# Arts to go in search of big money

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/06/09/arts-go-search-big-money/
- Published: 2008-06-09T08:14:13+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A plan to encourage more philanthropy as a source of funding for the arts is being
prepared by the Arts Council in the Irish Republic. It has asked the Minister for
Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen for his assistance in developing such a culture.

In its annual review of 2007, which was released yesterday Arts Council said philanthropy
is an under-utilised source of funding for the arts.

The council said it is looking for ways to fund its plans to bring more art to people
here adding that “the new Ireland should expect and encourage those who have prospered
most to give back to national life”.

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Chair of the Arts Council Olive Braiden said: “We Irish recognise that with that
great personal wealth comes a responsibility to give, to display the generosity,
wisdom and quiet patriotism that fosters those aspects of human endeavour that bestow
life with meaning and possibility.

“Such generosity, if awakened and harnessed — in conjunction with the work of the
Arts Council — would significantly enhance the flowering of the arts which has already
begun,” she added.

The Arts Council said it will outline to the minister by the end of June its plan
for encouraging philanthropy.

www.artscouncil.ie

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