Since 1979, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has invested proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell directly into the community with grants to fund projects that support the foundation’s mission. Over the last ten years, over $10 million has been awarded in Community Partnership Grants. 

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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation has awarded $1.4 million in Community Partnership Grants. Overall, 87% of applicants were awarded grants of up to $5,000. As always, the Foundation funded mission-aligned funds projects: music and arts education, documentation of Louisiana cultural traditions, and presentation of local artists and performers. 

2022-2023 Grant Statistics

• More than 500 Louisiana organizations, creatives, and culture bearers received a Community Partnership Grant.
• 100% of the Education In-School applicants received funding.
• Applications were received from all over Louisiana- from Caddo Parish all the way to Plaquemines parish.
• This year, awarded grants ranged from $1000 to $5,000; the average grant award was $3,000.
• The budget for the Community Partnership Grants program has increased steadily each year since 2011-2012, when it was $265,000. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, grants were awarded every other year, and the budget for each cycle was only $125,000.

The Donald Harrison, Sr. Museum is a small community based one. The continuous support of the Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation has been immeasurable in the museum’s ability to document, preserve, and present the indigenous cultural expressions of New Orleans to diverse audiences. We are most grateful for the funding of projects and programs that serve elders and children. Additionally, the application and reporting process are obviously designed to be inclusive and not burdensome to organizations and individuals who are from and work in communities that birth and nurture the unique cultural expressions that make New Orleans, New Orleans

BIG QUEEN CHERICE HARRISON-NELSON

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Final Report Forms

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2022-2023 Community Partnership Grant Recipients

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Education In-School grants were awarded to schools providing arts instruction as part of the school day.

Music	John F. Kennedy High School	New Orleans
Music	Golden Meadow Middle School	Golden Meadow
Music	McMain Secondary School	New Orleans
Media Arts/ Film	Jefferson Virtual High School	Jefferson
Visual Arts, Photography	Riverside Elementary	Pearl River
Visual Arts, Photography	Pointe Coupee School System	New Roads
Visual Arts, Photography	NOLA Nature School	New Orleans
Theatre	Bayou Lacombe Middle School	Lacombe
Theatre	George Washington Carver High School	New Orleans
Theatre	Warren Easton Charter High School	New Orleans

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Education After-School grants were awarded to non-profits that present after-school and summer educational programs in the arts.

Creative Writing and Literature	By Grace	New Orleans
Culinary Arts	Son Of A Saint	New Orleans
Dance	Artivism Dance Theatre	New Orleans
Dance	Chosen Vessels Dance and Performing Arts, Inc	New Orleans
Dance	Dancing Grounds	New Orleans
Dance	Friends of NORD, Inc.	New Orleans
Music	Familias Unidas en Accion	New Orleans
Music	Kids’ Orchestra	Baton Rouge
Music	The Master’s Touch Youth Academy	Ponchatoula
Cultural Heritage, Folklife	Creole Wild West	New Orleans

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Jazz & Heritage Presenting grants were awarded to Louisiana-based non-profit arts organizations that present festivals and other cultural events and hire local performers.

Cultural Heritage	Louisiana Children’s Museum	New Orleans
Cultural Heritage	Bayou Regional Arts Council	Houma
Dance	Culu Childrens Traditional African Dance Company	New Orleans
Dance	​​Mélange Dance Company	New Orleans
Music Concert	Black Men of Labor, Inc	New Orleans
Music Concert	Acadiana Center for the Arts	Lafayette
Music Festival	Baton Rouge Blues Festival	Baton Rouge
Music Festival	Gentilly Fest	New Orleans
Music Performance Series	Jazz in the Park	New Orleans
Music Performance Series	Ecos Latinos Performance Series	New Orleans

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Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts grants were awarded to Louisiana-based non-profit organizations, artists and others who create new artistic works or otherwise document or exhibit art works that reflect, interpret, document or preserve the indigenous culture of Louisiana.

Archiving, Web, Oral, Podcasts	Ecole Pointe-au-Chien; Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe	“L’Ecole Pointe-au-Chien: From Segregation to Self-Determination”
Archiving, Web, Oral, Podcasts	Geovane Paiva Santos	The Griot Series
Art Creation	Jamar Pierre	“Piano Greats of New Orleans,” A mural celebrating James Booker on the Tchoupitoulas Floodwall
Art Creation	Solomon Mason	Stilt Walking: An Artist’s Contemporary Dance
Documentation	Denise Augustine	Stoop Sitting and Storytelling with Our Elders
Film	Robert M Palms	Joe Hall’s Creole Music Legacy
Exhibition / Performance	Pass It On	Pass It On – Open Mic
Exhibition / Performance	Titos Sompa	From Kongo to Kongo Square
Music Recording	Alfred Banks	YesterMonth (Album)
Music Recording	Max Moran	Max Moran & Neospectric: Ecce Homo

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Media & Documentation grants were awarded to Louisiana-based non-profit organizations, artists and others who create new artistic works or otherwise document or exhibit art works that reflect, interpret, document or preserve the indigenous culture of Louisiana.

Archiving/Web/Oral	Denise Frazier	Les Cenelles: Digital Asset Management and Research/ Education Repository
Archiving/Web/Oral	Amistad Research Center	Preserving New Orleans Music History in the Jason Berry Papers
Documentation	Cecelia T Pedescleaux	Cecelia Pedescleaux: The History of an African American Quilter
Documentation	Kevin McCaffrey	Year By Year History of Jazz Fest Book
Art Creation	New Orleans Airlift Inc	Liberation Vibrations: Spirit House
Exhibition/Performance	Andrew Wiseman	The Voodoo Chronicles: A Musical Journey
Exhibition/Performance	Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center	Free People of Color in St. Landry Parish from 1700 to 1865
Exhibition/Performance	Shaka Zulu	New Orleans Voices of Congo Square
Film	Leo Sacks	A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles
Music Recording	Erica Falls	Erica Falls Live Recording