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Funding Areas: Legacy Gifts

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is the and only independent school of music in the UC system. The school trains and educates students across western classical and world music traditions, balancing performance mastery and composition with cutting-edge scholarship.

Arts Education, Legacy Gifts

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Vista Del Mar

Vista Del Mar provides comprehensive, family-centered, social, educational, and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self-reliant, stable and productive lives. The Eden Alpert Therapeutic Music Program provides Vista Del Mar children with a safe environment to explore their creative potential, develop a greater appreciation of music, and learn career skills.

Arts Education, Compassion & Well-Being, Legacy Gifts

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P.S. ARTS

P.S. ARTS is dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing arts education to underserved public schools and communities. Support from the Foundation launched The Lawndale Initiative and Take PART which bring comprehensive arts education programs to communities throughout the Centinela Valley region, and now includes the following districts: Lawndale, Lennox, Centinela Valley Unified, Hawthorne, and Wiseburn Unified.

Arts Education, Legacy Gifts

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CSSSA – Herb Alpert Scholarships for Emerging Young Artists

The California State Summer School for the Arts is a rigorous pre-professional training program in the visual and performing arts, creative writing, animation, and film for talented artists of high school age. With support from the Foundation, the CSSSA Foundation works to ensure equitable access to the Summer School for all students by providing scholarships for attendance. All CSSSA students are then eligible for the Herb Alpert Scholarships for Emerging Young Artists, created to connect students to institutions of higher learning and professional training in the arts.

Arts Education, Legacy Gifts

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Harlem School of the Arts (HSA)

Harlem School of the Arts enriches the lives of young people and their families through world-class training in and exposure to the arts across multiple disciplines in an environment that emphasizes rigorous training, stimulates creativity, builds self-confidence, and adds a dimension of beauty to their lives.

Arts Education, Legacy Gifts

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Herb Alpert Award in the Arts

Established in 1994, The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is given annually to five extraordinary risk-taking mid-career experimenters working in the USA in dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.

Support to Professionals, Legacy Gifts

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CalArts

The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts offers openness to musical creativity and rigorous training in a vibrant mix of musical styles that set it apart from conventional music conservatories.

Legacy Gifts

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Los Angeles City College

The mission of the Los Angeles City College Department of Music, at Herb Alpert Music Center, is to prepare students for transfer to four-year schools, associate of arts degrees, vocational certificates and general music education through courses that teach music literacy, performance and critical thinking skills.

Legacy Gifts

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Community Arts Partnership (CAP) at CalArts

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), a program of the California Institute of the Arts, links the Institute and the diverse communities of Los Angeles County through free, after-school, school-based, and summer arts programs for youth taught by current CalArts students, faculty, and alumni.

Arts Education, Legacy Gifts

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