Impact (highlights)
- With a general operating grant of $50,000, FirstWorks continues to utilize collaboration and partnerships as a key to success in all areas of its operation. FirstWorks
will co-market programs with five arts organizations and collaborate with up to six artistic partners including local organizations Aurea and Everett Dance Theatre.
- A grant of $30,000 to the Rhode Island
“The support that the Rhode Island Foundation has provided this year to the PLAY project has enabled our program to expand into the elementary schools, both in-school hours curriculum-based enhancements and after school programs, reaching over 3,000 Pawtucket schoolchildren. Many new educational and community partners have heard about us and as a result we are working on furthering expanded services for next school year.”
Yvonne Seggerman
Executive Director, Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre | Philharmonic supported a collaboration with WaterFire to produce Philharmonic on Fire. This live performance at WaterFire attracted approximately 75,000 people.
- A total of $105,000 in grants to Trinity Repertory Company and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities will strengthen fund development efforts and increase contributed income. A grant of $32,925 to 2nd Story Theater will provide continued support for a chief financial officer position to strengthen the organization’s financial position.
- A grant of $25,000 to the VMA Foundation supported a diversity festival. By working with ethnically-specific organizations on this festival, the VMA Foundation aimed to increase the diversity of the auditorium's audience-base while raising the profile of its partnering organizations. Participants included the Rhode Island Black Storytellers, Teatro ECAS,Eastern Medicine Singers, and the Laotian Community Center of Rhode Island.
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A grant of $47,550 will support a comprehensive branding and marketing initiative as the Newport Art Museum prepares for its centennial. Building upon recent successes, the museum plans to focus on outreach to young professionals under 45 and opportunities for individuals to engage and interact with the museum online.
- A grant of $40,000 to the Island Moving Company will support the addition of an innovative residency and touring component to its summer Great Friends Dance Festival. By partnering with other dance troupes, Island Moving Company will raise its profile regionally and nationally while increasing and diversifying audiences.
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$57,100 in grants to the Sandra-Feinstein Gamm Theater and Providence CityArts will provide access to the arts for more than 3,500 young people in Providence and Pawtucket public schools, and model integrating arts into the curriculum and connecting out of school and in-school learning.
“Working with PLAY has made literature and writing come to life for me. It's no longer a chore, it's beautiful. Things like subtext and movement, terms I've never thought of when writing or reading, are now in daily use.”
Danielle, PLAY project participant |
- A grant of $15,000 will allow New Urban Arts to explore expanding its teacher institutes for educators. The Providence School Department has worked with New Urban Arts to develop workshops and professional development programs for the all of the city’s K-12 art teachers.
- General operating grants total $85,000 to New Urban Arts and Community MusicWorks for continued support for quality after school programming reaching more than 500 students from Providence’s poorest urban communities. In the last two years, each of these programs has been a recipient of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
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