PARENTS AS ARTS PARTNERS (PAAP) GRANT PROGRAM

CAE is pleased to announce the 2007-2008 Parents As Arts Partners grant award recipients. Please click here for a list of the grantees by borough.

For the past ten years, The Center for Arts Education’s Parents As Arts Partners (PAAP) grant program has funded innovative programs for New York City public schools, allowing them to work in partnership with both nationally renowned and locally focused cultural organizations to engage parents and families in school arts activities. Through PAAP grant experiences, parents get the opportunity to become artists in a range of mediums – from mural painting to songwriting – and they learn how arts programs connect to and enhance their child’s total education. Since the inception of the grant, CAE has awarded over 1000 grants to over 400 schools, totaling nearly $3.5 million in funding.

CAE’s primary goal for the PAAP grant program is to encourage parents to become supporters of arts education in New York City public schools by providing quality arts learning experiences for parents and families. The program was initially created on the basis of research that demonstrated the positive impact of parental involvement on a child’s success in school and the effectiveness of the arts as a means of cultivating that involvement.

In keeping with our commitment to raise awareness of careers in the arts and arts-related industries, CAE requires that at least one PAAP activity address NYS
Learning Standard #1 for Career Development & Occupational
Studies (CDOS), known as Career Development, by incorporating a brief presentation by a teaching artist or arts administrator about his/her career path. In a related initiative, The NYC Department of Education’s Blueprint
for Teaching and Learning in the Arts– Grades PreK-12 also promotes the building of school-to-career awareness of the arts and arts-related industries as an important component of a comprehensive arts education program. (For detailed information about the Blueprints for Dance, Theater, Music and Visual Arts, visit http://schools.nyc.gov/projectarts.)

Parents As Arts Partners is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The program is also made possible with support from The Annenberg Foundation, The Booth Ferris Foundation, The New York Community Trust, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup Foundation.

Questions about our Parents As Arts Partners Grant Program may be directed to parents@cae-nyc.org, by calling 212-971-3300 x327 or visit the Parents As Arts Partners Grant Program FAQs for answers to commonly asked questions about the grant.

ELIGIBILITY & FUNDING PRIORITY

All K-12 New York City public schools are eligible to apply for the PAAP Program, including: 1) schools currently or formerly funded by CAE that have satisfactorily complied with funding requirements, and 2) NYCDOE-approved charter schools. A school may submit only one application. Subdivisions of larger school communities such as mini-schools or academies are not eligible to apply independently of the larger school entity.

Partnering organizations may collaborate with more than one school. However, CAE expects that partnering organizations will customize their services to the particular needs of each school.

All other qualifications being equal, is given to schools that have never received funding from The Center for Arts Education.