Funding Areas: Arts Education

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 mission of LA Commons is to engage communities in artistic and cultural expressoin that tells their unique stories and serves as a basis for dialogue, interaction and a better understanding of Los Angeles.

The LA Phil is reinventing the concept of a 21st-century orchestra under the vibrant leadership of Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. Among its wide-ranging education initiatives is the Composer Fellowship Program (CFP), that, with support from the Foundation, provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for high school-age composers to become a part of the LA Phil’s thriving new music community.

Libros Schmibros champions the pleasures of literature and its power to change lives.

PEN Center USA’s mission is to stimulate and maintain interest in the written word and to foster a vital literary culture. Through its Freedom to Write programs PEN Center pursues the goals at the core of their mission — to support writers’ freedom of expression and to promote access to their writing globally.

Plaza de la Raza provides year-round programs in arts education and serves as an art center and school — fostering the enrichment of all cultures. Through the arts, Plaza provides a vital human resource service bridging the geographic, social, artistic, and cultural boundaries of Los Angeles and beyond.

reDiscover Center’s mission is to provide art, tinkering, and sustainability education through creative reuse to all Angelenos.