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Ensure arts & culture endure.

While we stay safer at home, we also know that our organizations and artists who bring us so much joy at this time of the year and at all times of the year are hurting just like we are.

Gifts of art are from the heart.

GIVE a donation to local arts & culture organizations and relief funds
GIFT a membership, subscription or class
SHOP local and support artists

GET IDEAS FOR HOW YOU CAN HELP.

Other links to help

Arts, culture and scientific organizations can find support and community members can continue to connect with organizations virtually.

Are you an artist or arts and culture organization in need of support? Here are some resources.
Are you looking for information regarding City and County variances? Here are some resources.
Are you in need of a little wonder in your life? Here’s a list of virtual resources to engage you.

We fund culture

Seven counties. 300 organizations. One mission: To make sure you have amazing experiences. Let us introduce you to our funded partners.

Natural Sciences

HawkQuest

Mission Statement

To provide an educational opportunity to understand and appreciate the interaction of wild living things in their natural environment, and the importance of preserving the world in which they live.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Natural History

Wild Bear Nature Center

Mission Statement

To provide year-round educational programs to people of all ages to foster a lifelong appreciation of the environment and to promote an environmentally aware, responsible and ecologically sound community.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Cultural History

Centro Cultural Mexicano (Mexican Cultural Center)

Mission Statement

To increase awareness of Mexico's splendid traditions of travel, cuisine, art, music and handcrafts among the audiences of Colorado.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Natural History

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Mission Statement

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Visual Arts

Clyfford Still Museum

Mission Statement

To preserve, exhibit, study, and foster engagement with its unique collections. To generate outstanding exhibitions, scholarly research, educational and other cross-disciplinary programs that broaden the definition of a "single-artist" museum. Be a gathering place for the exploration of innovation and individual artistic endeavor.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Performing Arts

Foothills-Arts & Events Agency

Mission Statement

To create, establish, put on, and provide classes and opportunities for District-wide cultural arts services for the benefit of the taxpayers of the District.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Cultural History

Forney Museum of Transportation

Mission Statement

The Forney Museum of Transportation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization which exists to collect, preserve, and exhibit items of artistic, historical and technological interest relating to transportation for the purposes of education and personal enrichment.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Natural Sciences

Denver Botanic Gardens

Mission Statement

To connect people with plants, especially plants from the Rocky Mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Performing Arts

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance

Mission Statement

To provide cross-cultural instruction, performances and enrichment programs empowering all our communities by cultivating the healthy mind, body and spirit development for intergenerational students, artists and audiences.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Visual Arts

Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)

Mission Statement

To strengthen the community through the arts with a primary focus on youth engagement. Every student that walks through our doors experiences the transformative power of high quality out-of-school programs that develop art, social, and life skills.

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1 of 588 organizations funded by SCFD

Don’t paws here!

SCFD funds over 300 organizations in the 7-county Denver metro area.

Wonder looks good on you

Culture creates vibrancy for us individually and collectively. It gives our kids a unique perspective and understanding of the world. It inspires all of us to get off the couch, discover the radical and the beautiful, and stretches our capacity to be transformed. Through our diverse, local culture, we come together, we come to new ideas, we come to our senses.

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