The Christopher Ludwick Foundation

2010-2011 Grant Awards

In the 2010-2011 year, the Christopher Ludwick Foundation awarded $211,500 in grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000 to the following organizations:

The Academy of Natural Sciences — For free admission and education programs for underserved students in the School District of Philadelphia, also outreach visits to schools.

After School Activities Partnerships/ASAP — For after-school enrichment clubs for students from low income families, including chess, debate, dance, and theater.

Astral Artists — For extended individualized residencies for musicians in public school classrooms without other music resources, coordinated with curriculum in math, writing, history, etc.

Big Picture Alliance — To support an art education program at Benjamin Rush High School and art education summer film programs.

College Prep at Penn Charter — To support a five-week academic summer program for students recruited from disadvantaged public schools particularly in the Penn Charter neighborhood.

Episcopal Community Services — For uniforms, tutoring, and school supplies for homeless and other disadvantaged children, helping to remove barriers to school attendance.

Hope Partnership for Education — To support an extended day program for middle school children, including music instruction, theater, tutoring, and college mentoring.

Intercultural Family Services Inc — To support the Music & Mentorship Program, teaming musician mentors with students of violin, piano, guitar, vocal arts, hip-hop dance, and African drumming.

International Ballet Exchange — To support ballet residencies at several Philadelphia schools and performances by students on their own and together with a professional ballet company.

iPRAXIS — For the Inspire program, which engages working scientists and engineers to mentor 7th and 8th grade students in public schools in Philadelphia.  

John Bartram Association — For year-round science and history education programs, including travelling and on-site programs and a children’s garden.

Little Kids Rock, Inc. — To support guitar instruction in underserved Philadelphia public schools.

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts — For Young People’s Concerts and for Connecting Arts-N-Schools program, bringing together teachers, students, and artists from a variety of genres.

Monell Chemical Senses Center — To support the Monell Science Apprenticeship Program, a summer program in which students work together with practicing scientists.

Musicopia — For a music education program in Philadelphia schools, including assemblies and cross-curricular music residencies.

Network Arts — For programs in a variety of academic subjects in which students in Philadelphia schools study a theme and design and produce an illustrative mosaic for their school.

Philadelphia Futures for Youth — For Sponsor-A-Scholar program, providing mentors and support for low-income students from Philadelphia high schools in preparing for college.

Philadelphia History Museum at Atwater Kent — To support lessons on Philadelphia history for visiting school children from Philadelphia public schools.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates — For Mural Corps, an education program to engage at-risk youth ages 14 to 22 in mural making.

Philadelphia Museum of Art — For Art Speaks, an arts-in education program that supports the School District’s 4th grade curriculum in art and literacy.

Philadelphia Reads — For Summer Reads Program for low-income students in grades 1 through 4.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights — For in-school playwriting workshops in the Philadelphia School District.

Project Forward Leap — For five-week residential summer institutes on college campuses for disadvantaged Philadelphia students. 

Public Citizens, Children & Youth (Picasso) — For in-depth art immersion in a Philadelphia public school.

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial — For Community Partnerships in the Arts, placing teaching artists in partnership with classroom teachers in Philadelphia public schools.

School District of Philadelphia — For the Office of Specialized Services to cover school expenses for students who cannot afford them.

Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education — To support environmental science education programs for Philadelphia public school children.

Settlement Music School — For Kaleidoscope, an arts program for low-income, inner-city pre-school students.

Stenton, NSCDA/PA — For History Hunters Youth Reporter Program, a year-long literacy-based curriculum for underserved Philadelphia school children.

Steppingstone Scholars Inc — To support the Summer Enrichment Program for students in 7th through 11th grades.

Villanova Initiative for Engaging Women — For after-school and summer residential programs in English, math, global studies, SAT preparation, and cultural enrichment.

Wagner Free Institute of Science — For student visits and outreach programming to schools in the Institute’s North Philadelphia neighborhood.

West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance — For Teen Writers Academy, a summer writing instruction program for ages 13 to 18, supplementing the School District curriculum.

White-Williams — For Scholar Services, academic enrichment for high-achieving low-income Philadelphia public high school students.