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Deschutes County Cultural Coalition
The Deschutes County Cultural Coalition exists to:
 What is the Oregon Cultural Trust?The Trust is a state-wide cultural plan to raise significant new funds to invest into Oregon’s arts, humanities and heritage. Funds will be distributed to counties and tribes to support local cultural projects and collaborations through competitive grants that support cultural projects of regional and statewide significance, and through additional funds to Oregon’s cultural agencies to support collaborative partnerships and ongoing statewide efforts.
Oregon nonprofit cultural organizations are eligible for new funding to support protection of and stabilization and investment in culture above and beyond the existing funds distributed through existing cultural agency grants. New funds are available locally through counties and tribes as well as from the cultural agencies in support of collaborations and partnerships.
What is the Deschutes County Cultural Plan? County-based cultural coalitions have been developed to initiate cultural planning efforts to determine local and regional needs, baseline inventories of cultural resources, and benchmarks that are in alignment with the goals of the Oregon Cultural Trust.
The Deschutes County Cultural Planning Committee was appointed by Deschutes County Commissioners in late 2002 to develop a Deschutes County Cultural Plan. The purpose of the Planning Committee is to define the structure of a permanent Deschutes County Cultural Coalition and to develop a cultural plan to guide the coalition in awarding grant funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust to support and protect the culture, arts and heritage of Deschutes County.
By spring 2004, the county will have a permanent Deschutes Cultural Coalition who will administer the County’s cultural plan on an ongoing basis.
How you can help to build culture in Deschutes County and across Oregon. On August 9, 2001, Governor Kitzhaber signed into law HB 2923, the legislation providing funding and structure for Oregon’s Trust for Cultural Development. This legislation establishes a tax credit for direct contributions to the Oregon Trust for Cultural Development, a long-term public/private funding initiative designed to preserve and strengthen culture for all Oregonians.
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