[OR_Archaeology] Deadline announced for Arts & Cultural Tourism grants

[Susan White]

Oregon Arts Commission Announces Deadline for Next Round of Arts & Cultural Tourism Grant Program
 
Applications due January 31, 2011
 
The Oregon Arts Commission announces that applications for its Arts & Cultural Tourism Grant program will be accepted from Oregon arts organizations and units of local governments through January 31, 2011.
 
The Oregon Arts Commission established the Cultural Tourism Grants to support projects and partnerships that advance arts-based cultural tourism activities.  The program, part of the Commission's Creative Oregon Initiative, fosters stronger links between the arts, culture, the tourism industry and local economic development.
 
The program supports activities undertaken by arts or tourism groups - and especially projects in which both collaborate - designed to increase tourism motivated entirely or in part by the arts-related offerings of a community or region.  By attracting Oregonians and non-residents, Commission-funded projects increase the economic benefit of cultural tourism to communities, regions and the entire state.
 
Proposed projects may enhance an existing cultural tourism project or fund a new initiative.
 
Grants in 2010 supported a variety of projects including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Ashland Package Partnership, a collaboration with area hotels, inns and bed-and-breakfasts on joint advertising on Google, Yahoo and Bing;  Columbia Arts' efforts in partnership with the Columbia George Winegrowers Association, Hood River Chamber of Commerce and Hood River Visitors Council on a series of wine and art events in September to draw new visitors to the area and create opportunities that encourage them to stay the night; and to the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene to support a strategic marketing campaign aimed at increasing the Latin-American audience for the two week festival.  The efforts targeted anticipated Latin American visitors to Eugene in conjunction with the Maxi-Basketball pan-American championship during the festival's second week.
 
Additional support went to the Portland Jazz Festival and its partnership with Travel Portland, 17 downtown Portland hotels and the City of Portland to generate tourism in February, a period of typical low hotel occupancy and to the Sisters Folk Festival for September in Sisters, a month-long campaign by the Sisters Folk Festival, Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce and other community organizations to promote and celebrate the American family through eight participating cultural events occurring in the area's shoulder season.
 
Applicants for Cultural Tourism grants must have IRS 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt status and corporate nonprofit status in the state of Oregon; or be a unit of local government.  Up to $10,000 in matching grant funds may be requested.
 
The guidelines and applications for the Cultural Tourism grants are available online through the grants section of the Arts Commission's website: <A href="http://www.oregonartscommission.orgwww.oregonartscommission.org<http://www.oregonartscommission.org>.  Additional information is available by calling the Arts Commission at (503) 986-0082.
 
 
 
 
 
 

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Part.002
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 422 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/or_archaeology/attachments/20101210/eaef491c/attachment.obj>