{"id":71590,"date":"2024-12-11T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kent-cultural-groups-to-receive-county-grants-from-4culture\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:53:13","slug":"kent-cultural-groups-to-receive-county-grants-from-4culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kent-cultural-groups-to-receive-county-grants-from-4culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent cultural groups to receive county grants from 4Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Kent organizations are among the many in King County that will receive grants next year from 4Culture, the cultural funding agency for King County.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kent groups include:<\/p>\n

• Greater Kent Historical Society: Exhibit lighting for revisioned museum: $53,984.<\/p>\n

• City of Kent arts sustained support: $72,000.<\/p>\n

• Kent International Festival sustained support: $15,700.<\/p>\n

• Kent Downtown Partnership preservation sustained support: $47,200.<\/p>\n

• Culture Generation The Taste of Kent Cultural Kitchen, sharing the culture and traditions of immigrants through food: $150,000.<\/p>\n

• Wakulima USA heritage sustained support, nonprofit supports the East African immigrant and refugee community with access to farming opportunities, promotion of culturally relevant foods and access to market: $64,200.<\/p>\n

• Rainier Choral Arts: Sustained support funds to support their goals in providing enjoyable musical experiences to the community: $16,500.<\/p>\n

The first round of Doors Open funding will provide more than $165 million to 700-plus King County cultural organizations over the next three years, according to a Dec. 11 4Culture press release. This funding—made up of $150 million in Doors Open funds and $15 million of Lodging Tax funds—will provide the transformational support the cultural sector needs to recover from the impacts of the pandemic and chronic underfunding.<\/p>\n

In December 2023, the King County Council passed legislation for a o.1% sales tax for Doors Open, a program which will increase funding to nonprofit organizations that focus on arts, heritage, science and historic preservations.<\/p>\n

Doors Open is expected to generate roughly $700 million over seven years—a major public investment in the ongoing cultural vitality of our region, according to 4Culture.<\/p>\n

Sustained support grants fund the day-to-day operational costs that allow cultural organizations to serve and enrich the lives of King County visitors and residents. A total of $37.2 million in sustained support awards will be contracted to 709 organizations beginning in early 2025. To provide a stable and predictable revenue source, these organizations will continue to receive funding over a three-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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