| | Organization Name (sort) | Project Description (sort) | Approved Amount (sort) |
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| Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio | to expand the Museum’s audiences from East Harlem and Washington Heights through a marketing campaign for its free public concerts, screenings, and performances. | $25,000 |
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| Jazz Foundation of America | to provide emergency cash assistance to aging City jazz musicians. | $24,000 |
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| Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute | to help the Pare Lorentz Film Center disseminate and promote the historical films of Pare Lorentz for use in classrooms and for public viewing on the Web. | $125,000 |
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| The New School's Center for New York City Affairs | for an evaluation of the Department of Education's support system for principals in poorly performing schools. | $38,000 |
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| Teaching Matters | to help schools harness learning technologies | $50,000 |
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| National Economic and Social Rights Initiative | to lead a pilot program to develop strategies for conflict intervention and resolution in City schools. | $50,000 |
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| Midori & Friends | to teach 860 chidlren at four middle schools in the Bronx, Harlem, and Washington heights how to read, play, and perform music. | $50,000 |
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| Silk Road Project | to integrate a sixth-grade curriculum into five City schools that uses the rich history of Eurasia's ancient Silk Road to connect the arts to social studies and to history. | $80,000 |
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| Visual Understanding in Education | to create teacher training centers at borough art museums to improve students' visual and critical thinking | $60,000 |
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| Global Kids | for service-learning projects that foster leadership, citizenship, and academic skills in high schools with low test scores and graduation rates. | $40,000 |
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| Association of the Bar of the City of New York | to continue and expand pro bono legal help to veterans filing disability claims. | $35,000 |
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| Legal Services NYC | To continue a partnership with the Legal Aid Society that provides legal services for poor NYers who are threatened with destitution. | $1,200,000 |
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| LawHelpNY | To provide online legal resources for poor New Yorkers. | $75,000 |
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| Downtown Community Television Center | for an anti-gun violence media campaign led by youth reporters (a part of the Knight Community Information Challenge). | $120,000 |
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| Harlem Arts Alliance | to partner with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance to provide 30 workshops for arts groups, artists, and musicians in upper Manhattan on topics such as marketing, fundraising, and nonprofit incorporation. | $50,000 |
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| Lower Manhattan Arts Leaders | to coordinate a joint marketing venture by 11 downtown arts groups including Dixon Place, Access Theater, Battery Dance Company, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Dance New Amsterdam, and Soho Repertory Theater. | $38,000 |
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| National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts | to help shore up 50 of the City’s community arts schools to maintain programs and scholarships in the face of funding shortages. | $25,000 |
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| Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund | to train volunteer lawyers who will provide legal help for homeless women, especially young women, and their families. | $75,000 |
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| Alliance for Quality Education | to ensure that City public schools are getting their share of the State education budget by fighting to preserve the equity principles in the 2007 Education Budget and Reform Act. | $100,000 |
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| Campaign for Fiscal Equity | to ensure that State education funds are being used in accordance with the 2007 Education Budget and Reform Act: to reduce class-size, improve teacher and principal quality, and provide programs for English language learners; and that the funds supplement, rather than supplant, City funds. | $75,000 |
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| Mercy Corps/Action Center to End World Hunger | to improve middle and high school global history learning through the creation of new curricula, classroom materials, and teacher training. | $40,000 |
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| Education Through Music | to teach 6,400 Bronx students how to read music, play instruments, and use music software. | $40,000 |
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| The Salvadori Center | to train 22 teachers at 3 schools on architectural basics, and help them integrate architural concepts into other subjects. | $25,000 |
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| Apollo Theater Foundation | to coordinate a consortium of music groups working to build audiences for jazz in Harlem. | $50,000 |
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| Coney Island USA | for a publicity campaign to celebrate Coney Island history and bring visitors to cultural and historic sites in this seaside neighborhood and its renovated amusement park. | $25,000 |
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| Donors’ Education Collaborative | for a joint foundation effort to support advocacy for public education reform in the areas of accountability, State and City funding formulas, teaching effectiveness, and college preparation. | $200,000 |
