A trio of recent grants totaling hundreds of thousands from ArtPlace, a national funding organization that supports neighborhood revitalization based on arts and culture, may foster a boom in affordable artist housing in New Orleans as well as other benefits. ArtPlace, which began making grants in 2011, is a collaborative organization that consolidates donations from several philanthropies and public funders such as the Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The St. Claude Main Street and Civic Center, a neighborhood economic development organization, has received a $275,000…
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Two other New Orleans projects have received “placemaking” grants from ArtPlace. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation received $250,000 to “renovate a 19th-century building…
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Artspace, a non-profit real estate developer, received a grant of $1 million to convert the unused Bell School Campus, at 1010 North Galvez…
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