NALAC's 20th Anniversary National Conference

SAN ANTONIO – The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) is pleased to announce the award of $107,000 to support eleven transnational projects as part of its new Transnational Cultural Remittances grant program.  The TCR program is generously funded by the Ford Foundation.
 
In this inaugural year, NALAC received 134 proposals with a total request amount of $2,334,459.  The proposals represent innovative exchanges between participants in all nine target countries.  The proposals received included innovative collaborations in the following areas: immigrant women's issues, literature, social justice, training in traditional medicinal herbs, economic empowerment, social justice theater, storytelling, environmental stewardship, craft/culture exchange, interactive multimedia website projects, cultural documentation, cultural research and dissemination, examination of the migrant experience through culinary practices, and performance art exchanges.

This new grant program seeks to identify and support exemplary cultural exchange projects that support grassroots artistic and cultural practices and strengthen social networks across national boundaries in transnational communities.  One and two year grants are available for projects that link two or more of the following countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and United States.  Projects demonstrating an ongoing connection between communities in two or more target countries are eligible for consideration to receive a TCR grant.
 
The NALAC Transnational Cultural Remittances Grant Initiative is made possible with funding from the Ford Foundation.  The TCR initiative, which was developed as an extension of the Ford Foundation’s Transnational Economic Justice Initiative (TEJI), builds on NALAC’s longstanding leadership role in addressing issues of social justice, cultural transmission and economic empowerment through the arts.  The TCR initiative will support the creation and dissemination of new artistic works which directly explore, engage and articulate the complex issues facing transnational communities in the U.S., Mexico and Central America.

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 Congratulations NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute Class of 2009!

NALAC congratulates participants of the 2009 NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute in Washington, DC:

Yolanda Alameda, Arts Administrator, Dallas, TX;
Melissa Cardona, Directing Manager, Mondo Bizarro, New Orleans, LA;
Margarita Espada, Artistic Director, Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja, Inc., Islip, NY;
Graciela Fonseca, Director, Dame Alas Latino Arts & Culture, Nampa, ID;
Adriana Gallego, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ; Jess Moreles, Executive Director, Teatro Vision, San Jose, CA;
Tanya Mote, Development Director, El Centro Su Teatro, Denver, CO;
Reuben Roqueñi, Grants Program Manager, The Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ.

The NALAC Advocacy Institute was made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, JPMorgan Chase and Southwest Airlines.

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