Our educational scholarship and entrepreneurial granting program was created to assist in the acquisition of a required degree or certification, an important new skill, or to provide seed money to start a new business. The organization has two funds committed to helping dancers realize their career transition objectives.
Provides $2,000 scholarships or grants to initiate an academic or retraining
process or to help professional dancers with start-up money for a new business.
Eligibility for financial assistance is based on work history as a professional
dancer. Dancers who are eligible must complete an application form and provide
documentation of a performing work history.
In addition to the Newhouse Fund, other named scholarship programs have been created by dance artists and patrons to enhance this program, they include:
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Joan Taub Ades Carmen Diana Barth Violet Blumenfeld Marge Champion Arlene C. Cooper Agnes de Mille Bonnie Franklin Mikala Freitas Barry Friedberg & Charlotte Moss Mignon Ganne Brian Heidtke |
Mary Theresa Khawly Neil Lipton Vivian Milstein Rudolf Nureyev Clarence Y. Palitz, Jr. Michele Riggi Leslie Roy Lillian Sayers Karin Schwalb Malcolm Thomson Sanford I. Wolff |
The Newhouse Fund was established in 2002 by the organization's Director Emerita Caroline H. Newhouse (1910-2003), whose passion and support for dancers was a driving force behind the organization's growth for many years.
Provides $5,000 scholarships toward graduate degrees in fields other than
dance. The Osato scholarship program was created to help dancers
meet the substantial financial commitments that come with the pursuit of a
graduate-level degree. Areas of graduate study supported by the scholarship
include professional degrees (law and medicine), the medical arts (nursing,
physician's assistant, physical therapy, etc.), the helping professions
(social work, counseling, psychology, creative arts therapies, etc.), physical
and social sciences, education, business and the humanities.
The program was established in 2005 by a generous endowment gift of $1,000,000 from renowned dancer and actress, Sono Osato.
Applications for the Sono Osato Scholarship for Graduate Studies will be available upon request after the first week of January 2015. This year's application submission deadline is March 27, 2015.
Review our eligibility guidelines to see if you are eligible
to receive funds from our scholarships and grants.
