Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the New York City Ballet

Ballet Program

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

matching endowment and spendable grant toward costs of local, national, and international touring

Touring Endowment

General support

to support the Balanchine centennial season

Balanchine Centennial

to support of program to provide discount-priced or free tickets to students and to underprivileged children

Affordable Ticket Program

for use by Ballet Hispanico of New York to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

Ballet Program - Training

to support an expanded company that will explore new community connections and practices for ballet

An Expanded Miami City Ballet - Beyond Miami

in support of family planning services in New York City

New York Family Planning

in support of family-planning services in New York City

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

to enhance training in classical ballet through curricular, faculty, and administrative development

Ballet Training Program

to support the People’s Commissioning Fund and New York City performances

The People's Commissioning Fund and New York City Performances

toward support of the Development Department of the New York City Opera

Development Department

to support services to the dance field in New York City

Dance/NYC

to support planning for the intellectual shape and programming of a new ballet institute

Ballet Institute Planning

to support planning for a re-granting program for dance rehearsal space in New York City

Dance Rehearsal Space Re-granting Planning

to facilitate planning for the maintenance of adequate family planning services in New York City

Family Planning Services

to support mapping of New York City’s Black, Indigenous, People of Color led and serving cultural entities, a collaboration with Hester Street and Museum Hue

Mapping BIPOC Cultural Orgs in New York City

to support analyses of New York City neighborhood networks and the development of asset and power mapping tools

Reimagining New York City - From the Neighborhood Up

to support a return to work through dancer pods

Ballet Hispánico Dancer Pod

to support the launch of a center for the study of ballet as an art form and of its history in Western societies

The Center for Ballet

to support a center for the study of ballet as an art form and of its history in Western societies

Center for Ballet and the Arts

toward costs of its project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

City Services Access

toward support of the project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

to renew support for a center for the study of ballet as an art form and its integration into a research university environment

to support food security activities on City University of New York campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

CUNY Campaign for a Food Secure CUNY

to support adjunct faculty impacted by COVID-related budget cuts and sustain humanities offerings at the City University of New York

Adjunct Faculty Support

to support food security, health and mental health care, and housing assistance activities on City University of New York campuses

Comprehensive Access to Resources for Essential Services

to support the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

to support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the City University of New York

Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory at “The People’s University”

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Feld Ballet

to continue support for the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the American Ballet Theatre

to support the commissioning and production of a new ballet by Peter Quanz

Creation of New Works

to support commissioning of new work for American Ballet Theatre, in collaboration with Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet

Repertory Companies - Ballet Choreographer Development 

to continue support for a humanities teacher training and pipeline initiative in partnership with four New York City community colleges

Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative

toward support of a study to develop models for graduate-level consortial arrangements among five institutions in New York City

New York Graduate Consortium Project

in support of the activities of The Fund for New Citizens

New York City's Immigrants

to assist the American Ballet Theatre in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

to assist the Eliot Feld Ballet in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

to analyze and demonstrate methods proven successful in raising levels of student achievement in a number of public elementary and secondary schools in New York and other major cities

Public Schools

to provide general operating support, as part of the New York Theater Program

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 