Promote positive youth development among underserved youth through engagement in arts, cultural, and other unique programs that provide sequential opportunities to participate over an extended period of time.
Results Sought:
- Significantly increase mastery of program-specific competencies and developmentally appropriate life skills
- Prepare participants to transition successfully to post-secondary and/or professional opportunities, including employment in the creative economy
2018 Grants
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Company, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To provide capacity building support for Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Row New York, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
To provide general operating support for Row New York's youth development work
Staten Island Children's Museum
$25,000
To help support the Museum Intern and Ambassador Program for teens