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Santa Clara County is a county located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. As of 2010 it had a population of 1,781,642. The county seat is San Jose. The highly urbanized Santa Clara Valley within Santa Clara County is also known as Silicon Valley...
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An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad...
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Established in 1982, Arts Council Silicon Valley (ACSV) is a private, nonprofit arts organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Santa Clara County residents by creating and fostering arts and culture throughout the region.
As a grantmaking agency, the ACSV provides funding and fundraising support services to more than 140 local arts organizations and individual artists. It also provides advocacy, marketing, and support services to more than 600 local arts organizations and strives to help make the arts accessible to local youth.
As the official state and local partner with the California Arts Council and the County of Santa Clara, the ACSV is now the largest private nonprofit arts council in the state. Since its inception, the ACSV has distributed nearly $24 million in grants and services to the arts in Santa Clara County.