Portland Center Stage to Receive $777,000 from Wallace Foundation
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
Briauna Skye McKizzie, GoLocalPDX Contributor
PCS will receive the grant support, totaling $777,000, that will fund “continuous learning cycles,” according to their press release.
Recently,
Portland Center Stage (PCS) announced that they were amongst the 26 arts organizations to be selected for the
Wallace Foundation Audience-Building Initiative.
The Wallace Foundation is based out of New York City. Hoping to improve educational and enrichment programs for both disadvantaged children and art lovers everywhere, the foundation actively grants financial assistance to organizations that inspire their communities through the arts.
The foundation selected PCS out of over 300 organizations due to PCS’s reputation for excellence.
Over the next two years, PCS will receive the grant support, totaling $777,000. After an analysis of the first cycle efforts, a second cycle of programs will receive additional funding through the initiative. That additional funding will be determined later, but PCS anticipates the total award for the four-year cycle could be $1.3 million.
Ideally, these learning cycles will help the theater to maintain and increase their audience numbers by attracting more 25-40 year olds.
“Attracting and engaging new audiences is challenging for arts organizations because, even as the number of arts groups has grown, national rates of participation in the arts have declined, arts education has waned, and competition for ways to spend leisure time has increased. We are confident that the 26 organizations selected from a pool of more than 300 identified by leaders in the arts nationwide will provide new insights that will benefit the field at large, helping to bring the arts to a broader and more diverse group of people,” said Will Miller, president of Wallace Foundation.
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