Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
Endowment to Engage the Youth in the Performing Arts
Bringing Broadway to Guilford County Students Every Year!
The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro is partnering with Guilford County Schools to create an opportunity for students to visit the Tanger Performing Arts Center through a service-learning project grounded in civic engagement and service to the community.
The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro has partnered with Guilford County Schools to create the Endowment to Engage Youth in the Performing Arts. This initiative focuses on giving Title 1 middle school students the opportunity to attend a performance at the Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. To earn their seat in the audience of these shows, students complete projects focused on career exploration opportunities in the performing arts.
By creating opportunities for students to experience these performances, the Endowment to Engage Youth in the Performing Arts hopes to foster engagement and passion for the arts within the next generation. This fund allows for learning opportunities to take place with early exposure to the performing arts while providing equal access to all students.
ABOUT EEYPA
What are the goals of the program?
- To enable GCS students to access and experience world-class performances while providing additional arts curriculum and learning opportunities.
- To drive interest in service-learning in eighth grade, as students prepare for high school and have the opportunity to pursue the service-learning cord at graduation.
- To build student knowledge of how to create strong service-learning projects.
- To engage as many classmates as possible.
- To build students’ soft skills, including developing projects, creating and delivering presentations, and working as a team.
- To engage participating students with teens and young adults in the community who participate in CFGG’s Teen Grantmaking Council and Future Fund, enabling students to learn more about philanthropy and its essential role in building community.
The students will participate in a service-learning project that GCS will score using the following criteria:
- Investigation: Students will work with their classes to research the prompt and learn more about how it interacts with them and their classroom community, school community, local community, and global community.
- Preparation and Planning: Students will work with their teacher to create a plan of action for their project. Students will create a project proposal that will outline their timelines, materials, audience, and other pertinent information.
- Action: The class will follow their project proposal and complete the project. Students will document the project and work together as a class.
- Reflection: Students will reflect independently and as a class on their project, their impact, and their growth.
- Demonstration: Students will share and explain their project with their schools and with the project selection panel.
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Stocks and other gifts
Gifts of stocks, securities, real estate, IRA distributions, or life insurance are accepted to support the Public Art Endowment initiative. Stock gifts should be emailed to the Community Foundation and initiated through your broker. Please include details of stock name, number of shares, and which fund to credit.
Donate via check
A check made out to “Endowment to Engage Youth in the Performing Arts” can be sent by mail to the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro at: CFGG 301 North Elm St., Suite 100 Greensboro, NC 27401
Legacy gifts
A bequest is a flexible and impactful way to give to Public Art Endowment for generations to come. Changes can be made due to personal circumstances at any time.
Matching Gifts
Ask your employer if they have a matching gifts program. They are often dollar-for-dollar, but some companies could double or triple your original donation.
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