Much ink has been spilled about the challenges facing start-up companies, but much less, I suspect, about the up-hill battle facing start-up nonprofits. My community members and I…
In 2013, the Trust launched its The Pioneer Circle, a new effort to encourage support from donors who give above the limits of Oregon’s innovative cultural tax credit.…
Attitudes around war and soldiers’ homecoming have varied widely since World War II and Oregon’s history is no exception. The experience of war spans all cultures – and…
Like much of America in the 1920s, Oregon found itself deep in a love affair with the movies. Between 1922 and 1925, opulent theaters sprung up around the…
Last month the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition announced its grants for the year. Among these grants, which use Oregon Cultural Trust money, was a newer organization called YES,…
The Oregon Cultural Trust Board announced $1,618,056 in approved grants for the coming year at its quarterly meeting in Newport July 25. Awards of $539,351 were made…
The Oregon Cultural Trust will hold its next quarterly board meeting – open to the public – at the Newport Visual Arts Center in Newport, on Thursday, July…
Ninkasi Brewing Company, Sterling Bank, and Rogue Ales have joined the ranks of corporate philanthropists giving to the Cultural Trust! Ninkasi Brewing, in partnership with Sterling Bank,…
The Oregon Arts Commission awarded $1.36million in its first round of grants for Fiscal Year 2013-14. Grants were awarded in Operating Support, Arts Services, and Arts Learning programs:…
On July 7 and 8 The Oregon Legislature passed HB3367, renewing the full cultural tax credit until 2020. The renewal of the cultural tax credit, the chief funding…
Earlier this week the Oregon Legislature gave a vote of confidence to the Oregon Cultural Trust when the House and Senate passed HB 3367, renewing Oregon’s innovative cultural…
At the end of the month, the Oregon Cultural Trust will calculate what funds are available for grants this summer. As a donor to the Cultural Trust you…