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Grant Title Funding Amount Due Date Summary
Amateur Chamber Music Players Foundation $1,000-$3,000 Ongoing Supports the playing and singing of chamber music for people of all ages and skill levels.
ASCAP Foundation Varies Ongoing Supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs.
Chamber Music America $10,000 10/22/10 Supports innovative collaborations of French and U.S. jazz artists (citizens or legal residents of their respective countries) that take place in one or both countries.
Charles Lafitte Foundation Grants Varies Ongoing To foster lasting improvement on the human condition by providing support to education, children's advocacy, medical research and the arts.
The Dana Foundation Varies Ongoing Supports innovative professional development programs leading to improved teaching of performing arts in public schools.
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation $5,000 to $20,000 8/15 & 3/15 To support direct costs for catalogues and other publications accompanying contemporary art exhibitions and projects.
Fine Arts Programs $2,000 Ongoing National Education Association (NEA) Fine Arts grants are awarded to teachers, through local NEA affiliates, to enable them to create and implement fine arts programs that promote learning among students at risk of school failure.
French American Jazz Exchange Program $10,000 Ongoing To foster collaborative projects that unite French and American jazz artists.
Grammy Foundation Varies 10/1/10 Provides grants for music archiving and preservation effortsand for scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.
Guitar Center Music $500-$5,000 Ongoing Mission is to aid nonprofit music programs across America that offer music instruction so that more people can experience the joys of making music.
Howard Foundation $25,000 11/1/10 Approximately ten fellowships will be offered for the 2010-2011 year to support persons engaged in independent projects in the following fields: Visual Arts, Media Studies, and the History of Art and Architecture.
In-school Music Projects $5,000 1-Feb The Mockingbird Foundation is offering grants for in-school music projects that promote creative expression through music.
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Milagro Foundation $2,500 - $5,000 Various Dates The Milagro Foundation focuses on serving at-risk, underrepresented and disadvantaged youth through educational programs and health services. The foundation also supports artistic and culturally enriching programs that strengthen youth and communities.
Partners in Arts Education Program Varies Ongoing To support exemplary partnerships between community schools of the arts and public schools to provide sequential, skill-based arts instruction to K-12 students.
Puffin Foundation $1,000 and $2,500 Various Dates The foundation makes grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater, dance, photography, and literature.
Princess Grace Foundation Varies     Various Dates Awards in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships will be given to students or film programs that excel in theater, playwriting, dance performance, choreography, or film
Shubert Foundation Varies Various Dates The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States, with a particular emphasis on theater and a secondary focus on dance.
Sundance Institute Varies 9/24/10 To emerging or established screenwriters in the early stages of a science or technology-themed (fiction) narrative screenplay.
Target Arts in Education Grants $3,000 Various Dates Funds programs that bring arts to schools or school children to the arts.
The Melody Program of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation $500-$5,000 Ongoing The Melody program is designed to provide musical instruments and instrument repairs to existing K-12 school music programs that have no other source of financing to purchase additional musical instruments and materials. Eligibility: schools that meet the requirements outlined on the website.
Using Music to Teach Math (K-2) $3,000 11/12/10 The purpose of this grant is to incorporate music into the elementary school classroom to help young students learn mathematics.