Target

“Target” is a proud sponsor of Home Is Where The Art Is. Target store grants support nonprofit programs that impact the arts, early childhood reading and family violence prevention in the areas where they do business. Since 1946, Target has given 5% of its income to communities. That adds up to over $3 million each and every week.

The Salvation Army
Long Beach, California

Salvation Army is a world renowned community service organization which helps children and families in need. Founded by William Booth in July of 1865 to foster hope and the tenants of Christianity for folks who struggled in the slums of London, its principles of community enrichment through charity are based on hope and salvation. For over two hundred years The Salvation Army has assisted people in need without discrimination.

In January of 2008, The Charles H. and Betty A. Curry Living Love Foundation linked with Salvation Army Shelter at Long Beach, California to continue it mission of providing self esteem and awareness building for children through exposure to the arts. This is accomplished through The Foundation’s program “Home Is Where The Art Is.”

Arts Council
Long Beach, California

Home Is Where The Art Is sponsored in part by a grant from the Arts Council for Long Beach and the City of Long Beach.

Catholic Charities
Long Beach, California

Catholic Charities, USA was founded in 1910 on the campus of Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, to bridge those involved in social ministries through the Catholic Church in direct line with those it sought to serve.

The Charles H. and Betty A. Curry Living Love Foundation partnered with Catholic Charities at Long Beach, California in January of 2008 to bring it’s Home Is Where the Art Is, a program of self esteem and enrichment building in young children who’s lives have been touched by temporary displacement from permanent housing of their own.

“Home Is Where The Art Is” at the Catholic Charities family shelter reaches approximately 170 children per year ranging in age from elementary to middle school. “Target” is a proud sponsor of this Living Love Foundation Program.

Bailey’s Café

Based in Bedford Stuyvesant, New York Bailey’s Café was founded by Stefanie Siegal in 2002. Her ultimate vision is to yield a space for community building, leadership and discovery through artistic expression, conversation, and preparation of food. Ms. Siegal has been involved in teaching and leadership development at Paul Robeson High School and in the Bedford Stuyvessant community for over twenty years. Her Bailey’s Café has shepherded the youth in this community to creative projects including garden poetry and art; mural painting at the Albany Senior Center and stage work where the youth re-enact biographies of United States Armed Services Veterans.

The Charles H. and Betty A. Curry Living Love Foundation joined forces with Stefanie Siegal and Bailey’s Café for the first time in the spring of 2006 to aid in this mission. Foundation founder and Executive Director Charles Curry is a believer in the good work of The Intergenerational Oral History Project and has pledged The Foundation’s ongoing support.

This grant allows for individual scholarships for each young member of Bailey’s Café involved in good standing so that they may focus on honing their creative development.
In the February of 2007, The Foundation sponsored a Bailey’s café performance of their Intergenerational Oral History Project in front of a packed house for the community of The Jackie Robinson Youth Center on 145th Street and Bradhurst in Harlem in celebration of African-American History Month.

School On Wheels

Winner of the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of The Child 2008, School On Wheels was founded in 1993. School On Wheels provides one on one tutoring for homeless kids who live in shelters, motels, group foster homes and on the streets. The Charles H. and Betty A. Curry was fortunate enough to make this groundbreaking facility, located at Skid Rowe in the heart of Los Angeles’s downtown area, the inaugural location for its then pilot program “Home is where the Art Is.” From July of 2007 until January of 2008 The Charles H. and Betty A. Curry Living Love Foundation brought its “Home Is Where The Art Is” to the lovely, vibrant children at skid rowe. They built dinosaurs; made fruit collages; pinch pots; and explored artists from around the world. The Foundation also attracted the attention of muralist Alexis Greg who donated a outstanding nature mural for the walls of the children at School on Wheels.

New Orleans Outreach

Founded in 1993, New Orleans Outreach works to improve the quality of public education at its partner schools. New Orleans Outreach links volunteers and community resources through programs that respond to the needs of each school individually.

In October of 2006 post Hurricane Katrina, The Charles H. and Betty A. Curry Living Love Foundation hosted a Mardi Gras In October fund/art supply drive to raise artistic resources for New Orleans community schools that lost everything in the storm.

The proceeds from this effort were donated to Sophie B. Wright; Samuel J. Green; and McDonough 15 School for the Performing Arts, through New Orleans Outreach.