JANM and EWP are among 20 BIPOC arts organizations receiving 'game changer' pandemic funding from a Ford Foundation-led program.
does not have an endowment, and it has a small operating reserve, the financial cushion that many institutions rely on in difficult times. “Most culturally specific institutions don’t have those backup reserves,” he said.With revenue from facility rentals and public programming wiped out,President and Chief Executive Ann Burroughs called the grant a “game changer.”
“It really validates the role that JANM has played over the years, both in terms of preserving Japanese American history but also really as being part of the nation’s conscious to ensure that no other groups are similarly targeted,” she said of the museum, whose exhibits and programming called attention to, among other things, the racist treatment of immigrants and the imprisonment of U.S. citizens by their own government during World War II.
The initiative is also a form of acknowledgement and validation, Burroughs said, representing “a very major shift in emphasis on how value is placed on diversity and on organizations that are committed to upholding that diversity.”Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New YorkCharles H. Wright Museum of African American History, DetroitJapanese American National Museum, Los AngelesMuseum of Chinese in America, New YorkPenumbra Theatre, St. Paul., Minn.
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