Join CAP as it changes thousands of children’s lives through the arts.
By raising $21 million through its REIMAGINE Campaign, CAP will expand and deepen arts education opportunities for children throughout its region, but CAP can only accomplish this with support and partnerships.
Your support of the REIMAGINE Campaign will ensure an expanded breadth and depth of arts education programs that CAP develops and provides to children across Northeast Florida. Your support will guarantee that CAP’s recent accomplishments are not remembered merely as a bright moment in the organization’s history but rather as the foundation from which a brighter, more profoundly creative generation of young artists launches into the world and tackles its most urgent problems.
CAP is transforming the way it delivers arts education.
Through a new and unique teaching artist fellowship model, CAP is:
- Reaching more than three times as many children
- Elevating the arts in Northeast Florida
- Enhancing organizational strength and sustainability
- Building a replicable model for organizations nationwide
- Creating positive lifelong change for countless children
Campaign Growth & Impact
Teaching Artist Fellowship: A New Model
In 2017, the CAP board and staff, community members and national representatives from numerous sectors gathered to rethink, redefine and reimagine how to expand CAP’s reach to more children while maintaining the quality of its programs.
What emerged is a new model—one that is allowing CAP to reach more children in more ways while strengthening the arts throughout Northeast Florida and building a sustainable future for the organization and community.
Through support of the REIMAGINE Campaign, CAP is transitioning from its longstanding model of a large roster of part-time teaching artists to a smaller team of full-time teaching artist fellows.
CAP hired its first full-time theatre teaching artist fellow in 2018 and within two years added three full-time teaching artist fellows, one each for dance, music and visual arts. In 2024, CAP hired its 9th full-time teaching artist fellow.
CAP is now piloting an additional component whereby the teaching artist fellows are directly embedded in schools—taking this model one step further, deepening impact where it is needed most.
Embedding fellows directly into schools, CAP can:
- dramatically increase student contact hours
- more efficiently provide compelling art programming
- sustainably position fellows to be role models, advocates and champions for students who might otherwise never discover their artistic potential
These fellows work alongside classroom teachers, integrating the arts into the curriculum, making sure creative expression is not an afterthought, but a cornerstone of learning.
Today, CAP serves more than 3,500 students in more than 200 weekly programs. We have ushered in a thriving fellowship model that is allowing CAP to reach more children in more ways while strengthening the arts throughout Northeast Florida and building a sustainable future for the organization and community.
Wide-ranging impacts have already been made possible through strong program partnerships and philanthropic investment in this model.
The Teaching Artist Fellow Difference
Teaching artist fellows are reaching more children—currently more than double the number reached through CAP’s previous model. The infusion of talent in full-time positions increases the quality and rigor of CAP programs.
Teaching Artist Fellows
Christian Anderson
Delores Barr Weaver Teaching Artist Fellow in Theatre
Lindsay M. Bowyer
Teaching Artist Fellow in Visual Arts
Ashlee Collins
Petway Teaching Artist Fellow in Visual Arts
Chelsye P. Ginn
Teaching Artist Fellow in Theatre
Sarah J. Morrell
Teaching Artist Fellow in Music
Jacqueline Peterson
Teaching Artist Fellow in Dance
Joshua Stone
Teaching Artist Fellow in Strings
Julia Veiga
Teaching Artist Fellow in Theatre
Priscilla Allen
Teaching Artist Fellow in Visual ArtsHow CAP Is Doing It
Unlike a traditional capital campaign for buildings or endowment, REIMAGINE aims to double CAP’s annual revenue, fully implement the fellowship model and more than triple its reach and impact.
By 2026, demonstrable outcomes and widening donor engagement will result in substantial annual contributions of $4.4 million and beyond.
Our goal is ambitious, and with your support it is attainable. The chart below illustrates CAP’s past growth and plans for sustained annual growth totaling $21 million through the campaign.
Areas of Support
Students & Programs
$9,500,00
An arts-rich education requires students to have art supplies, scripts, costumes, dance shoes, instruments, sheet music and so much more. Field trips require travel, and guest artist visits require additional supplies for special projects. Investment for general operating costs is needed to maintain CAP programs and, most importantly, to underwrite the participation of each CAP student, regardless of their socio-economic circumstances.
Teaching Artist Fellows
$10,400,00
CAP will continue to recruit national leaders in arts education to lead its daytime and afterschool student programs. Teaching artist fellows will also collaborate with local artists and educators and build community partnerships. Funding for this fellowship model is the key to an effective and cost-efficient path to reach as many children as possible, while maintaining standards for high-quality arts education.
Exhibitions & Performances
$1,100,00
CAP students and fellows work tirelessly through the year and earn the opportunity to showcase their skills at exhibitions and performances through the community. Students develop the technical skills to prepare for these moments through instruction in the arts. Along the way, the arts develop their unique strengths—like confidence, creative thinking, self-respect, empathy and perseverance – that remain with children for a lifetime.
Campaign Total
$21,000,000
With your help, the final months of the REIMAGINE Campaign can be its most productive yet.
CAP will:
- Continue to expand its reach and deepen the new relationships formed with new schools and families
- Place more teaching fellows in schools to strengthen engagement with those students who need it most.
- Create new advanced programs that allow CAP students to reach as high in the arts as they can dream.
Help CAP grant every child in the region access to the arts. There’s no more urgent moment than this one.
FAQ
Why has CAP decided to start a campaign?
Since 1993, CAP has seen the power of arts education in terms of helping students become more successful in school and in life. CAP believes now is the right time to grow its operating budget to reach more students in the coming decade.
Is CAP taking over the responsibility of arts education for Duval County Public Schools?
CAP is not taking over arts education in Duval County Public Schools. Over the years CAP has been able to supplement arts education in DCPS by adding depth and breadth to standard public school arts offerings. For example, CAP offers programs in violin, art as therapy, jazz dance technique, theatre and more, whereas most public elementary and middle schools are able to offer only basic music and art classes, and often no dance or theatre classes. CAP has a critical role to play in this regard.
Are CAP programs only offered to DCPS? Do you partner with other organizations?
DCPS is CAP’s largest partner, but CAP programs are also held in a variety of locations including, but not limited to, charter schools, community centers and local afterschool organizations like Boys and Girls Clubs and Youth Crisis Center. CAP also offers programs for children and young adults with disabilities, as well as those involved in, or at risk of entering, the juvenile justice system.
Is the fellowship model common or is this an innovative approach?
No other organization in the country uses this unique model to leverage such far-ranging outcomes. CAP is creating a model that can be replicated by communities across the nation. The fellowship model can be deployed at a cost of just double the budget of CAP’s traditional teaching model while reaching more than three times the number of children and creating a more flexible and nimble organization.
Learn More and Get Involved
Contact Doug Walker, Vice President of Philanthropy, at doug@capkids.org.