2008 Highlights
Expanding our reach into the communityNew for 2009
GCAC has big plans for 2009.Introduction
A Message from our PresidentA Word from our Board Chair
Mission & Vision
Grants & Services
Operating SupportProject Support
Grants to Individual Artists
Community Arts Education
Artists-in-SchoolsArt in the House & TRANSIT ARTS
Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants
Columbus Arts Festival
About the 2008 Festival2008 Sponsors
Coordinating Committee & Volunteers
Marketing, Communications & Outreach
Business Arts Partnership AwardsArtistic Excellence Award
ColumbusArts.com & gcac.org
ArtZine
Executive Office
Board of TrusteesStaff
GCAC Financials
Statement of Financial PositionStatement of Activities
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Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants
The Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants Program is designed to help support amateur and avocational groups, traditional arts organizations, civic and neighborhood associations, guilds, social service, youth-centered and cultural organizations with arts projects in all arts disciplines, provided they are promoted and offered to the general public. The purpose of the program is to increase community participation in the arts throughout Franklin County.
In 2008, the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program awarded a total of $75,721 to 62 organizations:
| Organization | Grant |
| African American and African Studies Community Extension Center |
$1,000 |
| Alton Darby Elementary School | $1,000 |
| bacKspace | $2,000 |
| Bread and Circus Theatre Company | $1,161 |
| Changing Pathways | $1,500 |
| City of Columbus Community Relations Commission | $425 |
| Columbus Blues Alliance | $1,000 |
| Columbus Camerata | $1,500 |
| Columbus Children’s Choir | $2,000 |
| Columbus Civic Theatre | $1,000 |
| Columbus Women’s Chorus | $600 |
| Community Development for all People Corporation | $2,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $1,500 |
| Djun’Kendafala Dance Company | $1,000 |
| Emerald City Players | $1,000 |
| Evolution Theatre Company | $1,000 |
| First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | $2,000 |
| First Unitarian Universalist Church | $2,000 |
| Foreground Dance | $1,500 |
| Fort Hayes PTA | $1,000 |
| Friends of Art for Community Enrichment | $1,000 |
| Friends of Doo Dah | $2,000 |
| Friends of Town Hall | $1,000 |
| Grace New Covenant Apostolic Church | $1,000 |
| Greater Hilltop Community Theater | $1,000 |
| Goodwill Columbus | $1,000 |
| Gowens Music | $1,000 |
| Grimaldi Circus Kids | $1,000 |
| Hanby Arts Magnet School | $1,200 |
| Haven of Hope Cancer Foundation | $1,620 |
| Hilliard Arts Council | $1,000 |
| Inner City Performing Arts Center | $1,000 |
| Interfaith Association of Central Ohio | $1,000 |
| La Charanga Tres | $2,000 |
| Music on the Hill | $2,000 |
| Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio | $2,000 |
| New Albany Symphony Orchestra | $1,000 |
| No Strings Attached Chamber Music Society | $1,000 |
| Ohio Alliance for Arts Education | $1,000 |
| Ohio Hispanic Fine Arts Association | $750 |
| Ohio Poetry Association | $675 |
| OSU Multicultural Center | $2,000 |
| Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative | $2,000 |
| Prevention Council of Central Ohio | $400 |
| Rock on Sullivant | $1,500 |
| Rosebriar Shakespeare Company | $1,000 |
| Scioto Valley Chorus | $500 |
| Shiloh Family Institute | $950 |
| Special Events League "AH"leluia | $1,400 |
| Swaranjali | $2,000 |
| The Singing Buckeyes | $1,000 |
| The Spirituality Network, Inc | $1,000 |
| Thiossane Institute, Inc. | $1,000 |
| TUPACO Dance | $2,000 |
| United Cerebral Palsy of Central Ohio | $1,000 |
| Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission | $1,000 |
| Very Special Arts of Ohio | $1,000 |
| Westerville Community Bands | $1,000 |
| Westerville Symphony at Otterbein College | $1,000 |
| Worthington Arts Council | $500 |
| Worthington Chorus | $340 |
| YMCA of Central Ohio | $1,200 |
The Franklin County Neighborhood Arts program is financially assisted by the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. Views expressed by the program and its grant recipients do not necessarily represent those of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. The Franklin County Neighborhood Arts program is also supported by a generous donation from Ashland Inc. GCAC administers the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program through its Community Arts Education Department.
Photo courtesy of The King Arts Complex.
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