United Arts 2011 Organizational Project Grant Recipients:
Orlando
$8,400 - Central Florida Ballet, 2010-11 Season
$4,390 - Florida Children's Repertory Theatre, 2010-11 Season
$5,420 – The Global Peace Film Festival, 9th Annual Global Peace Film Festival
$8,500 - Mad Cow Theatre, 2010-11 Season of Theatre and Special Events
$8,500 - MicheLee Puppets, Safety and Healing Through Puppetry Arts
$4,520 – The Orlando Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival
$10,000 - Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, 20 Years of Orlando Fringe
$6,800 - Orlando Gay Chorus, 2010-11 Season
$1,000 – Pointe Performing Arts Center, 2010-11 Season
$2,450 – Shine Performing and Creative Arts, 2010-11 Season
$3,070 - Voci Dance, iMove: An audience-interactive dance show incorporating multi-media
$2,570 - Yow Dance, 2010-11 Season
Winter Park
$10,000 - Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 2010-11 Season
$8,400 - The Center for Contemporary Dance, Regional Tour of Moore Dance Project’s ‘Sacred Slave Stories
$10,000 – The Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, 2010-11 Season – 54 Years of Excellence
$4,820 – The Messiah Choral Society, 38th annual free performance of Handel's "Messiah"
$6,460 – The Winter Park Historical Association, 2010-11 Season
$8,400 - The Winter Park Playhouse, R.E.A.CH (Relevant Educational Arts for Children Outreach)
Altamonte Springs
$6,800 - Pinocchio's Marionette Theater, 2010-11 Season
$5,450 – The Steinway Society of Central Florida, Piano Lesson Outreach Program
Eustis
$10,000 - Bay Street Players, 2010-11 Season
$2,400 - Lake Eustis Institute, 2010-11 Season
$7,560 - Lake Eustis Museum of Art, 2010-11 Season of Exhibits
Kissimmee
$6,460 - Osceola County Historical Society, 2010-11 Season
Leesburg
$6,800 - Leesburg Center for the Arts, 2010-11 Season
$5,800 – The Melon Patch Players, 2010-11 Season
Longwood
$6,090 – The Asian Cultural Association, 2010-11 Season, http://www.ACA-FL.org
$8,400 - Florida Young Artists Orchestra, 2010-11 Season, http://www.fyao.org
Maitland
$10,000 - Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, 2010-11 Cultural Season
$6,660 – Performing Arts of Maitland, 2010-11 Season
Mount Dora
$6,800 - Mount Dora Center for the Arts, 2011 Annual Arts Festival Emerging Artists
Oakland
$6,210 - HAPCO Music Foundation, 2011 Season - Festivals of the Arts
Sanford
$4,310 – Creative Sanford, Executive Director to lead all aspects of production season 2010-11
$5,800 - Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, 2010-11 Season
Winter Garden
$8,400 - Garden Theatre, 2010-11 Season
How Much Was Handed out?
United Arts of Central Florida, via the Organizational Project Grants, awarded $227,640 to 35 arts and cultural organizations, funding 41.6 percent of all requests totaling $547,673.
Advisory Panel Members:
Margot H. Knight, United Arts of Central Florida, Facilitator
Keidra Daniels Navaroli, Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Florida Institute of Technology
Chuck Dinkins, formerly with House of Blues and CityArts Factory
Bonnie Hubbard, Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation, Standards & Allocations Committee Chair
Bob Radock, formerly with A.C.E., Arts for a Complete Education
Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, MSBE, JD, Attorney at Law, Tirado-Chiodini, PL
Nina White, Special Projects Consultant
Organizational Project Grant | What is it?
As part of its mission to enhance the quality and variety of cultural experiences available in Central Florida, United Arts provides matching project grants through the Organizational Project Grants program to local nonprofit cultural organizations. The goal of these awards is to sustain ongoing projects, as well as to recognize and support imaginative and/or experimental ideas for arts, sciences, humanities and other cultural activities. The maximum request is $20,000.
United Arts of Central Florida is a dynamic collaboration of 135 businesses, 8 governments and school districts, 33 foundations, more than 50 arts and cultural organizations, and 2,873 artists and individuals. This partnership works to enhance the quality and variety of cultural experiences available throughout Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. Since its inception in 1989, United Arts has invested more than $112 million in local cultural organizations and cultural education. For more information please visit www.UnitedArts.cc.