RACC Distributes 'Work for Art' Funds

PORTLAND, OR - During their last board meeting on October 26, the board of directors of the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) voted to expand the list of organizations who receive General Operating Support funding from RACC annually. RACC awarded 3 grants: My Voice Music ($9,800), Portland Playhouse ($23,000) and The Circus Project ($12,800).

Work for Art is a program created to fund different organizations, primarily through workplace giving. The previous Work for Art campaign, which ended on June 30, 2016, raised a total of $912,000. Interested in helping provide funding for different artistic organizations in Oregon? You can donate to Work for Art.

This is the 10th annual Work for Art campaign. In addition to the General Operating Support funding, 49 local arts organizations receive auxiliary funding from RACC.

• 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

To learn more about the Regional Arts and Culture Council, visit their website.

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