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Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Receives $150,000 Grant

The National Endowment for the Arts will award the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company the grant as part of the American Rescue Plan.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Receives $150,000 Grant

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) announced that they have been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. DCDC is recommended to receive $150,000 and may use this funding to save jobs and to fund operations and facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation. In total, the NEA will award grants totaling $57,750,000 to 567 arts organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC.

"Our nation's arts sector has been among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Endowment for the Arts' American Rescue Plan funding will help arts organizations, such as the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, rebuild and reopen," said Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, chair of the NEA. "The arts are crucial in helping America's communities heal, unite, and inspire, as well as essential to our nation's economic recovery."

Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders, Chief Executive Officer for DCDC said, "We appreciate the beneficence of the NEA who's contingency funding enables DCDC to continue to pursue our vision and our mission. We are grateful to the NEA for being proactive in enabling arts organization to deal with fiscal challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will be used to support current operations and ongoing initiatives including the salaries of dancers and other artistic team members.

The American Rescue Plan was signed into law in March 2021 when the NEA was provided $135 million for the arts sector. The funding for organizations is the third installment providing more than $57.7 million for arts organizations. In April 2021, the NEA announced $52 million (40 percent) in ARP funding would be allocated to 62 state, jurisdictional, and regional arts organizations for regranting through their respective programs. The second installment in November 2021 allocated $20.2 million to 66 local arts agencies for subgranting to local artists and art organizations.

For more information on the NEA's American Rescue Plan grants, including the full list of arts organizations funded in this announcement, click here.



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