The Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) is accepting applications for its Community Arts Support Grants.
Donor Name: Region 2 Arts Council
State: Minnesota
County: Beltrami County (MN), Clearwater County (MN), Hubbard County (MN), Lake of the Woods County (MN), Mahnomen County (MN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) Community Arts Support (CAS) Grants are made possible by the voters of Minnesota thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF). The CAS grant program is also funded, in part, by an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s General Fund.
Funding Information
This is an operating support grant. Two-year award amounts between $2,000 and $7,000 per year will be paid out in two installments. The 1st year award payment will be made once Region 2 Arts Council has approved the organization’s outcomes and evaluation measures and the signed contract has been received. Granted organizations may begin expending funds once contracts have been signed by both the organization and the Region 2 Arts Council. The 2nd year award payment is contingent first and foremost upon Region 2 Arts Council’s availability of funds. R2AC is committed to a second-year payout of this operating support grant program; however, if statewide distribution of State General Fund and Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund dollars is interrupted or stalled, this could impact a second-year payment to CAS grant recipients.
Funding Levels
- Average Annual Expenses under
- $5,000 receive $2,000/year funding support
- Average Annual Expenses between
- $5,000-$10,999 receive $3,000/year funding support
- $11,000-$20,999 receive $4,000/year funding support
- $21,000-$34,999 receive $5,000/year funding support
- $35,000-$90,999 receive $6,000/year funding support
- $91,000-$173,999 receive $7,000/year funding support.
Uses of Funds
Community Arts Support Grant Eligible Uses for Funding:
- Administrative and operating expenses such as rent, utilities, wages/salaries, facility maintenance that support an organization’s growth, expansion, and improvement
- Capital improvement projects, which support arts access, education, and arts and cultural heritage activity, made to property owned by the applicant arts organization.
- Training for staff and board to expand and/or improve an organization’s accessibility and equity in its programming and practices.
- Development/improvement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or accessibility plans.
- Development/improvement of marketing and publicity plans including website development, engagement of consultants, etc. that will support an organization’s new or updated initiatives
- Free standing equipment for an arts organization’s office or facility, or non-expendable items, such as instruments, easels, computers, updated technology.
- Capacity building, audience and board development, feasibility studies, strategic planning, facilitation of networking, collaborative projects, outreach.
- Expenses associated with obtaining 501(c)3 tax exempt status for arts organizations or groups with a mission and purpose focused solely on the arts, to prepare organizations for increased arts programming.
Eligible Organizations
All eligible arts organizations, arts affiliates, and arts groups seeking 501(c)3 status have arts programming at the center of their mission, and have been providing arts programming to the Region 2 Arts Council communities during two years of the past four years. (Note: this criteria has been adjusted from previous years due to COVID-19 impacts on arts and cultural institutions).
Arts Organizations
Eligible arts organizations are physically located with a legal address in one of the five counties of the Region 2 Arts Council service area (Beltrami, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Hubbard).
Arts Affiliates
Eligible arts affiliates are physically located with a legal address in one of the five counties of the Region 2 Arts Council service area (Beltrami, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Hubbard). An Arts Affiliate by definition is a distinct arts program or established arts division with an arts-focused mission that is hosted within a Minnesota nonprofit 501(c)(3) non arts institution or public entity (such as city government or a university) or within a Minnesota nonprofit 501(c)(3), tax‐exempt, community service organization; and for whom arts programming or services represent at least 90 percent of the affiliate’s annual operating expenses.
The arts affiliate must:
- provide or plan to provide a consistent menu of arts programming or services for the general public in Minnesota, not just for the host institution or its constituents, as would be the case with an academic degree program and its students;
- have a citizen advisory or governing board either independent from or acting as a subset of the host organization’s board, providing community oversight of the affiliate’s activities as distinct from the host organization’s activities;
- have a distinct budget indicating all revenue and expenses, that can be documented through financial statements;
- meet any additional Community Arts Support grant eligibility criteria.
For more information, visit Region 2 Arts Council.
