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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition website. This website represents Clackamas County Plan for Arts, Heritage and Humanities which is a call to action for increasing support for local culture and a vehicle for distributing the Oregon Cultural Trust’s Community Cultural Participation Grant funds.
The Plan includes an assessment of the strengths and critical issues facing arts, heritage and humanities in Clackamas County and specific goals, actions and benchmark indicators of success. (Download Full Cultural Plan in PDF - 538KB)
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
As part of the Oregon Cultural Trust's founding legislation, each Oregon county and the nine federally-recognized Tribes were asked to establish a Cultural Coalition and to create a plan for local distribution of Cultural Trust dollars. The first Clackamas County Plan for Arts, Heritage and Humanities, created in 2004, was the result of an eighteen-month investigative process engaging 180 citizens in interviews, forums and focus groups. Since the 2004 Plan was approved and the Cultural Coalition began its work, it has become clear that the Coalition's highest purpose and wisest use of limited resources is to nurture, support and invest in the efforts of others through granting funds.
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