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CAH offers grants in the categories of Arts
Education, Community Arts, Cultural Facilities, East of the River, Festivals and City Arts, Grants-In-Aid, Individual Artists, Public Art Building Communities and UPSTART. The Commission also grants visual artists through a program called Art Bank, which
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The statute paragraph in D.C. code, DC ST § 39-201, says that the D.C. Commission on the Arts and
Humanities (CAH) was founded in 1975, but the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA) has legislative appropriations numbers for CAH from 1968 forward. NASAA’s State Arts Council records dated
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Commission changed in 1975 to take its current form. NASAA does not have the original 1968 code and their records begin with the 1975 version. In theory, CAH’s original authorization might not have been a statute. It could have been a mayor or council
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Humanities provides grants, professional opportunities, education enrichment, and other programs and services to individuals and nonprofit organizations in all communities within the District of Columbia. After the creation of the
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August 1968 lists the D.C. member as the
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