The Black Belt Community Foundation will present grant awards to local organizations that have helped their community at its annual grants ceremony awards to be held at 1 p.m. Saturday inside Wallace Community College’s Earl Goodwin Theater.

The 7-year-old organization, through financial contributions from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Black Belt Commission, will award more than $33,000 in arts grants to 11 Dallas County non-profit organizations.

The following organizations have received grants from the foundation: ArtsRevive, Beautiful Feet School of Dance, Blackbelt Central Alabama Housing, McRae Learning Center, Orrville Volunteer Fire Department, Selma Art Guild, Selma Community Concert Association, Tyler Rose Organization and the Weaver Castle Museum.

“We want to highlight the fact we would not be able to give away $175,000, which is a big deal, without these organizations coming together,” BBCF executive director Felecia Jones said. “The Black Belt Community Foundation is proud to connect hard working organizations to financial resources they otherwise would not be connected to so they are able to make positive changes in our communities through our Black Belt initiatives.”

The organization also awarded $175,000 to 53 more non-profit organizations such as local museums, community theatres, festivals and youth programs.

Kristin Law, arts coordinator, said the grants are ideal for schools whose art programs have been cut or are nonexistent.

“These grants give continual exposure of the arts to youth of the city and they are not losing that exposure,” Law said. “Adults are also offered wonderful exposure to not just visual arts but performing and literary arts as well.”

The BBCF goals are to promote artists, art awareness and creativity within the Black Belt.

Since 2006, the organization has awarded more than $864,000 to support various activities across the region’s 12 counties.