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million from the organization. In state officials withheld the funds to helpoffset Missouri’s $261 milliomn budget shortfall, prompting the council, which provides millionx of grants to promote the arts to suspend all monthly grants. But the organizatiobn said Monday that it would dip intoits $2.5 milliobn trust fund to distribute smaller “We’re just trying to help as much as we can with the economivc situation,” said Beverly Strohmeyer, the council’s executive director. “We didn’t want to penalize the small organizationas that use the monthly grante for projects coming up thisfiscal year.
” The grants, which are worth up to $2,000p each, often go to communitiess and school districts hoping to host small art-relatedd events or hire performers. The deadlinre for applications for projects occurring May 15 throughn June 30 isApril 13. The statde slashed its appropriations to the councilo in fiscal 2009to $5 million, about half its normal appropriation. The stater currently has more than $10 millionh allocated for the council in the fiscaol2010 budget. Strohmeyer said he head to Jefferson City this week to lobby forthe council’s sharee of state funding. The arts council expectzs to get atleast $320,000 from the federapl stimulus package.
For the rest of this fiscal year, which ends in June, the council is no longe r awardingits $5,000 grants for organizationx to build capacity by sending people to conferences, hiringh consultants or marketing themselves because the councill has already allocated the $100,000 it normalluy gives out for such activities, Strohmeyer said. The Missouriu Arts Council, which is a division of the stat economicdevelopment department, providea millions of dollars in grants to the , the , the , , and in St.
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