For Hub City Times

MARSHFIELD – Non-profit performing arts groups in central Wisconsin are invited to submit proposals for grants from the Cole Family Music Fund through the Marshfield Area Community Foundation, Inc.

The purpose of the Cole Family Music Fund is to provide monetary grants each year to worthy non-profit music programs and musical organizations with-in the Marshfield area – a 32-mile radius – in order to enhance the quantity and quality of music programs in Central Wisconsin.

Grants will be awarded to support grants for, but not limited to: venue rentals and piano tuning for public student recitals given by private music teachers, Palm Sunday Choir support, Central Wisconsin Chamber Choral support, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, the Marshfield City Band summer guest performer support, and providing support in bringing guest performers by performing arts organizations such as Chestnut Center for the Arts and the Lucille Tack Center for the Arts. The fund may not be used for support of school music programs.

Applications are available at Marshfield Area Community Foundation, Heritage Bank Plaza, 907 N. Central Ave. For more information, call 715-384-9029 or e-mail macf@marshfieldareacommunityfoundation.org.