Total grants: $207,425
Business of Art Center
General Operating Support, $10,000
The Colorado College
Architecture of Desire/Project Bandaloop, $7,500
Chamber of Commerce & COPPeR
Business & Arts Lunch sponsorship, $1,500
Colorado Springs Chorale
Season support, $2,500
Colorado Springs Conservatory
Capacity building, $10,000
Colorado Springs Dance Theatre
Deeply Rooted performance, $1,000
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Renaissance capital campaign (fourth payment of $50,000 commitment), $10,000
Colorado Springs Philharmonic
General operating support, $21,000
Colorado Springs School District 11
Daniel Pink engagement, $1,500
Colorado Springs World Arena
Pikes Peak Center Encore Fund (fourth payment of $150,000 commitment), $30,000
Concrete Couch
General operating support, $2000
Cottonwood Artists School
Relocation assistance, $2,500
Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region
General operating support, $10,000
El Cinco de Mayo
Festival music, $1,000
Gallery of Contemporary Art
Challenge grant, $8.975
Heller Center for Arts & Humanities
Historic preservation planning, $3,000
Imagination Celebration
General operating support, $7,500
CS Leadership Institute scholarship, $1,000
Leadership Pikes Peak
Arts Day support, $1,000
Manitou Art Theatre
Challenge grant, $5,000
General operating support, $10,000
Mountain Arts Council
Multiple programs, $5,000
Pikes Peak Arts Festival
General operating support, $2,000
Pikes Peak Young Composers
Challenge grant, $1,500
Poetry West
Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project, $1,250
Rock Ledge Ranch Living History Association
Legend & Legacy performances, $1,000
Rocky Mountain Arts Association
Out Loud Men’s Chorus, $2,000
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
Cinema Latino, $1,250
Upstart Performing Ensemble
Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival, $1,250
Wasson Thunder
“Laramie Project” production, $1,000
Woodland Music Series
Summer concerts, $500
A total of $10,000 was provided as a challenge grant for Celebrate Youth in the Arts, a collaborative fundraiser supporting Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, Colorado Springs Youth Symphony, Imagination Celebration and PAYO.
The following organizations were provided scholarship grants of $500 to $1,000 to attend the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver in June 2008: Colorado Festival of World Theatre, Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, Colorado Springs Chorale, Colorado Springs Dance Theatre, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Colorado Springs Youth Symphony, Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, Imagination Celebration, Manitou Art Theatre, Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Theatreworks, Young Concert Artists.
Finally, $25,000 was granted to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic through the Symphonic Music Fund held at the foundation.
