OPTION 1 GRANT AWARDS
A Noise Within
Grant Amount: $17,927
Project: To support salaries of A Noise Within's Resident Actors
and Stage Managers.
Actors Alley
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the creation and implementation of a long rage,
five-year plan.
American Academy for Dance and Kindred Arts
Grant Amount: $5,241
Project: To support a major donor initiative.
American Youth Symphony
Grant Amount: $14,476
Project: To support the implementation of an endowment campaign.
Apollo Amused/Musica Angelica
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support ongoing permanent staff positions, organizational
development/fundraising activities, and arts marketing/public relations.
Art Share Los Angeles
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the creation of a development department.
Bethune Theatredanse
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the dance outreach program professional
artist honorariums for disabled children and youth, and
professional dance artists.
California EAR Unit
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the salaries of the artistic and executive directors
and to hire a fundraising consultant.
California Lawyers for the Arts
Grant Amount: $14,866
Project: To support strengthening of core programs.
Catalina Island Performing Arts Foundation
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support a part-time temporary program assistant
to coordinate outreach and promotional efforts for
Catalina Summer Arts Camp.
Celebration Theatre
Grant Amount: $7,599
Project: To support the salaries for the artistic director and managing
director.
Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support a concert at the Norris Theatre for the
Performing Arts in Palos Verdes.
Colony Theatre Company
Grant Amount: $8,905
Project: To support audience development and management,
including seed money for a telemarketing program and assistance
in purchasing new ticketing/patron management
software and hardware.
Diavolo Dance Theatre
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support salary and benefits for a new managing director.
East L.A. Classic Theatre (ECT)
Grant Amount: $10,832
Project: To support the hiring of a staff development director and
assistant, and to purchase appropriate technology to be used
in fundraising efforts.
Fountain Theatre
Grant Amount: $11,712
Project: To support the launching of the new children's educational
theatre program, LearningStage.
Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition
Grant Amount: $16,288
Project: To support upgrades to accounting and bookkeeping
systems, a facilitated strategic planning process, an expansion of
year-round programming and county-wide audience development.
Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
Grant Amount: $11,206
Project: To support the costs to implement changes in musical repertoire,
and to support new and continuing programs to reach out to
families and diverse audiences.
Highways, Inc.
Grant Amount: $5,150
Project: To support the co-artistic director's salary.
International City
Theatre
Grant Amount: $10,459
Project: To support marketing efforts to develop new audiences.
International Documentary Foundation
Grant Amount: $17,124
Project: To support the development and production of a strategic
plan, and to renovate and upgrade the website.
Jazz Bakery Performance Space
Grant Amount: $16,914
Project: To support partial funding of new and permanent administrative
and support staff.
Jazz Tap Ensemble
Grant Amount: $8,704
Project: To support further development of fundraising activities
and marketing and public relations strategies.
Living Literature Colors United
Grant Amount: $9,366
Project: To support the expansion of daytime, after-school and Saturday
programming.
Long Beach Opera
Grant Amount: $17,290
Project: To support the opera's marketing efforts and the hiring of
"name" artists in the opera productions.
Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support artist fees for increased rehearsal time for the
orchestra's 2000/01 season.
Los Angeles Chamber Ballet
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support artistic fees for the director-choreographer and
dancers for Ballet-Fest 2000 and LACMA dance residency.
Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Grant Amount: $7,410
Project: To support artistic staff development.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Grant Amount: $7,441
Project: To support improved communication in three key
areas: public marketing, donor/membership stewardship, and internal
information exchange and equipment acquisition.
Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra Association
Grant Amount: $9,764
Project: To support the develoment and implementation of a comprehensive
marketing plan to increase earned and contributed income.
Los Angeles Music And Art School
Grant Amount: $14,954
Project: To support the development of student performance groups
and the design of an audience development plan.
Odyssey Theatre Foundation
Grant Amount: $14,509
Project: To support the improvement of in-house systems,
including box office software, upgraded telephone systems,
and to support staff salaries.
Pacific Resident Theatre
Grant Amount: $6,815
Project: To support subscription and donation campaigns including
a project manager, telemarketers, and supporting supplies
and materials.
Pan African Film Festival
Grant Amount: $6,047
Project: To support StudentFest 2001, a program that provides
complimentary tickets to school children for age-appropriate films.
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Grant Amount: $10,867
Project: To support admnistrative salaries.
Pasadena Dance Association
Grant Amount: $8,620
Project: To support technical improvements in studio dance theatre
performance lighting and information technology capability.
PEN Center USA West
Grant Amount: $10,562
Project: To support the implementation phase two of PEN'
marketing and development plan.
Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Grant Amount: $15,493
Project: To support an evaluation of its School of Performing & Visual
Arts Program and the purchase of a computerized registration and
alumni traching system.
Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Grant Amount: $12,638
Project: To support the salary of an administrative assistant position
and incresed marketing/recruitment efforts.
Self Help Graphics & Arts
Grant Amount: $7,414
Project: To support the creation of a Collections Manager position
to oversee collections, archives, and Exhibition Print Program activities.
Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Grant Amount: $17,345
Project: To support a portion of the salary for the managing director
and associated administrative expenses.
Side Street Projects
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support a director of development position.
Southern California Asian American Studies
Central
Grant Amount: $14,176
Project: To support the Moving the Image Initiative.
Southern California Foundation for the Arts
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the salaries of a part-time marketing consultant
and part-time publicist.
The Blank Theatre Company
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the salary of the artistic director/producer.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
Grant Amount: $6,798
Project: To support the salary for a new director of development position.
The New Victory Theatre
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the development of a comprehensive
marketing/fundraising program.
Theatre of Hearts, Inc.
Grant Amount: $7,308
Project: To support the salary for the Executive Director's
full-time position.
Valley Cultural Center-Warner Park Corporation
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the expansion of the Youth Outreach Concert series.
Valley Master Chorale
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the expense of a paid, professional administrator.
We Tell Stories, Inc.
Grant Amount: $9,244
Project: To support board training and development.
West Coast Ensemble Grant
Amount: $5,000
Project: To support the development of the group audience base and
the computer equipment necessary to handle increased ticket sales.
Young Musicians Foundation
Grant Amount: $19,272
Project: To support the second year of the Alumni Project, a fundraising
strategy to help sustain the organization.
OPTION 2 GRANT AWARDS