HARRIS CENTER 2023-2024 SEASON-SPRING 2024 PROGRAM EDITION

It is my privilege to serve as President of the Los Rios
Colleges Foundation. We are the philanthropic arm of
the Los Rios Community College District, and we work
with individuals, corporations and community partners
who wish to support our students, colleges and the
Harris Center of the Arts through their generous giving.
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Here at the Harris Center, our donors are at the heart of
everything we do. You help ensure the future of quality
arts programming and provide resources critical to our
operations through Annual Membership and enhance
the vitality of our community by making the arts
accessible to all through the Arts Opportunity Fund.
The Arts Opportunity Fund provides grants to local
emerging and nonprofit arts organizations who call
the Harris Center home. Through our partnership
with the City of Folsom’s Arts Endowment, we look
forward to providing grants to nonprofit organizations
and emerging artists to help offset the cost of
performing at the Harris Center for the Arts.
We also support ClassACTS!, our school matinee
program for low-income elementary schools, through
the Arts Opportunity Fund. We receive funds from
the Robert S. and Star Pepper Foundation and other
generous donors, so we can offer this program
for free. Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella were
the productions this season and over 2,800 school
children got to see the magic of live musical theater,
many for the first time in their lives. It is only through
the generosity of donors like you, that we can help
offset the cost of tickets and transportation so we
can offer this program at the Harris Center
For more information about ClassACTS! and the Arts
Opportunity Fund, visit www.harriscenter.net/arts-education.
Thank you to the many generous donors who continued
to give to the Harris Center. Your generosity ensures
a vibrant arts community in Folsom and our region.
For further information, or other questions regarding
charitable gifts, please contact Mariann Eitzman, Regional
Director of Philanthropy for the Harris Center (mariann.
eitzman@losrios.edu). For further information or questions
in regards to membership, please contact Kathleen Leavitt,
Membership Coordinator (memberservices@harriscenter.
net. We look forward to seeing you this season!
Sincerely,
Paula L. Allison
President, Los Rios Colleges Foundation
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