Orange County NC Website
- Exploring Resources, Leveraging Assets, Crafting Your Path <br /> Awarding of Arts Grants by the Orange County Arts Commission <br /> Grants to Carrboro Non-Profits & Artists: <br /> (Fall 2012) <br /> - ArtsCenter - $3,900 <br /> - Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library - $1,500 <br /> - WCOM-FM - $1,500 <br /> - Susan Simone - $1,000 (Trailer Tales: The Mobile Home Story in Orange County, <br /> NC) <br /> - Sean Wellington - $1000 (The OC Hope Project) <br /> Grants to Carrboro Non-Profits & Artists: <br /> (Spring 2012) <br /> - ArtsCenter - $3,000 (Eleventh Annual "10 By 10 in the Triangle" Theatre Festival; <br /> Teaching Artist Fees for 7 Residencies at Central Elementary School) <br /> - Chapel Hill Carrboro Public School Foundation - $1,240 ("Spoken Word Poetry <br /> Project" at Phoenix Academy— alternative high school) <br /> - Orange County Artists Guild - $1,500 (To pay artist to design and develop Studio <br /> Tour brochure) <br /> - Town of Carrboro Recreation & Parks Dept. - $1,500 (Carrboro Music Festival) <br /> Total Direct Grant Funds: <br /> Awarded to Carrboro non-profits & artists over the previous 12-month period = �16,140 <br /> Total Indirect Grant Funds: <br /> Orange County Arts Commission awards benefitting Carrboro's citizens over the previous 12- <br /> month period = �15,�50 <br /> Results of the "Arts & Economic Prosperity IV Study" <br /> The recent study found that non-profit arts businesses generate: <br /> - $85.4 million annually in economic activity in Orange County <br /> - Supports 3,352 jobs locally <br /> - Returns $3.5 million in local and $4.5 million in state revenue <br /> Joint Tourism Activities in Orange County & Carrboro <br /> - Visitors Bureau Web Page <br /> Orange County Visitors Bureau Supports the Town of Carrboro <br /> Sponsorships of Events: <br /> - Carrboro Film Festival <br /> - Carrboro Music Festival <br /> - Carrboro Visitors Guide <br /> - Carrboro Day <br /> - Our State, Independent, Chapel Hill Weekly <br /> Production of Ads & Brochures: <br />