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On January 23, 2002, the Guadalupe Cultural
Arts Center announced it has received a $1,000,000 endowment
grant
from the Ford Foundation.
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Director,
Maria Elena Torralva-Alonso
states, "The
Endowment will help to ensure that the Center's work
will continue.
Monies received from the Ford Foundation, along with funds raised
in a matching campaign, will be used to increase awareness
about
and sustain the Center's six disciplines: visual arts, media
arts, theatre arts, xicano music and literature. Keeping
the Latino
culture alive for our children and our children's children is
what the Center is all about, and with this generous
grant from
the Ford Foundation we are looking forward to doing that."Of
the 28 "exemplary arts organizations" awarded
these challenge grants across the country, the Guadalupe
Cultural Arts
Center is the only Latino organization given funds by the Ford
Foundation, and one of only two organizations in Texas.
The Guadalupe
must generate matching dollars within a five-year period by broadening
its individual donor base. Matching monies must be raised
by increasing
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members,
individual donors and gifts from family businesses and family
foundations. The funds will be utilized to increase the programming
endowment, thus ensuring a bright future for each of the six
disciplines.
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's campaign theme, "Share the Arts… Dí Que
Sí," states, "Say Yes" by giving to the Gudalupe Cultural
Arts Center. The Guadalupe's mission and vision is to promote, preserve,
present and develop the art & culture of the Chicano/Latino/Indigenous
Peoples. Over the past twelve years, the Ford Foundation has awarded the
Guadalupe with various grants totaling approximately $1.6 million. In fact,
the Ford Foundation was the first major foundation to support the Guadalupe's
artistic programming in the late eighties; thereby, securing the organization's
place on the national scene of arts and cultural organizations across the
country.
Help
the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center meet the challenge for the
future! Call (210) 271-3151 or send your donation to: Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center's Challenge Campaign1300 Guadalupe, San
Antonio, TX 78207 |
