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My Voice Music
Project: Hands-On Summer Music Camps for Foster Children
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
My Voice Music’s Summer Camps introduce youth living in foster care to writing, recording and performing their own songs, and provide leadership experience for My Voice Music’s top year-round students. Youth participate in one of four five-day integrated camps that reinforce long term goals for youth to be recognized for their abilities and artistry, not for their challenging backgrounds. The grant provides free tuition for 25 aspiring musicians living in foster care, a concrete demonstration of new skills/pro-social abilities through performance, positive adult/youth and peer-to-peer experiences and leadership training and work experience for 8-10 youth leaders.
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Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Center for the Arts
Project: The Arts in Education & Community Arts Initiative
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Toledo, ORAbout:
Our programs include 4 touring programs for schools, 3 theatrical and one fine art workshop. (Building Public works of Art). Due to the pandemic, we hope to begin touring again by spring 2022. Goal for 2022 is 10 works of public art.
Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Youth Arts Center
Project: First Oregon Coast Invitational Youth Art Festival
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $6,000 Location: Toledo, ORAbout:
Provides free training workshops in paper sculpture to rural students in the 5th through 12th grade in anticipation of an expected 500 entries to a first Oregon Coast invitational youth art show occurring concurrently with the Toledo “Art Walk” in late August, 2016.
Oregon Coast Children's Theatre
Project: The Arts in Education & Community Arts Initiative
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $25,000 Location: Toledo, ORAbout:
Our touring season usually runs from September – September for Oregon schools. Funds will be used to support program costs, both for our arts center operations, and for touring programs around the state of Oregon.
Oregon East Symphony
Project: Playing For Keeps youth programming
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
Gives students, from 4th grade through high school, access to the opportunity to play music through various education programs, instrument lending and performances.
Oregon East Symphony, Inc.
Project: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Fall 2024
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
OES will present a free November 9, 2024 performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Hermiston, OR featuring the Hermiston High School Choir dept. This event will serve up to 800 audience members and 45 high school students.
Oregon East Symphony, Inc.
Project: Concerts and Education in the 2015-2016 30th Anniversary Season
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,0000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
OES operates a symphony orchestra, chorale and youth music program in Eastern Oregon to enhance the quality of life by providing a dependable source of live music with special emphasis on youth education opportunities.
Oregon Symphony
Project: Continued support for Music Education and Community Engagement
Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Providing continuing support for the Oregon Symphony’s Music Education and Community Engagement programs for under-served children in Portland metro-area public schools in the 2014-2015 school and program year. Programs include: early learning events for preschool-Kindergarten aged children in public libraries; interactive classroom ensemble performances for K-2 students in Title I elementary schools; interactive concert hall concerts for grades 3-8; Sunday matinee family concerts for K-5; performance opportunities for student and community ensembles of all ages; and teaching resources for inter-disciplinary learning.
Outside the Frame
Project: General Operating Support 2025
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Outside the Frame trains homeless and marginalized youth to be directors of their own films and lives, providing a creative outlet, job training, a public platform, and a sense of dignity and possibility through filmmaking.
p:ear
Project: Arts & Culture Program + General Operations
Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $$15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
p:ear’s Arts and Culture Program strives to bring art, music, theater and literature into the lives of over 300 homeless youth yearly. Academic studies note the important role art can play in coping with the stresses accompanying homelessness.
p:ear
Project: Arts and Culture Program
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Through creative programming in the arts, p:ear provides ongoing support to homeless youth to develop a meaningful sense of self, gain new skills, and to develop the physical, intellectual, social and emotional maturity they need to become healthy adults. Art is one of the primary ways in which p:ear actively engages homeless youth with healthy mentoring and transition opportunities as well as providing opportunities for them to show and sell their work in the on-site gallery. Through the p:ear Gallery, our young people’s artistic skills and accomplishments are publicly celebrated on a monthly basis. By building connections with these youth through the creation and exhibition of their artwork, we form meaningful and trusting relationships with them that are the foundation for further constructive change.
p:ear
Project: p:ear Arts and Culture Program
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
p:ear’s Arts and Culture program brings music, art, theater, and movement into the lives of young people experiencing homelessness, creating opportunities for them to develop emotional, motor and cognitive skills.
Pacific Youth Choir
Project: PYC@NeighborhoodChoir Program
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
PYC’s neighborhood choir program is designed to help bridge the equity gap for students and families in low-income neighborhoods, while continuing to build the diversity of PYC itself.
Playwrite, Inc.
Project: Graduate Opportunities Program
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
PlayWrite’s mission is to use the power of performance in art to transform the lives of youth at the edge. This grant is intended to continue involvement of program graduates and support their graduation from high school.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
Project: PYP's 101st Season Music Education for All
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
This grant will support Portland Youth Philharmonic’s 101st season of music education and community programs, serving over 20,000 children and adults in the Portland metro area. These programs include free initiatives and regional performances.