The Oishei Foundation recently announced a dollar-for-dollar challenge grant to the Niagara Falls City Council to help restore funding to the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (NACC). The City Council Majority has recently eliminated $30,000 in City funding to the NACC and has verbally turned down the Oishei Foundation's offer of $15,000 if the City [...]
Call it the latest round of the battle to fund the arts in Niagara Falls. Mayor Paul A. Dyster this morning called on the city council to accept a $15,000 "challenge" grant made earlier this month by the John R. Oishei Foundation. The grant, if matched by the city council, would go to fund the [...]
(NIAGARA FALLS) There is a clash over cultural and arts funding in the city of Niagara Falls following a surprising budget cut by the City Council. 30-thousand dollars in the city budget for the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center was slashed by a council majority on Monday. They said the money was needed for resources [...]
For anyone who might not be familiar with Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, there's a lot of catching up to do. To start, the initiative was forged in 2011 in order to fill the need for a non-profit organization that could be instrumental in a range of services for artists and art organizations. [...]
With its first full year completed, the Arts Services Initiative of WNY is looking ahead with plans to create an economic impact report for the nonprofit cultural sector as well as new programming. The financial report, last collected in 2005, will use figures collected for the group’s cultural data project as well as new information. [...]
New state funding will allow nonprofit groups in the Western New York region to train employees, expand access to the arts and expand employment opportunities for the clients they serve. Nearly a dozen projects by nonprofit organizations were included among 58 projects selected by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council. A total of [...]
Music and poetry filled the County Legislature chambers Monday as speakers urged lawmakers not to scale back funding for arts and cultural groups, libraries and youth programs next year. A county budget hearing that drew more than 50 speakers was dominated by members of local nonprofit organizations who asked lawmakers to keep the $5.5 million [...]
Again this year, the annual public hearing on the proposed Erie County budget was dominated by cultural agencies and the library system. County Executive Poloncarz's spending plan calls for a 3.4 percent hike in the property tax, in a budget dominated by mandated spending. By Mike Desmond, WBFO 88.7FM, 11/20/12 11202012 Most support tax hike [...]
The Buffalo Zoo could be moving a little closer to its goal of constructing a new polar bear exhibit, thanks to additional funding earmarked in the City of Buffalo’s 2013 capital budget. By Deidre Williams | News Staff Reporter, The Buffalo News, November 2, 2012 - 4:12 PM, updated November 2, 2012 at 11:26 PM 11022012 Mayor Brown [...]
A New York State grant program for small arts organizations that has been in disarray for the past several years is getting back on track with help from a newly formed local arts agency. The New York State Council on the Arts' decentralization grant program, which hands out small grants to individual artists, educational groups [...]
