summer art camp, a mobile art museum that can attend schools, and field trips.

$50,000 Grant
Young Playwrights’ Theater

Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT) is a community-responsive organization that inspires young people to realize the power of their own voices. Since 1995, YPT has served young people across the Washington, DC region with high-quality arts education programs, production of plays and performances written by young people, professional development for educators, and antiracism initiatives with arts organizations.