Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

toward acquisition of certain duplicating systems to increase output of tape-recorded books for the blind

Acquisition of Duplicating Systems

toward costs of converting the catalogue of its holdings to machine-readable form

Catalogue Conversion

to complete the conversion of its catalogue to machine readable form and to produce a new printed catalogue of its holdings

Online/Printed Catalogue

general support of its programs to provide recorded educational book service to the visually and physically handicapped

General Support

to assist in converting its educational materials from reel tapes to cassettes

Educational Material Conversion

general support of its multiservice programs for the blind

General support

general support of a multiservice program for the blind

general support of a program offering a wide variety of services for the blind

to support the Recording New Music for Tomorrow initiative

Recording New Music for Tomorrow Initiative

to support the recording of The Golden Ticket

The Golden Ticket Recording

for general support of its program of socio-recreative services for the blind

Regular Annual

general support of its programs of socio-recreative services for the blind

Annual Support

towards costs of completing a recording project focusing on major works of the Group

Recording Project

Treemonisha Recording

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

Theatre Inc.

to support the digital filming of three Merce Cunningham dances for archival and scholarly purposes

Archival Recording

toward construction of Diagnostic Clinic and Educational Treatment Center

Diagnostic Clinic and Educational Treatment Center

to support post-production costs for Bridge Records, Inc.’s recording of two new American operas

Bridge Records' Printing and Pressing of Bastianello and Lucrezia

to support the recording of the Signature Theatre Company production of Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle

Recording of Horton Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle

to support the digitization, publication, and repatriation of audio and film recordings of traditional Indonesian music dating from the first half of the 20th century

Restoration, Dissemination, and Repatriation of the Earliest Music Recordings and Films in Bali

to support the pre-assessment phase of legacy planning for Meredith Monk and The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Legacy Planning

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

National Endowment for the Humanities

to support experiments in optical methods of recovering sound from mechanical audio recordings

Audio Preservation [Sound Recovery from Mechanical Recordings]

to support planning for the future of the organization's archives

Planning for the Future of the National Book Foundation's Archives

to increase its efficiency in distributing recordings of serious contemporary music

Experimental Direct-Marketing Campaign

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

to support research and public education on the value of the arts and of programs supported by the National Endowment for the Arts

Increasing Public Awareness of the Value of the Arts

to support a fellowship for system-impacted writers, in partnership with the Art for Justice Fund

Fellowships for System-Impacted Writers 

Seeding Residencies: Baldwin for the Arts

to support the School of Composers, recordings, and concert enhancements at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

School of Composers, Recordings, & Concert Enhancements

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

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 Center for Creative Research

Center for Creative Research 

to support sustainability planning through capacity building for governance, staff, and collections, as well as through the development of a long-range digital strategy

Poets House: Foundations for the Future

to support a national infrastructure for cross-sector partnerships among artists, cultural organizations, and local arts agencies

Strengthening National Capacity and Visibility for Cross-Sector Arts Partnerships

to support planning work to be undertaken for the development of a research effort to examine the short- and medium-term effects of the 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on charitable giving to the arts

Impact Study of the 2018 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act on Charitable Giving to the Arts (TCJA)

to support capacity building and sustainability planning for a community-based archive, founded in 1980, focused on LGBTQ communities in New England

Capacity Building for The History Project

for exploration of arts programming for cable television

Arts Programming for Cable Television

for a study of feasible incentives to reduce the generation of hazardous wastes in the organic chemical industry

Hazardous Waste Study

for a project to develop arts programming for cable television

to support a program to provide institutions of higher education with access to audio recordings of plays

Audio Recordings

to support the Lenape Center's organizational capacity and salaries for leadership team

Capacity Building at the Lenape Center

to support capacity building and a reimagined business model

Building capacity for The Flea

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

to support the implementation phase of projects giving agency to artists, technologists, and thinkers

The Collider 

to support the For Freedoms Festival, a national conference and partner convention

For Freedoms Festival 2020

to support the National Dance Project university residency program for choreographers, and its touring program

Center for Creative Research and National Dance Project Training

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

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

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" 