Project grants to nonprofit or public human service organizations to give underserved individuals or groups opportunities to experience the arts.
| Grantee, City |
Grant Amount |
| African Families Development Network, Minneapolis | $ 16,500 |
| African Families Development Network (AFDN) will partner with The Cedar to present five daytime, afternoon, or early evening music concerts with acclaimed national and international musicians on sites easily accessible to AFDN clients. |
| Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 |
| Amherst H. Wilder Foundation will provide opportunities for 353 diverse, low-income children, families, and elders to participate in a wide variety of arts activities, including flamenco, children's theater, song-writing and more, both on- and off-site. |
| Asian Women United of Minnesota, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 15,560 |
| Asian Women United of Minnesota, Inc. (AWUM) and COMPAS roster artist, Susan Armington, will conduct four "Talking Suitcase" projects with residents of House of Peace shelter. The project will be shared with larger audiences via a digital story, showcasing the women's art and stories. |
| Autism Society of Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 |
| The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) will collaborate with Stages Theatre Company (STC) on a theater arts education program for youth with autism spectrum disorders to learn targeted social skills. |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota, Saint Cloud | $ 13,504 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Central Minnesota will bring an experienced visual artist to the Roosevelt Club three times per week over 24 weeks, to provide a high quality arts experience for low-income youth. |
| Centro Cultural Chicano, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 23,299 |
| Centro proposes to enhance the delivery of its ongoing program services by incorporating a series of arts residencies to its senior and women groups in partnership with Teatro del Pueblo. |
| East Side Neighborhood Services, Minneapolis | $ 19,961 |
| East Side Neighborhood Services and KAIROS alive! will plan, implement, and evaluate a "Dancing Heart" program for Friendship Center Adult Day, ending in a performance and community celebration. |
| Ecumen, Detroit Lakes | $ 18,180 |
| Ecumen's Detroit Lakes senior housing center will partner with the Historic Holmes Theatre to create a meaningful arts experience for underserved residents, with trips to the theater and visits from artists. |
| Epic Enterprise Inc., Dundas | $ 24,963 |
| In partnership with KAIROS alive!, Epic Enterprise will provide high quality arts experiences for adults with developmental disabilities. |
| FamilyMeans, Stillwater | $ 25,000 |
| FamilyMeans will utilize KAIROS alive! and Susan Armington's "Talking Suitcases" to provide high quality art experiences for seniors in Day Out! and youth program participants. |
| Karen Community of Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 |
| ONCE I JUMP will provide Karen Community of Minnesota teens the opportunity to create and share a multidisciplinary original performance, highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing refugee teens in Minnesota. |
| Lao Assistance Center, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 |
| Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota will connect diverse audiences and emerging artists to award-winning Lao Minnesotan artist exhibition and interdisciplinary performance series throughout 2014-2015 and reduce barriers to participation. |
| Metro Work Center, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 9,000 |
| Art imitates life/life imitates art. Metro Work Center and Upstream Arts will integrate a program for adults with Autism, Downs Syndrome, and related conditions, to develop social/communication skills impacting paths for individual growth and employment. |
| Midwest Special Services, Inc., Saint Paul | $ 25,000 |
| Midwest Special Services and Upstream Arts will create a theater program for adults with disabilities that will nurture artistic expression and communication skills. |
| Minneapolis American Indian Center, Minneapolis | $ 14,828 |
| The Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC) has invited KAIROS alive! to provide to the elders in their programs the health-enhancing benefits of dance, storytelling, and music. |
| MNCASA, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 |
| MNCASA will work with adult survivors of child sexual abuse/exploitation to create and tour a theater piece based on their experiences, to generate hope, healing, and change for ending sexual violence. |
| Mount Olivet Rolling Acres, Chanhassen | $ 10,020 |
| Mount Olivet Rolling Acres is partnering with MacPhail to bring music into the lives of clients with intellectual disabilities. Music therapists will help build clients' cognitive, social, and expressive capacities, culminating in music performance. |
