KID smART Impact Report

Impact Report

CELEBRATING A SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Investing In Our Youth Since 1999

Artists Campbell Hutchinson and Allison Stewart founded KID smART in 1999 to provide public school students with greater access to arts education. In its 22-year history, KID smART has served more than 32,000 students and 5,000 teachers in schools throughout New Orleans. With the belief that the power of the arts should be available to ALL New Orleans children, KID smART works within public schools to reach underserved children with the most to gain from an arts-rich, social-emotional education.

At KID smART, we’re on a mission to engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts. We envision an educational landscape where the arts empower all children to access their full academic, creative, and personal potential. We are guided by our values of collaboration, creativity, sustainability, and access & equity.

Last school year, KID smART provided a holistic and evidence-based suite of arts education programming:

Daily arts integration at 14 schools through our Creative Schools program

Year-round professional development for educators

Curriculum and literacy initiatives

Community and family engagement events

-5th Grade KID smART Student

The most interesting thing I learned this year with my KID smART artist, was that you can do anything if you try, and believe.

From Our Executive Director

Dear KID smART Family,

When I moved into the role of Executive Director five years ago, I had no idea about the surprises, delights, and challenges that awaited. We’ve weathered school closures, leadership transitions, a pandemic, and hurricanes. We’ve cheered our students as they perform at Jazz Fest and exhibit their artwork at the Ogden Museum. We’ve seen deeply committed teachers dedicate their evenings and summer vacations to participating in training and workshops. It’s worth it; 100% of teachers who participated in both KID smART training and a Collaborative Artist Residency saw significant improvement in their students’ confidence, active engagement, ownership of learning, and classroom community.

We know that the arts are an essential part of learning, but still, arts learning is seen as inconsequential. Together, we can advocate for the vision of schools our children deserve. Because the true product of arts education is not the art on the wall or the performance at Jazz Fest, but the child themself.

Thanks to our supporters and passionate team of Board, staff, and Teaching Artists, KID smART is thriving. We’re working with a record number of partner schools, creating innovative programs to address virtual teacher training, early literacy development, and social-emotional growth. We have a 5-year strategic plan that will take us to our 25th anniversary and beyond. We’re excited about what the future holds, and we couldn’t do this without you and your support.

Warmly,

Elise Gallinot Goldman, Executive Director

What is Arts Integration?

Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding of an academic subject through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets objectives in both.

94% of teachers in our partner schools agree that arts integration improves student outcomes.

Bringing the arts into core curricula raises student achievement, improves student engagement, and creates JOYFUL learning experiences.

100% of teachers saw significant improvement in their students’ confidence, tenacity, and consideration of others’ perspectives after working with KID smART.

FY22 Major Accomplishments

Arts Literacy Expansion

Piloted in the fall of 2018, ArtsLiteracy NOLA evolved out of the ArtsLiteracy Project at Brown University and the growing awareness that students reading below grade level at the start of fourth grade are likely to slip further and further behind as their education progresses. That year, KID smART was able to serve 650 K-3 students at two FirstLine Schools and compare student test scores between control schools and treatment schools.

Following the three-year pilot, 76% of students at treatment schools were reading at grade level compared to 69% at control schools.

In 2021, KID smART received multi-year funding from W. K. Kellogg Foundation and Baptist Community Ministries to expand ArtsLiteracy NOLA, thus helping a broader set of students succeed. Between 20212022, KID smART provided ArtsLiteracy NOLA to 1,400 students in grades K-8 at 14 Orleans Parish public schools and 500 additional students through partnerships with summer learning programs.

Arts Literacy is made possible thanks to:

With

14 Creative Schools, the 2021-2022 school year has been KID smART’s largest to date! We’re proud to have expanded considerably into the New Orleans East region.

90% of teachers reported that working with KID smART improved their connection and engagement as an educator

1. Einstein Village de l’Est

2. Einstein Middle

3. Einstein Sherwood Forest

4. Esperanza

5. Langston Hughes

6. ISL: Uptown

7. ISL: Dixon

8. ISL: West Bank

9. Hynes: Lakeview

10.Hynes: UNO

11. Moton

12. ReNEW Schaumburg

13. ReNEW Sci Tech

14. ReNEW Therapeutic

With Feeling featuring Lyrica

Baroque

This spring, the With Feeling curriculum developed by KID smART partnered with the Power of Language program from Lyrica Baroque to provide a comprehensive educational experience for kindergarten students at Langston Hughes Academy.

