3rd i South Asian Independent Film will develop new partnerships with Bay Area Asian and Muslim organizations, curate relevant programs to increase audiences among Sri Lankans and Malayalam-speaking immigrants from South India, and expand social impact beyond San Francisco by organizing programs in the Bay Area. 

The 509 Cultural Center will create a four-story cultural complex by developing partnerships with local non-profit arts presenters, expanding presenting programs, and working with the city's elected and appointed officials. 

The Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose will to support the new Associate Artistic Director and strengthen partnerships with San Jose Taiko; stage a multi-media concert with a Mexican-born artist exploring Latino and Indian American immigration issues; and launch a new teacher-training program. 

The African-American Shakespeare Company will develop an "ACTive Engagement Series" to enhance the cultural experience and offer free public events in conjunction with the normal production program schedule. 

ALICE: Arts and Literacy in Children's Education will create "Stories from the New Ellis Island," a radio project highlighting immigrant stories from over 400 oral history interviews. 

The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center will support outreach and development of coordinated arts programs serving LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) artists in the Bay Area by serving a diverse pan-Asian constituency and fostering relationships between LGBTQ APIA artists and the broader community through shared arts and culture. 

Army of Lovers will expand artistic programs that benefit the gay community, organize a year-long series of arts-related intergenerational AIDS programs, and stage two arts events exploring the issue of body image among gay men. 

The Arts Council Napa Valley will expand the Napa Valley ARTS 2011 program (over 100 arts events) by partnering with the Napa Valley Destination Council to pursue a shared goal of increasing cultural tourism. 

The Asian American Women Artists' Association will present and expand programming for a series of literary and performance events to be filmed and made available to the public online as part of an Archives Project; and to support artists, curators, coordinator, and webmaster. 

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center will support partnerships with Asian Pacific Islander (API) arts organizations to celebrate San Francisco's Asian American Arts heritage through a six-week festival featuring music, dance, visual arts, and poetry.

The Association for the Advancement of Filipino-American Arts and Culture will continue "PAN Paghahalaga (Values)," a project that engages visual artists, writers, and videographers to explore Filipino values as they pertain to animating democracy, clarifying the understanding of Filipinos as a community, and increasing democratic discourse. 

AXIS Dance Company will support Get InMotion! which brings lecture demonstrations and year-long dance classes to staff and constituents from seven disability organizations at the Ed Roberts Campus; the project culminates in a site-specific work performed by AXIS and class participants. 

Baulines Craft Guild will develop a collaborative project with Art Works Downtown Art Center of San Rafael to provide after-school classes to middle school students as well as workshops and Master classes for adults in a wide range of art and craft mediums. 

Bethany Center Foundation of San Francisco will support programs that improve the quality of life of Bethany Center residents and seniors living in and around San Francisco; and to support the expansion of "Ruth's Table," a project providing art, music and creative expression to this underserved community. 

CASA 0101, Inc. will expand current theater, filmmaking, art, and dance programs at a new venue with greater outreach to engage members of the community and nurture future storytellers of Los Angeles.

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics will produce and promote community access to "Globalize This!--International Graphics of Resistance," a 60–80 piece poster exhibit on issues impacted by corporate globalization including war, ecology, labor, immigration and prisons. 

Centro de Unidad Popular Benito Juarez, Inc. will utilize the concept of "From Oaxaca to California" to organize a series of events traditional to the State of Oaxaca (Mexico), bringing indigenous culture and traditions to local communities in California. 

City at Peace will fund "Street Theater," a new program in which artists mentor teens in the creation of street performances; and to increase new audiences for art events, especially youth. 

Collage Dance Theater, Inc. will fund "Expulsion," an interdisciplinary public performance to take place in vacant lots of three neighborhoods in collaboration with local community groups and civic leaders creating opportunities for dialogue with members of the community. 

Company of Angels will expand the Alexandria Workshops, a community project of theatre workshops and performances giving artistic voice to low-income housing residents of the Alexandria Hotel and surrounding downtown Los Angeles areas. 

The Croatian Cultural Center of San Francisco will support California-based Master artists who will appear in the Bulgarian Music and Dance Festival, the 2011 Croatia Festival, and Cultural Crossroads. These three programs provide an opportunity for the underserved Balkan community to perform and practice traditional Balkan art forms. 

Dell'Arte will support the Rural Residency Program, bringing professional theatre to the rural communities of Orleans and Bridgeville in Humboldt and Trinity counties which, due to economic and geographic isolation, have not experienced live theatre; and involve the communities in the theatre-making process to highlight the cultural uniqueness of each area. 

