ArtPlace recently awarded grants totaling $1.5M to support neighborhood revitalization based on arts and culture.
The St. Claude Main Street and Civic Center received the $275,000 part of the grant for a multipart project along New Orleans’s burgeoning corridor. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage foundation received “place-making” grants totaling $250,000 to renovate a 19th century building in treme.
The biggest part of the grant, however, is nonprofit real estate developer called Artspace receiving $1M to convert unused Bell School Campus to an arts and education center.
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
When Hannah Davis  traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.