December 13, 2011

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation
Board of Directors

Arts

Artistic Creativity

18th Street Arts Center
$175,000
To support California artists to create new work and engage with audiences, payable over 36 months.

Center for Cultural Innovation
$1,125,000
To support regranting to California artists, organizational strategic planning and new project incubation, payable over 36 months.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
$140,000
To support residencies for diverse California artists and expand outreach efforts to underserved populations, payable over 36 months.

Headlands Center for the Arts
$175,000
To support residencies for California artists and public programming for local audiences, payable over 36 months.

Kala Institute
$175,000
To provide residencies for California visual artists that include access to print and media equipment, professional development and exhibition opportunities, payable over 36 months.

Malashock Dance & Company
$145,000
To further enhance the artistic capability of the company by strengthening its organizational infrastructure and executive and artistic leadership, payable over 36 months.

Montalvo Association
$175,000
To provide residencies for California artists at its Lucas Artists Residency, payable over 36 months.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
$265,000
For New Visions/New Vistas II, a statewide initiative to commission new symphonic works by emerging California composers, payable over 36 months.

San Jose Museum of Art Association
$190,000
To commission and exhibit new work by California artists with ties to Pacific Rim communities that are reflective of the cultures in San Jose and Silicon Valley, payable over 24 months.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central
$115,000
To support the Armed with a Camera fellowship program for emerging media artists, payable over 36 months.

ZER01: The Art and Technology Network
$150,000
To commission and present the work of California artists that incorporates technology to diverse audiences at the 2012 ZER01 Biennial, payable over 12 months.

Arts Leadership

Old Globe Theatre
$500,000
To engage San Diego's underserved communities in the creation of live theatre, payable over 24 months.

Cultural Participation

HUC Skirball Cultural Center
$225,000
To sustain Latin American audiences by presenting programs that encompass Latin American and Jewish cultures and history, payable over 36 months.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society
$225,000
To broaden audiences in two geographically distinct Los Angeles communities and expand the organization's capacity to engage audiences through electronic media, payable over 36 months.

University of Southern California
$225,000
To support KUSC's coverage of the Southern California arts community through its Spotlight on the Arts and Arts Alive programs, payable over 36 months.

California Democracy

Civic Engagement

Center for Community Advocacy
$375,000
To facilitate the participation of Monterey County farmworkers and other low-income residents in public decision making, payable over 36 months.

Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment
$525,000
To facilitate greater participation in public decision making among residents in three South Los Angeles communities, payable over 36 months.

Harder+Company Community Research
$125,000
To evaluate Irvine's Families Improving Education Initiative, payable over 12 months.

Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development
$200,000
To involve Orange County residents in public decision making on issues related to land use, economic development and public safety, payable over 18 months.

Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas
$250,000
To facilitate the participation of women farmworkers in public decision making, payable over 24 months.

Pacific Institute for Community Organizations
$1,200,000
To involve residents in local and state policy decision making throughout California, payable over 24 months.

Public Health Institute
$300,000
To involve low-income San Joaquin Valley residents in public decision making on regional plans to improve transportation, housing accessibility and the environment, payable over 24 months.

Governance Reform

Advancement Project
$100,000
To create a public online mapping and data tool designed to inform municipal redistricting processes and provide related technical assistance, payable over 19 months.

California Forward
$400,000
To support the Partnership for Community Excellence, payable over 24 months.

Chief Probation Officers of California Foundation
$250,000
To inform the realignment of corrections services through the dissemination of data analyses, research and best practices, payable over 24 months.

New America Foundation
$350,000
To establish the California Civic Innovation Project, payable over 24 months.

Pacific News Service
$250,000
To expand ethnic media's capacity to cover California governance reform issues and the 2012 elections, payable over 12 months.

Public Policy Institute of California
$2,000,000
To conduct the Californians and Their Government survey series, maintain an online data site and conduct public and policymaker education activities, payable over 36 months.

Special Projects

Center for Investigative Reporting
$500,000
To support California Watch, payable over 24 months.

Youth

Linked Learning Practice: Opportunity Links for Youth Initiative

The Bay Area Video Coalition
$125,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes for out-of-school youth in digital media, arts and design pathways, payable over 6 months.

Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology
$75,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes for out-of-school youth in digital media, arts and design pathways, payable over 6 months.

First Place for Youth
$125,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes for out-of-school youth in health industry pathways, payable over 6 months.

South Bay Center for Counseling
$125,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes for out-of-school youth in digital media, arts and design pathways, payable over 6 months.

Taller San Jose
$125,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes of out-of-school youth in health industry pathways, payable over 6 months.

Youth Radio
$125,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes of out-of-school youth in digital media, arts and design pathways, payable over 6 months.

Youth Uprising
$125,000
To plan and develop a program that advances college and career outcomes of out-of-school youth in health industry and/or digital media, arts and design pathways, payable over 6 months.

Linked Learning Practice

California State University, Fresno Foundation
$800,000
To support the Pathways to Engineering and Construction Management Careers partnership, payable over 36 months.

Gateway to College National Network
$400,000
To expand the Gateway to College program in California, payable over 24 months.

Institute For Evidence-Based Change
$1,000,000
To develop and implement a district data system to track student progress in the California Linked Learning District Initiative, payable over 24 months.

Los Angeles Small Schools Center
$400,000
To design a Linked Learning pathway implementation plan at Belmont High School and Castro Middle School in Los Angeles Unified Local District 4, payable over 6 months.

New Teacher Center
$600,000
To improve classroom instruction and strengthen teacher leadership in Linked Learning pathways through professional development and coaching, payable over 24 months.

San Diego State University Foundation
$1,000,000
To develop a network of graduate-level teacher preparation programs focused on Linked Learning, payable over 24 months.

Linked Learning Policy

Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation
$350,000
To improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instruction and support its integration with common core standards and Linked Learning, payable over 18 months.

Special Opportunities

The Exploratorium
$1,000,000
For the Exploratorium's capital campaign to build a new facility in San Francisco, including program support of the Latino Audience Engagement Initiative, payable over 12 months.

Nonprofit Finance Fund
$2,000,000
To support California-based projects of ArtPlace, a public/private partnership to promote the role of arts and culture in building livable, sustainable communities, payable over 12 months.

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About The James Irvine Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation dedicated to expanding opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful and inclusive society. The Foundation’s grantmaking focuses on three program areas: Arts, California Democracy and Youth. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided over $1 billion in grants to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations throughout California. With $1.6 billion in assets, the Foundation made grants of $65 million in 2010 for the people of California.

For more information about the Irvine Foundation, please visit our Web site at www.irvine.org or call 415.777.2244.

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