1998 Grant Awards: Planning & Stabilization

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Direct Impact Grants

Acadiana Arts Council, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$31,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the 1998-99 stabilization project for its new, regional arts center, ART HOUSE, with enhanced programming and service capabilities for area artists and arts presenters' exhibitions, performances, and workshops.

Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Inc.
Mattituck, NY
$29,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the expansion of technical assistance consultancies for the Alliance's 62-county membership of local arts agencies and community arts organizations, including leadership-training workshops; organizational development; and the creation of regional networking and marketing coalitions to enhance statewide communication.

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the endowment for the Visual Arts Residency Program.

American Academy of Arts and Science
Cambridge, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a planning meeting that will lead to the publication of a special issue of the journal DAEDALUS focusing on museums.

American Boychoir School
Princeton, NJ
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the endowment to benefit the American Boychoir School.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support in 1998-99 the implementation of the Center's stabilization plan for expanding its services to member composers and new music performers, including technical assistance consultancies, technological support, a networking program, and on-line services over the World Wide Web.

American Symphony Orchestra League
Washington, DC
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support in 1998-99 the Professional Development Initiative, a stabilization plan that will help strengthen the leadership capacity of the League's 834 member orchestras by providing their administrative, governance, and artistic personnel with the training, networking opportunities, and access to advice required to function more successfully in an era of constant change.

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Arizona Community Foundation
Phoenix, AZ
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$18,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the initiative to build organizational capacity through the implementation of a comprehensive marketing plan, and the development of volunteer support programs.

Art Institute of Chicago
(For The Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the creation of an on-line distribution service to enhance earned revenue and increase self-sufficiency.

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion and stabilization of the City Teens Design Company program and plans for its replication in other cities, to create opportunities for at-risk teens to learn and apply artistic skills within a business context.

Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County
Buffalo, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the 1998 board-development training program and a technical assistance service program for artists and arts agencies within the Council's urban and rural constituent base.

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the salary of the planning coordinator and consultant fees, as well as program and operational planning during 1998-99 associated with the opening of the Louisiana Artists Guild, a public facility of studio accommodations and marketplace to promote Louisiana's artists and craftsmen.

Arts Horizons, Inc.
Englewood, NJ
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of a cash reserve.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$137,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment for the Asia Society Galleries.

Associated Recreational Council
(For the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a stabilization project, including the development of earned income, for the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, a community facility associated with Seattle's Department of Parks and Recreation.

Association of American Cultures, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support an in-depth assessment process to determine how to address issues of organizational viability, visibility, stability and effectiveness in serving a broad-based membership of artists and organizations of color.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support expansion and stabilization of the Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education to include satellite locations, increased classes and faculty, and greater community involvement.

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for Alliance of Artist Communities)
New Smyrna Beach, FL
$32,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a comprehensive review and analysis of administrative and funding practices in the field of artists' communities.

Augusta Symphony, Inc.
Augusta, GA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the endowment to benefit the Augusta Symphony.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support development of a long-range plan and marketing assessment for Ballet West.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$67,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the New Audiences for a New Theatre initiative that includes targeted outreach and marketing activities (to increase earned and contributed income) and planning for building improvements.

Boston Lyric Opera Company
Boston, MA
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support Boston Lyric Opera's move to the larger Shubert Theatre, expansion of the Opera's audience, and strengthening of its infrastructure to meet the region's demand for more opera productions and educational programming in 1998-99.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,300
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the 1998-99 Bronx Cultural Card, an audience development initiative to facilitate a new and expanded income stream for Bronx cultural organizations.

Catamount Film and Arts Co.
St. Johnsbury, VT
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Cedarburg Corporation
Cedarburg, WI
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of the Cedarburg Cultural Center cash reserve.

Center of Contemporary Arts
St. Louis, MO
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the implementation of a two-year stabilization plan to augment an endowment and to implement educational and outreach initiatives.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support in 1998-99 the planning for an endowment campaign and implementation of a national technical assistance initiative designed to help its 560 member chamber ensembles and 350 member presenters strengthen their organizational capacities.

Chicago New Art Association
Chicago, IL
$9,250
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a planning project to research and implement several targeted marketing initiatives in order to increase earned income and expand readership the New Art Examiner, a regionally based national visual arts publication.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the 1998-99 planning and implementation of the theater's artistic and administrative reorganization.

