Museums & Cultural Affairs Department
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: November 18, 2009
Contact: Juli Lozano, Public Affairs @ 541-4915 or 474-4773
Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) grants out
arts stimulus funds to El Paso arts organizations
The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) has redistributed $90,000 in stimulus funds in a competitive process to 12 local arts and culture non-profits for job retention. This funding will directly impact 21 staffed positions. These identified positions play a critical role at their respective organizations and funding will help insure that organizations’ service levels remain consistent despite the current fiscal environment.
MCAD’s funding was part of a $100,000 award through the National Endowment for the Arts from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). ARRA’s allocation of funding for arts organizations is in recognition of the $166 billion impact arts organizations have on the American economy. MCAD’s award was the largest in the State of Texas or New Mexico, outside of the allocations to the states’ arts agencies.
$10,000 was retained by MCAD for internal job retention and the remainder allocated to the following through a competitive process:
Binational Independent Film Festival
BorderSenses
Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe-Cultural Center
Creative Kids, Inc.
El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center
El Paso Opera
El Paso Playhouse
El Paso Pro-Musica
Kids Excel El Paso
Kids-N-Co.
Project Change
Theatre, Inc.
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