Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an increase in the number of performances of new plays in the studio theater

National Theater Program

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

Expanded Programming

National Theater Program  

to support a multiyear playwright residency with Dan LeFranc

Playwright Residency Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

to support artistic development and production costs

New York Theater Program

to strengthen its artistic development and strengthen its administrative capacity

to support the development and production of new musical theater works in partnership with regional theaters

Musical Theater Partnership Program and Fund

to support a national meeting of African-American women playwrights

African American Women Playwrights Annual Meeting

to support the National Playwrights Conference

National Playwrights Conference

to support the New Dance Horizons project

New Dance Horizons 2016

to support student recruitment, expansion of the National Playwrights Conference, and a convening of Master of Fine Arts playwriting programs

National Playwrights Conference and Recruitment

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties & Prospects" 

Sawyer Seminar--Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties & Prospects

Cash Reserve Fund

to support the Japanese-American translation project

US/Japan Playwright's Exchange

to support a new US/Japan playwright exchange and translation program

US/Japan Playwright Exchange

to support developmental activities and collaborations with producing theaters

Developmental Activities and Producing Theater Collaborations

to support the Core Writers’ Lab and initiatives to promote writers’ work to producing theaters

Core Writers Lab and Initiatives Aimed at Theaters

Artistic Director Discretionary Fund

National Playwrights Conference - Part II

to support four playwright commissions and related costs associated with the Cyber Narrative Project

Cyber Narrative Project

to support underrepresented students in their transition from high school to college

College Horizons Scholars Program

to support the creation of summer writing academies and continuing advising services for college-bound Native American high school students

Lawrence University and College Horizons Scholars Program

to support the University of California Humanities Research Institute in pursuing experimental pedagogical research initiatives

Inquiry and its Infrastructures - Horizons of the Humanities

to support the development of new plays by American writers

Support for US Playwrights and US/UK Exchange

to support the development and production of new plays by American writers

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on the effectiveness of Classroom, Inc.

Center for Reading & Language Skills - Classroom Inc. Research

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational intervention that uses computer simulations

to support Zealous's storytelling initiatives

Zealous Inc.

to support the Pacific Playwrights Festival

in support of a computer-based course for high-school students in literacy and problem-solving skills

Classroom, Inc.

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational innovation that uses computer simulations to increase high school students’ literacy and to introduce them to work-related activities

to support the commissioning of new work and the Pacific Playwrights Festival

1997 Theater Program

to support a professional training and development hub for Black theatre artists and technicians and to produce six plays by Indiana Black playwrights

District Theatre Project

to support a three-year residency with playwrights Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza through the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

Beth Morrison Projects Inc - Capacity Building

to continue support for a multiyear residency with playwrights Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza, as part of the National Playwright Residency Program

to support a collaborative project among public media stations to help shape the future of classical music on radio

Station Resource Group Inc - Classical Music Rising

to transfer from the Foundation to Ithaka Harbors, Inc. the title of real property

Property Transfer

support of Sports Foundation, Inc., which sponsors recreational programs for youth, educational guidance and job training

Exclusive Support of Sports Foundation

to support transition costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger with American Music Center

to support a program that maintains and expands the National History Center, Inc.'s nonpartisan congressional briefings

Congressional Briefings

to support planning for a strategic alignment with American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer, Inc.

Merger Planning

to support transition and start-up costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger With American Music Center 

to support the broadening of graduate training and expansion of career horizons for PhDs in history

Career Diversity for Historians

for use of MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, New Hampshire, a working retreat for composers and other artists

National Endowment for the Humanities

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

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" 