All Projects
The Bend Cultural Tourism Fund invests in cultural activities that draw visitors from beyond a 50-mile radius, benefiting our local economy and our community. We fund new activities through our Small Marketing/ Research Grant program (formerly Catalyst Grant), as well as long standing cultural traditions via our Large Marketing Grant program. Since its inception in 2015, the BCTF has awarded $2,332,105 for 115 projects. Learn more about these projects below.
- 2024
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- 4 Peaks Presents
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To expand marketing to markets located in Washington, Northern California and Colorado in November,…
- 2017
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- High Desert Museum
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- $17,400
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- Small Marketing/Research
The High Desert Museum’s multi-day art festival will feature visual artists’ depictions of the…
- 2016 -
- 2019
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- Sunriver Music Festival
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- $45,050
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- Large Marketing
The Sunriver Music Festival is teaming up with the Tower Theatre to present the…
- 2018
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- Crow's Feet Commons
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- $14,250
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- Large Marketing
The Crow's Feet Commons Après Ski Bash is a series of free downtown concerts…
- 2019
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- High Desert Museum
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- $39,000
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- Large Marketing
To support Vast, Loud and on Fire: Art at Burning Man exhibition and associated…
- 2024
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- Lay It Out Events
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- $32,000
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- Large Marketing
To fully fund out-of-area marketing for this multi-media arts project that is to be…
- 2021
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- Wanderlust Tours
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- $18,500
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- Large Marketing
To fund Art in Nature outdoor concerts at the High Desert Museum Thursday, September…
- 2022
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- Central Oregon Center for the Arts
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund a discovery study for the creations of a new facility that will…
- 2015
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- High Desert Museum
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- $15,750
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- Large Marketing
High Desert Museum will mount the exhibit, “Arts for the People”, which will make…
- 2015
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- Deschutes Public Library Foundation
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- $11,000
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- Large Marketing
The Deschutes Public Library Foundation will continue its literary Author! Author! series, presenting renowned…
- 2015 -
- 2019
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- Tower Theatre Foundation
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- $95,700
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- Large Marketing
The Tower Theatre Foundation, partnering with local vocal music leaders, will launch "Bend A…
- 2021
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- Old Mill District
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- $11,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing for the move of the Bend Brewfest from August to the…
- 2022
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- Paula Dreyer
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- $5,750
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing for the Bend Creative Music Project, outdoor concerts heard through wireless…
- 2015 -
- 2023
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- ScaleHouse
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- $166,833
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- Large Marketing
ScaleHouse is creating Bend Design Conference, an inaugural event that will present award-winning and…
- 2021 -
- 2023
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- Lay It Out Events
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- $93,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund the Bend Fall Festival, reprising its live music stages, popular Harvest Market…
- 2021
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- Dirty Freehub
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- $6,500
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the development of a set of short, micro podcasts that are single…
- 2022
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- Bend Roots Revival
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- $14,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for Bend Roots Revival, scheduled for September 23-25, 2022.
- 2022 -
- 2024
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- Bend Yoga Festival, LLC
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- $85,750
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for the Bend Yoga Festival, a destination festival, comprising a…
- 2015 -
- 2024
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- BendFilm
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- $337,133
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- Large Marketing
The Bend Cultural Tourism Fund has been a lifeline for BendFilm over the years.…
- 2024
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- SUS
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- $16,250
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- Large Marketing
To fund advertising, publicity, marketing research, planning and development (for marketing purposes), and PR…
- 2021
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- Cascade Relays
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- $6,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund the creation of historical podcasts as part of the Big Butte Challenge,…
- 2023
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- High Desert Makers
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- $26,500
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for the Central Oregon Maker Faire, held at COCC campus…
- 2024
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- Central Oregon Latin Festival
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- $9,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund out-of-area marketing for this new one-day Latin cultural event that will include…
- 2022 -
- 2023
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- 1988 Entertainment LLC
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- $65,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund shoulder season concert promotion.
- 2021
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- ScaleHouse
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- $12,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund a two-day multi-disciplinary event with performances, talks, workshops, spoken-word performances, poetry slams…
- 2023
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- 4 Peaks Presents
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the research and development of a new October Festival.
- 2018
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- Deschutes County Historical Society
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- $9,500
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- Large Marketing
The Deschutes County Historical Society (DCHS) will create Cruisin' 97, an exhibit and heritage…
- 2021
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- Cascades Theatrical Company
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- $3,500
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- Large Marketing
To fund the creation of a Cultural Connections video to play before the December…
- 2021
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- Pek Projects LLC
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- $7,500
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- Large Marketing
To fund part of a cultural experience at the Deschoops 3x3 basketball tournament in…
- 2017
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- High Desert Museum
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- $37,109
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- Large Marketing
Presenting the traveling exhibit, Dinosaurs Take Flight: The Art of Archaeopteryx, brings to life…
- 2022
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- Central Oregon Media Group dba The Bulletin
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- $30,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund the creations and marketing of Discover Bend: Play Like a Local, self-guided…
- 2015
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- Atelier 6000
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- $13,500
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- Large Marketing
A6 will present an art exhibit of eminent photographer Edward Curtis and produce several…
- 2024
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- Central Oregon Center for the Arts
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- $15,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To help fund COCA’s next step which includes facility modeling and an infrastructure development…
- 2021
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- Central Oregon Center for the Arts
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund a feasibility study to determine the suitability of building a comprehensive performing-and-visual-arts…
- 2024
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- High Desert Museum
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- $42,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing for this organization’s exhibition combining Matsura’s photography of the Syilx tribal…
- 2021
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- The Bend Bulletin, Bend Arts, Culture and Adventure GeoTour & AdventureLab
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- $19,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund the Bend Arts, Culture and Adventure (BACA) GeoTour & AdventureLab, highlighting 12-15…
- 2022
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- High Desert Music Collective LLC
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- $6,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the creations and promotion of the High Dessert Music Festival(HDMF), a music…
- 2023
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- Downtown Bend Business Association
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- $20,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for Downtown Holiday events.
