Major Venture Category

$100,000 paid at $50,000 a year for two years to Fischoff National Chamber Music Association. Fischoff will present the Euclid Quartet in a series of 14 programs in Mishawaka's 6 elementary schools, middle school, and high school during the next 2 academic years. This two-year residency will introduce chamber music to the elementary schools through Fischoff's “Stories and Music” (or S.A.M. I Am) program as well as enhance and build the strings programs at the 6 elementary schools, John Young Middle School and Mishawaka High School. Fischoff also plans to use half of the grant funds each year to establish an endowment fund to assist with the sustainability of their residency efforts.

Program/Project Category

$3,000 to Downtown South Bend for Art Beat 2008

$3,000 to Vesper Chorale, Inc. for the Children's Choir of Michiana

$3,350 to Conservatory of Dance School and Company for the addition of a new dance production entitled Contemporary Nutcracker: Fairy Tale for the Modern World

$3,600 to the Robinson Community Learning Center of the University of Notre Dame for a summer Shakespeare Drama Club serving 15 inner-city youth between the ages of 10-15

$5,000 to the South Bend Symphony Orchestra for the 2009 Young People's Discovery Concerts in March 2009 titled “Kids, Camera & Classics”

$5,000 to the South Bend Museum of Art toward the purchase of a new gas kiln to continue to expand ceramics classes for the community.

$5,000 to Fire Arts for the purchase and repair of the kiln from South Bend Regional Museum of Art and for expenses related to electrical and gas work needed to prepare space for the new equipment.

$5,000 to the South Bend Area Links for Gospel Fest 2008 at Washington High School on August 9, 2008.

$5,000 to the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestras to support its Sectional Coaching Program.