SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Region Community Foundation is now accepting grant applications for the Dennis Mangers Fund for Young Performing Artists through Nov. 7, 2025. Grant requests of up to $5,000 may be made by nonprofits that support and uplift instrumental, vocal, theater or dance art forms.

The fund is named for Dennis Mangers, former chair of the Foundation’s board of directors, whose career in public service spans more than five decades. The goal is to support high-promise youth in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties by strengthening established, in-house youth training programs offered by arts, cultural or nonprofit organizations. The fund’s overall mission is to advance the performing arts where it is needed most.

High-promise youth are defined as children ages 8

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