And maybe even start a prize for young underprivileged dancers.
If the sequester goes into effect Friday evening, kicking off a gradual $85 billion reduction in government spending, one of the services that could see its budget slashed is the low-income nutrition program known as WIC, which offers food vouchers and health care resources to underprivileged new mothers and young children.
The more room the better, especially for previously underprivileged new art.
In a drive to fill all of the 7,500 empty seats in parochial and private schools in New York City, a philanthropic organization co-founded by Theodore J. Forstmann, the billionaire financier, has offered $50 million in new, partial scholarships to underprivileged children for this fall.
And instead of shying away from the fact that technology is creating new challenges for the underprivileged, he said we need to address head on automation's impact on employment.
Mrs. Ganzenmuller, 31, is working in New Brunswick, N.J., on the development of a new private school in New Jersey for underprivileged children, which she plans to call Bray Family Academy.
Of course, reaching out to the underprivileged is nothing new for first ladies.
Instead of spending thousands of dollars on fees, underprivileged Americans with new accounts at a non-profit local bank will have more money to spend on food, clothing and housing.
In 1998, seeking to help instill her love for theater in a new generation of New Yorkers, she personally instigated a program to bring smart, underprivileged students from New York's public high schools to the theater.
Mr. Coleman, who was 4 feet 8 inches tall, had a kidney transplant at 5 and a second one when he was 16. "Diff'rent Strokes," seen on NBC from 1978 to 1985 and on ABC from 1985 to 1986, was a comedy about a wealthy white New Yorker (Conrad Bain) who adopts two underprivileged black brothers, Arnold (played by Mr. Coleman and Willis Todd Bridgeses).