With Feeling is an arts-integrated, social-emotional literacy program that teaches students how to manage their emotions effectively to increase personal power, safety, health, and happiness for themselves and others.

Meanwhile, the Power of Language program employs music to help students recognize and understand their emotions, build coping mechanisms, and improve their communication skills.

Many students who face emotional or behavioral challenges struggle to excel academically. Thus, emotional literacy is a vital component of student development and success.

The initial pilot of this program saw a KID smART Arts Integration Specialist and Lyrica Baroque musicians visit classrooms to perform and teach with original compositions. Through this collaboration, the kindergarten students learned how to communicate confidently and empathetically, achieve academic success, and understand that no feeling is final!

ART JAM

Over 450 people flocked to the 7th Ward for ART JAM, KID smART’s free family arts festival, making it our most successful to date. Our community created and celebrated the arts together on a beautiful sunny afternoon. With 13 partner organizations in attendance, ART JAM showcased New Orlean’s commitment to the arts and our youth.

Cocktails for KID smART

On March 10, 2022, KID smART brought back its much-anticipated annual fundraiser, Cocktails for KID smART (CFK). KID smART held the event at The Shop at the CAC with music from PJ Morton and the New Orleans All-Stars. Patrons received limited edition giclee prints from artists Ron Bechet and Brent Houzenga.

In 2022, CFK raised a staggering $107,000, accounting for over 10% of KID smART’s annual operating budget. These funds will be used to support arts integration at the organization’s 14 Creative Schools, making a meaningful impact on the lives of countless young students in the community.

Beloved Community Cohort

KID smART is currently participating in Beloved Community’s Equity In Schools Cohort. This 8-month program allows KID smART staff and Board to assess our individual and organizational DEI capacity and set priorities. The resulting Equity Plan will work in conjunction with KID smART’s current 5-year strategic plan and ensure sustainable, long-term commitment to change and accountability.

From Our Board Chair

I was a supporter of KID smART before I knew what KID smART was. In 2009 I was a third-grade teacher at McDonogh 32 in Algiers who received a transfer student from a KID smART Creative School. All my new student talked about was how he missed ‘Miss Ferdinand’ who brought theater to his classroom lessons with his ‘regular’ teacher. I was intrigued…arts as a tool to engage learners? A second teacher in the classroom?

Fast forward to July 2020, when I began my term as Board Chair for KID smART. The staff and the previous board leadership had navigated the organization through some of the most uncertain months of the pandemic, so I felt really confident about stepping into my role. And from my new vantage point, it has been a privilege to see our children’s academic accomplishments in partnership with our KID smART Teaching Artists and programming.

It’s also with pride that I have watched the organization achieve other milestones

KID smART Teaching Artists providing social-emotional support to students, families, and school staff while co-teaching and developing rigorous daily lesson plans for virtual classrooms;

KID smART completing its multi-year strategic plan in the midst of the COVID-19

KID smART expanding the number of Creative School partnerships because schools recognize our value, even amid a global crisis.

It’s a privilege to serve as Board Chair for KID smART and to invest my time and financial support into ensuring that children in Louisiana receive dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts. I hope you will join me in supporting KID smART’s mission.

Toryah Cameron, Board Chair

KID smART Financial Report

Despite the uncertainty ushered in by the pandemic, KID smART has remained financially strong, with fiscal year 2022 seeing significant growth in individual donor support. As the organization continues to expand the depth and breadth of its programming, the need to diversify revenue streams is as vital as ever. *pre-audit numbers

Investment Income

$36,986.13

Earned Income

$441,323.36

Corporate Donations

$21,702.03

Foundation Donations

$595,455.77

Individual Donations

$130,519.12

Government Grants

$195,809.38

Other $4609.44

“I’m so proud to support KID smART wonderful work they’re doing and outside the classroom to child a more joyful, exciting, and place to learn and use their imagination. Knowing that the next generation kids are able to find hope through programs puts wind in my sails.”

Lauren Daigle, The Price Foundation

smART and the doing both inside give every and creative imagination. generation of through these sails.”

