The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support personnel expenses to enable the organization to respond to and recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts, integrate arts...
The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a large-scale digitization project of moving image content held in its archives. Funded under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), the three-year project will digitize 3,336 performances, talks, classes, oral histories and special events recorded between 1992 and 2009 that are currently only...
The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded $423,597 under the Education Stabilization Fund Formula Grant program to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation doing business as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The grant period runs from January 29, 2021 through January 28, 2022. Funding will support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's efforts to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic through the continuation of its educational...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) to the Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, Inc. The grant will fund initiatives to provide arts and educational opportunities in Massachusetts, with a focus on...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). This grant, awarded on September 6, 2024, will support comprehensive arts programming and education initiatives for...
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support NDEO's personnel and facilities expenses from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all...
The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $125,796 Formula Grant to the Center For American Dance Inc., doing business as the Joffrey Ballet School, under the Education Stabilization Fund (CFDA 84.425). The grant funding will support the delivery of student aid and services from February 2021 through February 2022. As a Formula Grant awarded under the Education Stabilization Fund program, the funding will prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus COVID-19...
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to The Philadelphia Dance Company doing business as the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support personnel, facilities, and safety supplies expenses from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants program...
This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Kennedy Center) was awarded a $6 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Arts in Education federal grant program (CFDA 84.351). The grant period runs from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023. The Kennedy Center will use this funding to support its National Arts Education Program, which promotes arts education for K-12 students, including those from disadvantaged...