The Promotional Coordinating Committee administers the City’s cultural grants program. Approximately $100,000 in grants are awarded to non-profit organizations which are:

• Of tourism promotion advantage to the City of San Luis Obispo (determined by the increases to the City’s revenues, especially transient occupancy tax revenues); or
• Of local cultural benefit to the residents of the City of San Luis Obispo (determined by the event’s popularity, its accessibility to residents, its affordability and its uniqueness in the community)

Grants are accepted beginning in February for the fiscal year starting        July 1.  You may view the general Grants-in-Aid timeline for further information. 

Congratulations to our 2008-09 Grant recipients:

• Arts Obispo/San Luis Obispo County Arts Council
• Cal Poly Corporation: Open House
• Central Coast Writers' Conference
• Children's Creative Project-I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival
• City to the Sea Half-Marathon & 5K Walk
• Friends of Prado Day Center
• GALA-Gay and Lesbian Alliance
• Gold Coast Barbershop Chorus
• Mission Prep Christmas Classic
• The Monday Club
• The 1 Dream Foundation
• PLOT-Pacific Light Opera Theatre
• Pacific Repertory Opera
• San Luis Obispo Art Center, Inc.
• San Luis Obispo Blues Society
• San Luis Obispo County Band
• San Luis Obispo County Child Abuse Prevention Council
• San Luis Obispo Downtown Association
• San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
• San Luis Obispo Little Theatre
• San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival
• San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival
• Sharing the Dream Concert & Promotion

For questions regarding the grant program, contact
Brigitte Elke at 805-781-7151