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Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant
About the Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant Program:
The Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant program has been created by the City of Hartford in order to create and preserve jobs across a wide variety of sectors in the City by funding arts & heritage programming and projects within its borders. As an important economic driver in Hartford, cultural institutions employ local residents and create business for local companies. Producing exhibitions and performances requires purchasing local goods and services, from hardware and construction materials to dry cleaning and insurance. Meanwhile, these programs draw audience members into the City, supporting jobs at Hartford restaurants, parking lots, hotels and other businesses. The City of Hartford has contracted with the Greater Hartford Arts Council to help administer The Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant Program.
2012 Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant recipients have just been announced! Click here to read about funded projects and programs.
Past Grant Recipients and Impact Data:
2009/2010 Projects & Programs
2011 Projects & Programs
Funded by the City of Hartford and administered by the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs grant initiative was designed in 2009 to create, expand and preserve jobs across a wide variety of sectors by funding arts and heritage programming and projects within the city.
Questions should be directed to:
Evan Johnson, Grants Administrator
Greater Hartford Arts Council
860-525-8629, ejohnson@letsgoarts.org
In 2009, the City invested over $1 million from its General Fund through the Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs grant program to support 23 non-profit cultural organizations through the creation of new works, facilities improvement, and youth employment. These projects resulted in:
- 29 retained jobs
- 13 jobs expanded jobs
- 223 job opportunities were created (full time, part-time or temporary positions)
- 80 youth employment positions were created.
- In addition, grantees purchased over $190,000 of materials and services from Hartford businesses, and over $150,000 of materials and services from non-Hartford businesses. A total of $349,642 was spent locally.
- Grant recipient events and programs attracted 162,543 attendees, of which 111,479 of these audience members came from outside Hartford
These audiences contributed significantly to the local economy. Using formulas from the Americans for the Arts Report on Non Profit Organizations Economic Impact in Greater Hartford:
- Greater Hartford audiences spent $2,265,808 in Hartford, and
- Those from outside Greater Hartford spent $1,089,980 in Hartford
- Total of $3,355,788 spent by arts audiences in Hartford
Some programs provide additional benefits to our City that is not included within economic impact data. One example is the Charter Oak Cultural Center’s Youth Arts Initiative, which not only provides employment opportunities for 35 individuals, but also provides free after school programming to Hartford children whose working parents would otherwise need to pay for day-care or leave children unsupervised after school. Charter Oak Cultural Center grows fresh vegetables in its courtyard, and provides free, nutritious snacks to children.
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