Help Medium Art Center win $10,000

Hello Friends,

We’ve been invited to pitch Medium Art Center at the next 100+ Women Strong Inland Mendocino event, where one local nonprofit will receive a community-funded grant of at least $10,000.

And yes, we’re asking for your help.

100+ Women Strong Inland Mendocino is a grassroots giving circle organized through the Community Foundation. Community members contribute $100 to attend the event, hear presentations from three nonprofits, and vote on which organization receives the collective donation.

So this is not one of those “click like to support us” situations. This one involves showing up.

Event Details:

May 21, 2026

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Frey Vineyards

11700 West Road, Redwood Valley

The way it works is simple:

Three nonprofits present

Each organization gets five minutes to pitch

Attendees ask questions

Everyone who contributes $100 gets a vote

The winning nonprofit receives the prize

If more than $10,000 is raised, the remaining funds are split between the other presenting nonprofits. Even if contributing the $100 is not possible right now, simply showing up, cheering us on, and helping fill the room with support for the arts still means a great deal to us.

For Medium Art Center, this funding would directly support community arts programming, exhibitions, workshops, youth opportunities, live music events, and expanded public access to the arts in Mendocino County.

Over the past five years, we’ve built this organization from the ground up. What started as a strange pandemic-era idea became a real community arts space filled with exhibitions, workshops, performances, open-mic nights, figure-drawing sessions, youth art shows, and countless conversations among creative people trying to make something meaningful happen in a rural county.

We believe small towns deserve ambitious art spaces too.

To attend, contribute, and vote, visit:

https://communityfound.org/.../100-women-strong-inland.../

Thank you for believing in what we do and helping prove that community-supported art still has a pulse around here.