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4 Montclair Nonprofits Score Coronavirus Recovery Grants
The New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund awarded $1.3 million in grants to more than 60 nonprofits, including four in Montclair.
MONTCLAIR, NJ — The New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund (NJACRF) recently awarded $1.3 million in grants to more than 60 nonprofits across the state – including several in Montclair – as they work to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Montclair grant recipients include:
- Montclair History Center
- Talking Eyes Media
- The Montclair Orchestra
- Montclair Art Museum
This is the second round of grants awarded by NJACRF, which is hosted by the Princeton Area Community Foundation. Earlier this year, the fund provided $2.6 million in grants to more than 100 arts, culture and historical nonprofits across the Garden State.
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The coronavirus shuttered venues and forced furloughs and layoffs of more than half of the state’s creative workforce. The state’s nonprofit arts industry reported pandemic-related losses of more than $100 million as of December 2020, the NJACRF said.
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