The Living Cultures Grant makes grants of up to $5,000 to sustain and strengthen traditional arts to California-based nonprofits and tribal entities, as well as other organizations that work with fiscal sponsors.
Donor Name: Alliance for California Traditional Arts
State: California
Counties: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/03/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Projects involving any genre of traditional art—including but not limited to dance, music, foodways, material arts, and oral traditions—are welcome. The grants are intended to help cultural groups and non-profit organizations throughout the state realize community-based projects aimed at strengthening a sense of place, fostering traditional creativity, and ensuring cultural continuity. Through this grant program, ACTA supports artistic development, community engagement, personal well-being, collective energy, and the conservation of culture and history throughout California.
Grant Period
- July 15, 2022 – July 15, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- COUNTIES: Applicants must be based in one of the 10 Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Marin, Napa, or Sonoma. Must show proof of an address in one of these counties.
- NON-PROFIT STATUS: Applicants must be a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization based in one of the 10 counties named above
- FISCAL SPONSOR: Community groups who do not have 501 (c) 3 non-profit status may work with a 501(C)3 non-profit fiscal sponsor. Your fiscal sponsor can be based anywhere in the State of California but you (community group or organization) must be based in one of the 10 eligible counties named above.
- ORGANIZATION BUDGET SIZE: Applicants must have an organizational budget under $250,000.
Important!
- If you have received Living Cultures funding consecutively in the last three years (2021, 2020, 2019), they ask you to sit out one year before reapplying.
- If you are currently a grantee of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, or the Walter and Elise Haas Fund you are not eligible to apply for the Living Cultures Grants Program.
For more information, visit Living Cultures Grant.
