Ebtekar was a resident artist at the Stanford University Paris Studio in 2006, an Imprint Artist in Residence at the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2008, and a resident artist at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica in 2009 through the VIsions from the New California Award, a project of the Alliance of Artist Communities in partnership with the James Irvine Foundation.
Blackwell has served on many boards, including the Urban Institute, The James Irvine Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, Common Cause.
She has won several awards for her activities, including from the American Association of University Women, the James Irvine Foundation, the Fund for Folk Culture (for travel to the Native Californian art collection at the Musée de l' Homme in Paris).
With support from the James Irvine Foundation, Los Cenzontles began developing a 3 part documentary series in 2003.
The SFJAZZ Collective is a jazz ensemble comprising eight performer/composers, launched in 2004 by SFJAZZ, a West Coast non-profit jazz institution and the presenter of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, with funding from the James Irvine Foundation.
James Bond | James Joyce | National Science Foundation | James Brown | James Cook | James Stewart | James II of England | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | James Garner | James | James Cameron | James Taylor | James Madison | James May | Henry James | James Cagney | James II | James Caan | James Earl Jones | Irvine, California | Irvine Welsh | LeBron James | James Monroe | James Franco | James I | William James | James Wyatt | James, son of Zebedee | James Dean |