The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Long Beach Opera a $300,000 three-year grant.
The grant will support the oper'as new Outer Limits series, a project that is designed to expand the boundaries of the opera form.
The foundation provides multi-year grants to organizations that support art on an invitation-only basis to small number of leading US orchestras, theater, opera, and modern dance companies.
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William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan of Dowser write about the social entrepreneurs slowly and steadily dirsupting the world of philanthropy. According to Forbes, philanthropy disruptors are those that believe “no one company is so vital that it can’t be replaced and no single business model too perfect to upend.”