Cantabile Awarded New Jersey
Cultural Trust Grant

Cantabile is honored to be one of 17 arts organizations selected from 131 applications made to the New Jersey Cultural Trust to receive funding for the 2005 grant cycle.

The New Jersey Cultural Trust is a division of the Department of State.  The mission of the Trust is to ensure a stable and healthy cultural industry in New Jersey that is sustainable under fluctuating economic conditions.  The Trust Fund is a permanent interest-generating fund that serves as an additional source of revenue to non-profit arts, history and humanities organizations for specific purposes that are crucial to ensuring fiscal and operational health, stability and durability.

Cultural Trust funding in the amount of $14,620 was awarded to Cantabile to enable development and implementation of a comprehensive 3-year strategic plan for building the organization’s capacity to support and sustain its artistic strength.  The stabilization project will focus on expanding and diversifying earned and contributed resources, implementing a board development project, finding ways to attract new singers and broadening the audience while deepening the engagement of current patrons and donors.

Cantabile is grateful to the New Jersey Cultural Trust, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and all who generously support the arts for contributing to our artistic vision and helping us build upon our legacy of artistic outreach to the communities of New Jersey.