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Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative Launches First Grant Cycle for the Classroom Resource Grant

The American Theatre Wing program is investing in public schools to help drama teachers get more of the resources they need.

Andrew Lloyd Webber will take to the air waves this Sunday on Elaine Paige's weekly BBC 2 Radio program.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative has launched the first grant cycle for the Classroom Resource Grant.
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The American Theatre Wing has announced that their new Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative has launched the first grant cycle for the Classroom Resource Grant.

The American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative is a new national initiative that received $1.3 million in seed funding from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, and will support theater-education opportunities for underserved young people and under-resourced public schools around the United States. This project is an expansion of the work that the multi-Tony Award winning composer and producer has been doing to promote and fund arts education through his Foundation in the United Kingdom. Through a grant-giving program, funding will be provided directly to under-resourced public schools to provide instruments, dance floors, lighting grids, and other necessary materials.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative consists of three separate components: classroom resources, extracurricular training scholarships, and four-year partial university scholarships.

Any individual public K-12 school in the U.S. or Puerto Rico, or non-profit parent group associated with that K-12 may apply. Private/parochial schools, home schools, and pre-schools are not eligible. Grant requests of up to $100,000 will be considered for K-12 public schools, with the deadline of September 30, 2016. Final notifications of grants will be made by December 2016. For more information, visit http://americantheatrewing.org/program/the-andrew-lloyd-webber-initiative/.