SCFD Grants
Art from Ashes has received grants from the Denver County Cultural Council, the Adams County Cultural Council, the Arapahoe County Cultural Council and the Douglas County Cultural Council to support workshops in those specific counties in 2018.
Thank you to the citizens of the SCFD counties who voted to continue SCFD funding! See below for how much your decision to spend 1/10th of 1 penny impacts Colorado!
The Colorado Business Committee for the Arts analyzed the economic impact of arts organizations assisted by SCFD funding:
- Economic activity: $1.8 billion
- Cultural tourism: $367 million; capital expenditures: $55 million; federal grants: $90.8 million
- Total jobs: 10,731 (This covers a broad array of positions, from curator to accountant to zookeeper to jazz teacher)
- Total payroll: $165.2 million
- Total seat sales and payroll taxes: $19.8 million
- Total contributions: $176.4 million
- Total attendance: 13.9 million (The average metro resident had 4.5 art experiences in 2015.)
- Total outreach to children: 3.9 million
- Total volunteers 42,415 (Hours spent volunteering reached 2,031,073.)
- SCFD distributions: $53.2 million.
-Sonya Ellingboe, Castle Rock News-Press
