October 9, 2009

Grants Approved by The James Irvine Foundation
Board of Directors

Arts

Arts Regional Initiative

The following grants recommended as part of the Arts Regional Initiative share the same objective: to increase organizational financial sustainability and cultural participation, and are payable over 36 months.

Charles W. Bowers Museum Corporation
$400,000

Cygnet Theatre Company
$325,000

Harder+Company Community Research
$450,000

Laguna Art Museum
$375,000

Mainly Mozart Festival
$325,000

Oceanside Museum of Art
$300,000

Orange County Museum of Art
$400,000

Redlands Community Music Association
$275,000

Riverside Art Museum
$225,000

Saint Joseph Ballet Company
$375,000

San Bernardino Symphony Association
$350,000

San Diego Chamber Orchestra
$275,000

Cultural Participation

Armory Center for the Arts
$300,000
For the Community Pathways program, providing free arts programming in accessible neighborhood venues for underserved children, teens and their families, payable over 36 months.

Craft and Folk Art Museum Incorporating the Egg and the Eye
$150,000
For Folk Art Everywhere, an audience development initiative targeting 23 Los Angeles neighborhoods, payable over 36 months.

Humboldt Area Foundation
$360,000
For the Native Cultures Fund, a regranting initiative supporting California Native American arts and cultural traditions, and for the development of the Two Worlds Institute to promote and enable the transfer of leadership within the Native American community, payable over 36 months.

Palm Springs Art Museum
$$375,000
To support expanded outreach to and participation by the Coachella Valley Latino community through a multifaceted audience development initiative, payable over 36 months.

California Democracy

Civic Engagement

Faith in Action Kern County
$180,000
To involve Kern County residents in public decision making on issues related to affordable housing, public safety and health, payable over 36 months.

Governance Reform

Capitol Impact
$700,000
To support the nonpartisan California Legislative Staff Education Institute, payable over 36 months.

KQED
$905,000
To support statewide radio news coverage of significant policy and governance issues for California, including a special series on governance and fiscal issues in the context of the 2010 gubernatorial election, payable over 36 months.

Special Projects

Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
$250,000
To increase the participation of California's Asian American and Pacific Islander populations in the 2010 census through trainings, media outreach and regranting to community partners, payable over 9 months.

California Rural Legal Assistance
$250,000
To increase the participation of residents in California's low income rural communities in the 2010 census through trainings and outreach, payable over 12 months.

Liberty Hill Foundation
$1,200,000
To support regranting and capacity building for civic engagement projects designed to improve social and economic conditions within Los Angeles' disadvantaged communities, payable over 36 months.

NALEO Educational Fund
$400,000
To increase the participation of California's Latino population in the 2010 census through trainings, regranting to community assistance centers, a bilingual hotline and media outreach, payable over 9 months.

Youth

Multiple Pathways Policy

Education Trust
$300,000
To assure rigor and equity in the scaling up of the multiple pathways approach in California high schools, payable over 24 months.

New America Foundation
$250,000
For the Blueprint for Community College Success project in California, payable over 24 months.

Multiple Pathways Practice

Stanford University
$500,000
To support the District Leadership Series of the California Multiple Pathways District Initiative, payable over 24 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 $1.4 billion in assets, the Foundation made grants of $78 million in 2008 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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