Funding Areas: Arts Education

The WriteGirl mission is to promote creativity and self-expression to empower girls within a community of women writers. Teens build skills and confidence through mentoring workshops and publication.

Young Storytellers engages creativity through storytelling. Through mentorship, collaboration, and performance, the program provides students with an opportunity to write stories and see them brought to life on stage and film. Their mission is to inspire young people to discover the power of their own voice.

Youth Speak Collective is a youth-driven organization founded on the idea that all young people can succeed if provided with the right opportunities. Youth Speak’s mission is to empower low-income, at-risk youth and their families with the skills necessary to pursue higher education and create strong communities. The Foundation provides funding for the Creative Expression program, supporting youth producing original works of art, film, and writing.

The Skirball Cultural Center is a place of meeting guided by the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by the American democratic ideals of freedom and equality. Funding from the Foundation supports ongoing educational programs for children and professional development for teachers throughout Los Angeles County through the Skirball’s various permanent and temporary exhibitions.

SOL-LA’s mission is to provide high quality performing arts education to students from all backgrounds and economic circumstances, in an engaging and encouraging environment fostering achievement and community. The comprehensive program reflects the belief that vibrant cultural education nurtures all areas of learning, connects diverse societies and enhances enjoyment of life.

Turnaround Arts: California and its partner public schools are committed to using the arts to narrow the opportunity gap, increase student engagement, and improve campus culture and climate.

Turnaround Arts, launched in 2012 by the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities as a national program, utilizes the arts as a strategic tool to help close the achievement gap and improve school culture in a group of the nation’s lowest-performing public elementary schools.

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company empowers youth in underserved and at-risk environments with the means and methods necessary to explore personal and social conflicts. The program seeks to develop self-esteem, communication, and coping skills to help youth make positive life choices.