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Arts Council of Pendleton (Pendleton Center for the Arts)
Project: Art Rocks Teens
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
Provides general support of our free teen arts education program, Art Rocks Teens. The funding will allow us to provide 600 young people with professionally guided learning in arts history, techniques and applications.
Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education
Project: Washed Ashore Enhanced Volunteer Education and Recruitment
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $12,000 Location: Bandon, ORAbout:
This grant will be used to increase volunteer training. Inspiring volunteers through education and development of their understanding of our mission to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and spark positive actions.
BRAVO Youth Orchestras
Project: BRAVO Rosa Parks Enrollment Growth
Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $12,500 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Provides rigorous, daily instruction for 20-24 additional students in 2nd-4th grade, including choral singing, music literacy, stringed instrument technique and full orchestra. Provides performance opportunities in high-profile venues, hosts international caliber guest artists, celebrates cultural richness reflective of the students while maintaining a low teacher-student ratio and high student retention. The program works to develop executive function in our students (inhibitory control, emotional regulation, sustained focus) for improved academic outcomes and ability to achieve long-term goals.
BRAVO Youth Orchestras
Project: Support for BRAVO After School Programming
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
This year our goal is to expand from twice-weekly classes to three and four-day-a-week offerings along with outreach efforts to reach more students from all grade levels at each school site we serve.
Caldera
Project: Caldera Youth Program
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Caldera will utilize a grant from Lamb Foundation to support our Youth Program, which serves ~350 underserved learners (6th – 12th grade) in Portland and Central Oregon annually. The program mentors learners from middle school into early adulthood (~7 years) through a layered support system of artists, mentors, and environmentalists.
Color Outside the Lines
Project: 2023/2024 Free Art Classes for Foster Youth
Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Our objective is to offer weekly classes to foster youth, covering a wide array of art forms and enriching outings that serve the dual purpose of providing foster youth with outlets for self-expression and healing, and also providing needed support.
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts
Project: CSIA General Operations
Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: where org is locatedAbout:
Supports Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art in their transitional period as they bring back youth (and other) programming under new leadership.
Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc, dba Art Center East
Project: Access to the Arts for Rural Youth
Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: LaGrande, ORAbout:
Art Center East will provide high-quality arts experiences to schools and other venues where rural children have access to art without cost to families: 3,000 K-8 students in 10 counties, 200 children attending Farmers’ Market, 100 youth receiving class scholarships, 900 arts contact hours to teens affiliated with the Juvenile Department.
Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre
Project: EORT General Operating Support: Provides access to live theatre for all ages in rural communities in eastern Oregon and SE Washington.
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Baker City, ORAbout:
Provides access to live theatre for all ages in rural communities in eastern Oregon and SE Washington.
Ethos, Inc.
Project: General Operations
Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, OrAbout:
Since its inception, Ethos has worked diligently to make music education accessible to all K-12 kids by offering affordable music lessons, workshops, assemblies, and artist-in-residence programs. Ethos has become one of Oregon’s leading sources of music education and has won numerous regional and national awards, including being selected as one of the top 50 after-school programs in the country by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. This grant supports this good work.
Family Development Center
Project: Art from the Heart
Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $10000 Location: Roseburg, ORAbout:
Gives 66 preschool age children with high Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) scores, and who experience a history of neglect or trauma, the opportunity to experience an art project in clay – an experience otherwise not available to them.
Four Rivers Cultural Center
Project: Four Rivers Children's Community Theatre
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Ontario, ORAbout:
Provides the only free and low cost live theatre in this area. Our productions fill kids with hope and realization that life has more possibilities than imagined. This grant was used to support the Holiday production of Elf, Jr, the musical:
Harney County Arts in Education
Project: unrestricted
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $3,000 Location: Hines, ORAbout:
May be used to make a library of suitable plays available to the Harney County high schools; Burns and Crane; Silvies Valley Charter School and the upper division students in our rural schools to encourage theatre performance, or as need is greatest.
Josephy Center for Arts & Culture
Project: After School Arts Program with Artistic Tools
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $11,000 Location: Joseph, ORAbout:
Allows children participating in a free after-school program to have art education added. In addition, this grant provides a printing press and art materials to enrich art and culture programs that serve the county’s population, ages 4-70.
Music Is Instrumental
Project: Music is Instrumental ~ Expert Technicians
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Lincoln City, ORAbout:
This grant will help maintain access to music for ALL 1,507 K-12 students in Lincoln City Schools. Expert technicians help meet this objective by supporting the instruction of three full time music teachers.
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