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Creative Communities was a groundbreaking initiative to bring high-quality arts instruction to underserved children and youth in public housing communities. Developed in 2001 as a collaboration among the National Guild, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the |
National Endowment for the Arts, the Initiative (CCI) was the first-ever collaboration between NEA and HUD and represented a $4.65 million investment in, and commitment to, community arts education. Through a competitive grant application process, CCI provided grants to community schools of the arts in twenty U.S. cities. Sites were selected based on the quality of the applications and on geographic diversity. Funds were used by grantees, often in partnership with local housing authorities, to provide serious, high quality, sequential arts instruction during nonschool hours to children and youth living in low-income public housing communities. The intention was to help them develop skills that |
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This 53-page report summarizes an independent, comprehensive evaluation of Creative Communities. It describes the initiative; summarizes its impact on students, teaching artists, partnering organizations, and communities; lays out successes and challenges; and offers strategies for sustaining such programs.
Creative Communities Initiative Funders
