Funding Areas: Arts Education

The Harmony Project’s mission is to promote the positive development of children through music, to build healthy communities, to develop children as ambassadors of peace, hope, and understanding. Since 2010, as part of the Take PART initiative, the Foundation has provided increased support to establish and maintain the Harmony Project Regional Youth Orchestra, which brings students together from the Lennox, Lawndale, and Wiseburn school districts and provides instruments, music instruction, and the opportunity to perform together as part of an orchestra.

Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community. Support from the Foundation has enabled Homeboys to sustain a range of arts education programs and build capacity of its social enterprises.

The California Alliance for Arts Education advocates for high quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and by mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners.

California Dance Institute, teaches life and learning skills through dance and music in LA public schools, educating the whole child, body, mind and spirit, to achieve well-rounded individuals ready for success in life and learning.

CASA 0101 is dedicated to providing inspiring theater performances, art exhibits and educational programs to Boyle Heights, thereby nurturing the future storytellers of Los Angeles who will someday transform the world.

The Actors’ Gang creates and presents new, unconventional and uncompromising plays and dynamic reinterpretations of the classics; restores the ancient sense of the stage as a shared space; introduces theater to children and helps them find their own creative voices; and brings the freedom of self-expression to the incarcerated.

The Los Angeles County Arts Education Collective (formerly Arts for All) is dedicated to making the arts core in K-12 public education.

artworxLA combats the epidemic high school dropout crisis by engaging students in a long-term, sequential arts program offering a pursuable life path that inspires them to stay in school, evolve as unique individuals and flourish as creative adults.

The Broad Stage has an unequivocal commitment to supporting and entertaining a diverse community. With support from the Foundation, the Family Circle Program was launched to help remove barriers to arts attendance and participation for economically disadvantaged families living on the Westside. The program provides families with access and education, including tickets to performances and enrichment materials, to create their own lasting traditions of intergenerational artistic and cultural participation.