EngAGE had an exceptional year in 2015. We gratefully received generous support from many sources, most notably:
The May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust – Operating support
Brotman Foundation of California – Operating support
The Weingart Foundation – Operating support
The Annenberg Foundation – EngAGE in Creativity
The Green Foundation – EngAGE in Creativity
Meta and George Rosenberg Foundation – EngAGE in Creativity
LA County Arts Commission & Board of Supervisors – EngAGE in Creativity
NEA GAP – EngAGE in Creativity
The Eisner Foundation – EngAGE Across Generations
Bank of America Charitable Foundation – EngAGE in Wellness
Northrup Grumman Corporate – EngAGE in Wellness
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs – Program support
Significant support from Aroha Philanthropies is allowing us to expand our programming to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
We also appreciate the support received from:
All Valley Washer Service, Inc.
Bank of America, Inc.
Bank of America United Way Campaign
California Community Foundation
Center for NonProfit Management (Arts Ready)
Foundation for Affordable Housing II, Inc.
Highridge Costa Investors LLC
KTGY Group
Legacy Partners Residential
Meta Housing Corporation
Newport Harbor Animal Hospital
Poets & Writers
Steadfast Management Company
Western Community Housing
WSH Management
West Lincoln Housing Partners, LP/Solara Court Senior Apartments
and
Harriett Apalategui
Vicki Clark
We opened the new PacArts community in San Pedro, and construction is underway on the Glendale Arts Colony. The number of communities we serve grew to thirty-five.
EngAGE made news in Forbes, the Journal on Active Aging, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the California Health Report, AARP California, the Silver Century Foundation, and on Marketplace Morning Report and Next Avenue.
We were site-visited at NoHo Senior Arts Colony by the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Jane Chu, as part of her tour of a handful of innovative arts programs in Los Angeles. We’re grateful to receive program support from the NEA.
Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE, was honored with a Durfee Foundation Stanton Fellowship, an award made to “the most knowledgeable, inquisitive, ambitious, influential and highly networked leaders – the ones who are best positioned to identify and solve a thorny problem.”
We look forward to another year of providing arts, wellness, lifelong learning, community building, and intergenerational programs to thousands of seniors living in affordable senior apartment communities in Southern California.
We’re delighted to launch 2016 with a very special art exhibit featuring some of our EngAGEd artists. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, we hope you’ll join us to celebrate.
It’s Never Too Late to Create!
An exhibition by artists from Burbank Senior Artists Colony & NoHo SAC
Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
January 16 – February 14, 2016
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16th from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Find a list of artists and their bios in our previous post.)
