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Announced: 2021 Arts in Society Grant Recipients
RedLine Denver has officially announced the grantees for the Arts in Society 2021 program. Over 220 applications were submitted and 22 Colorado artists and organizations have been selected to receive a total of $450,000 in funding. The Arts in Society program supports the integration of arts and culture into multiple disciplines critical to the [...]
Meet the 2022 Class of Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Livingston Fellows
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation is pleased to announce seven leaders to be selected to the 2022 Class of Livingston Fellows. These transformational leaders are working tirelessly to meet the needs of communities across the Denver Metro area and redefining the future of nonprofit leadership in the process. “The 2022 class of Livingston Fellows speak to the [...]
COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund wins National Philanthropy Day Award for “Outstanding Foundation”
The COVID-19 pandemic hit Denver’s arts & culture sector incredibly hard due to closures, restrictions and cancelations. Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and The Denver Foundation quickly joined forces and created the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund, which in two rounds of funding and 96 total grants, provided $2.1 million in support for 72 organizations. With [...]
Livingston Fellowship Reimagined
By Chrissy Deal Soon after joining the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation in the fall of 2020 as director of the Livingston Fellowship program and art & Social Change Grantmaking, I dedicated myself to meeting with and hearing directly from fellows about their experiences, expectations and aspirations for the fellowship. I put my Zoom subscription to [...]
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s Chrissy Deal wins 2021 Governor’s Creative Leadership Award
In October 2020, Chrissy Deal began her new job as Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s Director, Livingston Fellowship Program, Arts & Social Change Grantmaking. The position was a new role created to provide leadership for the Livingston Fellowship Program and direct the Foundation’s grantmaking strategies for investing in and celebrating the artistic and cultural contributions of Black, [...]