ACM-US, a sister organization to ACM, does extensive fundraising in North America in support for Mongolian arts and culture and has very close ties with the Arts Council. Although the two organizations are independent from each other, ACM-US contracts ACM to implement projects and grants in Mongolia and is an excellent source of income for ACM programs. Working with ACM-US also fulfills the mission of ACM to increase awareness of Mongolian arts and culture worldwide. ACM provides the daily program and secretarial assistance to the ACM-US, the 501c3 organization in US.

Throughout the year in 2006, ACM-US raised funds of 101 132 USD (including 62887 USD in cash and 38245 in-kind donation) including the funding for the Tumen ekh tour to North America in 2006. Working with ACM-US also fulfills the mission of ACM to increase awareness of Mongolian arts and culture worldwide.

In 2007, the ACM-US supported the nine-month Fellowship Program of ACM aimed to empower emerging cultural leaders through enhancing their leadership, management and marketing skills, and deepening their understanding about cultural policy, arts advocacy, and arts education issues. This first year of ACM’s Fellowship Program was very successful, both in the trainings and in fundraising.

In 2008, the nine-month program will focus on building awareness and understanding amongst emerging Mongolian arts leaders. The program will emphasize broader cultural, historical, economical, and social issues of Mongolian society through a range of interactions with local and international arts and community representatives, policy makers, artists, and academics.

ACM-US also supported the ‘Monastery Mapping Documentation’ project of ACM, which aimed to ensure the preservation and conservation of Mongolia’s intangible heritage by compilation of a systematic and comprehensive database of heritage sites and relevant oral history.

ACM-US awarded grants to ACM projects in 2005-6
ACM-US, a sister organization to ACM, undertakes tax-deductible fundraising in the US to support Mongolian arts and culture. In November, 2005, ACM-US Board awarded ACM with grants totaling US$30,000. These grant-winning projects are 2 cultural heritage projects My culture and Museums in the region and arts education project Artsplus .

The My culture project aims to preserve the unique musical traditions of Khovd province by running folk music training for children in cooperation with the Khovd Music and Drama Theatre. The first stage of the project, the curriculum development, has started in November, 2005 and the following stages will be the training of the trainers, preparing the training rooms and the training for children.

Regional museum development project is aimed to support museums as heritage preservation site and to develop museums into heritage education venue to deliver knowledge on Mongolian history and culture through arts.

The Artsplus project is an after-school arts education program aimed to develop different life skills as well as self-esteem, self-expression, communication and creativity through arts. The pilot project will be implemented at five secondary schools in different districts of Ulaanbaatar in collaboration with the Mongolian Education Alliance.

US and Canadian Citizens
US citizens can make tax-deductible donations through the Arts Council of Mongolia-US, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization to Mongolia-based ACM. Send your contribution to 2025 23rd Ave East , Seattle , WA 98112 or visit www.acm-us.org .

Canadian citizens can make tax-deductible donations to ACM through the registered 100(1)(f) public foundation, Give2Asia: www.give2asia.org.