The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance was recently chosen by Bloomberg Philanthropies as a recipient of its Arts and Innovation Management (AIM) grant. As an unrestricted grant, the Museum can use the funds at its discretion to fulfill its greatest needs.
“We are grateful to have been invited to participate in this exciting program and selected as a recipient of the AIM grant,” Mary Pat Higgins, the Museum’s CEO said. “It will help us
continue to expand our reach, engage new audiences and better teach our community the moral and ethical responses to prejudice.”
As a two-year program, the grant provides $100,000 to the Museum in the first year, with the possibility to provide an additional $100,000 the following year upon completion of the AIM program requirements. As a grantee organization, the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance will participate in the comprehensive AIM Training Program developed by the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland, an institute designed to support a broad spectrum of arts organizations. The training program seeks to advance various elements of the Museum, such as fundraising and board development, as well as marketing, artistic and strategic planning.
In addition to participating in the AIM Training Program, the grant requires the grantee organization to secure matching funds equivalent to 20 percent of the annual grant sum, reach 100 percent board member participation in fund raising and sustain up-to-date records in the Cultural Data Project (CDP), an online tool that enables organizations to efficiently keep track of and utilize its data.
The AIM Program, formerly known as the Arts Advancement Initiative, was originally piloted in New York City and has since expanded to provide funding to small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations in Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit. Organizations within these six cities were invited to apply for the grant.
The Museum will take part in the first seminar included in the AIM Training Program, “The Cycle and Artistic Planning,” on June 24.
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