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By The ArtsFund Team on Friday, December 5, 2008
Safeco Insurance Foundation Awards ArtsFund $500k
One of our most active and generous partners throughout our history, The Safeco Insurance Foundation, awarded $500,000 to be paid in equal installments over the next five years. Safeco has contributed more than $3.5 million to the arts through ArtsFund, starting at our 1969 founding. The grant stipulates $20,000 a year be directed to the Mary Helen Moore Diversity Fund.
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By The ArtsFund Team on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Celebration of the Arts Luncheon in Tacoma
ArtsFund held its 5th Annual Pierce County Celebration of the Arts luncheon on November 11 at Tacoma’s Hotel Murano. We honored award recipients Dick and Marcia Moe and Tacoma Opera’s Kathryn Smith. Follow the link to read the inspiring keynote address by Daniel Fulton, President & CEO of Weyerhaeuser Company.
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By The ArtsFund Team on Monday, August 4, 2008
ArtsFund Makes Record Grants to Arts Groups in 2008
ArtsFund, the region’s umbrella funding organization for the arts, announced today that it has made grants of $2.977 million to 70 King and Pierce County arts groups. The total of $2.977 million is the highest dollar amount ever distributed by ArtsFund in its 39 years of making distributions.
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By The ArtsFund Team on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Celebration of the Arts Luncheon
Thank you to all who attended our Celebration of the Arts luncheon! Click here to read the keynote address given by Ben Cameron, Program Director, Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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