Education & the Arts was established by a collective of professionals from the arts and business sectors who have personally witnessed the transformative effects of the arts in their lives and in the lives of the youth they care about. However, they recognized the challenges these programs face in securing adequate funding for initiation and ongoing operations.
Effective youth arts initiatives—whether in dance, music, sculpture, painting, film, or photography—require financial support for instructors, facilities, equipment, staff, transportation, and materials. Unfortunately, such funding is often limited, delayed, or insufficient.
In response to these challenges, Education & the Arts was founded as a centralized resource to facilitate fundraising for both short-term projects and sustained youth arts programs.
As a national nonprofit organization recognized under 501(c)(3), all donations—including checks, credit card contributions, and donations of arts-related equipment, services, or supplies—are considered tax-deductible for the donors.
“Our donor community at Education & the Arts actively supports local arts initiatives that may not be large enough to have dedicated staff for grant writing or to establish their own 501(c)(3) organizations. Through E&A, these programs can create and submit funding requests to our network of donors. They can also raise funds from their supporter base in a manner that is tax-deductible, encouraging generosity, particularly among those with access to corporate matching programs,” explained Julia Prinzi, Executive Director of Education & the Arts. “I was fortunate to have many opportunities for artistic expression through my family and education. I was able to explore various artistic avenues, limited only by my own abilities. Unfortunately, many children today do not have the same opportunities due to their socioeconomic circumstances. Through E&A, we aspire to expand access to the arts for more children across America.”
How to Become an E&A Project
Arts projects seeking funding and wishing to be part of Education & the Arts roster of current projects, may simply fill out an enrollment form to be reviewed by the E&A executive team for approval. Approved projects appear on the current Projects page, making fundraising easy and streamlined. Project participants can promote project goals to their networks using a link to the page and to the Donate page, where interested donors can select that specific project to benefit from their electronic or postal mailed donation.
E&A Leadership
Many of these founding artistic and business entrepreneurs continue their involvement with E&A by joining the Board of Directors, aiding in guiding and growing the organization, to help keep arts in the lives of children from birth on through their college years, and beyond – to those opting to turn artistic endeavors into their lifelong careers.
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