PORTLAND, ORE – At its October 26 board meeting, the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) board of directors approved to expand by three the number of organizations that receive General Operating Support annually from RACC, awarding grants to My Voice Music ($9,800), Portland Playhouse ($23,000) and The Circus Project ($12,800).
A total of 51 arts organizations in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties now receive annual unrestricted financial support from RACC to help them provide a wide range of arts programming for the public. Other General Operating Support organizations are listed at http://bit.ly/2e5lp9j. These grants are funded by Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, the City of Portland general fund, and the city’s Arts Education & Access Fund, or arts tax.
In addition, RACC has distributed proceeds from its 10th annual Work for Art campaign to 49 local arts organizations, including:
Artist Repertory Theatre, $17,018
Bag & Baggage Productions, $ 8,980
Blue Sky Gallery, $5,086
BodyVox, $12,348
Broadway Rose Theatre Company, $21,543
Cappella Romana, Inc., $5,430
Chamber Music Northwest, $13,531
Children’s Healing Art Project, $5,787
Disjecta, $3,600
Echo Theater Company, $11,880
Ethos Music Center, $9,169
Friends of Chamber Music, $10,458
Hand2Mouth, $3,000
Hollywood Theatre, $9,768
Imago Theatre, $9,008
Independent Publishing Resource Center, $5,574
Lakewood Center for the Arts, $21,738
Literary Arts, Inc., $14,827
Live Wire! Radio, $5,653
Metropolitan Youth Symphony, $11,922
Miracle Theatre Group, $13,988
Northwest Children’s Theatre, $13,451
Northwest Dance Project, $10,190
NW Documentary Arts & Media, $3,699
Oregon Ballet Theatre, $19,581
Oregon Children’s Theatre, $22,757
Oregon Symphony Association, $19,388
PDX Jazz, $5,931
Pendulum Aerial Arts, $3,600
PHAME, $6,309
PlayWrite, Inc., $5,857
Portland Art Museum/Northwest Film Center, $24,109
Portland Baroque Orchestra, $12,196
Portland Center Stage, $23,163
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, $6,690
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, $9,691
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, $14,564
Portland Opera, $23,956
Portland Piano International, $8,256
Portland Youth Philharmonic, $14,961
Profile Theatre Project, $10,595
The Portland Ballet, $10,325
The Right Brain Initiative, $10,000
Third Angle New Music Ensemble, $4,850
Third Rail Repertory Theatre, $6,939
Triangle Productions, $3,000
White Bird, $14,760
Write Around Portland, $9,161
Young Audiences of Oregon, $17,069
Work for Art is a program of the Regional Arts & Culture Council that raises money and awareness for arts and culture organizations, primarily through workplace giving. More than $912,000 was paid or pledged in the Work for Art campaign that ended June 30, 2016. Approximately 20% of all campaign donations are designated for specific arts organizations, but a large portion of the proceeds were unrestricted, and RACC distributes 100% of those to its General Operating Support organizations and through other grant programs throughout the year. A total of $555,358 was distributed to the groups listed above, and additional proceeds will be distributed to other arts organizations during the course of the year.
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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.