The Clackamas County Cultural Coalition is seeking applications for its 2025 Project Grant Program.
Donor Name: Clackamas County Cultural Coalition
State: Oregon
County: Clackamas County (OR)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/10/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Grant Priorities
The following priorities directly underscore the coalition’s mission, vision, and values. Projects and organizations should focus on supporting/growing local assets and removing barriers to cultural participation. Projects must result in measurable outcomes within at least one priority. The Coalition supports innovative approaches and projects.
- Increase how local culture is valued and supported
- Indicators of success:
- Increase in cultural support from local businesses and governments
- Increase in contributions to the Oregon Cultural Trust from county residents
- Increase in local media coverage for cultural success stories illustrating public recognition for the value of arts, heritage, humanities
- Increase in projects which specifically recognize and celebrate the growing diversity within communities
- Indicators of success:
- Support the creation of, or participation in, cultural projects and activities
- Indicators of success:
- Increased attendance at events and other cultural activities
- New volunteers are leaders and are engaged in cultural activities
- Improved access to cultural assets and activities
- Increased investment to support and sustain cultural facilities and gathering spaces
- Arts, heritage and humanities are integrated with learning experiences (e.g., schools, workshops, mentoring, etc.)
- Indicators of success:
- Stimulate partnerships and collaborations that grow capacities to support assets and remove barriers. They include here partnerships that support cultural tourism
- Indicators of success:
- Cultural tourism projects which attract people from at least 50 miles away or encourage people to linger longer
- Increase in cross-sector collaborations between cultural and non-cultural organizations
- Partnerships that engage diverse groups, leverage resources and expand investment in cultural assets and activities
- Indicators of success:
- Work closely with local governments, businesses, and others to embed local culture in community development
- Indicators of success:
- Culture is clearly integrated with development and creatives serve in civic leadership positions
- Cultural assets are solidly embedded in community
- Increase in cultural supporters assuming leadership roles
- New initiatives are reaching underserved audiences
- Art in public spaces and historic interpretation/preservation are prevalent.
- Indicators of success:
Funding Information
- Minimum Project Grant Request: $751.00.
- Maximum Project Grant Request: $3,500.00.
Grant Period
January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025.
Qualifying Projects
- Requests for projects must be related to arts, heritage or humanities, respond to the Cultural Plan vision and help forward Coalition’s goals.
- Projects must align with the key values of the Coalition;
- Increase public recognition and value of local culture
- Acknowledge the vibrancy that social, cultural and ethnic diversity bring
- Increase public participation in local culture and cultivate projects that might otherwise be overlooked.
- Support the inclusion of arts and culture in every community
- Grow communications capacity for cultural groups, organizations, and artists/creatives
- Projects must result in measurable outcomes within at least ONE Funding Priority. Funding Priorities directly underscore the coalition’s mission, vision, and values. Projects and organizations should focus on supporting/growing local assets and removing barriers to cultural participation:
- Increase how local culture is valued and supported,
- Support the creation of, or participation in, cultural projects and activities,
- Stimulate partnerships and collaborations that grow capacities to support assets and remove barriers. They include here partnerships that support cultural tourism.
- Work closely with local governments, businesses, and others to embed local culture in community development, and
- Grow communications capacity for cultural groups, organizations, and artists/creatives.
- Partnerships and collaborations should be evident – it shows community support and viability of a project.
- Applicant’s financial support and budget should provide some matching funds and/or in-kind contributions toward their project’s success. If the proposed project is intended as part of a larger concept, evidence of financial sustainability beyond this project grant period will be required.
- Capital projects that increase participation in arts, heritage or humanities may be considered.
- Applicants must be in good standing and all final reports from prior award cycles must be submitted before any future awards are released.
- Projects must be completed within the calendar year applied for.
- Final Report must be submitted within 30 days of project completion.
- Requests for operating expense support will not be considered.
Who is Eligible to Apply?
- Organizations physically located in Clackamas County with a Clackamas County mailing address
- Individuals located in Oregon with a project that clearly benefits Clackamas County residents who plan to create a project with a Clackamas County-based organization, business, venue, or entity. Organizations located in Oregon with a project that clearly benefits Clackamas County residents demonstrate strong community support and county partnerships eligible to apply.
- Prior Clackamas County Cultural Coalition grant recipients who are current on all agreements and have submitted all required reports
- Nonprofit tax-exempt status is not required.
For more information, visit CCCC.
