We are happy to announce the BBCRC will soon be receiving a $6000 grant of federal CARES Act pandemic relief funds re-granted from the Siskiyou County Arts Council, via the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. These funds, combined with the generous donations we have been receiving from our individual donors during our recent appeal, will help put us in a strong position for re-opening later in 2021. We are one of only three grantees selected in Siskiyou County, the others being two non-profits with which the BBCRC has close working relationships — the Siskiyou Arts Museum in Dunsmuir and the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center. In making its selection, the Arts Council considered how local arts and cultural organizations serve marginalized/people of color. Among other things, we were able to cite our successful complaint earlier this year, in cooperation with the ACLU and immigrant rights organizations, that led to Union Pacific agreeing to cease its cooperation with ICE (UP had been turning undocumented train riders over to ICE to be deported).