• Bend Chamber’s 2018 SAGE Business Awards nominees are as follows:

For large business of the year – Compass Commercial Real Estate Services, Five Talent Software, G5 and IBEX Global.

For small business of the year – Arbor Builders, Baxter Harder-Attorneys at Law, Brave Collective, The Broomsmen, Clifton Cannabis Law, Coiled Cabs, Combined Communications Inc., Eternal Health Chiropractic, Hutch’s Bicycle Store, Oregrown, PayneWest Insurance, Powers of Automation Inc., PrideStaff, Redhawk Network Security and Visit Bend.

For nonprofit of the year – Assistance League of Bend, Bend Area Habitat for Humanity Restore, East Cascades Works, The Environmental Center, Friends of the Children Central Oregon, The Guardian Group, Samara Learning Center and Saving Grace.

For citizen of the year – Charlie Anderson, child advocate and Camp Tamarack owner; Amy Tykeson, managing trustee of Tykeson Family Trust, which supports education, health care and the arts; and Mark Wirges Sr., U.S. Marine Corps veteran who has been planting U.S. flags at the graves of veterans buried in Pilot Butte Cemetery on Memorial Day for 38 years.

The awards ceremony is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Sept. 7 at Riverhouse on the Deschutes Convention Center and is open to the public. See the Bend Chamber website for details.

• The Oregon Cultural Trust has awarded Central Oregon nonprofits more than $41,000 in grants for fiscal year 2019. High Desert Museum has received $26,906 to support an interdisciplinary exhibition, “Water in the West,” bringing together scholars, artists and scientists to explore the cultural and natural history of the role of water in the economy and culture of the West.BendFilm Festival has received $9,669 to invest in a half-time development director to increase existing staff capacity to operate festival-related activities in Warm Springs, Madras, Redmond, Sisters and LaPine. Sisters Folk Festival, Inc. has received $5,000 to support the presentation of national and international artists celebrating the distinct cultural traditions of Bluegrass, Cajun and Celtic in Americana music.

Across the state, 137 cultural organizations have received a record $3.02 million in grants from the Oregon Cultural Trust.