Chorus America, Association of Professional Vocal Ensembles
Philadelphia, PA
$44,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support, in 1998-99, the Professional Development Program, a stabilization plan aimed at improving the artistic, managerial, and fiscal strength of the choral field through the annual conference, leadership development seminars, summer management institute, and internships and workshops in choral conducting.

City of Santa Fe Arts Commission
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a 1998-99 community-wide, cultural facilities feasibility study of venues that will serve arts organizations and audiences in Santa Fe.

City of South Lake Tahoe Arts Commission
So. Lake Tahoe, CA
$11,850
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a 1998-99 cultural facilities feasibility study, conducted by AMS Planning & Research to benefit South Lake Tahoe, and nearby El Dorado and Douglas Counties.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment and a cash reserve.

Concord Community Music School
Concord, NH
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support creation of a cash reserve fund and an endowment, two components of the larger Campaign for the Apple Orchard effort to enhance the school's financial stability.

Connecticut Player's Foundation, Inc.
(Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support long-term planning for a stabilization campaign for the Long Wharf Theatre.

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of an endowment as an integral component of a capital campaign.

Cornell University
(For Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Santa Monica, CA
$67,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Developing Earned Income Initiative, a four-part plan to include an increase in commissioned collaborations, the expansion of audiences, marketing of the company's intellectual property, and the implementation of the planning phase of an endowment campaign for the year 2000.

Crossroads, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$64,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support an audience development project which includes the hiring of coordinators to work with volunteers as community liaisons and on marketing.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the creation of a public awareness campaign with the goal of attracting a broader, more diverse audience base to the museum on a day-to-day basis.

Dance Exchange, Inc.
Takoma Park, MD
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve, hiring a school administrator, and upgrading computer equipment for the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 1998 national conference and Dance BASIC workshop, the 1999 winter Managers Council, and a full-time position for an information services director.

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the National Black Theatre Summit, convened by August Wilson, which will examine strategies for maintaining and building Black theatre companies and institutions nationwide, linking them to community redevelopment.

Discalced, Inc. (Mark Morris Dance Group)
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support development and implementation of a planning process and long-range plan for the creation of a dance school, educational outreach programs, and a capital campaign feasibility study -- all steps toward establishing a permanent home for the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support comprehensive facilities and public relations planning initiatives that will increase artists' access to Djerassi and determine how to provide a technologically current working environment for artists.

Early Music America, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support, in 1998-99, stabilization projects involving the publication of a journal and technical support initiatives in order to help stabilize the American early music field.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 25th Anniversary Stabilization Project that will include the engagement of a full-time sales and marketing director and publicist.

Empty Space Association
Seattle, WA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support planning of a capital campaign for the Empty Space Theatre.

Ethnic Folk Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$18,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project with the Storefront Art and Architecture to study and test-market a new line of artist-made products, intended to serve as a model earned income project for visual artists' organizations.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a planning project for audience development and a feasibility study for a major endowment campaign.

Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a marketing analysis project for the Artists Multiples Program, an earned income project begun in 1984.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a planning and stabilization project whereby the organization will evaluate its programs and possibly expand or change some of the services it offers.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the design of a long-range organizational plan including assessment of current activities, planning, and strategic development.

Florida Grand Opera, Inc.
Miami, FL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the establishment of Florida Grand Opera's new Outreach Department, which will work closely with the region's diverse communities, and to upgrade the company's computer system.

Florida Stage, Inc.
Manalapan, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Pope Theatre for the acquisition of hardware and software for the purpose of upgrading the theater's existing computer system during 1998.

Friends of the North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a planning project leading to an endowment campaign.

Fuller Museum of Art
Brockton, MA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development of a comprehensive five-year plan that will address financial, programmatic, operational, and facilities-related issues.

Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Acting Company in 1998-99 for the planning phase of a marketing and development project which will include the hiring of a computer systems consultant, a public relations director, a public relations consultant, and a planning consultant to encourage increased income.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium with Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Centro Cultural Aztlan, and Jump-Start Performance Company to create a partnership to share resources, increase earned income and develop new funding sources to strengthen the arts infrastructure of the city.

Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation
Hartford, CT
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the second year of a two-year planning process focused on the Bushnell's educational programs, including site visits to research the best practices in the field, and development of a five-year operational plan.

Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX
$43,750
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve and marketing initiatives.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of an endowment.

Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$67,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve, and the salary costs for a Program Administrator and partial salary costs for a Co-Artistic Director for the Medea Project, theater for incarcerated women.

International Center of Photography
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the endowment as part of The ICP 25th Anniversary Campaign.

International Institute of New Jersey
Jersey City, NJ
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support PITA Phase II Planning Project: Marketing and Earned Income Plan, a long-range plan to provide financial stability for the Institute and to greatly enhance its work with immigrant traditional artists.

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Washington, DC
$14,800
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an organizational strategic planning process that will include audience surveys and a corresponding marketing plan that will allow the Center to identify areas that need to be strengthened, to focus the organization more appropriately, and to envision new programs.

Jay County Arts Council, Inc. (Consortium)
Portland, IN
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Indiana Regional Partners Consortium's Common Ground, a 1998-99 statewide arts-assessment and planning model project to help develop regional arts programs and services.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a two-year project to plan and implement an annual fall experimental season, increase community outreach efforts to enlarge audiences, improve marketing, and strengthen and enlarge the staff.

Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha, NE
$110,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the endowment.

Juilliard School
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the School's endowment.

Junebug Productions
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support board and staff development for organizational and artistic stability.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of a cash reserve and costs related to staff development and planning.

Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation
Louisville, KY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a planning and feasibility study to evaluate statewide expansion of the foundation's services of exhibitions for Kentucky craft artists and educational activities for school children and adults.

Kings Majestic Corporation
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support audience and volunteer development.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a targeted planning effort to ensure the organization's sustainability, while continuing to serve the information and media needs of the Native community of South Central Alaska.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support Phase II awards under the 1998-99 Arts Organization Sustainability Initiative (AOSI), a grant program providing strategic support and technical assistance to mid- sized, community-based arts organizations in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,150
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a 1998-99 marketing study and business-venture plan for Thunder Gulch (a collaboration between the Council, individual artists, and arts organizations advanced in the use of digital media), with results made available to the general arts community on the web.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$27,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support expanded audience development and outreach projects in 1998-99.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$67,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve.

Mexican Museum
San Francisco, CA
$14,700
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a planning project for restructuring the financial management systems of the museum in preparation for its move to a new, permanent downtown facility.

Missoula Children's Theatre
Missoula, MT
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve.

Missouri Alliance for Arts Education
St. Louis, MO
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support research into the potential for the Alliance for Arts Education to increase revenue by expanding its Professional Development Program offerings to the corporate sector, employing arts education techniques and curricula to increase employee creativity and productivity, and understanding and appreciation of the arts.

Montana Arts Foundation
Bozeman, MT
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of a technical assistance training program that will equip 11 statewide arts service organizations to help constituents in the performing and visual arts and literature, to expand audiences and increase private arts support.

Moving Image, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve.

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve and the implementation of a planning process.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$350,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment as part of the Museum's 21st Century Endowment Campaign, on the 60th anniversary of the Museum's founding.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of the museum's endowment.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a planning project wherein the organization's fiscal stability will be examined.

National Association of Latino Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a planning process that will examine NALAC's organizational structure, evaluate technical assistance programs and create a comprehensive five-year plan to guide the organization in its work to contribute to the self-sufficiency of Latino arts organizations across the United States.

New Orleans Contemporary Art Center
New Orleans, LA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the development and implementation of a strategic plan in 1998-99 to integrate advanced technologies into everyday operations of the orchestra, including concert performance, training, and communication needs, and the engagement of a technology information specialist.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of a cash reserve as part of NYFA's Beyond the Millennium Campaign during 1998-2000.

Northwestern University
(For Northwestern University Press)
Evanston, IL
$31,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a twelve-month analysis of the Press's existing market during 1998-99 and targeted planning to improve the press's reaction to the current publishing environment.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$18,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a planning project during 1998 and 1999 for the research, design, and implementation of an audience development plan for the museum.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment for the Old Town School of Folk Music.

Omaha Symphony Association
Omaha, NE
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support expansion of the Omaha Symphony's computerized box office services in 1998-99 to a satellite site in west Omaha and extension of these services to area arts organizations, as a low cost alternative to other ticket service providers.

Omaha Theater Company
Omaha, NE
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the implementation of a stabilization plan that will encourage and assure future earned income.

Pat Graney Performance
Seattle, WA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve and work with consultants on the development of a long-range plan.

