NEWS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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TOWN OF
CARY
GIVES $25,000 BACK TO NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY
CARY, NC – Twenty Cary-based, non-profit groups received a total of $25,000 as part of the 2006 Lazy Daze Grant Awards from the Town of Cary. Each year, the Town’s Lazy Daze Committee selects award recipients from a pool of applicants based on a single project they would like to have funded. The grant money given to the groups is funded by the proceeds of the annual Lazy Daze festival.
Of the 26 groups that applied for this year’s funding, awards were given as follows:
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Organization |
Project
2006 |
2006
Recommended Grant |
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Guest
Artist Recital and Master Class |
$750
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Application
for Non-profit status |
$300
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Cary
Ballet Company |
Celebration
of Children in the Arts |
$1,100
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2nd
Annual Spring Pops Community Concert |
$250
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Annual
Presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” |
$600
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Camp
Y-Rageous |
$2,800
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Cary
Players, Inc. |
“New
Romances, Second Chances” Love Bits and Bites 2007 |
$1,250
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Lazy
Daze Scholarships |
$1,000
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Annual
Series of Concerts |
$500
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Cary
Visual Art, Inc. |
Public
Art in Focus Lecture Series |
$2,000
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Concert
Singers of |
Spring
Concert 2007 |
$1,750
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Diamante,
Inc |
Latino
Arts in School |
$1,000
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Fine
Arts League of |
Art
Promotion in Our Community |
$1,000
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Friends
of Page |
Historic
Documentation Project |
$2,500
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Hum
Sub, Inc. |
Basant
Bahar 2007 – Festival of Spring |
$1,200
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Life
Experiences, Inc. |
Art
Supplies and Cultural Events |
$1,000
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Scottish
Organization of the Triangle |
Cary
Scottish Highland Dance Competition |
$1,250
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Sister
Cities Association |
Visual
art exchange with |
$2,000
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The
Carying Place, Inc. |
Children’s
Art Program |
$750
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Educational
Programming |
$2,000
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TOTAL |
$25,000 |
“We congratulate each of the individuals that make up these organizations and commend them on their commitment to improving the quality of life for our citizens,” said the Town’s Festival Coordinator Joy Cox.
Each year the Lazy
Daze Arts & Crafts Festival brings the streets of Downtown Cary to life with
art, music and food. One of the goals of the Lazy Daze Planning Committee is to
return money into the
Since the inception of the Lazy Daze Grants Program, over $386,000 has been returned to the local community.
For more, visit Lazy Daze Grants at www.townofcary.org.
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PRIMARY CONTACTS: |
Joy Cox, Festivals Coordinator, (919) 462-3864 Lyman Collins,
Cultural Arts Manager, (919) 462-3861 Susan Moran, Public Information Officer, (919) 460-4951 |
