Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

As of December 2011, DDCF has awarded 34 grants totaling approximately $4.8 million through its Fund for National Projects.

2011

California Institute of the Arts(Valencia, CA)
for the National Interdisciplinary Initiative

• $174,375 over 27 months - To convene varied performing arts organizations with the purpose of exploring expansion of opportunities for interdisciplinary performance; held with an interdisciplinary edition of RADAR L.A. Festival in Fall 2013.
  

Childsplay (Tempe, AZ)
for the New Plays for Young Audiences Symposium

• $112,500 over 45 months - In partnership with Indiana Repertory Theatre, this project will support the research, planning, and execution of two national symposia, providing artists, theatres and universities with the opportunity to expand the canon of new work for young people.

Eastside Arts Alliance (Oakland, CA)

• $67,500 over 24 months - To strengthen the national infrastructure for Jazz presenting, through a national dialogue with specific Black musicians and various presenters and cultural organizations who are committed to sustain or revive the Afro American roots of jazz.
   

Fractured Atlas on behalf of American Dance Abroad (New York, NY

• $196,875 over 18 months - For American Dance Abroad, a pilot program to implement a broad-based, strategic international export plan for American dance that will utilize relationship building, expanded global visibility and enhanced access to American dance.
   

Network of Ensemble Theaters (Los Angeles, CA)
 

• $163,125 over 24 months - For the NET Touring and Exchange Network (NET/TEN), a project to strengthen the national infrastructure for the presenting and theater fields through the introduction of a new initiative that places ensembles/artists at the center of the touring paradigm.
  

South Arts (Atlanta, GA)

• $225,000 over 24 months - For ArtsReady, an online tool will help organizations in the arts sector plan for and respond to emergency situations, mitigate damage, and protect our national cultural and artistic heritage.
  
  

Urban Bush Women (Brooklyn, NY)

• $67,500 over 18 months -  For Project Next Generation, a convening exploring support for the next generation of female choreographers of color.
  

2010 Grants

for The Dancers' Health Insurance Resource Center

• $160,000 over 2 years - To provide national counseling for small nonprofit dance companies, dancers and their families on insurance options and subsidies available prior to 2014's national mandates.

Arena Stage (Washington, DC) 

for From Scarcity to Abundance – Capturing the Moment for the New Work Sector

• $148,143 over 1 year - To convene as many as 100 participants from a broad cross-section of America’s new play sector with the goal of strengthening the environment and advancing the effectiveness of new dramatic work nationwide. 

• $60,000 over 2 years - To expand the Help Desk program, which analyzes and strengthens the administration and infrastructure of contemporary dance in the US through pilot programs in targeted cities, research, and regional and national convenings. 

• $200,000 over 2.5 years - To develop and promote a pilot called the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP), which will support the practice of curatorial process, contribute to curriculum development and support the creation of new movement-based work.

• $115,207 over 2 years - To leverage local investment in a program to help foster a culture of innovation and healthy organizational change for arts organizations operating in non-metropolitan communities, which employs community-wide convenings for local arts leaders, and a core program in which selected organizations focus on developing and prototyping innovative strategic responses to major challenges.

• $200,000 over 2 years - To expand the online presentation of contemporary performance.

• $75,000 over 2.5 years - To work with six national performing arts networks to develop a vision and model for a pilot program called the National Directing and Ensemble Creation Institute, dedicated to training the next generation of theater artists of color, and for peer dialogue and exchange.

2009 Grants

August Wilson Center (Pittsburgh, PA)

for the National Black Theater Initiative Convening

• $100,000 over 15 months – To convene a national gathering of Black playwrights and theater practitioners to identify critical issues of common concern and plan for collaborative development.

Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University (New York, NY)

for the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute

• $110,000 over 2 years - To implement, in collaboration with American Composers Orchestra, a two-part Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, consisting of a five-day Intensive (part one) and Readings and Concert (part two).

DANCECleveland (Cleveland, OH)

• $120,000 over 2 years – A consortia comprised of DANCECLeveland, Dance St. Louis and Dance Affiliates- Philadelphia will stem the decline of dance in the Midwest via the stimulation of presenter growth, enhanced opportunities for dance companies and presenter mentorships.

Fractured Atlas (New York, NY)

for ATHENA Tix

• $100,000 over 1 year – To develop a new open-source ticketing application for the national performing arts community.

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (Columbus, OH)

for Jazz Audience Initiative

• $200,000 over 21 months – To develop strategies to overcome perceptual, practical and experiential barriers to participation in jazz performance, as well as develop strategies to expand jazz audiences.

Leveraging Investments in Creativity (New York, NY)

for the National Health Insurance for Artists Initiative

• $145,650 over 2 years – To connect independent performing artists with information on access to affordable health insurance and health care, and to provide knowledge building and advocacy efforts that engage performing artists in national and local policy discussions.

Network of Ensemble Theaters (Los Angeles, CA)

for the Ensembles All-together Building Capacity (Ensembles ABC) Program

• $150,000 over 2.25 years – To support NET in the design, pilot phase and evaluation/ documentation of the Ensembles ABC Program, which will use field experts and peer exchange to build ensembles’ organizational capacity, secure the artistic future of ensemble theater-making, and share ensembles’ expertise in group leadership process and practice.

Youth Speaks (San Francisco, CA)

for the LIFE branding initiative

• $150,000 over 19 months – To host eco-equity interdisciplinary performance events in parks in underserved neighborhoods, in a community-based convening that intersects environmental activism, interdisciplinary performance and next-generation artistic curation.

2008 Grants

Dance Heritage Coalition (Washington, DC)

for the Dance Heritage Leadership Forum

• $136,000 over 19 months – To convene prominent professionals to provide vision and guidance for the field of dance heritage over the next decade.

Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (New York, NY)

for the Digital Performance Institute

• $82,000 over 21 months – To build and establish a national multi-disciplinary and publicly accessible performing arts production/ artist database.

MAPP International Productions (New York, NY)

for the Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium

• $200,000 over 2.25 years – To strengthen equitable cultural exchange between the U.S. performing arts community and artists and arts organizations on the African continent.

Quest: Arts for Everyone (Lanham, MD)

for QuestFest 2010

• $82,000 over 2 years – To support an international visual theatre festival that will take place in January 2010.

Theatre Bay Area (San Francisco, CA)

for Free Night of Theatre 2008

• $200,000 over 1 year – To support the national launch of Free Night of Theater in Fall 2008 in more than 100 cities.

2007 Grants

Leveraging Investments in Creativity (New York, NY)

for the National Health Insurance for Artists Initiative

• $150,000 over 2 years – To support efforts to increase access to affordable health care for artists and improve the delivery and structure of such services.

Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)

for the National Asian American Theatre Project

• $100,000 over 3 years – To support strategic planning, a 2009 conference and a 2010 festival in Minneapolis for a consortium of Asian American theatres in the U.S.

Opera America, Inc. (New York, NY)

for the National Performing Arts Convention

• $100,000 over 6 months – To support the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Urban Institute (Washington, DC)

• $150,000 over 1.5 years – To analyze services and living/ work conditions for individual artists in the United States as a follow-up to the 2003 Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists.