2:1 Community Foundation of Broward
matching grant targets new donors, expanded audience to support new
cultural and arts projects
New donors who give to any of the arts
and cultural projects posted at power2give.org/broward will see that donation triple thanks to
a $100,000 matching grant from the Community Foundation of Broward to support
artistic projects by non-profit organizations in Broward County.
Facilitated by Business for the Arts Broward, the initiative is designed to
attract and encourage new donors. Through December 15, any donations made by new
donors to the projects will be matched 2:1 up to $10,000 by the Community Foundation of Broward. That means a $25 donation
will result in $75 for the project. For more information contact Lois Marino,
program coordinator, Business for the Arts of Broward at 954-940-6373 or lmarino@bfabroward.org.
Own the
Overpath -- YMCA of Broward
County
The
YMCA of Broward County strengthens the foundations of community through youth
development, healthy living, and social responsibility.
The
Florida Turnpike Overpass in the City of Lauderhill has become an imposing and
divisive obstacle for its surrounding communities. Own
the Overpath engages
Lauderhill students, parents, and residents to increase the safety of the
Overpath. This dangerous crosswalk connects students who live to the west of
the Turnpike in Central Lauderhill to their school and YMCA in East
Lauderhill.
Youth and
community members who use this pedestrian bridge daily are exposed to a dark,
littered, dangerous crossing where many report being the victim of assaults and
intimidation.
Own the
Overpath is seeking additional funding to transform the chain link fences and
the surrounding sidewalks with colorful textures that are derived from various
workshops conducted with members of the Lauderhill community.
Own
the Overpath is a
powerful and unique opportunity for highly visible community artwork to visually
demonstrate how art changes public perception and results in positive community
action. Donations will provide additional support for art supplies for
improvements around shade structures, side walk improvements, and improvements
to the fence.
2. Circle
of Friends & Stars – Cultural
Masks
From
November to December the Circle
of Friends & Stars will be presenting workshops creating
Cultural Masks which will provide 45 adults with Autism, Down Syndrome &
those with developmental disabilities, ages 18+ with the opportunity to design,
create and showcase their creative skills.
The
project gives these otherwise neglected special needs adults a chance to express
themselves in positive, creative ways that reinforce confidence and artistic
abilities.
The
Circle of Friends & Stars is seeking funds to enhance this project by
purchasing specialty materials; clay, tools, special glazes, canvas and
adornments along with art instructors related to this project. Each
participating special needs adult will be able to showcase their ABILITY and
learn to prepare their individual items for public
exhibits.
Approximately
45 special needs adults and new donors who wish to join in the project are
invited to participate in the Workshops.
3. Oscar
Thomas Foundation – Senior Masterpiece Program
The Oscar Thomas
Foundation is committed to promoting a healthy senior citizen community. This
includes ensuring that senior residents have creative outlets to help them work
through depression, loneliness and other disorders. To address this concern, we
established a Senior Masterpiece Program that encourages seniors to create and
become their own masterpiece.
Since 2004, hundreds of
senior citizens have participated in this sought after program, held at the
Herbert Sadkin Community Center in Lauderhill. In addition to teaching the arts,
The Foundation sponsors the costs of art supplies, materials, transportation and
admission to museums, exhibits, plays, and other art related field
trips.
The Foundation is
seeking your support with a senior citizen therapeutic arts initiative that
focuses on the visual side of the brain that normally expresses unconscious
feelings through images instead of words. This program uses multidisciplinary
art to encourage lifelong learning.
Beginning January – May
2014, at the Sadkin Center, the Foundation will offer program enrollment to
Broward County senior citizens. In a two-hour weekly class, participants will
learn to use visual art, music, drama, creative writing, and other disciplines
as empowerment.
The program promotes
health, wellness, self discovery, emotional healing and lifelong learning
activities by helping senior citizens:
· promote creative
expression;
· tap
into the imagination;
· examine the body,
feelings, emotions, and thought process;
· explore dance, drama,
music, visual arts, writing, poetry, and their effects;
· improve senior citizen
confidence in their own creativity;
· give voice to what is
felt within;
· gain knowledge of the
therapeutic advantages of expression through the arts.
4. Mental Health
Association of Broward County: Recovery Rocks
Many years ago rocking chairs emerged
as an aid for treatment of various ailments. Rocking regularly is shown to calm
the spirit, soothe a stressed body, and refocus the mind more pleasantly.
9Muses’s Recovery Rocks program combines the holistic benefits of
rocking chairs with the artistic beauty of the mental health community. This
program will enable MHA to purchase 12 unfinished, high-grade rocking chairs to
be personally painted by the artists and used in the Center to benefit our
members.
For close to
20 years, we have focused on recovery through the arts and have provided free
membership to more than 4,000 individuals with mental illness. Each of our
members brings a unique talent and vision to the Art Center and this
project. The artists work individually and collaboratively to promote healthy
expression through creative opportunities. 9MusesArtCenter at the Mental Health
Association office has also successfully created and provided public art at
locations such as South Florida State Hospital, Broward Health, Florida Medical
Center and Henderson Behavioral Health.9Muses serves as a social center and
source of support, where members can shed the stigma of mental illness and
collaborate on visual and performing arts. Classes are offered for an array of
activities. Each of the artist’s work is available for sale at the Center and
directly benefits the artist. Once 9Muses is equipped with the rockers to meet
the needs of our members, we will begin working with other providers to spread
the benefits of Recovery Rocks.
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