Pivotal Place: New York City
New York City has the potential to be a model 21st century sustainable urban community that cultivates civic life and the natural environment, encourages immigrant civic and political participation, supports individual achievement and artistic expression, and generates widely shared prosperity. The Fund’s New York City program aims to support the city’s efforts to be a force for positive change both within and beyond its borders.
Season of Cambodia, a festival that celebrates the revival of Cambodian arts and culture, kicked off its two-month run in New York City this week. Conceived by the Phnom Penh-based nonprofit Cambodian Living Arts, the festival showcases dance, visual arts, film, music, discussions, and more, in venues across New York City, and features 125 artists from Cambodia.
The Monica Bill Barnes and Company and Ballet Hispanico of New York will partake in the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's first dance residencies as part of the Pocantico Arts Collaborative this spring. Earlier this month, grants were awarded to each organization to develop new works as part of their residencies at The Pocantico Center. Both groups of will then return in the summer to perform their works in progress as part of Pocantico's summer performance season.
Artists in Motion looks at the lives of four artists as they develop and share their struggles, inspirations, and creative work. The artists include: Claudia Acuña, vocalist, The Jazz Gallery; Tania Bruguera, performance artist, Creative Time; Fran Romo, dancer, Gallim Dance; and Jose Zayas, director, Spanish Theatre Repertory Company.
$40,000 for 1 year
For strategic development planning.
$75,000 for 1 year
For capacity building.
$125,000 for 1 year 6 months
For its film collaboration with WNET and Three Thirds Productions.
The Story of Brownfields, written by Anita Nager, a recognized leader in the environmental field, documents the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s 14-year history of brownfield grantmaking and presents a narrative of the foundation’s choices, against a timeline its grantees’ activities and the brownfield remediation and redevelopment efforts of New York City and New York state.
Advancing the Civic and Political Participation of Immigrant Communities presents the rationale for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to focus more attention on advancing the civic and political engagement of New York immigrant communities.
This report examines the case of community organizing for educational equity and school improvement in New York City, represented by a network of neighborhood and citywide collaboratives. These collaboratives are engaging nonprofit organizations in low-income communities of color to become advocates, policy initiators, watchdogs, and civic constituents for school change.