$77,500 to South Bend Civic Theatre for major expansion of their Theatre for Young Audiences program. 

$5,000 to South Bend Symphony Orchestra for the Young People's Discovery Concerts on April 18-19, 2007.  This year's concert theme was Stormchasers.  WSBT TV's Rick Mecklenberg joined Maestro Tsung Yeh and the Symphony musicians to guide students through the basics of weather science and how composers interpreted storms through music.  Over 5,000 children attended the concerts including 1,200 who participate in the free lunch program.  A study guide and CD were provided to teachers to prepare the students for the concerts.

$2,500 to Conservatory of Dance Company for Dance Around the World, a multicultural dance performance on June 30, 2007 

$5,000 to South Bend Regional Museum of Art to provide the Lesson Starters program.

$5,000 to South Bend Civic Theatre for the planning process on how to expand their Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) program.  This process was led by two nationally-recognized consultants in the field of theatre for youth.  This planning resulted in a three-year Major Venture application which included the hiring of a full-time Director of TYA who is already in place.  Future TYA expansion activities include more and high quality TYA productions, more youth theatre after-school and summer classes, taking touring productions into schools and possibly in-school workshops and residencies. 

$5,000 to South Bend Regional Museum of Art for the purchase of software and training to convert the Museum's archives to electronic format.

$5,000 to Robinson Community Learning Center for a summer comic book project related to its Take Ten violence prevention program.  The effort was based on a model from Cleveland.  

$5,000 to Snite Museum of Art for an intensive four-week High School Apprenticeship Program which took place in 2006.  Participating students were immersed in an artistic studio environment and worked side-by-side on their own creations with one-on-one instruction by two professional artists.  They completed daily journals of ideas and sketches and completed a watercolor and sculpture for a public exhibition at the Snite.  Staff considered the program a "wonderful successful" and it was repeated this summer, 2007 with adjustments based on this initial experience.