June 15, 2006

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation Board of Directors

Arts

Artistic Creativity

American Composers Forum of San Francisco
$250,000
For the statewide expansion of the Subito regranting program and for professional and artistic development programs for California composers, payable over 2 years.

East West Players
$300,000
To expand the New Works Development Program serving Asian and Pacific Islander artists and playwrights in Los Angeles, payable over 3 years.

La Peña Cultural Center
$200,000
For the ImaginARTe program, supporting individual artists to create new work through commissioning projects, artist residencies, and presenting partnerships, payable over 3 years.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
$200,000
To support the creation and development of new artistic work through commissions, recording, and performances, payable over 3 years.

Artistic Innovation Fund

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
$700,000
To support artistic, programmatic, and institutional changes that incorporate the perspectives of contemporary artists, payable over 3 years.

Japanese American National Museum
$800,000
To support a model program for how culturally specific arts organizations can adapt to increasingly multiethnic audiences, payable over 3 years.

Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
$900,000
To create a multimedia museum experience that extends the visitor's experience beyond the museum walls, payable over 3 years.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
$700,000
To reinstall and enhance the Gallery of California Art and art programming, payable over 3 years.

San Diego Opera Association
$600,000
To engage new audiences and deepen the participation of traditional opera attendees through relationship marketing and enhanced theatricality, payable over 3 years.

San Francisco Symphony
$800,000
To use innovative cultural participation strategies to engage new audiences in the southern San Francisco Peninsula, payable over 3 years.

Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County (dba The LaJolla Playhouse)
$700,000
To develop a production and audience development model for new theater work, payable over 3 years.

Connection Through Cultural Participation

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation
$400,000
To transform educational programming based on partnerships with educators and arts organizations, payable over 3 years.

Special Projects in the Arts

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
$450,000
To support information technology enhancements to improve organizational capacity, payable over 2 years.

California Perspectives

Informing Californians

PolicyLink
$500,000
To provide information and analyses that inform civic engagement efforts in low income communities related to housing, school facilities, and other issues, payable over 2 years.

Public Policy Institute of California
$300,000
To conduct four statewide surveys related to the November election and to cohost a post election event to discuss survey findings and the state's future, payable over 9 months.

Infusing New Ideas and Perspectives for Effective Governance

Regents of the University of California
$170,000
To conduct a study examining group disparities in civic and political participation in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, payable over 2 years.

Mobilizing Californians

Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
$200,000
To conduct trainings and provide opportunities for low income residents to communicate with public officials on environmental health issues, payable over 2 years.

California Votes Initiative

Pacific Institute for Community Organization
$1,300,000
To conduct nonpartisan voter education and mobilization activities directed to low propensity voters in the Central Valley and the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino, as part of the California Votes Initiative, payable over 30 months.

Youth

Improving Instruction and Support Services

AVID Center
$400,000
To pilot an extension of the AVID model to students who are English Language Learners performing in the lowest quartile academically in a Los Angeles County school district, payable over 1 year.

Center for Applied Linguistics
$700,000
To pilot a model for improved subject-area instruction for English Language Learners in high school and college in the Central Valley, payable over 2 years.

Commonwealth Corporation
$750,000
To support the expansion of the Diploma Plus model in California, including the development of a competency and performance based academic measures system for alternative high schools, payable over 2 years.

National Hispanic University
$300,000
To demonstrate a program for improving the academic performance of Latino English Language Learners and to help them complete a rigorous pre collegiate secondary school program, payable over 2 years.

PUENTE Learning Center
$300,000
For a pilot project to provide supplementary mathematics instruction and other academic support services to increase the academic achievement and persistence of low income inner-city high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, payable over 2 years.

Riverside Community College District Foundation
$300,000
To develop and test an academically rigorous career-and-technical-education model, including internship and concurrent college enrollment opportunities, to increase high school retention and college-going rates at a high school in Riverside County, payable over 2 years.

Promoting Academically Challenging Career and Technical Education

The Community Foundation
$300,000
To prepare underrepresented San Bernardino County high school students for math, technology, engineering, and science related postsecondary programs and careers, payable over 2 years

CV Economic
$300,000
To support an ongoing initiative to develop new educational and career pathways for low income youth in the Coachella Valley, payable over 2 years.

Special Projects in Youth

Campaign for College Opportunity
$400,000
For core operating support, payable over 2 years.

CORAL

Fresno CORAL
$1,200,000
For the final year of implementation support of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) Initiative in Fresno, payable over 1 year.

Public/Private Ventures
$1,575,000
To improve the quality and effectiveness of the after school programming in the five cities of the CORAL Initiative through the provision of management, technical assistance, communications, and evaluation services, payable over 18 months.

Cross Program

BoardSource
$250,000
To refine and test an innovative diagnostic tool to assess board behaviors, dynamics, and effectiveness, and for core operating support, payable over 2 years.

Community Foundations Initiative II

FSG
$340,000
To support eight community foundations to identify and implement sustainable business models, and to research and document lessons for the field about community foundation growth, as part of the Community Foundations Initiative II, payable over 1 year.

Total

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, inclusive, and successful society. The Foundation’s grantmaking is organized around three program areas: Arts, Youth, and California Perspectives, which focuses on improving decision-making on the significant issues that are shaping California’s future. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided more than $900 million in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout California. With current assets of more than $1.7 billion, the Foundation expects to make grants of $69 million in 2006 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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