Thank You To Our Donors

OVER 10K

Arts New Orleans

Baptist Community Ministries

Campbell Hutchinson & Allison Stewart

Greater New Orleans Foundation

Helis Foundation

Lambent Foundation

Library of Congress

Louisiana Division of the Arts

New Orleans Theatre Association

Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust

Rachel & Bryan Bailey

RosaMary Foundation

The Price Fund

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Thank You Donors!

$5,000-$10,000

Azby Fund

Cahn Family Foundation

Goldring Family Foundation

Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency

Holt Family Foundation

James A. Haslam II

Keller Family Foundation

Mary E. Peters & Robert W. Polchow Foundation

Michael Mimeles

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Foundation, Inc.

Patricia & Bernard Goldstein

Family Foundation

Pro Bono Publico Foundation

Regions Bank

Ruth U. Fertel Foundation

Selley Foundation

Woldenberg Foundation

$1,500-$4,999

AOS Interior Environments

Barnum Group

Better NOLA Fund

Carol & Tom Reese

Entergy New Orleans

Eskew + Dumez + Ripple

Drs. Gwenesta & Kenneth

Melton

James & Mayme Rowland

Foundation

Jones Walker

Junior League Of New Orleans

Lauren & Patrick Templeman

Lory Lockwood & Tony Watts

Meryt & Peter Harding

PajWell Foundation

Primary Eye Care

Susan & Charles Schadt Fund

Toryah Cameron

Vincent Saia Foundation

Woodward Design+Build

Zemurray Foundation

$500-$1,499

Adele & John Tiblier

Alice Key

Alvertha & Austin Penny

Amanda & Don Massey

AMH Foundation

Andrea & Jeffrey Huseman

Angela Herbert White

Barbara & Tom Sands

Bill Ellison & Felicia Rabito

Catherine & Hunter Pierson Fund

Cathy & Mark McRae

Celeste Coco-Ewing & Tom

Ewing

City Baby Books

Deirdre & Christian Hooper

Dionne & Norman Barnum IV

Dyann Collins

Elly & Merritt Lane

Gretchen & Peter Howard

Helaine & Ned Benjamin

James & Stephanie

Laborde Family Fund

James Logan

Janet & Scott Howard

Jeanette & Jeff Weiland

Jeanne Turner & Philip Gunn

Jill & Minor Pipes

Jill Dupre & Joshua Mayer

Josephine Sacabo & Dalt

Wonk

Juan Linares & Martine

Chaisson Linares

K Allen Consulting

Kara Van De Carr & Daryl Byrd

Krista Dumas

Lisa Puckett Sinders

Marie Keefe

Mary Gallinot

Mary & Richard Roth

Mason Haber

Michael Jones

Nancia Sterling & Kristin

Amond

Nancy & Matthew Rebold

NGCF Donor Advised Fund

Patrick Vance

Pizza Delicious

Provosty & Gankendorff, LLC

PS Business Management

R. Campbell Hutchinson

Ralph Shaw

Reily Foundation / Boatner

Reily Family Fund

Robyn Dunn & Andrew

Schwartz

Ryan Gootee

Sally Lapeyre Jr.

Sheldon Lykes

Stephanie Goliwas

Susan Hutchinson

Susu & Andrew Stall

The Aaron Or Peggy Selber Foundation, Inc.

Troy Scroggins Jr.

Usdin Weil Foundation

Vivian Cahn

$150 -$499

Allison Freeman

Anonymous Donors

Anthony Baker

Cathy & Morris Bart III

Donald Marshall

Elise & Matthew Goldman

Elizabeth Boh

Ellen Heriger

Estelle Bletsas

Jackie Sullivan

Jane Boettcher

John Clemmer

Jonathan McCall

Lauren Shern

Mary Lucy & David Lane

Monique & Bob McCleskey

Pagoda Cafe

Rhonda Kalifey-Aluise

Robert Nobile

Susan Barnett

Susan Zemanick

Terri McCormack

The Burkedale Foundation

Vivek Gupta

<$150

Aaron Collier

Alaine Azcona

Alecia Oden

Ami Spishock

Amy and John Haspel

Amy Davidson

Amy Petrie

Andrea Yazbeck

Andrew O’Neill

Angela Schifani

Ann Rabin

Antonio Mercuri

April Cacamo

Austin Thomas

Barbara Fitzpatrick

Beerit Konforty

Beth Delforge

Bethany Paulsen

Betsy Weiss

Bianca Romero

Blake Williams

Brandi Simmons

Brayden Vibandor

Brendyn Brooks-Stocking

Brian Rodman

Callan Contemporary

Camille Knable

Carmen Windham

Carolyn Brou

Catherine Lemieux

Catherine Rowe

Catherine Sampson

Cathy Amen

Charles L. Whited Jr.