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| Make the Road New York | to increase the ability of low-income immigrant parents in Elmhurst, Queens and Bushwick, Brooklyn to participate in their children’s schools. | $50,000 |
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| Asian American Writers’ Workshop | for readings, panel discussions, book launches, and writing workshops focused on Asian-American writers. | $30,000 |
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| Atlantic Theater Company | for the company’s new play development and production program. | $40,000 |
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| CUNY Center for Human Environments | to improve college readiness and graduation rates in high schools with students from poor families, including disabled and non-English proficient students. | $200,000 |
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| Educational Video Center | to strengthen the City’s transfer high schools, which offer specialized support for former drop-outs, by starting six documentary production programs. | $50,000 |
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| New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation | to reduce the number of students arrested for minor offenses in City public schools. | $30,000 |
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| NYC Coalition for Educational Justice | to expand learning opportunities in high-need neighborhoods by advocating for a longer school day and year. | $100,000 |
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| Shinnecock Indian Nation Fund | for an internship and mentoring program and life-skills and college prep classes for teenage boys living on the Shinnecock Reservation. | $46,000 |
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| Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company | to help it merge with Dance Theater Workshop. | $60,000 |
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| Brooklyn Academy of Music, | to plan for using the Fisher Building for educational programs, after-school workshops, and professional development for artists. | $100,000 |
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| Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance | for a performing arts group showcasing work addressing issues such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. Works include an adaptation of the Wizard of Oz set in the South Bronx and readings by poet Eileen Myles and playwright Sarah Schulman. | $20,000 |
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| Buglisi Dance Theatre | to support a contemporary dance company that will tour nationally and hold 40 performances, workshops, and other events for City audiences. | $30,000 |
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| Chez Bushwick | for a Brooklyn contemporary dance group that showcases emerging choreographers, hosts international residencies, and provides inexpensive rehearsal space. | $30,000 |
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| Chocolate Factory Theater | for a small theater in Queens that develops and presents experimental plays and contemporary dance. | $20,000 |
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| Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana | for a flamenco dance company which, in addition to regular performances, runs a “Flamenco in the Boros” program and is preserving the oral histories of flamenco in New York in partnership with the New York Public Library. | $60,000 |
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| House Foundation for the Arts | for an interdisciplinary performance group founded by Meredith Monk. The company is also starting an after-school program at LaGuardia High School to teach interdisciplinary performance. | $50,000 |
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| Joyce Theater Foundation | for dance presentations at the Joyce Soho. | $60,000 |
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| La Mama Experimental Theatre Club | to present 60 productions, workshops, and readings of new and developing plays. | $60,000 |
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| LaGuardia Performing Arts Center | to present and produce theater and dance at its theater at LaGuardia Community College. The Center’s LAB program also awards free rehearsal space to 12 dance and theater groups, giving them technical assistance, marketing support, and use of its theater. | $60,000 |
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| Latino International Theater Festival of New York | for a presenter of Latino theater. In addition to featuring artists from New York, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain, it will develop and stage readings of four plays by winners of its high school playwriting competition. | $30,000 |
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| Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection | for a Bronx theater ensemble that performs and tours productions rooted in the Boricua tradition. In addition to its bilingual performances in its 130-seat theater, it will hold educational workshops, master classes, and host other performing companies. | $60,000 |
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| 651 Arts | for African-American dance, theater, and literary performances at Brooklyn venues such as the BAM Harvey Theater and the Kumble Theater at Long Island University. In addition, the company will provide residencies to two artists, which include time working with youth in Brooklyn high schools. | $50,000 |
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| Soho Repertory Theatre | for a small theater that develops and produces experimental American plays. | $50,000 |
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| STREB | for a Brooklyn contemporary dance company known for its athleticism, acrobatics, and gravity-defying performances. Forty dance, trapeze, and aerial yoga classes each week are offered to the public by the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics. | $60,000 |
