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Attachment 1
<br />Other grants made during this 12-month period indirectly benefitted Carrboro children,
<br />students, and citizens, although not paid directly to aCarrboro nonprofit, Examples inciude.
<br />$1,500 to the NC Symphony, $1,500 to Ki'd'zu Children's Museum, $3,u O to FRANK Gallery,
<br />$2,500 to Deep Dish Theater Company, $1,500to Preservation Sodety of Chapel Hill, $1,500 to
<br />Wornen's voices Chorus, $1,500, to Historical FoundaVon of Hillsborough and Orange County,
<br />$1,5,00 to Emerging Artists Program, of Durham Arts Council, $1,350 to Piecirront, Laureate
<br />Program of United Arts, etc.)
<br />12-MONTH PERIOD'$15,3510
<br />2. Both the Orange County Arts Commission and the County's CHOCVB Visitors Bureau assist
<br />Carrboro by helping to promote their events via the E*p1oreChapefflIARTScom,
<br />($1,900/annual) and Explore Chape[Hillco,inn �$3,0001annual) web sites via the IEverWondr online
<br />events calendar.
<br />3. The Arts Corn mission's quarterly Artists' Salon series takes place in the West End Theatre at The
<br />ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Artists' Salons offerfree professlionall development for local artists.
<br />Salon topics over the past 12 months have been;
<br />Emergency Preparedness for Artists �wfth Eddie Bernard - August 24, 2012)
<br />Make Tourism Work for You: Art + Tourism (with Laurie Raolicelli - May 18, 2012)
<br />Shoebox Accounting (with Alex Lehmann, CPA - February 3, 2012)
<br />Exploring Resources, Leveraging Assets, Crafting Your Path (with John Parker — Nov. 18, 2011)
<br />4. The current Arts & Economic Prosperity, IV Study outlines, many positive, benefits to the local
<br />econornies, of Orange County and the Town of Carrboro, to include,:
<br />'The st u d y fo u ncl that the non p rofit arts industry th roug ho u t 0 range Cou nty ge nerate s $95.,4
<br />million annually in economic activity and supports 3,352 jobs, and, that the nonprofit arts
<br />industry annually returns $3,5 million in local and $4.5 million in stategovernment revenue.
<br />The study collected extensive survey data from more than 9,721 arts, organizations and 1,51,802
<br />audience attendees, nationwide, and from 96 local arts organizations and 1,259 local attendees,,
<br />and showed howthe arts substantially contributed! to the local economy,,
<br />The Arts 9k Economic Prosperity W'study found that the nonprofit arts industry generates $135.2
<br />billion annually, in economic activity and supports 4.1 million jobs —from large urban to small
<br />rural communities, and that the r)onpirofit arts, inddustry annually returns $9.59 billion in federal
<br />Income taxes, $6.67 billion in state government revenue, and $6.07 billion in local government
<br />revenue,
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