Annual UCF Campaign
ART BUILDS COMMUNITY
Since 1986, the Broome County Arts Council’s United Cultural Fund (UCF), the locally-funded combined campaign that has raised over $10 million for the arts in Broome County. The annual UCF campaign funds grants for general operating support and project grants to LOCAL Broome County nonprofits and individual artists
The UCF grantees collectively had expenditures of more than $3 million in Broome County in 2019. The grantees entertained, educated, employed and/or engaged more than 165,000 county residents and visitors, 80 percent of whom visited a local establishment before or after an event. Financial benefits are a two-way street – yet another reason for supporting the ARTS and the UCF.
Recipients of UCF general operating support funding include Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, Bundy Museum of History and Art, the Discovery Center of the Southern Tier, Endicott Performing Arts Center, Goodwill Theatre, Roberson Museum & Science Center, and Tri-Cities Opera; and seven smaller project grants given to local artists and non-profit arts organizations in 2021.
BCAC’s 2022 United Cultural Fund Grant Awards
General Operating Support
2022 Project Grants
Binghamton Community Orchestra
A public concert featuring the 2022 STMTA student concerto competition winner
Binghamton Downtown Singers
2022 Spring Concert featuring the Faure Requiem
Binghamton University Foundation
2022 Binghamton Poetry Project
Binghamton Theater Organ Society
Harold Lloyd in “Speedy” (1928)- Dennis James, organist
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Much Ado in the Garden
Center for Gender, Art, & Culture
Urban Farm Mural (Dept. of Public Art)
First Presbyterian Church
A Season of Hope
Jenna McIntosh
“Steward” Film
Kopernik Society of Broome County
7th Exposure: a screening of art films with astronomical images
The Madrigal Choir of Binghamton
Ceremony and Celebration for Twelfth Night
Nanticoke Valley Historical Society of Maine, NY
Maine through the eyes of an artist- plein air- 2022
SRO Productions
“Bridges of Madison County”
Vestal Museum and Coal House
Haudenosaunee Festival 2022