Smithsonian African-American Museum Receives $10 Million From Gates Foundation
Established by an Act of Congress in 2003, the museum will be the first in the country devoted exclusively to the documentation of African-American life, art, history, and culture. Among other things, the museum's historians and curators are building a collection that will illustrate the major periods of African-American history, beginning with the African diaspora and continuing through slavery, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights era, and into the twenty-first century. To be constructed on a five-acre tract adjacent to the Washington Monument, the 300,000-square-foot building is expected to cost about $500 million, with half provided by Congress and the remainder to be raised from private sources. Read the article»
Recent Arts News from Philanthropy News Digest
Oregon Symphony Receives $1.45 Million From Four Foundations
Grants from the Meyer Memorial Trust and the James F. and Marion L. Miller, Collins, and William Randolph Hearst foundations will advance the orchestra's multiyear effort to achieve financial sustainability....
Posted: 10/26/09
Kennedy Center Receives $5 Million for Musical Theater
The gift from the Adrienne Arsht Musical Theater Fund will support the Kennedy Center's musical theater performances, which are notoriously expensive to produce but have become increasingly popular in D.C. and around the country....
Posted: 10/18/09
Rockefeller Foundation Awards $2.7 Million to New York City Arts Organizations
The grants were awarded through the foundation's New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, which gives two-year grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 to support groundbreaking initiative that enrich New York City's cultural life....
Posted: 10/16/09
Leon Levy Foundation Awards Millions to Preserve, Digitize Archives
Over the past two years, the foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $10 million to some two dozen institutions to identify, preserve, and digitize their archival collections and make them available online to scholars and the public....
Posted: 10/15/09
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Funding Opportunities
Philadelphia Arts Organizations Invited to Apply for Engage 2020 Innovation Grant Program
Grants of up to $75,000 will be awarded to nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia region working to increase cultural participation through artistic programs and products, enhanced audience experiences, and/or marketing and communications initiatives....
Deadline: 12/01/09 (Letter of Intent)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Accepting Applications for 2010 Institutional Grants
Grants will be awarded to nonprofit film organizations and to higher education film programs working to provide film workshops, seminars, training, and education opportunities to college students and adults....
Deadline: 1/15/10
Big Read Program Offers Grants to Support Community Reading Projects
Grants of up to $20,000 in matching funds will be awarded to museums, colleges, and universities partnering with libraries to working to revitalize the role of literature in American culture....
Deadline: 2/02/09
Meet The Composer Invites New York City Organizations to Apply for Cary New Music Performance Fund
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to small-budget, grass-roots, or emerging music organizations whose innovative new music programming or performances by living composers has demonstrated excellence in the genre....
Deadline: 2/15/10
National Dance Project Accepting Applications for Production Grants
Grants of up to $40,000 will be awarded to contemporary dance choreographers, artists, and companies whose work engages audiences, explores collaborations across disciplines, and has the ability to lend itself for touring....
Deadline: 3/02/09 (Round 1 Application)
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