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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A section cannabis and creation dispensary is donating $40,000 to enactment the arts and the stateless successful Fresno.
The marijuana store which doubles arsenic a section creation gala is handing retired 2 $20,000 checks, 1 to the Fresno Arts Council and the different to the Poverello House.
“The Artist Tree’s ngo is to supply harmless entree to ineligible cannabis, showcase artists from the community, and interruption stereotypes," the Artist Tree website reads. "We besides judge successful giving backmost to our community. We are a dispensary that cares."
The Fresno Arts Council volition usage the funds to make the Art Haven program, a harmless abstraction for the unhoused to marque art. The wealth for the Poverello House volition beryllium utilized to assistance with their ngo of providing Fresnans experiencing homelessness with indispensable needs, including nutrient and shelter.
"The socio-economic information of galore successful our assemblage limits their entree to the arts and often removes them from those taste arts experiences that are an indispensable portion of their individuality and consciousness of well-being," the Fresno Art Council said. "Art Haven provides escaped oregon no-cost accidental for assemblage members to prosecute with creation wherever they are."
The property league honoring the grants for the Poverello House and the Fresno Arts Council will beryllium held Friday, July 26 astatine 11 a.m. astatine the Fresno Arts Council connected 1245 Van Ness Ave.
