Any Given Child

Collectively striving to provide greater, more access to quality arts education in Northeast Florida

Under the leadership of CAP, Any Given Child Jacksonville advocates for arts education. 

Working with Duval County Public Schools, local arts organizations, artists and community leaders, AGC Jacksonville ensures all K-8 students in Duval County have greater access to learning in the arts. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts launched Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child in 2009, and selected Jacksonville to be an AGC community in 2013. Jacksonville is one of 28 communities participating in this national collective impact initiative.

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OBJECTIVES

Program Services

Capacity Building

Advancement

Cross Sector Collaboration

Advocacy and Communications

Community Outcomes

Since 2014, AGC Jacksonville has initiated, facilitated or tracked the following achievements for our community:

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4 times the number of annual professional development offerings for arts educators

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30% increase in the number of full-time DCPS arts educators

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Creation of Landscape of Education in the Arts in Duval (LEAD) and Jacksonville’s first-ever artlook® map to track arts opportunities in the city

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District leaders including the Supervisor of Arts ensured arts education remained a priority for every DCPS student when shifting to virtual learning during the pandemic

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100% of school board candidates in both 2018 and 2020 agreed that expansion of the arts should be a top priority for the district

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Creation of a new arts magnet school

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More than 3 times the number of students participating in the arts

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3 times the number of local media mentions in support of arts education

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More than $17 million in arts-related scholarships to DCPS students

Partners in Arts Education

Adecco Staffing, USA

AIGA

ArtLife

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Assessment Technologies Group

Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre

The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida

Creatively Independent

Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center

Duval County Public Schools

Don’t Miss A Beat, Inc.

Essential Culture Podcast Network

First Coast School of Music

The Florida Ballet

Florida Blue

Friday Musicale, Inc.

FSCJ Artist Series

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jacksonville Children’s Chorus

Jacksonville Dance Theatre

Jacksonville Public Education Fund

Jacksonville Symphony

Jacksonville University

Jaguars Foundation

Kids Hope Alliance

Lombardo Family

Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville

National Endowment for the Arts

Opera Jacksonville

Performers Academy

PNC Bank

Ritz Theatre and Museum

Theatre Jacksonville

UNF School of Music

United Way of Northeast Florida

VSA Florida

Wingard

WJCT

World Affairs Council of Jacksonville

Learn More and Get Involved

Contact Dr. Lucy Chen at lucy@capkids.org

CAP IS HIRING a part time Teaching Artist in Theatre! As a CAP Teaching Artist, you’ll have the power to profoundly impact young lives by unlocking their passion for the arts. Through your creativity and mentorship, you’ll guide students on an inspirational journey, nurturing their artistic potential and instilling a lifelong love for the performing or visual arts.

CAP is in immediate need of a Teaching Artist in Theatre, but applicants with other focus areas are welcome to apply for other opportunities. If you are driven by the challenge of shaping innovative and impactful arts education programs for children in your community, then we invite you to apply. Visit capkids.org/get-involved/work-at-cap/ now!

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CAP IS HIRING a part time Teaching Artist in Theatre! As a CAP Teaching Artist, you’ll have the power to profoundly impact young lives by unlocking their passion for the arts. Through your creativity and mentorship, you’ll guide students on an inspirational journey, nurturing their artistic potential and instilling a lifelong love for the performing or visual arts. CAP is in immediate need of a Teaching Artist in Theatre, but applicants with other focus areas are welcome to apply for other opportunities. If you are driven by the challenge of shaping innovative and impactful arts education programs for children in your community, then we invite you to apply. Visit capkids.org/get-involved/work-at-cap/ now!

The Cathedral Arts Project (CAP) fosters growth in listening and behavioral skills through music. These programs leverage music to build neural pathways, enhancing cognitive functions like attention and memory, while simultaneously developing emotional self-regulation and social skills like cooperation. Learn more at capkids.org ✨

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The Cathedral Arts Project (CAP) fosters growth in listening and behavioral skills through music. These programs leverage music to build neural pathways, enhancing cognitive functions like attention and memory, while simultaneously developing emotional self-regulation and social skills like cooperation. Learn more at capkids.org ✨

Participation in the arts creates extraordinary change in the lives of children that sets them up to succeed in school and in life. Research shows clear links between arts involvement and positive outcomes in academics, creative and critical thinking, personal behavior and social and civic participation. These benefits reinforce the essential value of the arts to enrich not only individual children and young adults, but also their communities. Click our link in bio for more information about the impact of #artsed on CAPkidsjax! 🎨🎵🎭👯

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Participation in the arts creates extraordinary change in the lives of children that sets them up to succeed in school and in life. Research shows clear links between arts involvement and positive outcomes in academics, creative and critical thinking, personal behavior and social and civic participation. These benefits reinforce the essential value of the arts to enrich not only individual children and young adults, but also their communities. Click our link in bio for more information about the impact of #artsed on CAPkidsjax! 🎨🎵🎭👯

