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We are a grant- and donor-funded nonprofit that serves ten counties of Eastern Oregon, advocating for artists, fostering creative expression, and supporting arts education. We need engaged citizens like you to help us make that happen.

Generosity comes in many forms. We appreciate and honor all donations we receive - large or small - and we see community-oriented giving as a sum greater than its parts. As we work to bring more arts opportunities into the community and support those that are already here, we empower your donation to become the best it can be.

All donations to Art Center East are eligible for a tax deduction. We are a 501 (c) 3 member-based non-profit arts services organization headquartered in La Grande, OR.

 Have Venmo on your phone? You can donate there, too. Our account: ArtCenterEast

 #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving to nonprofit organizations. We're challenging you to help Art Center East expand our reach by hosting a fundraiser on your personal Facebook page. Our need is great this year and this is a small (but mighty) way you can help! 

  • Who can do it? Anyone with a Facebook account. 

 

  • How does it help? Hosting a fundraiser offers an easy and compelling way for your friends and family to join you in giving to an organization that you care about. This helps ACE reach people who might like to support our work, but who aren't in our immediate audience. By creating a fundraiser, you also endorse our work in a way that might make the difference in someone's willingness to give.

 

  • What do I need to do? Facebook offers an easy way for its users to raise money for a nonprofit of their choice - you may have seen your Facebook friends hosting a nonprofit fundraiser in honor of their birthday or another occasion. We are challenging our supporters to host an ACE GivingTuesday fundraiser for $100 or more from November 30 until December 6 on their personal Facebook page. Full instructions for setting up a fundraiser are available below. After setting up your fundraiser, you will not be responsible for much more than sharing it on your page and thanking donors.

 

  • When do I need to do it? We're asking our supporters to set up their fundraiser on November 29 so it's ready to go right away on the morning of GivingTuesday (Nov 30). Facebook offers a donation match that day (starting at 6 am PST) that goes until their funds run out (last year they were gone in about an hour!). Having your fundraiser set up means that there’s a better chance of donations getting matched that morning. Worth a shot! After you set it up, your fundraiser will end automatically on the date you set, no matter how much you've raised at that point.

 

  • Where does the money I raise go? Network for Good, a secondary business run by Facebook, processes payments and distributes funds to the intended recipients within a month or two of the fundraiser's completion. You will not be responsible for handling the money. Art Center East will receive a check for all the money raised through Facebook fundraisers done in our name directly from Network for Good. 

 

  • Isn't it better to just send you a check? Network for Good absorbs the processing fees for donations made to nonprofits, so donating through Facebook is pretty much the same as writing ACE a check. By donating this way, however, you amplify your donation by inviting your friends and family to join you and (possibly) through Facebook's donation match on Nov 30.

 

  • I'm not good with computers ... No worries! If you're able to navigate your Facebook account to look at, like, and comment on posts, give fundraiser setup a try - it's a simple process that takes about 5 minutes to complete. If you get stuck, see if someone in your family can help you! 

 

  • I'm setting up my fundraiser and I can't find 'Art Center East' when I search for a nonprofit ... Our legal business name is a holdover from one of the organizations that merged to form Art Center East. You can raise money for ACE by selecting Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc. when creating your fundraiser. 

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How to set up a personal Facebook Fundraiser for Art Center East:

It looks like a lot of steps,

1) On a computer: Look at the top of your Facebook page for the + sign in a circle (to the right of your profile pic), click on it and choose 'Fundraiser' from the drop-down menu. On a phone: Open your Facebook app and click on the menu icon on the bottom right corner of the screen; select "Fundraisers" from the menu.

2) Select "Nonprofit" and search for "Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc," Art Center East's legal business name, and select it for your fundraiser.

3) On a computer: On the left side of the screen, you'll see the fundraiser set-up fields. On a phone: Scroll down to see the fundraiser set-up fields.

4) Goal: Enter any amount you think you can raise. We're challenging our supporters to aim for at least $100. We recommend setting your goal amount for anywhere between $100 and $500, amounts that are reasonable to raise in a week's time. (Anecdote: A few years ago a staff member raised $250 for ACE in one day just by friends - many of whom have never even been to La Grande - giving $5 - $20 each. They were pleasantly surprised by how quickly this happened and how willing many of their friends and family were to make a small GivingTuesday donation. Aim higher than you think you can do because there is no penalty for not reaching your goal!) Your donation goal is just that - a goal - and fundraisers are allowed to surpass it. If your $100 fundraiser ends up raising $500, there's no penalty and everyone wins!

5) Title: Change the fundraiser title so it reads "[Your Name]'s Fundraiser for Art Center East."

