The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has announced grants totaling more than $2.8 million in the areas of arts and culture, services for disadvantaged children, health care, and strengthening the nonprofit sector.
Recipients of second-quarter grants include Childsplay, a Tempe-based professional theater experience designed for young audiences and families that will use the funds to expand its facility and offer give other small and emerging arts organizations an opportunity to lease production space. The trust also will partner with the Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation at Arizona State University to launch ATLAS, a two-year initiative designed to strengthen and sustain the operating capacity of organizations that the trust identifies as having important roles in Maricopa County's human service, civic, and cultural life.
In addition, the trust awarded a grant to the Arizona Museum for Youth, which is working to expand its audience and establish a new revenue stream by creating a traveling arts exhibition business.
"During my Piper Fellowship, I traveled across the country visiting numerous museums," said Arizona Museum for Youth executive director Sunnee O'Rork, who received an Organizational Enhancement Award from the trust as a result of her fellowship. "The experience afforded me a foundation of research, a new network of colleagues, and a clear understanding about the logistics of best practices in the traveling exhibition/museum field. With our thirty-five-year history of kid-tested and parent-approved interactive art exhibitions, Arizona Museum for Youth is in a great position to build on our success in a strategic and meaningful way through this new offering."
For a complete list of the trust's second-quarter grants, visit the Piper Trust Web site.
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