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Local Learning’s Federal EIN is 20-2728398.
Local Learning Funding has included Grants, Fees, and Honoraria from the following 2020-2023
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
Library of Congress
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
American Folklore Society
Arts Education Partnership
The Birthplace of Country Music
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
Corning Incorporated Foundation
CultureALL
Govenar Family Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas
Greater Capital Region Teacher Center
HistoryMiami Museum
The Hoyt Foundation
Humanities New York
Louisiana Association of Museums
Arts Institute of Middlesex County
New York Folklore
The Ohio State University
Oklahoma Arts Council
Oklahoma Humanities
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Pennsylvania Department of Education, CAIU
Perkins Center for the Arts
REACH, a program funded by the Dept. of Education through the Univ. of South Florida and the Arts Schools Network
The Roger Kresge Foundation
SouthArts
Southwest Folklife Alliance
317 Main
University of Louisiana-Lafayette, a National Endowment for the Humanities project
Virginia Humanities
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Almost 100 individual donors and family foundations have supported Local Learning over the past three years. Thank you for supporting our work to transform learning, build intercultural understanding, and strengthen communities through Folk Arts in Education.
Learn more about the work of Local Learning in our most recent annual report.
Read our Strategic Plan to learn how we are using funding to build towards a more equitable and inclusive world, where learners of all ages must purposefully develop the skills embedded in folklife methods to explore local knowledge, thereby recognizing one another’s humanity while learning more about themselves and their communities.