Partnerships & Coalitions

Posts about partnerships and coalitions

National Young Audiences Arts for Learning Network Awarded a Combined $175,000 in NEA’s Latest Major Funding Announcement

May 19, 2022 | lauren@ya.org

NEW YORK, NY — Young Audiences Arts for Learning (Young Audiences) has been approved for a $40,000 grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in support of the Trauma-informed and Responsive Practices (TARP) TA Program. Additionally, five Young Audiences affiliates — Arts for Learning Connecticut, Arts Partners Wichita, Chicago Arts…

Arts & Action in New Orleans!

May 11, 2022 | lauren@ya.org

We are so grateful to everyone who helped make this spring’s YA National Conference such an enriching, spirited, arts-filled, and action-packed gathering. Organized in partnership with our co-hosts at Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA), Arts & Action: Building Pathways for Partnership and Engagement in Classrooms and Communities was the YA network’s first in-person…

Arts & Action Keynote Address: "A Season for the Audacious and for the Courageous”

Apr 14, 2022 | emily@ya.org

In celebration of YA Week, we're sharing the virtual Keynote Address from Young Audiences Arts for Learning's 2022 National Conference, Arts & Action. In A Season for the Audacious and for the Courageous, Deirdre Johnson Burel of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation explores building partnerships, seizing the moment, re-imagining what is possible, and being the transformative change you want…

Arts ARE Education: Resolving to Support Arts Education Funding and Programs in the Post-Pandemic Era

Feb 9, 2021 | lauren@ya.org

Young Audiences Arts for Learning is proud to be part of a new national campaign in support of arts education for all students, Arts ARE Education. Led by the national leadership organizations of the National Coalition of Core Arts Standards, Arts ARE Education builds off the momentum of last year’s “Arts Education Is Essential” unified statement, which was signed by 113 national organizations …

Working Toward a Brighter Future: Our Commitment to Racial Equity

Jan 19, 2021 | lauren@ya.org

At Young Audiences Arts for Learning, we are taking an opportunity for reflection as we begin the new year. 2020 was incomparably difficult and painful, yet it has also issued a call to action and brought forth the beginnings of necessary change. While systemic racism and inequity are a daily lived experience for many of us, they can no longer be denied by those of us who have benefited from an…

Young Audiences Arts for Learning Supports Five Equity-Focused Initiatives Through FY21 Affiliate Development Fund

Jan 8, 2021 | lauren@ya.org

Young Audiences Arts for Learning (Young Audiences) has awarded five Affiliate Development Fund (ADF) grants for FY21 to support initiatives across the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network (YA Network) that address issues of racial justice impacting historically marginalized communities.   Each year, the ADF supports innovative projects and initiatives that advance the…

Young Audiences Arts for Learning Joins 1000+ Cultural Organizations and Creative Workers to Propose Plan for Putting Creative Workers to Work After Pandemic

Sep 14, 2020 | lauren@ya.org

Endorsers include major cultural organizations in all genres, national service organizations, and influential individuals including former National Endowment for the Arts Chair Jane Alexander and Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-nominated actress Annette Bening Young Audiences Arts for Learning, in partnership with Americans for the Arts and over 1000 cultural organizations…

Announcing New Partnership between Young Audiences and Lasting Smiles®

Aug 11, 2020 | emily@ya.org

Young Audiences Arts for Learning is excited to share our new partnership with Lasting Smiles® Organic and Sustainable “Lip Care that Cares”. Our partnership will increase accessible and sustainable funding for Young Audiences and support our mission to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts. Young Audiences is a cause close to the heart of …

Young Audiences Arts for Learning Welcomes New Director of Strategic Partnerships & Network Relations, Melissa Gawlowski Pratt

Aug 6, 2020 | emily@ya.org

NEW YORK, NY – August 6, 2020 – Young Audiences Arts for Learning (Young Audiences), the nation’s largest arts in education network, is pleased to announce that Melissa Gawlowski Pratt will join its national staff as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Network Relations.  In this role, Melissa will lead the development and implementation of strategic…

SEADAE White Paper Published: 'STEAM and the Role of the Arts in STEM'

Aug 1, 2020 | emily@ya.org

Congratulations to our partners at SEADAE (State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education) on the publication of their much-anticipated White Paper, STEAM and the Role of the Arts in STEM.  The paper advocates for the inclusion of the arts with other STEM subjects as part of a well-rounded education, championing equitable access to arts…