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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Funding Arts Network records
Date(s)
- 1996 - 2024 (Creation)
Extent
60.00 linear feet (58 record storage boxes, 1 document case, and several oversized flat items)
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Scope and content
The Funding Arts Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the arts in Miami-Dade County through publicly funding grants for various art-related institutions, events, projects, and educational initiatives. The organization originally formed in 1996 under the name of Fifty over Fifty, Inc. with the initial goal of recruiting 50 members who would each contribute $1,000 a year to form a pool of $50,000 that would be endowed to the arts. Both the award pool and membership grew considerably over time, and by 2018, they had funded over 108 art organizations and had awarded $4,822,600 in grants. Their records contain past grant applications, newsletters, correspondence, contracts, awards, audio-visual materials, press clippings, bylaws, reports, minutes, membership lists, and other administrative documents for the organization.
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Conditions governing access
This collection is unprocessed, but is open for research.
Physical access
This collection is housed off-campus and must be requested a minimum of seven calendar days in advance for consultation in Special Collections. Please contact asc.library@miami.edu to request materials from this collection.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Funding Arts Network records finding aid © 2021 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Finding aids
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Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Fifty over Fifty, Inc. (Funding Arts Network), 2019.
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Archivist's note
Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Archives Technician, March 2021.