Urban Institute Grant



Organization - Urban Institute
Grant Amount - $550,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of the Arts and Culture Indicators Project's strategy to make arts and culture indicators, corresponding data, and information including arts and culture more useful to policy makers in urban planning and cultural policy, with the goal of including the role of the creative sector as an asset in community building


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