CLEVELAND (November 13, 2019) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) will invest $11,800,898 in 277 Cuyahoga County nonprofit organizations in 2020 through its General Operating Support and Project Support grant programs. CAC is one of the largest local public funders of arts and culture in the nation, granting more than $193 million to more than 420 organizations since 2007. More...
CAC Match Fund Supports 18 Projects, Reaches More Residents
CLEVELAND (September 16, 2019) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) has awarded $50,000 in matching funds to 18 community arts organizations through ioby (in our backyards). Cuyahoga Arts & Culture piloted a partnership with
ioby to provide 1:1 matching funds up to $5,000 on ioby crowdfunding campaigns that aimed to bring arts and culture to Cuyahoga County residents.
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Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees met on Wednesday, September 11, at Karamu House in Cleveland. Here’s what you missed if you weren’t able to attend. More...
CLEVELAND (May 30, 2019) – Neighborhood
Connections announces $299,162 in grants to support 113 projects in Cleveland
and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the local public funder for
arts and culture, will co-fund 16 of the resident-led arts and culture projects
through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. Cleveland Climate Action
Fund will co-fund an additional 12 projects. More...
CLEVELAND (November 28, 2018) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) and the Center for Performance and Civic Practice (CPCP) announced today a cohort of 12 Cuyahoga County artists and 12 nonprofit partner organizations who will participate in CPCP’s Learning Lab program (list follows). More...
If you couldn’t attend our November Board meeting, here’s what you missed:
Record-Number General Operating Support and Project Support Grants Announced
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees approved its largest slate of grants totaling more than $12 million to 257 organizations at its November 13 meeting at the
Cleveland History Center. After the meeting, an informal reception was held to celebrate the newest grant recipients.
More...Last week, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved spending $10.2 million for the General Operating Support
(GOS) grant program in 2018-2019. That vote was taken at a public meeting, and
it followed months of discussions with arts groups and public pronouncements
signaling the funding level. Since then, we’ve contacted each of the 61 organizations that will receive funding through that program and shared this
news. More...
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture is embarking on a year of celebration, reflection, and discovery. This year marks a decade of our agency’s work to strengthen organizations and inspire residents across Cuyahoga County through our investments in arts and culture. More...
CLEVELAND (November 14, 2016) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) will invest $14,573,833 in grants to 241 nonprofit organizations in Cuyahoga County through its 2017 grant programs. The grants, which will support arts and cultural organizations and projects of all sizes throughout Cuyahoga County in 2017, were approved by CAC’s Board of Trustees during its public meeting and celebration on Monday. More...
CLEVELAND (November 8, 2016) – Neighborhood Connections, the small-grants and grassroots community-building program affiliated with the Cleveland Foundation, has approved $200,269 in grants to support 72 projects throughout Cleveland and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the county’s public funder for arts and culture, will co-fund 26 of the resident-led arts and culture projects through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. More...
As the seasons begin to change here in Cuyahoga County, we at Cuyahoga Arts & Culture are shifting to the final phase of our organizational planning work. The new season marks the end of our community listening project: a summer full of conversations with residents, and work with community partners to hold deep-dive conversations with residents across the County. More...
CLEVELAND (August 3, 2016) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) released today its 2015 Report from the Community, which shares the stories of Cuyahoga County residents who have been impacted by cultural experiences supported by CAC. The Report from the Community is available at report.cacgrants.org. More...
Thank you to the nearly 200 representatives from cultural organizations small and large who attended our planning kickoff event on May 19th. Planning for CAC’s future starts with understanding what the cultural life of our community looks like, and it was important for us to begin by hearing from the people who work to enhance that cultural life every day. More...
This July, 50,000 visitors will come to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention (RNC). More...
CLEVELAND (May 17, 2016) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) encourages 501c3 nonprofit organizations offering arts and cultural programs in Cuyahoga County to apply for funding in 2017 through its Project Support grant program. More...
CLEVELAND (May 17, 2016) – Neighborhood Connections, the small-grants and grassroots community-building program affiliated with the Cleveland Foundation, has approved $288,672 in grants to support 120 different projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the county’s public funder for arts and culture, will co-fund 44 of the resident-led arts and culture projects through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. More...
CLEVELAND (May 10, 2016) – The transformation of downtown Cleveland’s Public Square will include additional arts and cultural programming in 2016-2017, thanks to a grant to Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). More...
CLEVELAND (April 18, 2016) – Mark E. Avsec and Gwendolyn Garth have been appointed by County Executive Armond Budish to serve on the Cuyahoga Arts &
Culture (CAC) Board of Trustees. More...