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Dance Theatre Etcetera

Description:
Support for the Youth Engagement Through the Arts program, which uses arts-based strategies to help chronically truant teens at three recently-opened public transfer high schools in Brooklyn stay in school and off the streets.
Grant Amount: $7,500
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Canarsie
Neighborhoods Served: Red Hook
Population Served: Youth
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: High School Students
Ages Served: Adults (24-65)
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

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Research has proven that exposure to arts at a young age helps kids stay in--and finish--school. Unfortunately, some families simpy can't afford to make us of our borough's cultural offerings. Cool Culture makes the arts accessible.

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