Door Dog Music Productions will support the production of a new Festival School Show, "Cultural Awareness Through Music," so that 3,000 minority students from 15 of SFUSD's elementary, middle and high schools can have the opportunity to attend these diversity concerts. 

El Teatro Campesino will expand "The Miracle, Mystery and Historical Cycle of San Juan Bautista" through an annual series of plays and pageants staged in the "Old Mission City" through support of artistic collaborations, training, and educational programs for local and statewide students, as well as a website promoting the local impact of the series. 

El Teatro de la Tierra will produce De Canto y Camino/About Life and the Journey Part I, a new recording of songs by NEA National Heritage Fellow Agustin Lira; proceeds from CD sales will provide income for the organization, artists, and music and theater programs. 

Eldergivers will forge new relationships with Medi-Cal residents of long-term care facilities in Alameda County by fostering art practice through the Art With Elders Program and promoting vital connections to a larger audience for these artists by exhibiting their art in a variety of public venues in the Bay Area. 

Epiphany Productions will develop organizational capacity and support the 8th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances festival that will bring site-specific dance works, free of charge, to businesses, schools, artists, students and audiences in the culturally diverse neighborhoods along the K, L and M MUNI Lines. 

Femina Potens will develop organizational capacity and build new partnerships that support exhibition, literary, media arts, and community wellness programs. 

The Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra will implement strategies to increase the number of students learning Chinese instruments by 15% through expanded relationships with school districts in Santa Clara County, and to promote the Orchestra's work by distributing DVDs to schools. 

First Night Monterey will expand "Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities" art workshops to underserved Soledad and King City. Two multi-media workshops incorporating handmade books, self-portraits, silk painting, exhibitions, video, music, performance and poems will offer participants the language of the arts to explore non-violent solutions through the arts.  

Flyaway Productions will support the "Women Campaign" and "Tending the City" performance series, expand public participation through site-specific performances and curbside conversations, and produce a web video to maximize exposure of the events. 

Fresh Meat Productions will strengthen partnerships with the Queer Cultural Center and with local and statewide social service agencies and advocacy groups serving transgender clienteles, and to conduct a statewide tour exploring the history of San Francisco's transgender community. 

Friends of Lincoln Theater will present Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan in concert to continue to increase engagement with the Latino community. 

Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park will share varied African-American perspectives with the public through an exhibit exploring diverse black identities. Will find commonalities based on photo portraits and 21 StoryCorps Griot interviews recorded at Peralta Hacienda; and by incorporating art works, immersive audio layers and story objects. 

Galeria Studio 24 will support new programs consisting of presenting five commissioned Native American arts programs at the Mission District venue; support a tour of a Galeria-originated exhibition exploring social justice issues to five California cities; and an exhibition about the Mission District, to enhance neighborhood awareness of Galeria's public value. 

Gamelan Sekar Jaya will support artists and community programs which bring Balinese arts, culture and philosophy to a broad community through Artists-in-Residence, performance, teaching, and active community engagement. 

Genryu Arts will build marketing and fundraising infrastructure as a means to expand community relationships and facilitate the transmission of Japanese cultural arts through performances, residencies, and a community-based school. 

Golden Gate Opera will bring "Beyond Opera" programs to children from 10 low-income schools and to provide advanced enrichment CDs and DVDs to these schools. 

Golden Thread Productions will develop and premier RUMI X 7, a play conceived and directed by internationally-recognized director and Islam scholar, Hafiz Karmali, at  the Islamic Cultural Center in Oakland. The project is part of a strategy to deepen relationships with the Muslim community through professionally-produced plays inspired by Islamic texts.  

Great Leap, Inc. will fund EcoVid, a series of music videos about the environment, to arouse consciousness and action around the negative impact of global climate change on Los Angeles's communities of color. 

Highways, Inc. will support the fees of Latino artists participating in arts programming designed to engage the Latino residents of the neighborhoods surrounding its venue; to develop a new LGBT Latino literature program; and to stimulate the creation of new performance work that articulates the lives and experiences of contemporary Latinos. 

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey will expand relationships with underserved audiences by presenting free performances of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, throughout the Bay Area. 

Instituto Mazatlan Bellas Artes de Sacramento will fund Proyecto Infantil, which will offer free classes in Mexican dance, music and language to low-income children under 8 years old; and provide parents with a networking group offering information and resources through cultural awareness and education. 

The Inyo Council for the Arts will expand the Millpond Music Festival by incorporating Native American and Latino "villages," which will be organized and run by organizations from these two underserved communities and will include artists, arts and crafts, music, workshops, food, and storytelling. 

