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Thank You! We are grateful to all of our supporters and funders.

Local Learning’s Federal EIN is 20-2728398.


2021 Funding included Grants, Fees, and Honoraria from the following

National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
Arts Education Partnership
Govenar Family Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas
HistoryMiami Museum
The Hoyt Foundation
Humanities New York
Library of Congress
New York Folklore
Oklahoma Arts Council
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Pennsylvania Department of Education, CAIU
The Roger Kresge Foundation
SouthArts
Southwest Folklife Alliance
317 Main
University of Louisiana-Lafayette, a National Endowment for the Humanities project

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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.