A new round of funding will help preserve or restore hundreds of Denver jobs in the arts.
The Colorado Council on the Arts, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and the Western States Arts Federation recently announced that 47 nonprofit arts organizations in Colorado will receive $568,040 in federal funding to preserve or restore more than 300 salaried and contract positions.
The grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds allocated to the National Endowment for the Arts to help combat job loss in the arts due to declining support amidst the current state of the economy.
A total of 47 organizations in 15 counties and 17 cities received a piece of the funding. The organizations include those focused on theater, music, dance, visual arts, film and arts festivals.
The funding will allow for 313 jobs, including contract positions, to be preserved or reinstated. Many of those jobs are key leadership positions critical to daily operation of each organization. Other positions will allow the organizations to continue providing innovative and educational programs and services that ultimately benefit residents in Colorado.
The one-time funding allocation allowed CCA, DOCA and WESTAF to distribute the grants according to narrow federal guidelines, which are designed to ensure job preservation and restoration in the arts and cultural sector during the next year.
ARRA funds are restricted to eligible nonprofit organizations to preserve jobs in the arts through salary support for one or more positions that are critical to an organization’s artistic mission and are in jeopardy or have been eliminated as a result of the current economic climate.
Funds also may be used for fees for previously engaged artists and/or contractual personnel to maintain or expand the period during which they are engaged.
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It’s just so pleasant to read about some people who are readyto take care not only about some industrial or banking fields but about art, too. all of us understand that not by bread by alone… but not everyone follows this rule.