photo by John Rogers, courtesy of Duke Performances
| El Sistema USA, Durham, NC | $5,000 |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Empower Dance Foundation, Durham, NC | $11,500 |
| Kidznotes, Durham, NC | $11,500 |
| Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Haw River, NC | $11,500 |
| Spanish Dance Arts Company, Bahama, NC | $6,500 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Carolina, Siler City, NC | $11,500 |
| Chatham Education Foundation, Pittsboro, NC | $11,500 |
| Durham Colored Library/Techies4 Tomorrow, Durham, NC | $11,500 |
| Helps Education Fund, Raleigh, NC | $11,500 |
| Kidznotes, Durham, NC | $11,500 |
| Walking Classroom Institute, Chapel Hill, NC | $11,500 |
| BUMP: The Triangle, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Musical Empowerment, Carrboro, NC | $75,000 |
| North Carolina Arts in Action, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| The Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| TheGifted Arts, Garner, NC | $10,000 |
| Durham Nativity School, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Student U, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Village of Wisdom, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| WAKE UP and Read, Cary, NC | $10,000 |
| Arts Access, Raleigh, NC | $10,000 |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC: Support to pilot and establish a new School of Doc afterschool program. This grant will be paid over 3 years and was made by invitation. | $75,000 |
| Community Health Coalition, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Kidznotes, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Music is Life, Raleigh, NC | $5,000 |
| Puppet Show, Chapel Hill, NC | $5,000 |
| United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, Raleigh, NC | 10,000 |
| Voices Together, Durham, NC | $5,000 |
Student Success and Learning
| The Center for Inquiry-Based Learning, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Durham, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Wake County, Raleigh, NC | $10,000 |
| Durham's Partnership for Children, Durham, NC | $5,000 |
| East Durham Children's Initiative, Durham, NC: Support to expand the STEAM Summer Camp. This grant will be paid over 3 years and was made by invitation. | $75,000 |
| Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County, Siler City, NC | $10,000 |
| Teachers2Teachers – International, Chapel Hill, NC | $10,000 |
| The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center, Durham, NC | $10,000 |
| Wake Education Partnership, Raleigh, NC | $10,000 |
| Artspace, Raleigh NC
Increasing Artspace’s impact through an organizational assessment that will allow us to meet our community’s needs more meaningfully with mission-aligned programs and measurable results |
$10,000 |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Chapel Hill, NC
Building organizational capacity to support artistic expansion and underpin strong existing programs. This grant will be paid over three years and was made by invitation. |
$75,000 |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Chapel Hill NC
Support for the 2018-19 concert season. The Biddle Foundation does not typically make grants for season support. This grant reflects the long history shared by The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and the Biddle Foundation. |
$10,000 |
| Chatham County Arts Council, Pittsboro, NC
The Sustainable Small Staff model will support growing impact by hiring focused staff experts, creating scalable positions, and respecting human resources |
$10,000 |
| Choral Society of Durham, Durham, NC
Choral Society of Durham and Raleigh Boychoir will collaborate to present John Rutter's "Mass of the Children" |
$10,000 |
| Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
The Marketing and Catalyzing Project for the Guild's Art@Work Program elevates awareness and utilization of program services and benefits by local artists and local businesses This grant is made through an estate gift to MDBF from the Jenny Lillian Semans Koortbojian Trust. Jenny was a granddaughter of Mary Duke Biddle. |
$10,000 |
| Pleiades Arts, Durham, NC
Organizational Strengthening and Strategic Focus Development |
$5,100 |
| The Justice Theater Project, Raleigh, NC
Renewing the Vision: Building Capacity to Sustain The Justice Theater Project's Social Justice Mission This grant is made through an estate gift to MDBF from the Jenny Lillian Semans Koortbojian Trust. Jenny was a granddaughter of Mary Duke Biddle. |
$10,000 |
| Triangle ArtWorks, Raleigh, NC
ArtSwell - A cooperative regional professional development program for Triangle artists and arts organizations |
$10,000 |
| VAE, Raleigh, NC
QUEER HOME(land): a community-built project to highlight the creative contributions and diversity of the queer community while exploring domesticity from the queer perspective |
$10,000 |
| American Dance Festival, Durham NC
To commission and premiere a new, all-women trio by the acclaimed Pilobolus during the 2018 season |
$10,000 |
| American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
To commission and premiere work from a North Carolina artist during the 2019 season |
$10,000 |
| Black On Black Project, Raleigh, NC
The Jo Ann Williams Artist Fellowship offers studio space and resources to artists of color in North Carolina |
$5,000 |
| Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
Support for the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists awards, professional development project grants to individual artists residing in Durham, Orange, Chatham, Person and Granville Counties through a competitive application process |
$10,000 |
| North Carolina Theatre, Raleigh, NC
Support for “Peace of Clay,” a new play co-written by Triangle-area playwrights Mike Wiley and Howard L. Craft. This work is part of the Reflections: Sharing our Stories collaboration between NC Theatre and Theatre Raleigh. |
$10,000 |
| ShaLeigh Dance Works, Durham, NC
Bamboo Wind will commission 20 artists in the fields of music, film, poetry, photography, sculpture, theatre, costume design, and dance for a multi-media performance installation |
$10,000 |
| Southern Documentary Fund, Durham, NC
Support for the final year of a five-year grant to fund documentaries made about North Carolina or by North Carolinians |
$20,000 |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
Support for the UNCSA Dean’s Discretionary Fund and Creative Excellence Fund. This grant reflects the long history shared by UNCSA and the Biddle Foundation. |
$60,000 |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
Support for the UNCSA Artpreneur of the Year award, Creative Projects. This grant will be paid over three years and was made by invitation.
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$75,000 |
The arts are essential to strong, vibrant communities. A dynamic cultural sector is a catalyst for growth, attracting and retaining businesses and visitors. They strengthen neighborhoods and communities by preserving the culture and memories of specific places and have a positive impact on health and well-being. The arts provide spaces to allow people from different backgrounds to engage with one another and opportunities to build community. Perhaps most importantly, they offer personal enjoyment to individuals, groups, and families, and give voice to the human condition.
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation focuses its arts grantmaking on efforts that strengthen arts organizations and nurture artistic talent. This program focuses on adult artists. Please see the K-12 Education grant program for guidelines for projects that engage school-aged participants.
Durham Independent Dance Artists, photo by Zoe Litaker
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation is not conducting our usual open-submission grant cycles for K-12 Education or the Arts in 2023. We are embarking on a year-long process to redesign our grantmaking approach and find ways to become a stronger partner to arts organizations, artists, and K-12 education partners. The new framework will take effect in 2024.
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation has a longstanding commitment to youth education. We focus this grantmaking on two areas: Student Success and Learning and Arts education. In both areas, the foundation makes grants to help children, especially those in underserved communities, acquire the knowledge, skills, and behaviors they need to succeed in school, career pathways, and life.
We make grants to organizations located in and serving students in Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake Counties in North Carolina.
North Carolina Arts in Action, photo by MaryBeth Carpenter
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation is not conducting our usual open-submission grant cycles for K-12 Education or the Arts in 2023. We are embarking on a year-long process to redesign our grantmaking approach and find ways to become a stronger partner to arts organizations, artists, and K-12 education partners. The new framework will take effect in 2024.