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THE DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’S FUND FOR NATIONAL PROJECTSAWARDS 12 ARTS ORGANIZATIONS OVER $1.37M TO PILOT NEW IDEAS

9/8/2016

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) announced the 12 performing arts organizations and projects winning funding through the foundation’s Fund for National Projects. These grants provide organizations with the resources to research and plan for, or pilot and implement, projects showing particular potential for replication and influence on the practices of other organizations across the country. Through the Fund for National Projects, the foundation aims to strengthen the national infrastructure of performing arts by supporting projects that promise to foster continued dynamism and vitality in their respective fields of contemporary dance, jazz and theater.
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DDCF’s Fund for National Projects offers organizations two kinds of support: Phase I funding to embark upon projects that have not previously received DDCF grants, and Phase II funding for organizations to continue and expand previously DDCF-funded projects. Each grant contains funds for specific project-related expenses as well as funds for general operating costs.
Maurine Knighton, program director for the Arts at DDCF, said, “The long-term strength of the performing arts sector relies on a culture that embraces opportunities to adapt and evolve. The foundation is constantly seeking to support promising new ideas that help dance, jazz and theater artists—and organizations within those communities—thrive. This year’s projects have the potential for knowledge-building and advancing practice at a scale sufficient to influence the national landscape.”
Phase I funding from DDCF’s 2016 Fund for National Projects will go to seven new projects.
  • Art2Action in Tampa, Fla., will receive $95,625 to support the presentation of performances created by, for, about and with veterans, in partnership with Americans for the Arts and the University of South Florida, as part of the National Summit on Arts & Health in the Military, February 2-5, 2017.
  • East West Players in Los Angeles, Calif., will receive $180,000 to create Think Tanks that will gather theater professionals nationwide to discuss issues of access, equity and the potential for systemic change in theater and the performing arts in general.
  • Jazz Forward Coalition, through Fractured Atlas in New York, N.Y., will receive $113,400 to create JazzHubs, a network of resources in jazz that fosters professional development, interactive community engagement and broader knowledge-sharing, ultimately to support the field’s long-term sustainability.
  • National Arts Strategies in Alexandria, VA., will receive $84,938, working in partnership with the International Association of Blacks in Dance in Washington, D.C., to support the Black dance community’s continued strength and development by investing in education tools, cross-generational learning opportunities and leadership training.
  • Network of Ensemble Theaters in Portland, Ore., will receive $140,625 to develop CoNECTR, an online platform that supports a national peer-to-peer artist presenting circuit for collaborative tours and residencies that is more accessible and removes barriers to diverse participation.
  • Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minn., will receive $214,594 as the fiscal sponsor for artEquity, a national initiative designed to provide in-person, skills-based and analysis-building training to theater practitioners to encourage greater diversity and effective social activism through their art.
  • Virginia Tech’s School of Performing Arts in Blacksburg, Va., will receive $222,824 to build VTArtWorks, an online communications hub that spreads knowledge about how the arts can be used to develop communities and foster broader civic engagement among citizens.
Phase II funding from DDCF’s 2016 Fund for National Projects will go to five previously funded projects.
  • American Theatre Wing in New York, N.Y., will receive $112,500 to expand national media programming that connects theater communities with audiences online and on mobile devices.

  • Childsplay in Tempe, Ariz., will receive $28,125 to bolster the capacity of its project Write Now to develop conversation, inspiration and collaboration among American playwrights creating work for youth audiences.
  • DataArts in Philadelphia, Pa., will receive $33,750 to continue building an educational curriculum that supports the ability of professionals at nonprofit dance, jazz, theater and presenting organizations to better understand and use data in ways that improve their work.
  • Partners for Sacred Places in Philadelphia, Pa., will receive $33,750 to advance on-the-ground arts programming of Creating Spaces, a successful space-sharing project matching artists and houses of worship, in Austin, Tx., and Baltimore, Md.
  • Theatre Communications Group in New York, N.Y., will receive $112,500 to support its Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative to study, record and disseminate the history and ongoing progress of equity, diversity and inclusion in theater.
Since 2007, DDCF’s Fund for National Projects has supported 78 projects with grants totaling over $11.86 million. This round of grants marks the ninth year that DDCF has provided support to performing arts organizations with the goal of fostering creative yet untested projects that offer potentially vast benefits to the sector of performing arts nationwide.
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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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