Festival of Arts Foundation Awards Grants
LAGUNA BEACH, CA – The Festivals of Arts Foundation is proud to announce that it has awarded $116,000 in grants to local non-profits in the Laguna Beach. The recipients are as follows:
• ART4KIDS,lnc.
• Laguna Beach College of Art and Design
• Laguna Beach High School Art Program
• Laguna Beach High School Band Boosters
• Laguna Beach High School Ceramics Program
• Laguna Beach High School Dance Program
• Laguna Beach High School Performing Arts
• Laguna Beach Schools Performing Arts Boosters
• Laguna Beach Chorale
• Laguna Beach Live!
• Laguna Beach Seniors
• Laguna Dance Festival
• Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
• LagunaTunes, lnc.
• No Square Theater
• Festival of Arts
• Laguna Outreach for Community Arts
• Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach
• Laguna Community Concert Band
• The Laguna Playhouse
• Top of the World PTA
“The Festival of Arts Foundation feels that art appreciation and the development of one’s artistic skills should start at an early age. The majority of the Foundation’s grants are focused on the youth of our community, and it is the Foundation’s hope that we are seeding programs that will begin to nourish these young minds. ,” said Festival of Arts Foundation President Scott Moore. Along with Mr. Moore, Foundation board members include John Campbell (Vice President), Bob Earl (Treasurer); Jacquie Moffett (Secretary) and John Rayment.
In 1989, the Festival of Arts with a $1.5 million donation established the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts Foundation, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, in order to guarantee annual financial support for the arts in Laguna Beach. The Foundation, co-founded by John Rayment and David Young, was designed to hold these funds in a permanent endowment. The earnings and income from this endowment would be distributed annually in the form of scholarships to graduates of Laguna Beach High School and as grants to nonprofit art organizations and educational institutions in and about the city of Laguna Beach. The Foundation operates independently from the Festival of Arts. In 2007, the Festival of Arts assumed the financial responsibility of the art scholarships, enabling The Foundation to focus on its grant program for local non-profit art organizations.
To date, the Festival of Arts along with the Foundation cumulatively has awarded over $2 million in grants to the art community in Laguna Beach. Anyone interested in donating to the Foundation may contact Scott Moore at the Festival of Arts Foundation, 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651.
Meghan Perez
Sharbie Higuchi
Festival of Arts
