Support & Sustain

Grant Recognition

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is proud to receive grants from the following organizations.
 

 

• it gets better is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Wisconsin Arts Board and the Crane Group.

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• The Center Stage High School Musical Theater Program is supported in part by a grant from the Jewelers Mutual Charitable Giving Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.
• Third Coast Production's Think Outside the Drum is supported by a grant from the Performing Arts for Youth Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.*

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• Bright Idea Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.*
• Bright Idea Fund Bridge Grant within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.*

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• Marise Evadne Gustafson Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.*

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• Administered by the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA), the COVID-19 Cultural Organizations Grant program provides grants to nonprofit organizations whose primary missions are to produce, present, or exhibit cultural disciplines such as music, dance, theater, literature, and the visual arts, or items of environmental or scientific interest. Grant awards can be used to cover pandemic-related impacts such as lost revenue, increased workers' compensation costs, cleaning and sanitization, and purchases of services or equipment to facilitate telework by employees.

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• Funded by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and administered through the Department of Administration (DOA), the COVID-19 Live Music and Entertainment Venue Grant Program provides grant funding to live entertainment and large meeting venue operators whose facilities have been negatively affected by COVID-19.*

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• The Center Stage High School Musical Theater Program is supported in part by a grant from the Robert and Patriia Endries Family Foundation Ltd.

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• A grant from the Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau's Tourism Asset Emergency Grant Program.*

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• it gets better is supported in part by a grant from Gulfsteam Aerospace Corporation.

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• A grant from the Mielke Family Foundation, Inc. within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.

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• A grant from the Rotary Club of Appleton helped commission a custom mural created by Irineo Medina representing the feeling of togetherness and sense of belonging provided by the arts.

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• A grant from the Theda & Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation.*

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• it gets better is supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Venture Schmidt Family Foundation.

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• Center programs are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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• Funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) through Arts Midwest, the Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts.*

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*Grant contribution helps support the Act 2 Fund