The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling $1.6 million to fourteen national arts organizations.

Awarded through the foundation's Fund for National Projects, the grants will bolster the infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting, and theatre fields and improve conditions for performing artists across the country. Nine organizations will receive a total of $1.3 million in grants for newly conceived national projects, while five organizations were awarded a total of $300,000 in Phase II grants to extend projects that have previously been supported through the initiative.

National Project grantees include the American Theatre Wing in New York City, which will use the funds to develop an interactive media hub where theatre companies can produce and share engaging educational media content through various digital platforms; the Philadelphia-based Cultural Data Project, which will use its grant to develop an educational curriculum designed to build data literacy among nonprofit dance, presenting, theatre, and music organizations; DANCECleveland, which will use its grant to assess the feasibility of establishing a National Center for Choreography in Northeast Ohio; and the University of Minnesota Foundation in Minneapolis, which will use the grant to develop the African-American Theater History Project, a free online search tool that brings together archival materials documenting African-American theater with their cultural and historical context.

Phase II grant recipients include the American Composers Orchestra in New York City, for continued support of a program that exposes jazz-infused orchestra music to new audiences; the Los Angeles-based Network of Ensemble Theaters, to expand a program that enables ensembles to extend collaborations focused on initiating and developing relationships; and On the Boards in Seattle, to expand its OntheBoards.tv website, which provides high-quality filmic versions of new contemporary performances.

"We could not be more pleased to support these nine new projects that could each have profound and widespread effects on their respective fields," said Ben Cameron, the foundation's program director for the arts. "Furthermore, for the first time, we are excited to offer Phase II grants to support five previously funded Fund for National Project grantee projects — each of which are bolstering the overall health of jazz, contemporary dance, and theatre and moving them forward in bold and creative ways."

For a complete list of 2014 National Projects grant recipients, visit the DDCF website.