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Examples of organizations and programs supported through CDF grants
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Audrey St. Clair provides detailed examples of organizations and programs supported through Cultural Development Fund (CDF) grants, showcasing the diverse range of arts education initiatives in New York City.
- Organizations mentioned include Arts Connection, Dancing Classrooms, Education through Music, Marquis Studio, Midori and Friends, Public Color, and Studio in a School
- Programs cover various disciplines such as music, dance, theater, visual arts, and design
- Many programs focus on serving underresourced schools and students from low-income neighborhoods
Audrey St. Clair
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That's 400 nonprofits working across disciplines in all five boroughs to deliver high quality arts programs to students in our city.
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A few examples of the arts education programming and organizations we're currently supporting through the CDF include Arts Connection, which offers comprehensive, innovative, classroom based, and professional learning arts education programs, and resources reaching over 25,000 New York City public school students and educators across the five boroughs.
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Programs facilitated by 115 expert teaching artists span disciplines including music, dance, theater, media, visual arts, curatorial studies, and art criticism.
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Dancing Classrooms delivers social dance programs to more than four fifty classrooms in 100 plus title one NYC metro area schools, serving at least 13,000 k through 12 students in two thousand twenty four, twenty five.
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Activities include a ten week social ballroom residency, 16 session dancing with rhythms and stories, after school social dance clubs, and adapted sensory steps for students with disabilities.
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Education through music, which provides school wide curricular music programs for 20,000 students attending 55 under resourced elementary, middle, pre k through eight, and high schools in all five boroughs.
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ETM focuses on in need schools located in low income neighborhoods, primarily serving BIPOC children.
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Marquis Studio Partnership Program, which brings engaging arts learning to 10 high needs schools in all five boroughs.
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Partnership schools received subsidized or no cost residencies in an array of arts disciplines, and four of the 10 partnership schools are in NYC's special education district, district seventy five, which exclusively serves students with multiple or severe disabilities.
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Midori and Friends, which works with 11 school partners in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens to serve 980 k through 12 students.
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The Play to Learn program provides instrumental instruction at eight schools, teaching students to sing and play ukulele, harp, violin, and woodwinds.
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Midori and Friends teaching artists can provide services in English, Spanish, and Japanese.
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Public Color whose year round design studio programs engage low income NYC Middle And High School Students in project based learning and creative problem solving.
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This year, over 600 students will participate in Public Color's school year and summer design studio programs.
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Studio in a school whose in school visual arts education residencies are providing more than 9,000 students and 730 teachers across the five boroughs with high quality arts education in the current school year, and Midtown Management Group, whose engaging emotions through theater utilizes hands on experiential musical theater workshops to promote social emotional learning using music, dance, acting, improvisation, theater games, and preselected books and themes.
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Groups offering arts education programming are receiving $27,100,000 in support through the CDF in FY '25.