The Arts and Health Grants (AHG) support non-clinical art programs with health-related goals that take place in health-based or community spaces.
Donor Name: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)
State: Rhode Island
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The grant funds both non-clinical arts engagements that promote and facilitate individual health and art activities that address the social determinants of health to provide a community health benefit.
The Arts and Health Grant category is grounded by RISCA’s recognition that arts and culture contribute to a thriving community. The arts have the capacity to transform the lives of individuals and communities, contributing to health, well-being, and overall resilience. Arts and culture can facilitate the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional aspects of individual healing, and that when applied to public health, promote healthy environments and policies in communities by fostering empathy, awareness, and social cohesion through shared narrative and aesthetic experiences.
This grant:
- Funds arts experiences that have an intended health or public health benefit.
- Requires consultation with a health professional(s) and/or subject matter expert(s).
Program Priorities
- Collaborative arts projects that co-locate arts activities in health and social service facilities and programs, or partner health organizations/professionals with arts organizations/artists.
- For programs specific to Health: The goal is to utilize the arts to enhance the quality of life and create an environment conducive to healing for individuals, patients, caregivers, and/or staff.
- For programs specific to Public Health: The goal is to utilize the arts to build healthy communities for all Rhode Islanders by generating awareness of the social determinants of health and to promote the arts and artists as partners in health-related strategies. Applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with public health agencies and/or health or social service organizations, and/or to embed experts in related health fields into their projects.
- Connection to Rhode Island State Arts/Health Plan:
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- Patient Care: Employs arts as part of the treatment plan.
- Healing Environments: Physical space design as well as what happens in these spaces.
- Caring for Caregivers: Includes professional, para-professional, informal (family/friends).
- Education: Improving clinicians’ diagnostic tools, empathy, resiliency, and observation and communication skills
- Community well-being: Using the arts to address public health concerns such as health literacy, health equity, and trauma resiliency in public areas.
Funding Information
Award Amount: Up to $9,000.
Grant Period
Funding period supports project occurring between July 1 and June 30, the State’s Fiscal Year.
Eligibility Criteria
- A nonprofit organization.
- Conducting business and be incorporated in the State of Rhode Island as a 501(c)(3) with tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.
- Registered with the R.I. Secretary of State.
- Governed by a revolving board of directors, trustees or advisory board drawn from the community at large and shown to be actively involved in the governance of the organization.
- A non-exempt, Rhode Island-based organization using a Fiscal Sponsor that fits the above requirements.
For more information, visit RISCA.
