The Art of Community: Rural South Carolina Grants supports arts-based projects throughout rural South Carolina that use the arts to address issues and challenges in rural communities.
Donor Name: South Carolina Arts Commission
State: South Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/04/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The project must serve the rural community in which the applicant is located.
Grant-funded activities should:
- expand community access to the arts in rural areas and
- include a public engagement component and
- engage a project steering committee to lead the project.
Funding Information
Up to $7,500.
Grant Period
August 6, 2024 – May 31, 2025.
Uses of Funds
Grant funds must be used for actual project costs, defined as consumable and non-consumable items needed to complete the proposed project. Those might include but are not limited to:
- Artist residencies
- Exhibitions
- Digital projects
- Arts festivals
- Workshops
- Community murals
- Equipment (e.g., kilns, lighting or sound equipment, musical instruments, storage)
- Furniture (e.g., easels, music stands)
- Professional services (e.g., performance space rental, web designer, consultant fees)
- Artistic services (e.g., muralist, performers, instructors).
Geographical Areas
Priority will be given to applicants located in one of the SCAC’s Opportunity Initiative Counties:
- Allendale
- Bamberg
- Calhoun
- Cherokee
- Clarendon
- Dillon
- Edgefield
- Hampton
- Jasper
- Laurens
- Lee
- Marion
- Marlboro
- Saluda
- Williamsburg.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be:
- a college or university; OR
- a unit of state or local government, OR
- a public library, public library authority, network of public library authorities, or organization managing a public library authority as defined under the Public Libraries & Museums Act 1964; OR
- a nonprofit organization
- currently registered as a charity with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office
- Note: Applicants who are exempt from this registration must upload their registration exemption approval.
- reflecting S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documents
- with federal tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service OR applying through a tax-exempt fiscal agent/receiver organization
- Note: Applicants who are applying through a fiscal agent/receiver must submit a letter outlining the working relationship and responsibilities of both parties.
- currently registered as a charity with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office
- In accordance with federal government policy, all organizations – including (but not limited to) private schools, public school districts, government entities, and nonprofit organizations – must provide a valid UEI number to receive an SCAC grant award.
For more information, visit SCAC.