Charles Peper

Cheryl Manley

Conrad Rolling

Courtney Egan

D. Douglas Howard Jr.

David & Nikki Rubenstein

Deborah Nobile

Diane Genre

Dianne Caverly

Echo Olander & Sonny

Schneidau

Edward Bergin

Eileen Wallen

Elizabeth Foos

Elizabeth Zabel

Ellinor & D. Douglas Howard, Jr. Fund

Emily Leitzinger

Emily Maletic

Emily Struttman

Emily Wolff

Erin Stanton

Erin Straub

Everett Paretti

Gail Wise

Geoffrey Liu

Hartwig Moss IV

Heather Nelson

Ian Johnson

Irene Lutkewitte

Isabel Sanders

Isabella Cuneo

Jan and John Gallinot

Jason Bailey

Jason Mathias

Jeanne Williams

Jenil Patel

Jennifer Roberts

Jillian D Oliveras

Jonathan Riznor

Josh Geller

Joshua Dickerson

JP Revel

Juanita Nelson

Judith Andry

Juliet Strauss

Justin Ren

Justine Aguiar

Karen Babin

Kathleen Opotowsky Seither

Katie Hughes

Kendra Scott New Orleans

Kristen Guinan

Kristian Sonnier & Emery

Van Hook Sonnier

Krystal Hardy Allen

Leah Grassi

Leann Moses

Leigh Aucoin

Libra Pealer

Linda Binder

Lisa Mount

Louis Aubert

Lynne McMillen

Lynne Stern

Madeline Motsinger

Madison Wallace

Mahant Malempati

Marguerite Oestreicher

Maria Plotkina

Marissa Steinberg

Marly Sweeney

Martha Watson

Mary McCarthy

Mary Sanders

Mary Yanik

Meret Ryhiner

Myra Loker Menville

Nadia Salib

Nathan Horner

Nell Tilton

Nicole Heidman

Nolan Brinkman

Paige Morrison

Patrick Adams

Paul Wapner

Phyllis Beattie

Pranali Gandhi

Preston Tsang

Rakesh Gurrala

Ralph & Nicole Johnson

Ralph Sterling

Rebecca O’Brien

Robert Garon

Ruth Carlton

Sally Molho

Sam LeBlanc

Samantha King

Sara Melancon

Sarah Chazin

Sarah Cressy

Sebastian Milanes

Shannon Fazande

Sharon Gancarz-Davies

Sharon Lurye

Sharon St. Angelo

Shephaly Soni

Sherrill & Emanuel Benjamin

Simon Mueller

Siobhan Dempsey

Stephanie Heriger

Stephen Medearis

Susan Colton III

Susan Cromer

Susan Gundlach

Susan Phillips

Suzanne & Steven Dumez

Suzanne Kearney

Taylor Dressler

Teresa E Cambre

Teresa R. Ogden

Terry Fontham

Thais Lange

The Rob Steinberg Giving Fund

Therese Kwiecien

Tiana Nobile

Tina Derusha

Veronica Bird

Virginia Horner

Yonah Levy

Zeb Hollins III

Zoe Cuneo

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Toryah Cameron

Board Chair

Patrick Templeman Treasurer

Krystal Hardy Allen Secretary

Adele Bienvenu Tiblier

Angela Herbert White

Bianca Romero

Bill Hines

Carol McMichael Reese

Dr. Jarrett Johnson

Felicia A. Rabito

Gretchen Weller Howard

James Logan

Jeanette Weiland

Martine Chaisson Linares

Michael Mimeles

Nancy Rebold

Nan Sterling

Nic Brierre Aziz

Ralph Johnson

Stephanie Coln

EMERITUS

Campbell Hutchinson

Allison Stewart