LMDA Receives NEA Grant | LMDA
[May 7, 2015] Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.
NEA Awards Seventh Consecutive Grant for ARTspace
The grant, which is the NEAs seventh consecutive award to CAA for ARTspace, will help fund programs such as ARTexchange, the popular open-portfolio exhibition for artists; the Distinguished Artists Interviews; and the��.
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Nea Watlington Married
Nea Watlington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ponsonby Watlington of Smiths Parish, Bermuda, was married yesterday to Jeffrey Gray Rutishauser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Rutishauser of Edina, Minn. Canon Thomas Nisbett and the Rev. Brian Craddock performed the ceremony at Christ Church in Devonshire, Bermuda. The brides grandfather, the late E. Roderic Williams, was the Mayor of Hamilton, Bermuda.
Little Labs Raises $3 Million From NEA And Others For Its.
Little Labs is not alone in hoping to find a breakout success in apps for the small screen: the startup is backed by $3 million in seed funding, with the largest portion of that from a recent seed round led by NEA.
NEAs Lily Eskelsen Garcia Remains Faithful to Gates Funding
On April 26, 2015, education historian Diane Ravitch moderated an hour-long discussion between National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen Garcia and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten at the second .
NEA Will Honor 18 Artists
The National Endowment for the Arts will present 18 lifetime achievement awards on Friday in the fields of opera, jazz, and folk and traditional arts. The honorees include the composer Philip Glass, for opera, and five members of the Marsalis family, for jazz. Each award comes with $25,000. Besides Branford, Delfeayo, Ellis, Jr., Jason, and Wynton Marsalis, the other 2010 Jazz Masters are Orrin Keepnews, a writer and record producer; Hubert Laws, a flutist; David Liebman, a saxophonist and flutist; and Johnny Mandel, a composer-arranger. The honorees in folk and traditional arts are Yacub Addy, a Ghanaian drummer; Jim Texas Shorty Chancellor, a fiddler; Gladys Kukana Grace, a Lauhala weaver; Mary Jackson, a sweetgrass basketweaver; Delano Del Floyd McCoury, a bluegrass guitarist and singer; Judith McCulloh, a folklorist and editor; Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan, a Bharatanatyam Indian dancer; Mike Rafferty, an Irish flute player; and Ezequiel Torres, an Afro-Cuban drummer and drum builder. The opera honorees, besides Mr. Glass, are Martina Arroyo, a soprano; David DiChiera, a composer and the general director of the Michigan Opera Theatre; and Eve Queler, the music director of Opera Orchestra of New York.. The National Endowment for the Arts is giving out 18 lifetime achievement awards on Friday in the fields of opera, jazz, and folk and traditional arts.
PE HUB �� NEA leads Series D round for Cartiva
���We are grateful for the continued support of NEA, one of the premier venture capitals firm in the world, and welcome the addition of Windham Venture Partners, which builds on the strength of our investors,��� said Tim Patrick,��.
What bubble? NEA raises monster $3.1B in capital for new.
New Enterprise Associates put itself in a strong position to outbid rivals to invest in the hottest companies.
NEA Closes on $3.1 Billion for Its Latest Fund, Sticks to Its.
In a way, it will be more of the same for New Enterprise Associates (NEA)---just with a hefty addition to its war chest to work with. Early Wednesday morni.
Teaching and Its Growth
ON Aug. 26, 1857, forty-three men gathered at Philadelphia. They had a single purpose: to develop teaching into a recognized profession. They felt that educators should have a voice in raising the standards of the nations schools.. E B Wesley book NEA: The First Hundred Years revd
GREEK SHIPS ADVISED TO SEEK SAFE PORTS; London Broadcasts Message-- Vessels to Be Held Here
LONDON, Oct. 28 (AP)--The British Broadcasting Corporation, acting on instructions of the Greek Government, tonight advised all Greek ships at sea to put into United States, British or Netherlands Indies ports and not to enter any port in France or French possessions.. Put under restrictions, Lisbon
Little Labs Raises $3 Million From NEA And Others For Its ���Smartwatch-First.
