what makes a moment unforgettable? thousands of events. millions of Whether witnessing a breathtaking performance or visiting a nature millions of memories. center, experiencing arts and culture with friends, family or neighbors Our mission is to inspire and strengthen the FRONT COVER: CITY INC. | BACK COVER: THE ORCHESTRA, ROGER MASTROIANNI community by investing in arts and culture. memories can turn an everyday happening into a memorable experience. Through resident support, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture opportunities to make memories last year. made (CAC) has helped to support millions of unforgettable Cleveland-area school children discovered native moments. Since 2007, we’ve invested more than birds and animals right in their own backyards. $170 million in tax dollars in more than 375 non- Residents found solace in the arts to cope with pain profits across Cuyahoga County. These groups and illness. Teens learned about the community’s bring arts and culture to life through new programs, African-American heritage by interviewing their time-tested events, and innovative experiences. elders and staging a performance based on what In 2017, more than 250 organizations, both large they learned. All of these experiences — and and small, offered unforgettable experiences to millions more — were made possible because of residents and visitors, thanks to nearly $15 million in public investment in arts and culture. public, taxpayer-supported funding. We invite you to explore some of these CAC- make your next memory today CAC connects residents and visitors to arts and supported moments from 2017 in this report. Then, Visit our easy-to-use online events calendar, ClevelandArtsEvents.com culture so they can make new memories together. we encourage you to visit ClevelandArtsEvents.com to curate your next arts and culture experience. More than 20,250 events Through ClevelandArtsEvents.com, a one-stop to plan your next arts and culture experience. were listed on the site in 2017, and more than 60% were free of charge. events calendar resource, residents and visitors With so many opportunities in Cuyahoga County, discovered more than 20,000 arts and culture the hardest part will be choosing where to begin. see the possibilities at ClevelandArtsEvents.com

Cuyahoga Arts & Culture CuyahogaArtsandCulture ClevelandArtsEvents.com Bulkley Building CuyArtsC cacgrants.org 1501 Euclid Ave., Suite 407 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 CuyArtsC 216.515.8303 CACgrants [email protected] 7 million 53 percent 67.5 million 2017 community impact annual attendance at free admission at total in-person attendance Last year, CAC-supported organizations held thousands of with support from cuyahoga arts & culture LARCHMERE CAC-supported events CAC-funded events at CAC events since 2007 events in nearly 2,000 locations across Cuyahoga County. PORCHFEST

The fiscal year 2016 data used for this report was provided by DataArts, a nonprofit organization that empowers the arts and cultural sector with high-quality data and resources in order to strengthen its vitality, performance, and public impact. Any interpretation of the data is that of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, not DataArts. For more information, visit culturaldata.org. Additional data provided by CAC grant recipients. Cleveland The Gathering Place International Board & Staff the year Film Festival ‘I internalize stress. I feel it in my belly, and that’s where my cancer is. I know Connecting GREAT LAKES CONTEMPORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCIENCE CENTER YOUTH ORCHESTRA , INC. this really can’t be true, but I sometimes wonder if stress contributed to my CAC funding enabled Karamu to launch a redesigned summer Communities 2017in review Mark Avsec Gwendolyn Garth Joseph P. Gibbons Cuyahoga Arts & Culture has been the getting ovarian cancer,’ says Leslie, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer arts education program in 2017. Forty students utilized the theme Ken Miller Charna Sherman CIFF’s largest single funder for over to Arts & Culture nine years ago. Leslie finds comfort in the art classes at The Gathering Place, of ‘porches’ to explore history and community. They interviewed a decade. These funds are crucial in STAFF The Children’s Musem Of Cleveland funded in part by CAC, especially in the regular knitting support groups. residents about the perspective from their porches, described maintaining the Festival’s excellence 2017 Financials Karen Gahl-Mills The tactile, therapeutic nature of knitting helps her manage her fears about their own family’s use and memories of porches, and presented a 1,864 grants CEO + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THROUGH MAY 2018) in programming and operations. We CLEVELAND FIGURES REFLECT AUDITED During 2016 and 2017 when The Children’s Museum of Cleveland was the future and her mortality. The scarves, hats, sweaters, vests, and socks Jill Paulsen leverage CAC funding as a challenge MUSEUM OF ART culminating music, dance, vocal, and spoken word performance made since 2007 FINANCIALS FOR 2017 INTERIM CEO + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR closed for the renovation of the Stager Beckwith mansion as our new she knits are gifts to family members and friends, and she hopes will help grant to encourage other donors to for their families and Fairfax community, about the stories they Roshi Ahmadian home, CAC’s flexible operating funding supported our ‘Museum Without them remember her, no matter what her future holds. IDENTITY + SYSTEMS MANAGER match CAC funds. Without CAC, the gathered. This program ties to our mission to produce professional Revenues $14,819,306 Walls’ program to put two educators out into the community so we could Luis Gomez CIFF would be a very different Festival theatre, provide arts education, and present community programs 375 partners PROGRAM MANAGER CANCER SURVIVOR & CLIENT continue to connect with our young visitors. Our new home opened in from what it exists as today. Leslie, for all people while honoring the African-American experience. Expenses $16,443,356 Meg Harris funded to date DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION November 2017 giving our city a beautiful museum that encourages open- ARTS & CULTURAL GRANTMAKING $15,644,127 Heather Johnson-Banks ended play to allow children to make choices, express their creativity Tony F. Sias, PRESIDENT + CEO GENERAL & ADMINISTRATIVE $799,229 Marcie Goodman, PROGRAM MANAGER and encourage their independence. It also provides a space for children EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dan McLaughlin $170 million Net Assets $18,817,861 PROGRAM MANAGER and their caregivers to build an emotional , which is so India Pierre-Ingram important. We are grateful to CAC for their continued support. total investment CHANGE IN NET POSITION ($1,624,050) COMMUNICATIONS + GRANT PROGRAMS ASSOCIATE NATURE CENTER ROCK AND ROLL HALL WEST SIDE ASSETS START OF 2017 $20,441,911 AT SHAKER LAKES OF FAME AND MUSEUM Jake Sinatra LAND STUDIO BRITE WINTER MORGAN CONSERVATORY COMMUNITY HOUSE MICHELLE BERKI SPECIAL PROJECTS & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Maria Campanelli, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOB PERKOSKI KEN BLAZE DONALD BLACK JR. OHIO CITY INC.

Blazing River Freedom Band Cesear’s Forum Cleveland Donauschwäbische Cleveland Restoration Society DANCEVERT Euclid Beach Park Now Neighborhood International Women’s Air & LAND studio Museum of Contemporary Art Organization of Chinese SOS: Strengthening Our Students The Musical Theater Project Inc. 2018 cultural partners Blue Streak Ensemble Chagrin Arts Blaskapelle Cleveland Rocks: Past, Present Dancing Classrooms Fairview Park Municipal Foundation Centers Space Museum Larchmere PorchFest Cleveland Americans Greater Cleveland SPACES The Parma Area Fine Arts Council University Hospitals Health BlueWater Chamber Orchestra Chagrin Documentary Film Festival Cleveland Eid Unity Festival and Future Dancing Wheels Famicos Foundation Greater Cleveland Sports Jennings Center for Older Adults Les Délices Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral P.A.L.S. for Healing St. Clair Superior Development The Roberto Ocasio Foundation System This year, CAC is supporting 256 nonprofit Cleveland Museum Commission Jewish Family Service Association Foundation Corporation Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland Chagrin Valley Little Theatre Cleveland School of the Arts Board Detroit Shoreway Community Far West Center Lexington Bell Community Center NAMI Greater Cleveland The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame UpStage Players Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center of Trustees Development Organization Greater Cleveland Urban Jewish Federation of Cleveland Playwrights Local St. Malachi Center organizations across Cuyahoga County Brite Winter ChamberFest Cleveland FiveOne Experimental Orchestra Literary Cleveland Nature Center at Shaker Lakes and Museum Valley Art Center Cleveland Shakespeare Festival Film Festival Broadview Heights Spotlights Choral Arts Society of Cleveland Cleveland Inner City Ballet Deutscher Musik Verein Jones Road Family Development Praxis Fiber Workshop StandUP! For Change The Sculpture Center Verb Ballets FOCUS ON EDUCATION GroundWorks DanceTheater Corporation Little Redevelopment through its grantmaking. Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland TOPS Swingband DJAPO Cultural Arts Institute, Inc. Negative Space Gallery & Studio Progressive Arts Alliance Suburban Symphony Orchestra Broadway School of City Ballet of Cleveland Folknet Harvard Community Services Corporation The Shaker Historical Society Waterloo Arts Cleveland Treatment Center Joyful Noise Neighborhood Music and the Arts CityMusic Cleveland Cleveland Institute of Music Doan Brook Watershed Center Local 4 Music Fund New Avenues to Independence Quire Cleveland Symphony West Orchestra The West Shore Chorale West Creek Conservancy Partnership Foluke Cultural Arts Center Music School Heights Service Clubs Cleveland International Film Festival Cleveland West Art League NewBridge Cleveland Center for Reaching Heights Talespinner Children’s Theatre Cleveland Blues Society Friends of East Heights Youth Theatre Judson Services Lylesart The Western Reserve Fire West Side Catholic Center Building Bridges Cleveland International Piano Cleveland Women’s Orchestra Dobama Theatre Arts & Technology Restore Cleveland Hope The Cassidy Theatre Museum and Education Center AfricaHouse International Arts In Strongsville Cleveland Botanical Garden Friends of Euclid Creek HeightsArts Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center M.U.S.i.C. West Side Community House Burning River Baroque Competition Collective Arts Network Alliance NO EXIT Roots of American Music The Children’s Museum Thea Bowman Center America SCORES Cleveland Arts Renaissance Tremont (ART) Cleveland Chamber Collective From Me 2 U Hispanic Business Center Kamm’s Corners Development Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Western Reserve Historical Burten, Bell, Carr Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Community Partnership for Arts DuffyLit Corporation North Coast Men’s Chorus School of Cleveland Ballet of Cleveland Theater Ninjas Society American Hungarian Baldwin Wallace University Cleveland Chamber Music Society Front Steps Housing and Services Historic Gateway Neighborhood May Dugan Center Development, Inc. Cleveland Leadership Center and Culture Museum Corporation Karamu House North Union Farmers Market Schuhplattler Und Trachtenverein The Time Canvas Westlake Chinese School Friends of Scouting Baseball Heritage Museum Cleveland Chamber Symphony Mercury Theatre Company Campus District, Inc. Connecting for Kids of Westlake OH Dyngus Day Cleveland FrontLine Service Notre Dame College of Ohio Bavaria The Apollo’s Fire Foundation Historic Warehouse District Kulture Kids Merrick House Transformer Station Westown Community Bay Village Community Band Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation Cleveland Museum of Natural History Contemporary Youth Orchestra Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute FutureHeights Development Corporation Shaker Arts Council The Cleveland Seed Bank Aradhana Committee Ink: a writing space Ohio City Inc. Tremont West Development Development Corporation BAYarts for Brain Health Cleveland Comedy Festival Golden Ciphers Morgan Art of Papermaking Art House Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra convergence-continuum Eliza Bryant Village Hospice of the Western Reserve for youth Conservatory and Community Shore Cultural Centre The Cleveland Vegan Society Corporation YMCA of Greater Cleveland Beachwood Arts Council Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Composers Guild Cleveland Play House Special Empowering Epilepsy Good Company: a Vocal Ensemble ICA-Art Conservation Lake Erie Native American Council Educational Foundation Development Corporation Singers’ Club of Cleveland The Gathering Place Ukrainian Museum - Archives Youth Challenge Art Song Festival Cleveland Contemporary Chinese Beachwood Historical Society Catholic Charities, Fatima Center Improvement District Gordon Square Arts District Open Doors Academy Zygote Press Art Therapy Studio Culture Association Cleveland POPS Orchestra Ensemble Theatre ideastream Lake Erie Nature & Science Center MorrisonDance Singing Angels The Harvard Square Center Underground Classical Beck Center for the Arts Cedar Fairmount Business District Restoration Great Lakes Science Center Open Tone Music Artists Archives of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Cleveland Print Room, Inc. Environmental Health Watch Ingenuity Cleveland Lake View Foundation Mt. Pleasant NOW Development Slavic Village Development The Movement Project Union Miles Development Western Reserve Berea Arts Fest Center for Arts-Inspired Learning Federation DANCECleveland Errin Ministries Inlet Dance Theatre LakewoodAlive Corporation Opera Circle Slovenian Museum and Archives The Music Settlement Corporation

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