Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley: News Archives

Cultural Initiatives Makes Good on Plan to "Give it Away"
The Creative Education Program moves to the Santa Clara County Office of Education on July 1, 2006.
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July 13, 2006

Available Now
There's Nothing Informal About It: Participatory Arts Within the Cultural Ecology of Silicon Valley
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February 27, 2006

Released
2005 Creative Community Index
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October 7, 2005

CISV in the News
Read the feature editorial in the San Jose Mercury News about the Creative Education Program.
June 9, 2004

Released
Immigrant Participatory Arts: An Insight into Community-building in Silicon Valley
April 29, 2004

Other CISV News

12-5-01	Charity scores coup with new addition to all-star board The San José Mercury News Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley landed a big philanthropic fish when Kim Polese, cofounder of Marimba, joined its board of directors.
11-16-01	Keeping up with the Valley’s movers and shakers The San José Mercury News When Kim Polese last year stepped away from the CEO job at Marimba . . .
11-14-01	Willow Glen's Cultural Initiatives provides funding for arts in local schools The Willow Glen Resident
10-19-01	Opinion: Valley lacks vital trait of 'great' city Silicon Valley Business Ink What are the ingredients of a great city or multi-city region such as Silicon Valley?
8-3-01	Silicon Valley nonprofit takes the initiative on arts education Silicon Valley / San José Business Journal John Kreidler isn't promoting art for art's sake. He says he sees artistic creativity as an important engine that drives Silicon Valley.
1-2-01	Silicon Valley awaits a true renaissance The San José Mercury News Doug Henton and Kim Walesh are co-founders of Collaborative Economics and authors of a report titled "The Creative Community," which they produced for Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley.
10-20-00	Philanthropy's a game to be taken seriously in Valley The San José Mercury News Bruce Largecap, a technology tycoon, has died and left $500 million to a new foundation. You’re the foundation’s director, and your mission – in a clever new CD-ROM simulation – is to create an arts-led renaissance . . .
9-15-00	Regional cultural plan strives to paint Valley as artistic haven Silicon Valley / San José Business Journal While Silicon Valley and the arts aren’t as synonymous as they are in cities such as New York and San Francisco, a push is underway to help artists flourish as much as tech companies here.
3-24-00	Cultural Initiatives gets $100,000 to boost arts in schools Silicon Valley / San José Business Journal