Carlsbad Giving Back

Five Programs will receive generous grants from the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation.  This foundation is an affiliate of the San Diego Foundation.  Read more about the grant recipients below.

Carlsbad Community Theatre Showcase Company - $18,613
The goal of the year-round program is to create, establish and develop a house company to provide continued performing arts education and performance opportunities for Carlsbad youth ages six to 18. 

Carlsbad Music Festival - $15,080
Grant money will create a dedicated “Community Stage” for this year’s Festival at a location within the Village providing a stage for local performers and a weekend of free, high-quality music performances to the citizens of Carlsbad. 

The Hacienda Project - $25,238
The Hacienda Project will create four site-specific dances at the Magee Park by members of San Diego Dance Theater in collaboration with the Dance Program at La Costa Canyon High School. Trained tour guides will lead up to 1,000 students and the general public to view these world-premier dances, which will be loosely strung together to create a narrative of the hacienda period in California’s history.


Harps in the City $15,663
Harps in the City will include a pilot music mentorship and education program for the Carlsbad Boys and Girls Club, collaboration with professional harpists, outreach to area senior centers, and the commissioning of a community art project involving local visual and performing artists. 


Shakespeare Network - $32,809
Support allows for New Village Arts to bring professional Shakespeare to all residents and the mentoring and growth of the Junior Ensemble. The expansion includes creating three "out of theatre" productions including one at the Pacific Ridge School in the summer of 2012, at the Dove Library in the early spring of 2013 and at the Flower Fields in the summer of 2013.

The grants celebration also marked the first distribution of grants in Carlsbad from the Matt McLaughlin Live Here, Give Here Matching Program. The late Matt McLaughlin of Rancho Bernardo left a generous legacy gift to The San Diego Foundation for use by the Affiliate Foundations in North County. Thanks to the creation of the matching program, all CCF membership generated grantmaking funds (half of each yearly donation) will be matched, dollar for dollar, for at least three years. The Live Here, Give Here match doubled this year’s grants, from $53,701 to $107,403.

“Thanks to the Matt McLaughlin Live Here, Give Here program, we were able to give out a record number of grants and dollars this year, funding all five of the proposals recommended by our hardworking grants committee,” said Hollyce Phillips, CCF Board Chair.

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