Awards, Honors & Grants Received

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Awards & Honors

• December 2024 Find Iowa on Iowa PBS Education - watch here
• March/April 2024 The Iowan features Corning and opera house
• Feb. 3, 2024 Commotion, Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute, Sold Out concert
• 2023, Director De Heaton receives John McMahon Volunteer of the Year Award
• 2023 Featured on episode 107 of Iowa Life on IPTV, on video link start about 19:30 
• 2023 Director De Heaton receives Governor's Volunteer Award
• 2023 Iowa State Fair honors executive director, De as Iowan of the Day
• March 16, 2023 Sidewalk Prophets, Sold Out Concert
• 2019 Speaker at National League of Historic American Theaters
• 2018 SCORE National Outstanding Small Business Community Impact Award
• 2017 Adams Community Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year
• 2017 SCORE American Small Business Champion for Iowa
• 2016 first youth musical, Peter Pan, Sold Out
• 2013 Iowa Preservation at Its Best

IA Department of Cultural Affairs

Grants

• 2025 IA Cultural Leadership Cohort Program, networking 
• 2025 IA Arts Council & IEDA, $2775 for 2026 Iowa Nebraska Heartland film Festival
• 2025 Adams Community Foundation, $4950 for plaster repairs and carpet pad/stretching
• 2024 Main Street Marketing $500 grant for items with branding
• 2024 Main Street Corning $1,000 Facade grant for painting gutters
• 2024 Adams Community Foundation, $25,000 gutter repairs
• 2023 Adams Community Foundation, $4250 for sound board
• 2023 Adams Community Foundation, $4,250 for seal coating the annex roof
• 2022 School Arts Experience Grant by NEA & Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, $2,000 for Linda Stephens, origami & Chad Elliott music
• 2022 Adams Community Foundation, $18,000 for exterior painting
• 2021 Iowa Tourism, $9700, for video & mobile ads in 2022
• 2021 American Rescue Plan, IA Arts Council, IA Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NEA, $5,000, janitor salary and Jason Walsmith Iowa musician March 2022
• 2021 Iowa Arts & Culture Marketing, $2700, marketing in 2021
• 2021 USDA Rural Development, $24,900 for gutter repairs
• 2021 Main Street Corning $1,000 Facade Grant for gutter painting
• 2021 REC Operation Roundup for gutter repairs
• 2021 Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, Iowa Arts Council $8400 CARES Recovery program
• 2020 Iowa Nonprofit Recovery Rund, Iowa Small Business Relief Grant, Iowa Economic Development, $22,500 Emergency Relief from Covid losses
• 2020 Arts Midwest, Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, & National Endowment for the Arts $2,500 Emergency Relief
• 2020 Main Street Corning $1,000 Facade Grant paint for windows
• 2020 Adams Community Foundation $13,500 Emergency Funds due to Covid-19
• 2019 Adams Community Foundation $30,930 for windows
• 2019 Iowa Arts Council, IA Department of Cultural Affairs Capacity Grant - $5000 for branding and operational support
• 2019 Hill Media & Productions $2500 for windows
• 2019 Adams Community Foundation $1600 amplifier
• 2018 Iowa  Department of Cultural Affairs $3497 for piano, microphones
• 2018 Adams Community Foundation, $5,000 for piano
• 2018 Operation Round Up $500 for turret repairs
• 2017 LK Boutin for backdrop muslin for $150
• 2017 Historical Resource Development Program for Hosetower tuckpointing & shingling for $5610
• 2017 Operation Roundup for Hosetower tuckpointing $1000
• 2017 Adams Community Foundation $1775 for Culligan water softener
• 2016 Operation Roundup $500 windows
• 2016 Iowa Tourism for Social Media Ads $1125
• 2016 Adams Community Foundation $1500 for sconce lighting
• 2016 Adams Community Foundation $15,000 annex window repairs