The Broward Center for the Performing Arts, with support from the Salah Foundation, builds community through the arts by expanding access to cultural experiences and arts education across Broward County. For more than a decade, the Foundation’s strategic investments have strengthened facilities, leveraged private support, and advanced nationally recognized education initiatives that create lasting impact for children, families, and the broader community.
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts builds community through the arts by delivering quality entertainment, educational opportunities, and memorable experiences that inspire audiences, nurture collaboration, and strengthen economic vitality. For more than a decade, the Salah Foundation has played a transformative role in advancing this mission through sustained, strategic investment.
The Foundation’s involvement began in 2013 with an investment in the ENCORE! Capital Campaign, helping renew and expand the Broward Center’s campus. Their impact deepened in 2015 through the Salah Foundation Arts Education Challenge, a one-to-one matching initiative that galvanized private support for the Broward Center’s arts-in-education programs. This investment strengthened innovative initiatives designed to reach economically disadvantaged students and affirmed the shared belief that learning through the arts helps young people achieve at higher levels both in school and in life. A subsequent programming challenge grant further expanded community access by offering a 2:1 match encouraging private donors to help bring world-class artists and performances to Broward County.
Over the years, the Foundation has remained a steadfast partner in advancing the Center’s wide range of education initiatives – which together represent the largest free arts-in-education program in the nation – and contributed to ACT II: Transforming Parker Playhouse, the successful campaign to renovate and revitalize this beloved historic venue.
Today, the Salah Foundation’s latest multi-year investment is enhancing and expanding Reading Readiness through the Theater, an early learning program that uses live performances, storytelling and family engagement activities to prepare underserved pre-kindergarten students to read. Thanks to the Foundation’s support, Reading Readiness now reaches 70 pre-K classrooms and more than 1,300 students annually, including an expansion to ESE classrooms for students with special needs, broadening early learning opportunities and expanding access so that more Broward children, regardless of income or ability, can experience the transformative power of the arts.
