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There's Still Time; Please Help Keep the Arts Alive.

This week is an important time to help your favorite arts organizations.

Help Keep the Arts Alive!

This week is an important time to help your favorite arts organizations!

A recently announced $9 million grant program* to help non-profit arts organizations in Connecticut recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has provided an opportunity for applicants to maximize donation dollars received by Nov. 1, 2020.

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For every dollar donated, an additional 50 cents could be available from this challenge grant!

Some of your favorite arts organizations are applying for this funding allocated to the State of CT through the CARES Act. Please consider helping them and make your donation at the respective links before Nov. 1. You can learn more about each organization, their offerings and their need by visiting their websites.

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Organizations Eligible for Grant!

DONATE to Brass City Ballet

Or checks to
Brass City Ballet
1255 Middlebury Rd, Middlebury, CT 06762

DONATE to Landmark Community Theatre

DONATE to Waterbury Symphony Orchestra

YOU Can Also Help Those Not Eligible!

Unfortunately, not ALL arts organizations are eligible for this particular grant, but they still need your support to survive. Kindly consider a donation to these organizations who have asked for your help:

DONATE to Arts Alliance of Woodbury

DONATE to Mattatuck Museum

DONATE to Oxford Cultural Arts Comm.

DONATE to Phoenix Stage Company

DONATE to Woodbury-Bethlehem
Music Found.

Visit the ACC website for a full list of our members, their websites and contact information. Contact us if you are looking for a particular arts organization you would like to help.

To support the Arts & Culture Collaborative, Waterbury Region, in our work to serve all our members and the arts community throughout our 16-town region, please consider a donation to the ACC:

DONATE to Arts & Culture Collaborative

* The COVID Relief Fund for the Arts is intended to support arts organizations that have had to curtail operations for a period of time due to the COVID-19 pandemic and which have had limited ability to re-open due to pandemic restrictions and have had to pivot their service delivery due to pandemic restrictions.

The grant is being administered through the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA). Click here for more information.

Thanks to our ongoing supporters!

As a non-profit local arts agency under the auspices of the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the ACC is grateful for the support of the Arts & Tourism Commission of the City of Waterbury, the Waterbury Regional Chamber, the Connecticut Community Foundation and the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development/Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Arts & Culture Collaborative | 203-757-0701 x 316 | Website

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