[Bcma-l] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 20, 2007

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

Media Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Vancouver Foundation awards Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art 
MEDICI Funding

KELOWNA (BC) – The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art has been 
awarded $30,600.00 from the Vancouver Foundation Medici Program to 
assist with a multi-year fundraising initiative.

The MEDICI program, created to assist organizations to undertake 
projects to improve their organizational capacity and financial 
stability, has allocated over $2.3 million to 31 different organizations 
across the province.

The award provides 3/4 matching funds to the Supplementary Operating 
Funding received from the Canada Council for the Arts earlier this year. 
The Alternator was one of only three organizations in the Okanagan 
Valley awarded supplementary funding.

The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art provides a year-round 
program of contemporary art exhibitions by local, national and 
international artists and hosts an artist-in-residency program. It also 
operates the Alternator Media Arts Centre, which allows member artists 
access to video production equipment for independent production.

Vancouver Foundation is Canada's largest and one of its oldest community 
foundations. Its mission is to create positive and lasting impacts in 
communities in British Columbia. It does this by bringing together 
generous donors (large and small, individuals, groups and corporations) 
and linking their contributions to important work that addresses the 
needs and improves the lives of communities across the province.

Today, the Foundation manages an endowment worth approximately $800 
million. In 2006, the interest from that endowment allowed the 
Foundation to distribute about $40 million to communities. To find out 
more visit: www.vancouverfoundation.ca

For more information on the Alternator’s activities, visit the gallery 
from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday or go to www.alternatorgallery.com.

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EDITORS: For further information, please contact Jennifer Pickering at 
the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art at (250) 868-2298 or 
info@alternatorgallery.com. For information on the Vancouver Foundation, 
go to www.vancouverfoundation.bc.ca