They took home the win on Sunday! Thanks to the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Jaguars Foundation, gameday tickets are available to nonprofits at discounted rates. Purchase your tickets here and all proceeds benefit #CAPkidsjax! Join us at the December 14 game against the New York Jets by purchasing general admission tickets or tickets with a club pass at our link in bio! 🏈🎉

Jags vs. Jets
Sunday, December 14 | 1 PM

#GOJAGS #TheArtsAddUp

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They took home the win on Sunday! Thanks to the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Jaguars Foundation, gameday tickets are available to nonprofits at discounted rates. Purchase your tickets here and all proceeds benefit #CAPkidsjax! Join us at the December 14 game against the New York Jets by purchasing general admission tickets or tickets with a club pass at our link in bio! 🏈🎉 Jags vs. Jets Sunday, December 14 | 1 PM #GOJAGS #TheArtsAddUp

CAP’s mission to empower every child’s creative spirit begins with our staff. At our team meeting this week, CAP Board Certified Music Therapist, Brittany Harmon, M.M., MT-BC, ignited the creative spirits of the CAP staff with an engaging team building activity using rhythm and song! 🎶
#Artsed #TheArtsAddUp #CAPkidsjax #MusicTherapy

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CAP’s mission to empower every child’s creative spirit begins with our staff. At our team meeting this week, CAP Board Certified Music Therapist, Brittany Harmon, M.M., MT-BC, ignited the creative spirits of the CAP staff with an engaging team building activity using rhythm and song! 🎶 #Artsed #TheArtsAddUp #CAPkidsjax #MusicTherapy

Whether in an individual setting or as part of a group, arts education improves a child’s confidence. Music in particular helps provide children with improved classroom skills, including critical thinking, creative problem-solving, teamwork and effective communication. Visit our link in bio for program info✨ #theartsaddup #capkidsjax

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Whether in an individual setting or as part of a group, arts education improves a child’s confidence. Music in particular helps provide children with improved classroom skills, including critical thinking, creative problem-solving, teamwork and effective communication. Visit our link in bio for program info✨ #theartsaddup #capkidsjax

Create with CAP! School starts next week and we`re looking forward to programs beginning soon. Some courses are already open for enrollment, so visit our link in bio to see this year`s available courses! #CAPkidsjax #TheArtsAddUp 🎨🎶👯🎭

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Create with CAP! School starts next week and we're looking forward to programs beginning soon. Some courses are already open for enrollment, so visit our link in bio to see this year's available courses! #CAPkidsjax #TheArtsAddUp 🎨🎶👯🎭

Children develop the technical skills to prepare for the future through instruction in the arts. Along the way, the arts develop their unique strengths – like self-confidence, self-respect, empathy, perseverance and creative thinking!

Visit our link in bio for more information about our program offerings. 🎭👯🎵🎨#TheArtsAddUp #Artsed #capkidsjax

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Children develop the technical skills to prepare for the future through instruction in the arts. Along the way, the arts develop their unique strengths – like self-confidence, self-respect, empathy, perseverance and creative thinking! Visit our link in bio for more information about our program offerings. 🎭👯🎵🎨#TheArtsAddUp #Artsed #capkidsjax

Musical theatre isn’t just fun and games. As this #CAPkid explains, it’s ‘way more work and it’s way more important.’ Theatre education allows students to gain essential skills like creative thinking, perseverance, teamwork and self-discipline, building the confidence and character they need to excel. Just don’t forget to read your lines please, read your lines! 🎭🥰#theartsaddup #capkidsjax

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Musical theatre isn’t just fun and games. As this #CAPkid explains, it’s ‘way more work and it’s way more important.’ Theatre education allows students to gain essential skills like creative thinking, perseverance, teamwork and self-discipline, building the confidence and character they need to excel. Just don’t forget to read your lines please, read your lines! 🎭🥰#theartsaddup #capkidsjax

Arts education creates tomorrow`s leaders. It enhances the creative capacity of young people and empowers them to analyze, innovate, create and lead. For more information about our programs visit capkids.org. #TheArtsAddUp #CAPkidsjax @duvalcountyschools

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Arts education creates tomorrow's leaders. It enhances the creative capacity of young people and empowers them to analyze, innovate, create and lead. For more information about our programs visit capkids.org. #TheArtsAddUp #CAPkidsjax @duvalcountyschools

Transforming lives through art: The Cathedral Arts Project is a nationally recognized nonprofit provider of arts education and therapeutic programs for children and young adults in Northeast Florida. Visit link in bio to learn more! #capkidsjax

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Transforming lives through art: The Cathedral Arts Project is a nationally recognized nonprofit provider of arts education and therapeutic programs for children and young adults in Northeast Florida. Visit link in bio to learn more! #capkidsjax

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