AWARDS
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Education Leadership Award
Honors unique and creative leaders that demonstrate guidance, integrity and outstanding commitment to performing arts education. Their work has been highly effective in achieving positive change and inspiring others through their own example.
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Outstanding Contribution Award
Honors performing arts educators, parental supporters and administrators who have made a special contribution in the lives of students. Who have found creative and significant ways to incorporate promoting self-improvement, professional development and commitment.
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Emerging Educator Award
Honors unique and creative leaders that demonstrate guidance, integrity and outstanding commitment to performing arts education. Their work has been highly effective in achieving positive change and inspiring others through their own example.
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Special Recognition Award
Honors an individual who has displayed exemplary commitment to the development, preservation and legacy of the performing arts, through effective implementation of programs, services, advocacy or support and embodies the influence of the arts in his or her life.
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Jim Redmond Philanthropy in the Arts Award
This award honors an individual or family with a long history of outstanding contributions and achievements in Performing Arts Education. With a demonstrable history of philanthropic giving, these recipients exemplify all the criteria of excellence and dedication through philanthropy while sustaining the infrastructure of support for the performing arts and its importance in our community.
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Founders Awards
This Award honors a special individual with a demonstrable history for advocacy, and, continued activism and mentorship.
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Education Leadership Award
Honors unique and creative leaders that demonstrate guidance, integrity and outstanding commitment to performing arts education. Their work has been highly effective in achieving positive change and inspiring others through their own example.
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Outstanding Contribution Award
Honors performing arts educators, parental supporters and administrators who have made a special contribution in the lives of students. Who have found creative and significant ways to incorporate promoting self-improvement, professional development and commitment.
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Emerging Educator Award
Honors unique and creative leaders that demonstrate guidance, integrity and outstanding commitment to performing arts education. Their work has been highly effective in achieving positive change and inspiring others through their own example.
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Special Recognition Award
Honors an individual who has displayed exemplary commitment to the development, preservation and legacy of the performing arts, through effective implementation of programs, services, advocacy or support and embodies the influence of the arts in his or her life.
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Jim Redmond Philanthropy in the Arts Award
This award honors an individual or family with a long history of outstanding contributions and achievements in Performing Arts Education. With a demonstrable history of philanthropic giving, these recipients exemplify all the criteria of excellence and dedication through philanthropy while sustaining the infrastructure of support for the performing arts and its importance in our community.
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Founders Awards
This Award honors a special individual with a demonstrable history for advocacy, and, continued activism and mentorship.
Art-E Legacy Award
The ART-e Legacy Award honors an individual or institution with a long history of outstanding contributions and achievements in Performing Arts Education. Supplying and creating successful pathways for access to learning, while sustaining the infrastructure of support for the performing arts and its importance in our community and across Southern California.
Philanthropy in the Arts Award
This Award honors an individual or family with a long history of outstanding contributions and achievements in Performing Arts Education. With a demonstrable history of philanthropic giving, these recipients exemplify all the criteria of excellence and dedication through philanthropy while sustaining the infrastructure of support for the performing arts and its importance in our community and across Southern California.
The Gracie Award
The Gracie Award was established in 2017 in honor of Gracie Doran and her continued contributions and advocacy for performing arts education. From co-creating The Rising Stars, a dance movement class for children with Special needs, to being an ambassador for Dance Discovery Foundation, Make a Wish Foundation and the American Heart and Stroke Association, Gracie's unbelievable journey, her inspiration and passion for dance and her incredible story has touched lives and been recognized across the world.
This Award honors a special individual with a demonstrable history for advocacy, and is awarded to one who exemplifies Gracie Doran's perseverance and dedication for performing arts education. And, her continued activism and mentorship not only in our community but throughout the nation.