| Native American Community Clinic, Minneapolis | $ 16,000 |
| The Native American Community Clinic (NACC) will host four workshops for patients interested in making a cradleboard. They will learn how to construct and bead a cradleboard as well as the history and benefits of this traditional art form. |
| North Homes Children and Family Services, Grand Rapids | $ 16,200 |
| North Homes will collaborate with MacRostie Art Center to provide art instruction and facilitate projects one day a week for at-risk youth who are residents of the ITASKIN Center in Grand Rapids. |
| Northeast Youth and Family Services, Shoreview | $ 6,525 |
| The Zenon Dance Company will partner with Northeast Youth and Family Services' Northwest Educational and Therapeutic Services (NETS) for a one week program that helps 30 students reach their goals through participation in the arts. |
| Northland Area Family Service Center, Remer | $ 24,920 |
| Northland Area Family Service Center will partner with Screen Porch Productions to create and implement an expanded Visual Arts Day Camp for children ages 8-18, paired with older adult artist mentors involving six rural area communities in July and August 2014. |
| NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center, Minneapolis | $ 23,100 |
| NorthPoint will collaborate with Juxtaposition Arts to have youth create graphic novels promoting healthy choices and sex education to be distributed to 3500 at-risk youth and be accessible online. |
| Northwest Community Action, Inc., Badger | $ 24,542 |
| Northwest Community Action (NWCA) will partner with CLIMB to bring theater classes to the constituents of eight Head Start sites. Students will participate in seven theater classes each. Teachers will attend two trainings and each site hosts a parent night. |
| Parents In Community Action, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 24,300 |
| Parents In Community Action's Early Bridges program uses storytelling and creative drama to help young children develop creativity and early childhood literacy skills such as sequencing, retelling, vocabulary, and listening skills. |
| People Incorporated, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 |
| People Incorporated will pilot an arts-based program providing regular art classes in multiple mediums to residents of Anchor House, its 13-bed facility for women with mental illness. |
| Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 |
| Dream, Explore, Connect!, is a year long film media program for youth documenting the need for sustainable neighborhood food access. Youth will be empowered to use their collective voice for change. |
| Pillsbury United Communities, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 |
| Pillsbury United Communities' Waite House location and Intermedia Arts will connect Phillips youth with local artists and arts organizations. Over one year, teens will use media arts to tell, produce, and share their own stories. |
| Sabathani Community Center, Minneapolis | $ 19,128 |
| Sabathani's Horizons Youth Program will partner with CrossRoads Panorama to write, produce, and showcase a play performed by inner city youth ages 10-18 with a focus on issues that must be overcome for their safety, well-being, and survival. |
| SAYFSM, Saint Paul | $ 24,753 |
| Artists from the Weavers Guild of Minnesota (WGM) will provide classes in fiber arts to African immigrant women both on-site at WGM and off-site where the women live. The women will be introduced to fiber arts, building on the women's traditional skill of spinning cotton. |
| The Wayside House, Inc., Saint Louis Park | $ 12,000 |
| The partnership between Wayside House, Inc. and Free Arts Minnesota will increase accessibility to art activities for children whose mothers are engaged in treatment activities. |
| Vail Place, Hopkins | $ 25,000 |
| Participant-clients of Vail Place, a program assisting people with mental illnesses, will work with professional artists from the History Theatre to create a play based on their personal stories. |
| Walker Methodist Health Center, Minneapolis | $ 20,717 |
| Walker Methodist Health Center will provide WMHC residents a variety of meaningful arts experiences by bringing artists to its facility for seminars and performances, exhibiting residents' art, and taking residents out to see art. |
| West 7th Community Center, Saint Paul | $ 12,380 |
| Actor educators from CLIMB Theatre will engage 65 youth in theater exercises to explore the theme of cultural diversity as it relates to their lives, culminating in a community performance. |
| YouthLink, Minneapolis | $ 21,000 |
| YouthLink will work with Kulture Klub Collaborative to create an artist-in-residence project with Samuel Babatunde Ero-Phillips for homeless youth on the Downtown 100 list. |
