NEWS
Partnership for Whole School Change Receives Boston Annenberg
Challenge Fund For Non-profits Grant for a Second Year
The Partnership To Achieve Whole-School Change is a collaboration
between Cooperative Artists Institute (CAI), and The Center For
Peaceable Schools at Lesley College. The partnership is designed
to help the Boston Public Schools achieve institutional change by
assisting in the transformation of each school's culture. The new
Annenberg grant was awarded to the Partnership to collaborate with
five Boston elementary schools--Charles Taylor, Dennis Haley, Margaret
Fuller, Agassiz, and James Hennigan Elementary Schools-- to collaborate
on the development of a multi-year school plans for their schools.
For more information click here.
Peace Drum Project Awarded NEA Grant
CAI's Peace Drum Project has been awarded a National Endowment for
the Arts/ Challenge America - Positive Alternatives for Youth -Grant
for the coming school year. This was only one of only 6 grants awarded
in Massachusetts this year under the program, and will provide half
the staffing for the project which brings 20 inner city Boston teens
and 20 Boston senior citizens to share arts experiences and develop
friendships. The project helps teens build leadership skills, and
reduces the isolation of both teens and elders in their communities.
For more information click here.
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