VISION
The Rockaway Beach and Neah-Kah-Nie School community is a friendly place where everyone feels welcome. The activities here help people share their cultures, interact with each other, and connect.
MISSION
The Neah-Kah-Nie Coast Art and Music Cultural Foundation (NCAM) believes that everyone, including youth, deserves access to cultural expression in an engaged community through writing, music, arts, and cultural programs that reflect — and inspire — our rural community’s creativity, diversity, and connections with one another.
Values and Guiding Principles
● We strive for inclusive participation in everything we do.
● We design projects intending to complement pre-existing work and relationships in the community.
● We seek feedback from partners, funders, participants, and the community, which we incorporate into our work.
● We commit to the idea that everyone belongs and build programs and activities with that intent.
● We value and commit to working with integrity and transparency.
Impact
Neah-Kah-Nie Coast Art & Music Cultural Foundation
How do our efforts help the community?
NCAM creates events to raise money and awareness for arts on the coast. We split the money we raise equally into two key areas:
Scholarships - We provide cash scholarships to high school seniors pursuing further education and training in the Arts. We define arts as any creative activity, from fine art to writing to music to culinary to coding - all of these are forms of art that elevate communities
Special Projects - We are raising money to build a recording studio at Neah-Kah-Nie High School, and we are offering recording grants to local musicians via our in-house recording studio. The purpose of building a modern recording studio at the school is to create a Music Technology program that not only benefits the students who want to be musicians, it opens up options for students who may not be musically inclined but are interested in the technical and production aspects of music.
Most recent scholarship award recipient
RWR 2024 $1000 SCHOLARSHIP
Awarded to Ashley Hamann, October 2024, attending University of Oregon
ADEI Statement
Neah-Kah-Nie Coast Art & Music Cultural Foundation
Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
NCAM is committed to serving all members of our community, and we take special pride in welcoming persons with a great diversity of backgrounds; people with disabilities or special needs; adults; children; and seniors.