Agencies receiving Operation Primetime
funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American
Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children,
Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).
A civic leader and staunch supporter of education, women's issues and environmental
concerns, among other causes, Ms. Gund is the former chair of the Mayor's
Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission of New York City and has served on the boards of such wide - ranging organizations as the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, the Frick, the
Fund for Public Schools, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
He questions links between corporate culture and artistic practice, a real
concern for artists in Turkey, where the current artistic boom is
funded by private money from banks and large corporations, with no support for
cultural activities from the state.