Jagged Lines of Imagination Academy, Inc. will provide free art workshops to K-8 teachers to learn about creative uses of technology, art, and storytelling in the classroom. 

JC Culture Foundation will support a Chinese Arts and Culture training program and a free after-school program for K-12 students consisting of workshops in Chinese Arts and Culture.

Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy will expand on two major levels: (1) Arts programming to strengthen and develop new partnerships, special events and audiences and (2) Organizational leadership, shifting to a Co-Directorship model in order to maximize efficiency, outreach and resources. 

Khmer Arts Academy will conduct outreach within multiple Cambodian American communities in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay area as part of a multi-city dance tour of the original Cambodian classical dance drama "The Lives of Giants." 

Kitka, Inc. will produce and promote "Song Routes in a New Land," community outreach and performance programs in California to engage new culturally underserved Bulgarian, Russian, and Serv communities in a series of workshops and concerts with folk Masters Tzvetanka Varimezova, Tanya Teodorovich, and Svetlana Spajic. 

LA Commons and Trekking LA will unveil a dynamic website to build the capacity of local residents to promote their neighborhoods and participate in a citywide network of Neighborhood Docents. Will launch a neighborhoods festival where people will be invited to explore LA's diverse communities via cultural tours led by docents. 

LA Freewaves will commission sixty artists' videos exploring neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County and present the videos on 4,400 screens on 2,200 L.A. Metro Buses with approximately 1,200,000 boardings per day. 

La Raza Galeria Posada will support artistic and administrative salaries related to the expansion of a Dia de los Muertos event; production of "Tradiciones Musicales de Mexico," a music concert that will take place in Southside Park; and production of two participatory Posada processions with music and dance involving the community. 

The Los Angeles Poverty Department will produce "Festival for All Skid Row Artists," to recognize and encourage creativity in the LA Skid Row neighborhood. The festival will document the work of Skid Row artists and link them through a Skid Row Artist Registry to inform the community about artistic opportunities and to raise the creative profile of Skid Row.  

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival will offer 12-week writing and acting workshops to ex-offender women of A New Way of Life Reentry Project. The workshops will give voice to participants' life experiences through their personal stories. Both workshops offer participants empowerment and culminate with a public performance. 

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center will develop an online media project to reach and motivate a larger audience of young people by incorporating social and cultural messages with fun and engaging content. Creating a project model, 8-10 short videos will be annually produced, along with 'how to' videos to increase interaction and participation by target audience.

The Manilatown Heritage Foundation will present exhibits featuring tattoo art, pioneer Filipino comic book artists, and the art of Dream, a Filipino graffiti artist. They will also provide a forum for artists of different ethnicities through the presentation of "Rhymes & Rhythms," a quarterly poetry and music event. 

The Mariposa County Arts Council, Inc. will bring the yearlong "Rediscover American Art" event, celebrating American heritage with a 9/11 memorial monument and commemoration, cowboy poetry, and American contemporary music events, to a rural community.

Mendocino Coast Writers Conference will expand year-round writing workshops with Safe Passage, serving at-risk families in a predominantly Latino community; the Youth Project, which serves probationary youth; and Redwood Coast Seniors and other community organizations by adding creative writing modules to their programming. Participants' writing will be featured in publications and literary arts events.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana will commission and present "A Body Parted," a performance piece by Victor Cartagena and artists collective Secos y Mojados, taking a human look at the immigration experience. They will also build new relationships with the artists; increase audiences and targeted, personal outreach to local residents; and promote social impact through greater visibility for a timely issue. 

Music in the Mountains will expand its Young Composers Program by designing new level-appropriate curricula, increase student enrollment by 50% , create new works and augment the number of performances in this rural community. 

Playhouse 395 will partially fund a general manager who will support specially trained volunteers, manage resources, and compile a written operations manual for a rural community. 

Playhouse Arts will fund "Living Large," a series of workshops in pageantry including giant puppets, stilt walking, lantern building and community music culminating in free outdoor performances in local communities.

Pro Arts will fund PROJECT, a program that showcases new artworks with an emphasis on exploring social practices, new genres, large scale installations, and new media. Art work will be exhibited at Pro Arts' Downtown Oakland Gallery and then at another public location in partnership with Youth Uprising in East Oakland. 

The Public Education Enrichment Fund will utilize its license with the National Gallery of Art to achieve new partnerships with Nevada County artists, find new audiences in Nevada County, and expand public participation for the local rural community. 

The Purple Moon Dance Project will expand "When Dreams Are Interrupted," a collaborative site-specific performance about the leaving and returning of pre- and post-internment Japanese-American communities; and will develop and film a Southern California tour of communities affected by the internment. 

