1999 Grant Awards: Leadership Initiative Grants

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

All Leadership Initiatives Have National or Multi-State Significance

The American Architectural Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$400,000
To support costs related to up to six meetings of the Mayors' Institute on City Design: two national institutes for mayors of larger American cities, and up to four regional meetings for mayors of smaller cities within defined geographical regions.

American Symphony Orchestra League
Washington, D.C.
$10,000
To support the National Youth Orchestra Festival in northern Michigan during June, 1998. Co-sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the participating youth orchestras will perform under the artistic direction of Conductor James DePriest.

Americans for the Arts
Washington, D.C.
$15,000
To support planning for a national youth initiative. The initiative will be a multi-year, multi-media service campaign developed with the Ad Council, other media partners, and an advertising firm providing pro bono services.

The Benton Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$500,000
To support the third phase of Open Studio: The Arts Online, an initiative launched in 1996 for the purpose of increasing the nonprofit arts information and cultural content available on the Internet and providing the arts community with the fundamental skills needed to produce artistic content online.

Cathedral Choral Society
Washington, D.C.
$11,000
To support the preservation and celebration of work by the late legendary jazz composer Mary Lou Williams with the transcription of Mary Lou's Mass and Other Sacred Works into scores, their publication, concert performance of these works by the Cathedral Choral Society at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1999, and their recording and subsequent national radio broadcast.

The Kennedy Center
Washington, D.C.
$100,000
To support, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, the continuation of the implementation phase of ArtsEdge, the national arts education information network.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, D.C.
$75,000
To provide continued support for the professional development and technical assistance project for the state arts agency arts education coordinators.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, D.C.
$52,650
To include the humanities in the update of Design for Accessibility, the most comprehensive access guide for cultural groups, and print 2000 copies of the guide for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grantees, and an additional 1,200 copies for Arts Endowment grantees.

National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
$155,000
To support the third and final phase of the Visual Artists Fellowship Archive Project.

(Organization to be Determined)
$275,000
To support the administration and coordination of site report activities for designated theater and musical theater companies.

(Organization to be Determined)
$30,000
To conduct follow-up projects recommended by the 300 artists, arts administrators, educators and rehabilitation professionals who participated in the June 1998 National Forum on Careers in the Arts that was convened in partnership with four other Federal agencies.

U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
$12,000
To support an interagency project of three artists' residencies beginning in May 1999, jointly funded with the Department of Justice (DOJ)/Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Western States Arts Foundation
Denver, Colorado
$32,000
To support the planning and convening of a regional symposium to assist state arts agencies and other grantees in this twelve state region in making their activities fully available to people with disabilities and older adults.

William James Association
Santa Cruz, CA
$35,000
To support the organization and establishment of six one-year artists' residencies in federal correctional institutions in conjunction with the Arts Endowment's interagency agreement with the Department of Justice.

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