With the introduction of the Apple Watch, many believe that smartwatches as a new computing platform now has the potential to explode. One company betting on that trend is Little Labs, an L.A.-based app studio founded by mobile industry veterans thats .
NEA grant goes to Wise Fool circus program
The NEA grant is among 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in the latest funding round. NEA Chairman Jane Chu said in announcing the award that ���funding these new projects like the one from Wise Fool New Mexico represents an investment in .
NEA grant brings confusion
BRATTLEBORO >> The town has at least $22,000 to spend on a piece of public art work, but there might not be enough will to collaborate on the project. The Selectboard spent almost two hours at Tuesday nights meeting discussing the Our Town National .
Now that NEA has honored Joe Segal, how about Willie Pickens?
Last month, the National Endowment for the Arts made a very good move, bestowing the countrys highest jazz honor on a man who richly deserved it: veteran Chicago jazz impresario Joe Segal. By presenting Jazz Showcase founder Segal with the NEAs .
Ceilings on Immigration Urged by Canadian Panel; IMMIGRATION CURB URGED IN CANADA
OTTAWA, Nov. 6--Ceilings on immigration into Canada were proposed today by a joint parliamentary policy committee on which both Government and opposition parties were represented.
PE HUB �� Pocket picks up $7 mln in NEA-led round
In conjunction with the funding, Dayna Grayson, a general partner at NEA, has been added to Pockets board of directors. PRESS RELEASE. San Francisco, CA (April 14, 2015) Pocket <www.getpocket.com>, the industry��.
NEA and the Anti-Plastic Campaign
The NEA should therefore continue to be in the vanguard to make people aware of the decision of the government and its ramifications on our wellbeing and the environment particularly for those of us in the urban areas whose level of environmental .
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to Receive an NEA Grant for a Digital.
Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity. In the second major grant .
Greeks Feel the Pinch as Two U.S. Bases Close
LEAD: A popular Greek cartoon shows American G.I.s, a look of indifference on their faces, carrying out crates of personal belongings as they abandon their military bases in Greece. Taken away with the belongings is a Greek protester clutching a Yankee go home sign, a look of bewilderment betraying his confusion at being left without a cause.
NEA raises new $3.1 billion fund - Business Insider
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has closed a new fund worth $3.1 billion ��� the largest venture fund of all time, according to an earlier story by Fortunes Dan Primack, who broke the news of the fund last year. This is NEAs��.
NEA Commemorates Gambia No Plastic Day
The National Environment Agency (NEA) yesterday commemorated Gambia No Plastic Day at a ceremony held at their office in Kanifing on the theme, Say no to plastic and save the lives of living beings and the environment. The event that brought together .
NEA grant to showcase Chicagos Latino art | UIC News.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop a Chicago-centric online collection of Latin American and Latino art. The $20,000 grant will support the UIC-based��.
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Greensboro Symphony Orchestra receives $15000 NEA grant
This NEA grant also helps support the symphonys OrKIDStra program for chidlren ages 3 to 5. This program had its genesis working with 600 students in Guilford County Head Start. It proved so popular that the symphony is expanding to free performances.
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PE HUB �� NEA raises $2.8 bln for its largest ever fund and.
NEAs latest mammoth vehicle is the largest fund raised by a venture firm, according to data from Thomson Reuters. A small handful of larger funds with a venture component have been raised by private equity firms, such as��.
NEA Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club
The annual National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters awards ceremony and concert is not a referendum on the current state of jazz; it celebrates older heroes, as it is meant to. But there have been a lot of subplots in the long story of the music.
Humanities Tennessee Receives $30,000 NEA Grant.
Nashville, TN���In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will make awards to 15 nonprofit art and design organizations in Tennessee totaling $1,072,700.
NEI Nuclear Notes: NEA: A Discussion on Climate Change
NEA-logo_blue_small2 The Nuclear Energy Assembly wrapped up this morning with a panel on nuclear energy and its worth as a low carbon dioxide emitting energy source. Low in this case means zero. Thats been true from��.
