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| LINC, Ford Foundation award $1 million in 'Space for Change' Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) and the Ford Foundation announced the winners of the Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development grants, awarding up to $100,000 each to 12 outstanding nonprofit arts organizations in the early stages of developing exemplary cultural facilities. The grants provide organizations with the initial startup funds that are most needed—and the most difficult to obtain—to develop a new facility. The winners were chosen from nearly 700 applicants from 49 states as well as the District of Columbia. They responded to an April 2010 call from LINC, in partnership with Ford, for letters of interest from nonprofit arts organizations intending to buy, construct, renovate, help develop, or become anchor tenants in an arts space or cultural facility. Full proposals were invited from organizations with strong track records of artistic excellence, cultural diversity and community engagement. Exemplary projects were generated not only from the internal needs of the organization but also took into account the role of the arts space as an essential community asset. Among the winning proposals: * Northwoods Niijii Enterprise Community is creating a campus of Native American arts facilities in rural Wisconsin that will give visibility to the area's indigenous cultures while creating economic opportunities for Native American artists; * City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is developing a literary center that would extend the scope of its residency program for international writers-in-exile by creating a venue for global and local writers, while also seeding a neighborhood initiative to include more arts related commercial activity; * Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit plans to commission innovative programming for its outdoor space, focusing on projects that fuel collaboration between artists and the community, and also link the museum with a 1.8 mile urban greenway connecting Midtown to the Detroit River. Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development Grants ranging from $50, 000-$100, 000 were awarded to the following organizations: 651 Arts Brooklyn, N.Y. Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education Bronx, N.Y. City of Asylum/Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa. Columbia Film Society Columbia, S.C. Dance Place Washington, D.C. The Heidelberg Center Detroit, Mich. The Heritage Center of Red Cloud Indian School Pine Ridge, S.D. Intersection for the Arts San Francisco, Calif. Los Cenzontles Mexican Art Center San Pablo, Calif. Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) San Jose, Calif. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Detroit, Mich. Northwoods Niijii Enterprise Community Lac du Flambeau, Wisc. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |