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Announcing the 2024-25 Tacoma creates-Funded organizations
The Tacoma Creates Advisory Board (TCAB) has approved contracts for the 2024-2025 funding cycle totaling approximately $5.9 million, for 74 local non-profit organizations whose primary purpose is to advance or preserve arts, culture, heritage, and science. Tacoma Creates supports a wide array of public programming including all ages and youth education. This creative support underscores the City of Tacoma’s commitment to equitable and inclusive access for people throughout Tacoma.
The 74 organizations that will receive 2024-25 Tacoma Creates funding are:
Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation
Esperanza Móvil Family Resource Center
Golden Bamboo Senior Vietnamese Women’s Group
Khmer Language Arts and Culture Academy
Kikaha O Ke Kai Outrigger Canoe Club
Latinx Unidos of the South Sound
Pacific Northwest Dance Foundation
Southeast Asian Comedy Collective (SEA Comedy)
Swan Creek Art Academy
Tacoma City Association of Colored Women’s Clubs
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center, T.U.P.A.C.
Tacoma Youth Symphony Association
The Darkroom Project
The Kareem Kandi World Orchestra
The Puget Sounds
Tacoma Creates 2022-23 Annual report!
We are excited to announce the release of the 2022-23 Tacoma Creates Annual Report, celebrating a third year of success and highlighting the impacts of funding 56 cultural organizations throughout the City of Tacoma! These highlights include:
$4.5 million in funding distributed to 56 organizations in the City of Tacoma.
Over 1,100 programs were produced by Tacoma Creates-funded organizations.
78% of those programs were free for all participants.
Tacoma Creates nurtures the sustainability of the cultural sector by supporting organizations’ financial health, their ability to collaborate, and their programming and staffing capacity.
To learn more about the good work of Tacoma Creates-supported organizations and the impact of $4.5 million in Tacoma Creates contracts, check out the Tacoma Creates 2022-23 Annual Report.
Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 Study Released
From May 2022 - July 2023, the City of Tacoma's Arts & Cultural Vitality Division participated in a national study called Arts & Economic Prosperity 6. The study documented the economic and social benefits that nonprofit arts and culture organizations, and their audiences, have both locally and nationally.
In 2022, Tacoma's nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $163 million in economic activity - that's $87.1 million in spending by nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, which leveraged an additional $75.9 million in event-related spending by their audiences. The impact of this activity is significant in Tacoma, supporting 2,065 jobs, generating $28.7 million in tax revenue, and providing $87.2 million in personal income to local residents.
Find out more at www.cityoftacoma.org/AEP
Partnerships with Tacoma Public SchoolS students and teachers!
Tacoma Creates funds will cover round-trip bus costs for up to 200 school-day field trips, each school-year, for all Tacoma Public Schools (TPS) to attend Tacoma Creates-supported programming! This opportunity is open to classes serving all grade levels, pre-K-high school, at any Tacoma Public School, with a priority given to TPS Title 1 schools. Field trips eligible for this transportation support include any during-the-school-day cultural programming offered by currently funded organizations within the City of Tacoma.
Tacoma Creates is proud to be a partner on Beyond The Bell / Club B after-school programs, along with Tacoma Public Schools, Metro Parks Tacoma, Greentrike, and other community partners, which provides after school classes at TPS elementary and middle school campuses.
Visit our Youth Education page for more information on these TPS partnerships.
Who does Tacoma Creates fund, and what are these groups presenting? Check out Funded Organizations.
Explore the diverse array of events from our Tacoma Creates organizations by visiting our Events calendar.
Are you a non-profit cultural organization in Tacoma? Learn more about our Funding Opportunities