A grant over $3,500 came locally to the Ashland High Arts Advocates.
The funding will support arts mentoring to low-income students grades 6-12 in the Ashland area.
The Oregon Arts Commission says the Arts Builds Communities program targets broad geographic impact along with arts access for under-served audiences in Oregon.
It says the grants are made possible through a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
NBC5 News reporter Mariah Mills is a Medford native. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor’s Degree in journalism. She also minored in sociology.
In school, she covered Oregon athletics for the student-run television station, Duck TV. When she’s not reporting, she’s reading, hiking and rooting for her favorite teams, the Seattle Seahawks and the Oregon Ducks.