December 19, 2007

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation
Board of Directors

Arts

Artistic Creativity

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
$750,000
To strengthen the capacity of the folk and traditional arts field and to support regranting for apprenticeships and projects in California, payable over 42 months.

Film Independent
$150,000
To support “Project:Involve,” an artist-development program for talented, underrepresented filmmakers, payable over 36 months.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
$225,000
For the "Living Traditions: Next Steps" project, including the creation of new musical works that expand upon traditional Mexican music and related performances in underserved communities throughout California, payable over 36 months.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
$350,000
For "California Vistas: New Composers, New Genres, New Works," a statewide initiative to commission new works from California composers who have not yet written for, or had a work performed by, a professional orchestra, payable over 48 months.

San Francisco Ballet Association
$100,000
To commission 10 new ballets in celebration of the company's 75th anniversary, payable over 6 months.

The Sundance Institute
$600,000
For “The New Frontier” initiative, which would provide support to emerging independent artists to expand the diversity and creative boundaries of the next generation of independent filmmaking, payable over 36 months.

Walter and Elise Haas Fund
$600,000
For regranting support for the Creative Work Fund, which would foster the creation of new art works through collaborations between individual artists and organizations, payable over 36 months.

Cultural Participation

Ford Theatre Foundation
$375,000
For the “Community Bridges Program,” an outreach and audience-development initiative, to increase participation of traditionally underserved communities in the performing arts, payable over 36 months.

Grand Performances
$300,000
To present artists from Latin America and Central/Eastern Asia, as part of Grand Performances' free summer season, payable over 36 months.

Special Projects

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
$500,000
To restore and enhance the James Irvine Japanese Garden, payable over 24 months.

California Perspectives

Mobilizing Californians

Asian Law Caucus
$300,000
To facilitate opportunities for low-income and immigrant Asian Pacific Americans to discuss community concerns with state and local public officials, payable over 24 months.

Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
$300,000
To facilitate dialogues between low-income residents in South
Los Angeles and public officials on neighborhood safety and policies for land use and economic development, payable over 24 months.

Community Partners
$375,000
To support Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas en Norte América, which would engage Latino immigrants residing in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties in state and local policymaking on education, health and other issues, payable over 36 months.

Crystal Stairs
$200,000
To facilitate opportunities for low-income parents in Los Angeles to engage with public officials on quality child care issues, payable over 24 months.

University of Southern California
$600,000
To conduct a leadership institute for African American clergy focused on enhancing civic participation among Los Angeles congregations, payable over 36 months.

Youth

Academically Rigorous Career and Technical Education

Biotech Partners
$200,000
To increase the number of low-income and underrepresented youth who consider careers in the field of biotechnology, payable over 24 months.

Center for Collaborative Education
$475,000
To launch a network of small, college- and career-focused high schools in the Belmont Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles, payable over 12 months.

Project GRAD Los Angeles
$300,000
To promote high school graduation, college attendance and career preparation of low-income students in the San Fernando Valley, payable over 24 months.

Teachers College, Columbia University
$4,400,000
For an initiative to support partnerships between California high schools and community colleges that offer career-related dual-enrollment pathways, payable over 36 months.

Instruction and Support Services

Regents of the University of California
$375,000
To pilot a program of teacher training, online curriculum delivery and intensive language development to promote high school completion and college readiness of English learners in three Southern California high school districts, payable over 36 months.

Special Projects

Action Against Crime and Violence Education Fund
$200,000
To mobilize law enforcement leaders to educate policymakers on the urgency of addressing California's high school dropout crisis, payable over 24 months.

WestEd
$450,000
To conduct research and review policies on non academic barriers to student learning and engagement in California schools, payable over
12 months.

Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
$250,000
For a final grant in support of the CORAL Initiative in San Jose, payable over 6 months.

Sacramento Children's Home
$250,000
For a final grant in support of the CORAL Initiative in Sacramento, payable over 6 months.

Cross Program

Community Foundations Initiative II

La Piana Associates
$115,000
For continued board development consultation and training for the nine California community foundation participants in the Community Foundations Initiative II, payable over 12 months.

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, successful and inclusive society. The Foundation’s grantmaking is organized around three program areas: Arts, Youth and California Perspectives, which focuses on increasing public understanding of critical issues facing the state. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided over $1 billion in grants to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations throughout California. With current assets of over $1.8 billion, the Foundation expects to make grants of $75 million in 2007 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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