The
California Cultural and Historical Endowment Board met May 18, 2005 at the
Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles to approve funding for 13 of the
33 projects for which the Board had reserved funding in December 2004. This is
one of the major phases in the Endowment’s first cycle distribution of
Proposition 40 bond funds. The Endowment is housed at the California State
Library.
| At
the conclusion of the May 18 Los Angeles meeting, the Board approved
funding for the following projects: |
| Endowment
Finalist |
Awarded
Funds |
California
Museum for History, Women,
and the Arts |
$375,000 |
| City
of Santa Monica |
$113,241 |
| Imperial
Valley College Desert Museum Society |
$244,642 |
| City
of Watsonville |
$300,074 |
| Bay
Area Electric Railroad Association |
$310,520 |
| Monterey
County Redevelopment Agency |
$380,060 |
| Mojave
Desert Heritage & Cultural Association |
$499,500 |
| Angels
Flight Railway Foundation |
$996,350 |
| City
of Brentwood |
$819,839 |
| Knight
Foundry Corp. |
$50,000 |
| San
Diego Natural History Museum |
$2,887,500 |
| Cesar
E. Chavez Foundation |
$2,500,000 |
| Capital
Unity Council |
$2,200,000 |
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TOTAL
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$11,676,726 |
The
13 applicants to whom the Endowment Board awarded
funds were selected from 276 total Endowment grant
applicants. The finalists most clearly
demonstrated the Endowment’s purposes and goals.
AB
716, the California Cultural and Historic
Endowment Act, called for the creation of the
California Cultural and Historical Endowment to
support the “acquisition, development,
preservation, and interpretation of buildings,
structures, sites, places, and artifacts that
preserve and demonstrate culturally significant
aspects of California’s history and for grants
for these purposes.” To carry out the Act’s
mandate, the Endowment will, over the cycles
established by its Board, distribute $122 million
of $276 million in Proposition 40 funds.
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