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News Release from <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oregon Cultural Trust</span></strong><br>
<i>Posted on FlashAlert: April 9th, 2021 10:18 AM</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Downloadable file: <a href="https://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2021-04/1171/143964/Cultural_Trust_better.JPG">
Trust Manager Aili Schreiner (second from right) meets with grant seekers at a pre-COVID Conversations event.</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Salem, Ore. – Grant makers offering more than $5 million in funding for FY2022 will gather online for the Cultural Trust’s 2021
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oregon-cultural-trust-2021-conversations-with-funders-and-partners-tickets-149961092665">
“Conversations with Funders and Partners”</a> event from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday, April 26. The free virtual event will enable grant seekers to learn about funding programs available and will include breakout rooms where they can discuss their projects and programming
with specific funders. NOTE: Capacity is limited, so <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oregon-cultural-trust-2021-conversations-with-funders-and-partners-tickets-149961092665">
early registration</a> is encouraged.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Participating with the Cultural Trust will be representatives from three of its Statewide Partners – the Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Heritage and Oregon Humanities – as well as counterparts from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and Travel
Oregon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Organizations encouraged to attend “Conversations with Funders and Partners” include community development organizations, libraries, arts organizations, museums, cultural centers, parks and trails groups, historical societies, arts alliances, literary groups
and heritage organizations. All cultural nonprofit organizations are welcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>“There are more than 1,500 cultural nonprofits serving Oregonians,” said Aili Schreiner, Cultural Trust manager. “We want to make sure they know about the significant funding and programming resources that are here to support them.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>Oregon Cultural Trust Cultural Development Program</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Among the funding opportunities discussed at the online Conversations event will be the Cultural Trust’s FY2022 Cultural Development Program (funds to be awarded summer of 2021).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The Cultural Development Program recognizes and supports significant projects through four program funded categories: Access; Preservation; Creativity; and Capacity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In 2020 the Cultural Trust awarded more than $2.7 million in statewide grants. Cultural Development Program grants represent one third of the annual funding the Cultural Trust provides to Oregon’s cultural nonprofits. Other funding includes grants to the
Trust’s five statewide partners – to support their mission goals and respective funding programs – and to 45 county and tribal cultural coalitions that fund local initiatives, projects and programs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>FY2022 Cultural Development Program grants are for projects and activities that will occur between Sept. 1, 2021, and Aug. 31, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Grant guidelines <a href="https://culturaltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/CulturalTrust_CDV_FY2022_Guidelines.pdf">
are now posted</a> for a Friday, May 7, application deadline.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>For more information contact Schreiner at <a href="mailto:aili.schreiner@oregon.gov">
aili.schreiner@oregon.gov</a> or 503- 428-0963.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em># # #</em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em>Created in 2001 by the Oregon Legislature, the Oregon Cultural Trust is a testimony to how much Oregonians value culture. No other state provides a 100 percent tax credit to inspire cultural giving. As uniquely Oregonian as public beaches and the bottle
bill, the Oregon Cultural Trust was established 18 years ago by the Oregon Legislature as an ongoing funding engine for arts and culture across the state. Oregonians fund the Cultural Trust. We, in turn, fund the artists, potters, rappers, acrobats and dreamers
who make Oregon, Oregon. In 2017 Oregonians gave $4.9 million to the Cultural Trust, our all-time record. Sixty percent of that went straight back to the field. The remaining 40 percent helped grow our permanent fund. Our three grant programs fund our
</em><a href="https://culturaltrust.org/about-us/statewide-partners/"><em><span style="color:blue">five Statewide Partners</span></em></a><em>,
</em><a href="https://culturaltrust.org/grants/coalitions/"><em><span style="color:blue">45 County and Tribal Coalitions</span></em></a><em> and
</em><a href="https://culturaltrust.org/get-involved/nonprofits/"><em><span style="color:blue">qualified cultural nonprofits</span></em></a><em> through competitive Cultural Development Grants.</em><o:p></o:p></p>
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