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| Urban Bush Women | for a Brooklyn African-American dance company. Just back from a tour of South America as an official cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, the troupe will be performing for local audiences at Harlem Stage and the Joyce, among other venues. Dancers will lead residencies at Queensborough Community College, Long Island University, and the 92nd Street Y. | $60,000 |
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| Shen Wei Dance Arts | to support its work with other artists, fusing theater, visual arts, Asian philosophy, and modern dance. | $60,000 |
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| Evidence | to support this Brooklyn dance group. | $60,000 |
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| Thalia Spanish Theatre | to support this theater group. | $50,000 |
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| Poets House | for readings, lectures, workshops, and seminars year round. | $60,000 |
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| Fourth Arts Block | to coordinate the promotion of 26 arts groups in the East 4th Street Cultural District. | $50,000 |
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| International Documentary Association | for awards to documentary filmmakers that are in the early stages of production on films that support the aims and concepts of Pare Lorentz, a filmmaker who made documentaries during the Great Depression. | $200,000 |
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| Ballet Hispanico of New York | for three-year fellowships for four students in ballet and Spanish dance. | $60,000 |
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| Boys & Girls Harbor | for three-year fellowships for three students in classical and jazz piano, Latin percussion, theory, and choreography. | $60,000 |
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| Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution | for two-year fellowships for twenty-four visual artists. | $40,000 |
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| Dancewave | for two-year fellowships for five modern dance students. | $50,000 |
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| Reel Works | for two-year fellowships for five students of film production. | $60,000 |
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| BronxNet | for two fellowships focusing on videography, TV production, and editing. | $40,000 |
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| Flux Factory | for six fellowships that provide live/work studios, room and board, workshops, and solo exhibition space. | $40,000 |
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| Friends of Alice Austen | for four photography fellowships at a Staten Island museum collection. | $40,000 |
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| Lark Play Development Center | for fellowships for four playwrights and directors. | $40,000 |
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| Lower East Side Printshop | for fellowships for six printmakers. | $36,000 |
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| Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance | for fellowships for three dancers. | $60,000 |
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| Meet the Composer | for fellowships for four composers. | $40,000 |
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| Queens Museum of Art | for six fellowships for artists interested in both creating and curating art. | $60,000 |
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| UrbanGlass | for four fellowships for glass artists. | $40,000 |
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| Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts | for four fellowships for artists who explore legal and judicial issues in their work. | $40,000 |
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| Asian American Coalition for Children and Families | to advocate for the improvement of instruction and support for Asian-American students not proficient in English. | $50,000 |
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| Internationals Network for Public Schools | to promote and expand an effective approach for educating immigrant students of different backgrounds in mainstream City schools. | $50,000 |
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| National Economic and Social Rights Initiative | to improve the climate for learning in low-performing schools by providing workshops on resolving conflict and building community, and advocacy for system-wide changes in conflict management policies. | $95,000 |
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| The New School Center for New York City Affairs | to evaluate and improve the Department of Education’s support system for principals in poorly performing schools. | $38,000 |
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| New York University | to expand a successful literacy program that is particularly good for classes of children with varying levels of English proficiency and learning levels to three elementary schools. | $50,000 |
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| New York Landmarks Conservancy | to help save the City’s historically and architecturally significant religious buildings in the wake of budget cuts and church closings. | $50,000 |
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| Immigration Equality | to recruit and train pro bono attorneys to help gay people and people with HIV/ AIDS get asylum and become legal residents. | $50,000 |
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| Legal Action Center of the City of New York | to help New Yorkers with criminal records find jobs and housing. | $75,000 |
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| The Juilliard School | To help young vocalists continue advanced music education. | $38,000 |
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| Metropolitan Opera Association | To help young vocalists continue advanced music training. | $37,000 |