Fourteen organizations in Island County received an average of $7,500 in funds from the Community Accelerator Grant last week, according to a press release.

The Camano Arts Association, Hedgebrook , Island County Historical Society, Island Shakespeare Festival, Northwest Designer Craftartists, Oak Harbor Music Festival, Otherworld Children’s Media, OutCast Productions, Pacific Northwest Art School, Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, Ballet Slipper Conservatory of Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island Arts Council, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts and Whidbey Island Dance Theatre received varying amounts of grant money.

The funding is distributed as a means to increase arts spending in Washington, which “frequently falls behind the national average.” Overall, the grant allocated $10 million i

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