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UpBeat NYC selected as Simón Bolívar Foundation grantee

UpBeat NYC has been chosen as a Simón Bolívar Foundation 2013 Bronx Social Programs grant recipient. This generous grant will support UpBeat's 2013-14 Núcleo Mott Haven season providing immersive, year-round musical programming to over 90 South Bronx children.

We are honored to be selected as a Simón Bolívar Foundation grantee and are humbled to to be in the company of all the wonderful South Bronx recipient organizations.

BLK ProjeK
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Bronx Children's Museum
Bronx Documentary Center
Bronx is Blooming
Bronx River Alliance
Bronx River Arts Center
Casa Atabex Ache
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
Community Connections for Youth
DreamYard Project
Garifuna Coalition USA
Green Worker Cooperative
Highbridge Voices
Hunts Point Alliance for Children
La Finca del Sur
Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center
Mass Transit Street Theater & Video
Mothers on the Move
¡Muevete!
Newset II Parent Action Committee
Picture the Homeless
The Point Community Development Corporation
Pregones Theater
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
South Bronx United
Sustainable South Bronx
TriLatino Triathlon Club
UpBeat NYC
Voices UnBroken
Young Urban Christians & Artists

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UpBeat NYC receives Union Square Arts Award

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UpBeat featured on Liberty Mutual's Responsibility Project

El Sistema February 10th, 2011 by Paul Keegan Brought to you by Liberty Mutual’s The Responsibility Project I was in a Brooklyn nightclub four years ago, killing time with my jazz band between sets, when I was introduced to Jaime Austria. The first thing I noticed were his eyes: warm, curious,…