{"id":346,"date":"2012-06-06T16:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-offers-funding-for-arts-and-culture-projects\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:10:29","slug":"kent-offers-funding-for-arts-and-culture-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-offers-funding-for-arts-and-culture-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent offers funding for arts and culture projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Arts and culture projects by individuals, organizations and community groups are eligible for funds from a new city of Kent program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Applications are open for Give Me Culture grants from the city of Kent Arts Commission. The grants will fund projects that serve the public in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The City Council saw this as a very small, yet impactful step towards our goal of better including and reflecting the diverse cultures, groups and individuals that make up the Kent community,&#8221; said Ronda Billerbeck, city cultural programs manager. &#8220;We are especially interested in supporting projects that serve and showcase ethnically diverse or underserved communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The council agreed to provide $5,000 to the Give Me Culture program out of the 2012 general fund, Billerbeck said. Funding amounts are available up to a maximum of $1,000 per project.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There is no deadline for the program. Applications will be reviewed as they are received throughout the year. For more information or to apply, visit <a title=\"arts\" href=\"http:\/\/kentwa.gov\/content.aspx?id=21435\" target=\"_self\">www.kentarts.com<\/a>, call 253-856-5050, or email rbillerbeck@kentwa.gov.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arts and culture projects by individuals, organizations and community groups are eligible for funds from a new city of Kent program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}