Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc. (ASI) announced the 35 cultural organizations receiving 2016 Give for Greatness grants. The awardees were chosen from 78 applicants across five counties, and represent a cross section of innovative small and emerging cultural groups across multiple disciplines. Give for Greatness is a program of ASI.
• African American Center for Cultural Development
• Amor & Heritage
• Association for a Buffalo Presidential Center
• Blues Society of Western New York
• Brazen-Faced Varlets
• Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus
• Buffalo iNFRINGEMENT Festival
• Buffalo Jazz Collective
• Buffalo Music Hall of Fame
• Buffalo Silver Band
• Buffalo String Works
• Buffalo Sugar City
• Carnegie Art Center
• Cattaraugus County Arts Council
• The Committee for the Buffalo Religious Arts Center
• Cuba Circulating Library
• Dance Days of Buffalo
• El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera
• The Fountain Arts Center
• Friends of Vienna
• German-American Musicians Association
• Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York
• Lock City Glee Club
• Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe
• Niagara Falls Little Theatre / The Niagara Regional Theatre Guild
• Nickel City Opera
• North Shore Arts Alliance
• The Olean Theatre Workshop
• Orchard Park Chorale
• PDdance (National Parkinson Foundation of WNY)
• Polish Arts Club of Buffalo
• Red Blazer Men’s Chorus
• Southern Tier Symphony
• Subversive Theatre Collective
• Western Door Playhouse
The announcement event served as a thank you to the companies, foundations, and individuals involved in raising the money being given out, including Lawyers for the Arts, the Rupp Family Foundation, the Battle of the Corporate Bands, and the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies’ Fern and Joel Levin Philanthropic Fund. Special thanks to the Fund for the Arts for support in making Give for Greatness a program of ASI.
