PORTLAND, ORE — The Regional Arts & Culture Council has awarded its final round of General Operating Support grants for the fiscal year ending June 30. RACC distributes these funds three times per year, after organizations submit comprehensive annual reports to RACC.
To qualify for General Operating Support, nonprofit arts organizations must demonstrate artistic excellence and fiscal responsibility, have an annual budget of at least $75,000, and be based in Clackamas, Multnomah or Washington Counties. Additional eligibility criteria are described at https://racc.org/grants/general-operating-support-grants.
A total of $2,933,855 has been distributed this fiscal year as unrestricted support to 48 different arts organizations, including 22 organizations receiving $546,046 this cycle. The arts organizations receiving general operating support in 2015-16 are:
Artist Repertory Theatre, $81,785
Bag & Baggage Productions, $10,000
Blue Sky Gallery, $12,367
*Bodyvox, $33,247
Broadway Rose Theatre Company, $23,000
Cappella Romana, Inc., $14,558
*Chamber Music Northwest, $46,619
*Children’s Healing Art Project, $14,135
*Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, $14,615
*Echo Theater Company, $16,148
*Ethos Music Center, $31,101
Friends of Chamber Music, $19,996
*Hand2Mouth, $8,000
Hollywood Theatre, $45,056
*Imago Theatre, $16,305
*Independent Publishing Resource Center, $11,118
Lakewood Center for the Arts, $21,000
Literary Arts, Inc., $52,929
*Live Wire! Radio, $16,033
Metropolitan Youth Symphony, $20,762
Miracle Theatre Group, $22,125
Northwest Children’s Theatre, $61,495
Northwest Dance Project, $40,216
*NW Documentary Arts & Media, $8,000
Oregon Ballet Theatre, $163,663
*Oregon Children’s Theatre, $83,292
Oregon Symphony Association, $502,394
*PDX Jazz, $18,093
Pendulum Aerial Arts, $8,256
PHAME, $14,383
Playwrite, Inc., $10,581
Portland Art Museum/Northwest Film Center, $608,805
Portland Baroque Orchestra, $30,237
Portland Center Stage, $281,149
*Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, $13,857
*Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, $15,460
*Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, $49,320
Portland Opera, $267,092
*Portland Piano International, $20,065
Portland Youth Philharmonic, $25,030
*Profile Theatre Project, $18,041
The Portland Ballet, $25,376
The Third Angle New Music, $8,000
*Third Rail Repertory Theatre, $30,684
*triangle productions, $13,654
White Bird, $49,585
*Write Around Portland, $14,074
*Young Audiences of Oregon, $54,185
(*) denotes organizations awarded RACC support on June 22. All other organizations received their grant awards earlier this year.
RACC General Operating Support Grants are funded by the City of Portland general fund ($1,054,869) and Arts Education & Access Fund (or “arts tax”) ($1,828,686), plus Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties ($104,300 combined). In addition, RACC will allocate proceeds from its 2015-16 Work for Art campaign to these General Operating Support organizations in the fall.
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The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) provides grants for artists, nonprofit organizations and schools in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties; manages an internationally acclaimed public art program; raises money and awareness for the arts through Work for Art; convenes forums, networking events and other community gatherings; provides workshops and other forms of technical assistance for artists; and oversees a program to integrate arts and culture into the standard curriculum in public schools through The Right Brain Initiative. RACC values a diversity of artistic and cultural experiences and is working to build a community in which everyone can participate in culture, creativity and the arts. For more information visit racc.org.