Nea Paphos: 50 Years of Polish Excavations, 1965-2015
The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, announces the opening of the temporary exhibition ���Nea Paphos: 50 Years of Polish Excavations, 1965-2015��� at the Cyprus Museum, on the��.
Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From.
So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of users, Robinhood is planning to go international, starting in Australia. A $50 million Series B cash infusion from NEA will fuel that��.
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NEA Announces Opera Honors
The composer John Adams and the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne were among the five recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Opera Honors, the agency announced on Monday. The three other recipients are Julius Rudel, the veteran conductor of New York City Opera and the founding artistic director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the director and librettist Frank Corsaro; and the general director Lotfi Mansouri, who introduced the use of supertitles in opera. In a release, the agency said that it had chosen Mr. Adams, the composer of Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, and the other artists for their extraordinary contributions to opera in the United States. Each honoree will receive a grant of $25,000 and will be celebrated at a program in Washington on Nov. 14.. The composer John Adams and the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne were among the five recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Opera Honors.
GREEK LINER HERE IN POST-WAR DEBUT; Nea Hellas in Hurried Trip Brings 294 Passengers, One-Fifth of Capacity
The reconverted Greek passenger liner Nea Hellas, on her first post-war voyage from the Mediterranean after a complete overhauling, arrived yesterday with 294 passengers, approximately one-fifth of her new capacity. She docked in Hoboken.. Arrives, US, from Mediterranean, on 1st post-war voyage
NEA Raises North Of $3B For Its New Fund | TechCrunch
New Enterprise Associates has raised two venture funds totaling $3.15 billion in new capital. The firm, better known as NEA, has picked up just under $17 billion to date. The new raise is similar in size to its most recent funds,��.
APB engaging NEA on beer promoter ban at hawker centres
APB, whose portfolio of beers include Tiger, Heineken and Anchor, said in a statement on Wednesday (May 20) that it had been informed by NEA that beer promoters are not allowed at hawker centres ���due to concern over potential touting amongst drinks .
Dorset Theatre Festivals New Play Development Program Receives NEA Grant
Dorset Theatre Festivals New Play Development Program is off to a great start this summer, with the announcement of a $10,000 NEA grant to support DTFs commitment to new work. DTF will continue to host its popular New Play Reading Series this year, .
NEA Wants Duncans Resignation
The nations largest teachers union wants Education Secretary Arne Duncan to quit.
Make a Nomination | NEA
Deadline: July 16, 2015. To honor and preserve our nations diverse cultural heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts annually awards up to eight NEA National Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists. These fellowships��.
500 Changed From Greek Ship
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Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global
Now Robinhood is looking overseas thanks to the $50 million round led by NEA and joined by Vaizra Investments plus existing investors Index Ventures, Social Leverage, and Ribbit Capital. The round brings Robinhoods total funding to date to $66 million.
Two Ann Arbor Organizations Land NEA Grants
THE NATIONAL Endowment for the Arts recently announced that two Ann Arbor organizations had been awarded two grants totaling ,000. The grants are awarded through the NEAs Art Works and State and Regional Partnership grant categories. Kerrytown .
Pilot project to fit rubbish bins with smart sensors launched by NEA
The National Environment Agency (NEA) has started a pilot project to fit rubbish bins with sensors that can detect when they are full, and track whether waste collectors are doing their jobs properly. The litter-bin management system could also help.
GENEVIEVE EANY WILL BE MARRIED; Daughter of A.F.L. President Engaged to John S. Lutz, Student at rVanhattan
GENEVIEVE EANY WILL BE MARRIED; Daughter of A.F.L. President Engaged to John S. Lutz, Student at rVanhattan
CATHOLIC CHARGE IS DENIED BY NEA
WASHINGTON, April 12 -- In reply to a charge made at the convention of the National Catholic Educational Association in Boston on Thursday, the National Education Association today denied that it was blocking Federal aid to schools.. denies Rev W E McManus charge against NEA on Fed aid to educ policies
NEA grants Mesa Arts Centers Jazz from A to Z $50k
NEA Chairman Jane Chu says, The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from Mesa Arts Center represents an investment.