QCC: The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Art will enable the Artistic Director to launch a new collaboration with the 509 Cultural Center to increase participation in year-round programs by commissioning and presenting original works addressing LGBT social justice issues, and to address the website and communications needs of four emerging LGBT arts groups: SF Transgender Film Fest, Army of Lovers, Queer Rebel Productions, and BorderOUT! 

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project will support "Family Blessings," a film project examining the everyday lives, challenges and joys of Asian Pacific Islander (API) lesbians who are raising children and to partner with API organizations to present community events with partnering filmmakers and families to educate the larger API population. 

RADAR Productions will support artist fees for programs including a tour to five underserved California LGBT communities and a multidisciplinary literature series in downtown San Francisco and to fund a film of Artistic Director Michelle Tea's novel, Valencia. 

San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild will support the Executive Director to (1) strengthen a partnership with the Alum Rock School District by launching a new multicultural arts education program designed to increase literacy among low-income Latino youth and (2) implement cross-cultural strategies to expand public participation in the downtown San Jose Dia de los Muertos Celebration.

The Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra will continue to make classical music more accessible to those who live in economically disadvantaged Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles with a concert series, free orchestral performances, and an education program for elementary schools. 

Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc will support the expansion of Mobile Art Programs through interactive arts instruction and programming, to nurture emerging artists, and to present Latino art to a broad audience.

Sierra Repertory Theater, Inc will support the Audience Engagement Project which builds audience participation by giving rural audiences improved services and more opportunities to engage with artists when attending shows. Funds will support artists' involvement, staff coordination and project costs. 

The Siskiyou Arts Council will create an Arts Ambassador Program by hiring four community members to connect and develop relationships with the local arts agency and their respective communities by providing a Siskiyou Arts Council presence at county-wide arts related activities. 

The South East European Film Festival will support the South East Europe Film Festival in increasing programming and community media partners by developing year-round events to build a public voice for expatriates from 15 South East European countries by increasing programming and community partners.

The Southern CA Asian American Studies Center will support CONVERGENCES, a new exhibition during the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, by forging partnerships with experimental filmmakers and curators. 

The Susanville Symphony Society will expand the Susanville Symphony Academy of Music by adding classes, doubling enrollment, hiring instructors, and providing teaching materials for local schools, homeschooled communities, and local activities and events in this rural community. Staff will work with local schools and home school communities and attend community activities to market the organization. 

The Tahoe Arts Project will support and expand participation in performing arts programs for K-12 students and public performances for residents and tourists in South Lake Tahoe. Funds support over 5,000 K-12 students and over 3,000 residents and tourists who attend the organization's public performances. 

Ink People's MARZ Project will develop a multi-platform PSA campaign with youth groups and social service providers serving at-risk youth. It will use a community-engaged process and feature youth articulating the value of the arts in their lives and leaders showing the impact of arts on the healthy development of these communities. 

Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural Inc. will expand programming collaborations, current workshops and projects both on and offsite in music, visual arts, dance, theater, writing, indigenous philosophy and cosmology, and youth empowerment. 

The Virginia Avenue Project will support the "One-on-One Program" which pairs a professional writer/performer with a child to collaborate on a short play. All pairs meet for a week to collaborate and rehearse before presenting a fully staged production for the community. 

The Watts Village Theater Company will engage in site-specific interviews to develop a play based on the Watts Rebellion and other historical riots and rebellions throughout LA, including the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 and the LA riots of 2002, to be performed at intersections where these riots occured. They will also develop Clover & Cactus, a play highlighting the story of a group of Irish-Americans who fought for Mexico during the Mexican-American War. 

The William James Association will fund the production of the play Women Behind Walls in San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria. Talk-backs with the cast of formerly incarcerated women will follow each performance. 

Women's Audio Mission will fund the "Preserving Culture" project which supports traditional artists of diverse cultural backgrounds with professional services to record, present, preserve and distribute their musical works and cultural heritage. 

The Yolo County Arts Council will fund YoloArts' artist workshops, public lectures and performance art series which feature county-wide business workshops for artists, a gallery lecture series for general public members with a focus on buying art, and live performance art. 

Youth Orchestras of Fresno will fund the International Youth Orchestra Festival which hosts young musicians from around the world for a week of rehearsal and convivial interaction with performing artist-teachers culminating in a concert featuring a combined orchestra of participants and artist faculty. A series of collaborative concerts and school visits will foster cultural exchange and increase community involvement. 

Zaccho S.F.will produce a new work by the Artistic Director exploring civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois's concept of "double consciousness" for peoples of color which will create the environment for broader cross-cultural exchange and awareness of identity duality.