VAALA Awarded California Arts Council Cultural Pathways and Local Impact Grants to Support Capacity Building and Viet Film Fest!

This week, the California Arts Council announced two grant awards to VAALA as part of its Cultural Pathways and Local Impact Grants for the 2020-2021 year. The grants total to $43,700 in support of VAALA capacity building and Viet Film Fest.

VAALA was featured as part of a larger announcement from the California Arts Council of more than 1,500 grants awarded to nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout the state for their work in support of the agency’s mission to strengthen arts, culture, and creative expression as the tools to cultivate a better California for all. The investment of nearly $30 million marks a more than $5 million increase over the previous fiscal year, and the largest in California Arts Council history.

Organizations were awarded grants across 15 different program areas addressing access, equity, and inclusion; community vibrancy; and arts learning and engagement; and directly benefiting our state’s communities, with youth, veterans, returned citizens, and California’s historically marginalized communities key among them. Successful projects aligned closely with the agency’s vision of a California where all people flourish with universal access to and participation in the arts.

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