ARTS FUNDING
Jump to full article: Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, 2008-04-25
Author: Karen Sandstrom Plain Dealer Reporter
Intro: Eight out-of-state experts in arts and culture met in Cleveland this week to review applications from Cuyahoga County groups that want to use cigarette tax money for special projects in the next year. . . .
Seventy-five nonprofit organizations applied to receive part of the $1 million in project-support grants that will be distributed this year through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the Issue 18 tax administrator. The panel recommended 58 projects for funding. . . .
Support for specific arts projects is the second of three types of grants CAC plans to make with the millions of dollars that will be generated each of the 10 years of the cigarette tax.
The majority of the money -- about $15 million annually the first few years -- is going toward operating expenses for well-established nonprofit arts and culture groups, large and small.
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