- 2023
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- High Desert Music Collective LLC
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- $9,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for the HomeGrown Music Festival 2024, the fourth annual High…
- 2024
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- The Father's Group
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- $28,000
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- Large Marketing
To partially fund marketing of this annual celebration in mid-June of Black, Afro, Caribbean…
- 2022
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- The Father's Group
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- $14,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund marketing for the Juneteenth Celebration in June, 2023.The festival will provide unique…
- 2022 -
- 2023
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- Old Mill District
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- $39,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for post-Labor Day concerts at the Hayden Homes Amphitheater.
- 2015
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- Deschutes River Amphitheater
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- $15,750
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- Large Marketing
The Les Schwab Amphitheater increase visitor traffic by promoting several of its concerts to…
- 2022
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- The Greenhouse Cabaret
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the creation of annually recurring musical experience around the cult classic musical:…
- 2022
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- High Desert Museum
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- $45,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund the marketing for Living Stories: Exploring Dynamic Artforms of the Indigenous Plateau…
- 2021
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- Central Oregon Film Office
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- $5,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund part of the costs of bringing up to ten location managers to…
- 2019
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- Central Oregon Film Office
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- $6,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
Central Oregon Film Office is researching and developing a new program to bring in…
- 2021
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- High Desert Makers
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- $4,500
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund a maker festival planned for November, organized through the High Desert Makers…
- 2015 -
- 2021
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- World Muse
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- $97,125
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- Large Marketing
World MUSE hosted its first MUSE Conference in 2013 as a one-day event to…
- 2022
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- Cascades Theatrical Company
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- $7,500
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing for shoulder seasons productions.
- 2016
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- Atelier 6000
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- $21,066
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- Large Marketing
A6 will present a major art exhibit, “Opening Japan: Three Centuries of Woodblock Prints,”…
- 2017 -
- 2019
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- Lay It Out Events
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- $46,889
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- Large Marketing
Every year, over a long wintry February weekend more than 20,000 people are drawn…
- 2024
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- In the Pocket Artists, Inc / Parallel 44 Presents
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- $19,000
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- Large Marketing
To partially fund promotion for all markets within a 400-mile radius for concerts with…
- 2023
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- Central Oregon Center for the Arts
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- $12,500
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- Small Marketing/Research
To partially fund planning and consulting for COCA, which intends to build a facility…
- 2021
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- Paula Dreyer
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- $4,500
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the development of a concert series that will take place in outdoor…
- 2023
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- The Greenhouse Cabaret
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- $23,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for four plays and musicals in the shoulder season.
- 2022
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- PLAYA
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the first iteration of what it intends to make a bi-annual Art…
- 2019 -
- 2021
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- Bend Photo Tours
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- $19,500
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- Small Marketing/Research
Bend Photo Tours' Pacific Northwest (PNW) Photo Summit is a 3-day conference comprised of…
- 2022
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- Dirty Freehub
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- $10,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund the creation and execution of a comprehensive marketing plan for the cultural…
- 2023
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- High Desert Museum
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- $48,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund marketing efforts for "Something in the Woods: Sasquatch in the High Desert,"…
- 2021 -
- 2022
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- Tower Theatre Foundation
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- $70,000
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- Large Marketing
Stage the Change is the Tower Theatre’s 2-day conference, open to high school students…
- 2017
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- TEDxBend
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- $11,550
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- Large Marketing
Sparked by the celebrated TED conferences worldwide, TEDxBend is our very own locally-organized event…
- 2024
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- The Greenhouse Cabaret
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- $20,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund a new, paid marketing staff member and marketing promotions in Oregon cities…
- 2017
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- Stage Right Productions/2nd Street Theater
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- $4,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
Stage Right Productions will develop a website that will be a single source for…
- 2021
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- Eastern Cascades Model Railroad Club
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- $6,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund website improvements and social media for the 25th Anniversary of the Train…
- 2021
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- High Desert Museum
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- $40,000
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- Large Marketing
To fund Utopias (name changed to Imagine a World), an upcoming High Desert Museum…
- 2023
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- Vámanos Outside
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
To fund the first outdoor-focused film festival for Latinx community members.
- 2024
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- 1988 Entertainment LLC
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- $32,000
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- Large Marketing
To help fund this nonprofit’s strategic marketing campaigns in West Coast large-population cities for…
- 2018
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- High Desert Museum
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- $33,750
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- Large Marketing
The High Desert Museum's innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition, Water in the West, will use art,…
- 2018
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- Bend Art Center
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- $15,000
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- Large Marketing
Bend Art Center will host the 2nd Annual Weekend of Art in Bend on…
- 2015
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- Deschutes County Historical Society
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- $12,000
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- Large Marketing
The Deschutes County Historical Society will prepare a major exhibit, “Winter Comes,” telling the…
- 2018
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- OUT Central Oregon
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- $10,000
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- Small Marketing/Research
OUT Central Oregon proposes to further develop and establish an LGBTQ winter festival in…
- 2019 -
- 2024
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- OUT Central Oregon
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- $133,500
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- Large Marketing
To fund Winter PrideFest, a multi-day and multi-event weekend celebrating diversity and inclusivity in…
- 2018
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- Oregon State University - Cascades MFA in Creative Writing
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- $12,500
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- Small Marketing/Research
Words In Action is a two-day literary festival sponsored by OSU-Cascades Masters of Fine…
- 2016
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- High Desert Museum
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- $40,000
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- Large Marketing
The High Desert Museum (HDM) will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United States’entry…