Pegasus Players (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium with the Chicago Theatre Company to integrate audiences of diverse ethnic cultures for audience development.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Philharmonic Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania
Avoca, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Phoenix Symphony Association
Phoenix, AZ
$275,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a term endowment.

Photographic Resource Center, Inc.
Boston, MA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the development of a five-year programming plan in relation to the organization's revised mission statement and transition to a new program structure.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support a two-year project to implement a plan that includes the creation of positions for school administrator and a marketing manager, and to augment the cash reserve.

Playwrights Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support planning for the New Play Resources initiative designed to formalize and expand the Foundation's role as a catalyst between playwrights and theater companies.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$52,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve and planning for a capital campaign.

Portland Performing Arts, Inc.
Portland, ME
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support a comprehensive organizational assessment and long range planning process during 1998-1999.

Primary Stages Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support organizational restructuring and the advancement of marketing and development programs to support artistic growth.

Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of an endowment.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support Building Arts Enterprises, a customized technical-assistance initiative, with a special focus on services for at-risk youth, for artist-run businesses and arts organizations in Long Beach's Central Area Redevelopment District during 1998-99.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Providence, RI
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Richmond Art Center
Richmond, CA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of an endowment to enhance the Center's long-term financial stability.

Rio Grande Union, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a planning process for development of long-term strategies and organizational goals for Douglas Dunn and Dancers.

San Diego Repertory Theatre, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support two-year stabilization plan to achieve and sustain an increased income base to more fully serve the theater's artistic mission.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$39,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support targeted planning for an endowment campaign.

San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of an endowment in conjunction with the final phase of a ten-year capital expansion.

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Santa Fe, NM
$29,250
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a stabilization project that will include the production and recording of two compact discs of rarely-heard choral music, including a collection of Mexican-and Hispanic-origin works and the second consisting of works by late twentieth-century American composers, for the Chorale's Heritage Collection.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a marketing campaign in conjunction with the opening of a new facility and the purchase and installation of new box office equipment to serve increased audiences.

Social and Public Art Resource Center
Venice, CA
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a stabilization project to provide staff, equipment, technical assistance, and a marketing plan for the earned income project, the Digital Mural Laboratory and Community Workshop.

Southern Utah University
(For Utah Shakespeare Festival)
Cedar City, UT
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the Utah Shakespeare Festival's establishment of a cash reserve.

Space One Eleven, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a planning project designed to establish a cottage-type industry for brick-making called City Center Art and Brick, a community-based earned income program designed to provide revenue for this artist-run organization.

Steppenwolf Theatre
Chicago, IL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support an artistic initiative designed to use the company's studio theater as a space to develop and produce new works in collaboration with other local performing companies and artists to increase earned and contributed income.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of a cash reserve.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of a cash reserve.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of a cash reserve.

United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, ND
$37,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support management assistance which will enable the Cultural Arts Programs to become self-sustaining through the development and implementation of earned-income strategies.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of a cash reserve.

University of Arizona
(For the Center for Creative Photography)
Tucson, AZ
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support augmentation of the endowment for the Center for Creative Photography.

University of Massachusetts Foundation
(Fiscal Agent for the Arts Extension Service)
Boston, MA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of an endowment for the Arts Extension Service.

University of Texas at Austin
(For Huntington Gallery)
Austin, TX
$110,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the creation of an endowment for the new art museum.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$10,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a planning project that will include a marketing feasibility study and an assessment of readiness to undertake a capital campaign.

Wichita Art Museum Foundation, Inc.
Wichita, KS
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a campaign entitled Open to All designed to increase community awareness of the museum and its nationally respected permanent collection.

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the implementation of the Next Millennium project, a plan to strengthen the organization, including initiatives to increase earned income and to create a cash reserve.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Vanguard Initiative, a three-year comprehensive outreach and enrichment project featuring an extensive New Play Reading and Development Series and the hiring of a literary manager.

Writers In The Schools
Houston, TX
$42,400
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the establishment of a cash reserve and targeted planning to develop diversified revenue sources.

Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,700
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the purchase of two computers and targeted planning and consultation during 1998-2000 to develop a comprehensive financial management system to track earned income, a marketing plan, and a capital campaign to create an endowment fund to generate income to help subsidize membership fees for writers.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Endowment & Cash Reserves
To support the augmentation of an endowment.

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Washington, DC 20506