Listed below are the organizations and programs that we have supported over the past two years. We invite you to learn more about them by visiting their individual websites.
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.
Contra-Tiempo creates physically intense and politically astute Urban Latin Dance Theatre work that moves audiences to reimagine what is possible, and to engage communities as active participants and witnesses of arts experiences tied to their humanity.
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.
Dream A World Education provides a unique, high quality early childhood arts education that supports academic development, social-emotional learning and an understanding of cultural diversity. Serving schools in low-income communities.
Through the The Gabriella Foundation’s Everybody Dance! program, 3,000 young lives are transformed annually through high-quality dance instruction and artistic expression. The Everybody Dance! community creates a safe, innovative, and nurturing environment to help youth thrive in reaching their full potential creatively, and in life.
Ghetto Film School (GFS) is an award-winning nonprofit founded in 2000 to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers, always free of charge. GFS identifies young talent from local communities and provide them with the access, opportunity, and resources to pursue creative careers.