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Houston Endowment gives $8 million to Houston Parks Board and Trees For Houston to increase access to great neighborhood parks and build tree canopy in areas where the urban “heat island” effect is most pronounced. Local artist Corey De'Juan Sherrard Jr. is the featured artist in the second exhibition of the Jones Artist Awards Program. The solo exhibition, entitled Songbook for Black Constellations, for Trio, presents data on Black demographics and institutions in the U.S. through a unique pairing of painting and music. A new program created by the Foundation recognizes local emerging artists and reflects the diverse stories and perspectives of Greater Houston’s residents. The Jones Artist Awards is a new initiative that strengthens the organization’s investment in the local arts community.A new philanthropic initiative to support artists of color in the Houston area announced the first 120 arts organizations to receive a combined $2 million in grants. A project to create a state-of-the-art Latino cultural complex in Houston received more than $1,250,000 in seed capital.A new initiative called BANF announced an initial investment of $2 million in grants to support artists of color in nine counties of the Houston metro area.Supported by lead grants from Houston Endowment and Kinder Foundation, SPARK, the Houston-based nonprofit organization that transforms public school playgrounds into community parks for out-of-school time use, has successfully introduced 25 new parks and updated, or ‘re-SPARKed,’ five at campuses across 12 independent school districts and three charter schools since 2016.Houston Endowment announced this week that it has awarded a $10 million grant to the Buffalo Bayou Partnership to accelerate three key projects of a master plan for the bayou’s east sector that will spread the green space wealth.