National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

choreographers and dance companies such as Koresh Dance Company, Gallim Dance, and Spectrum Dance
Theater. Guest artists will lead master classes, mentor students, and create choreography in a broad range of
genres such as jazz, modern, ballet, hip-hop, and world dance forms. The audition-based conservatory program
will prepare culturally diverse young dancers for professional careers in contemporary dance.
Cleveland Play House
$20,000 Cleveland, OH
To support Building Drama Programs, Building Communities. Students and teachers will benefit from a
specialized curriculum and training materials that will help them create school-based theater programs.
Teaching artists will provide monthly, skill-building workshops and master classes for students. Teachers will
attend monthly professional development meetings to learn to use the curriculum and digital teacher's manual.
Students will participate in a year-end festival of plays.
County of Los Angeles, California (On behalf of Los Angeles County Arts Commission)
$100,000 Los Angeles, CA
To support Arts for All's Shared Measurement Project. This collective impact project will coordinate efforts by
the Los Angeles Unified School District and the California Department of Education to analyze data that that
measures the quantity, quality, equity, and other indicators of the status of arts education for 1.6 million
students in Los Angeles County's school districts. To identify areas of need and ways to better align efforts, data
will be analyzed and reports will be generated by California-based research firm Harder+Company working in
partnership with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Destiny Arts Center (aka Destiny Arts or Destiny)
$15,000 Oakland, CA
To support the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company. Teenagers from diverse cultural and socioeconomic
backgrounds will train intensively with professional dancers, choreographers, and theater artists to create and
perform work around the Bay Area. The work will be based on personal narrative and social change.
Performance measures follow a logic model, which gives equal weight to youth development outcomes and
artistic learning.
Educational Video Center (aka EVC)
$50,000 New York, NY
To support expansion of Professional Development Programs to new school partners. Educational Video Center
will train classroom teachers to facilitate and evaluate student-produced documentary video projects designed
to build digital and film literacy, critical thinking, and group collaboration skills. Professional development will
include an online website featuring resources, research, and video clips of best practices, monthly coaching
meetings to learn how to critically examine student work, and school site visits and observations. Some schools
will integrate documentary arts projects into core content area while other schools will have the capacity to
create a documentary arts elective.
El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc. (aka El Puente)
$10,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support El Puente's Arts for Social Change youth training program. Youth in community centers in North
Brooklyn will receive year-round after-school, weekend, and summer arts instruction in dance, theater, visual
arts and music. Students will create and perform original work based on culturally relevant social justice themes.
Teaching artists will receive ongoing training in the program's approach, curriculum, and assessment.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.