A Web site that lists hundreds of local theater, dance, music, and visual art events and receives tens of thousands of hits a month. A full-color quarterly magazine that showcases local arts and artists, distributed through the South Bend Tribune. More than $340,000 returned to the community through grants that strengthen arts and culture.

Those are the three main pillars of ArtsEverywhere, a $6 million initiative that the Community Foundation launched in the fall of 2004 to help support local arts organizations and the artists they present. Our community is brimming with talent—talent that drives economic growth, draws people together in festive spaces, and expresses the identity of our community through its creativity, diversity, and cultural variety. At the Community Foundation, we believe that when we invest in the talent of our local artists and arts organizations, we invest in our future.