Annual UCF Campaign

The United Cultural Fund (UCF) is an annual campaign, spearheaded by the Broome County Arts Council, to raise and distribute funds to artistic endeavors, county-wide. 

Now in its 37th year, the UCF is a unique community resource whose recipients returned more than $4 million to Broome County’s economy, generated significant income for other businesses, and supported about 1,500 full, part-time and contracted jobs in 2019. Financial benefits are a two-way street – yet another reason for supporting the ARTS and the United Cultural Fund.

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, LUMA, Roberson Museum & Science Center, and Tri-Cities Opera; and thirteen smaller project grants given to local artists and non-profit arts organizations in 2023.

Broome County Arts Council believes that a broad range of voices at all levels of our funded organizations, and diverse art forms representative of all backgrounds and experiences, are essential to driving authentic, inclusive, and sustainable community impact through the arts.

Goals of the United Cultural Fund include: to promote an environment where all artists from all backgrounds can find opportunity and can thrive, to help connect artists in our community with appreciative public audiences through events and engagements that enliven neighborhoods, to increase appreciation of our community’s many cultures, and to increase opportunities for participatory arts experiences.

BCAC’s 2023 United Cultural Fund Grant Awards

General Operating Support

Endicott Performing Arts Center logo
Roberson logo
Tri Cities Opera logo
The Goodwill Theatre Inc logo

2023 Project Grants

Binghamton Community Orchestra
Public concert “Far East to Near East, North to South”

Binghamton Downtown Singers
Spring Concert 2023- A Concert of Healing featuring Brahms’ Requiem and Forrest’s Requiem for the Living

Binghamton University Foundation
2023 Binghamton Poetry Project

Binghamton Theater Organ Society
Charlie Chaplin Double Feature with live organ music accompaniment with Dennis James

The Cazenovia Convention

Cornell Cooperative Extension
Much Ado in the Garden

Endwell Community Chorus
Bouncing Back Better After the Pandemic

Kopernik Society of Broome County
8th Exposure: A Screening of Art Films with Astronomical Images

The Madrigal Choir of Binghamton
The American Songbook: From Gershwin to Now!

Nanticoke Valley Historical Society of Maine, NY
Visions of Maine, NY 175 Years

Phelps Mansion Museum
Live Character Tour of the Phelps!

Vestal Museum and Coal House
Second Saturday Live Music Series