Bollywood Music Festival

To provide opportunities for cultural exchange by supporting the Michigan Philharmonics' Bollywood Music Festival at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in Detroit, Mich

Springboard for the Arts

To bring Springboard for the Arts' Community Supported Art program to Knight Foundation's eight communities over the next two years, inspiring local art movements

Roosevelt Hotel Art Installation

To mount an art installation on the abandoned Roosevelt Hotel highlighting the potential held by vacant urban spaces in collaboration with the Hygienic Dress League, the Detroit Civic Intervention and local community activist Philip Cooley

Detroit International Jazz Festival

To develop an umbrella organization for jazz in southeast Michigan through support of Jazz Planet, an audience development and outreach project

Making the Case: Cultural Census Project

To build awareness of the significant contributions that arts and culture organizations make to the social capital of the region with a long-term, comprehensive Cultural Census project called "Making the Case"

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

To feature artists who show exceptional promise in the field and who are interested in democratic and collaborative practices in their art-making through the emerging artist exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

Plowshares Theatre Company

To support Plowshares Theatre Company in carrying out its artistic mission of developing new works in African-American theater for a culturally and socially diverse audience

Random Acts of Culture: Detroit

To break down barriers of access to the performing arts and touch the lives of residents with Random Acts of Culture (RAC), a series of unexpected, spontaneous cultural performances in non-traditional settings

River Resurgence Pageant: Matrix Theatre Company

To engage Detroit residents in remembering and re-imaging their relationship to the local environment by creating a series of image, story and masking workshops on Detroit's hidden and buried waters

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall

For the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performance at Independent Sector Conference, November 4, 2009

Business Leaders for Michigan

To enhance the ability of the Detroit region's creative community to build out a comprehensive, actionable vision by inventorying and mapping creative sector assets

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall

To do a feasibility study on a Detroit Symphony Orchestra summer home on the revitalized riverfront