6) Fundraiser Description: Facebook provides an automated description. We encourage you to add a sentence or two about why you want to raise funds for Art Center East. Personal messages go a long way toward appealing to your fellow donors. Please replace "Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc," with "Art Center East" in the automated description so people will recognize the organization name - it appears three times in the text.

7) End date: You can manually select an end date if you set up your fundraiser on a computer. On a phone, it will set the end date automatically at 15 days from the set-up date. We feel like a week is a good amount of time, so feel free to select December 6 as your end date, or end your fundraiser on a date of your choice.

8) Check everything one more time (making sure you've updated the organization name to "Art Center East" rather than "Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council"), then hit "create."

Tips for a successful fundraiser:

- Be the first person to donate! It doesn't matter how much you donate, the act of your donation shows your friends and family that you care about this organization and it might make them want to help, too! If you would like to try to get your donation matched by Facebook, plan to make it around 6am on November 30. This is when Facebook will release their pool of matching funds and that money will likely go quickly (last year they were gone in about an hour).

- Share the fundraiser to your Facebook feed, writing a brief encouraging statement to go with it that summarizes why you want to raise money for ACE.

- Invite your Facebook friends to the fundraiser. Facebook gives you this option in an easy format right after you create your fundraiser - select friends you think would like to donate. They can always decline, but never underestimate the power of an invitation!

- Keep sharing your fundraiser and encouraging donors ("Any amount is meaningful." Or "Thanks for your donations! We're halfway there!"). Sharing the fundraiser to your feed more than once means it appears on your friends' feeds more than once and they might have missed it the first time (or three). One of the rules of marketing is that a person needs to see something up to 14 times before they act on it, so posting once is often not enough to get everyone's attention or action.

Help Art Center East Survive the COVID Pandemic

In order to keep our community safe, we have to drastically reduce the ways we earn income, and that makes it difficult to pay Art Center East's basic operating expenses. Your donation will help keep our doors open through the pandemic so we can blossom on the other side. Thank you for helping to preserve Art Center East's 43 years of hard work building a home for community arts and culture in Union County. We have more work to do.

Donation Options:

By mail: Art Center East, P.O. Box 541, La Grande, OR 97850

 

 

 

Via Paypal at the link below:

 

Have Venmo on your phone? You can donate there, too. Our account: ArtCenterEast

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Memorial Giving 

Consider a memorial gift to Art Center East in honor of someone whose life was inspired, comforted, or transformed by the arts. Memorial gifts honor the life of your loved one by keeping their passion alive, and passing it on.

It is up to you how your memorial gift is made. If you would like to include with your gift a statement or story about how the arts touched the life of your loved one, we encourage you to do so. Please confirm whether we have your permission to share that statement with the Art Center East community when we honor our donors in various ways. Memorial gifts may also be made anonymously. All monetary gifts - no matter how big or small - help us bring the arts into more lives.

If you are interested in creating a trust or naming Art Center East in your will, please contact Darcy Dolge: [email protected]

You may make your gift:

    • In person: by stopping by Art Center East: 1006 Penn Avenue, La Grande.
    • By mail: Art Center East, P.O. Box 541, La Grande, OR 97850
    • Via Paypal at the link below:

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Email accompanying memorial statements or stories to Darcy Dolge: [email protected]


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 Be an art (supply) super hero! 

We are always in need of art supplies - and super heroes to help us purchase them! Art Center East uses supplies for our diverse set of class offerings, as well as the following: our annual Arts for All community art-making festival, weekly art classes for at-risk youth in partnership with the Union County Juvenile Department (our part of the partnership is to provide a facility and supplies), our Art at the Market booth at the La Grande Farmers Market, and other community events.

You may make your gift:

  • In person: by stopping by Art Center East: 1006 Penn Avenue, La Grande
  • By mail: Art Center East, P.O. Box 541, La Grande, OR 97850
  • Via Paypal on the button right here     
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Another way to make a donation…

The Oregon Cultural Trust also offers you another opportunity to support the arts in a unique way. If you make a charitable tax-deductible donation to an Oregon non-profit cultural organization such as Art Center East, you can make a matching donation to the Oregon Cultural Trust for a tax credit. For example, if you owe $1,000 in state taxes and you make a $100 matching gift to the Oregon Cultural Trust, you would pay only $900 in taxes.

Money donated to the Trust returns to Eastern Oregon in the form of grants and cash support for each county. Donate to the Oregon Cultural Trust today! In 2016-17, Union County will receive over $9,000 in funding, which is administered by the Union County Cultural Coalition.

Support Art Center East while you shop online!

 

 

AmazonSmile donates to Art Center East (listed as Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council on AmazonSmile) when you do your online shopping at this link: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/93-0686098

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