OCEAN CITY – From modern dance to mosaics, and from painting to pop star performance, the Ocean City Arts Center offers a range of exciting summer art camps for children. Thanks to a grant from the Ocean City Home Charitable Foundation, the Arts Center will have the opportunity to increase enrollment, offering arts education to children living in and visiting the Ocean City area, while supporting the Ocean City Arts Centers operations throughout the year.
“The camps provide the Arts Center with income to operate year-round, so they are very important,” said Rosalyn Lifshin, Executive Director of the Ocean City Arts Center. “With the help of the Ocean City Home Charitable Foundation, the Arts Center has provided education in the arts to residents and visitors of Southern New Jersey for many years. We also can show the works of 200 artists per year.”
The Ocean City Arts Center will use the Foundations grant to fund advertising, direct mail and email blasts to encourage enrollment. As a result of the marketing campaign, the Arts Center expects to attract nearly 500 students to the summer art camps, including residents of Cape May and Atlantic Counties, as well as summer visitors from the Tri-state area. A portion of the grant will be used to buy art supplies for the students.
“The summer art camps offered by the Ocean City Arts Center provide arts education for students who may not have access to arts classes in school,” said Jean Jacobson, President of the Ocean City Home Charitable Foundation. “They also allow working parents to have a safe and educational environment in which to leave their children in the mornings or afternoons. We’re pleased to support this valuable program.”
The grant awarded to the Ocean City Arts Center was one of 21 grants presented to area nonprofit organizations at the Ocean City Home Charitable Foundations awards reception in December 2015. The Foundation presented a total of $90,000 in grants at the reception, bringing the organizations cumulative donation total to more than $1,173,100 since 2005.
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