The City of Bloomington is now accepting applications for the Blooming Arts Partnerships grant program.
Donor Name: City of Bloomington
State: Minnesota
City: Bloomington
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/22/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This program provides support to nonprofit arts organizations, artists and arts-related educational institutions that make a strong impact in Bloomington. Both new and returning applicants are welcome to apply.
Goals
- Provide cultural arts opportunities for Bloomington residents
- Bring cultural arts activities to people who may not otherwise have access to the arts.
- Make cultural arts opportunities more accessible, equitable and inclusive for all
- Make Bloomington a more desirable place to live and work by encouraging a thriving, vital cultural arts community
- Use City funding to leverage additional donations from individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations
- Facilitate high-quality, cost-effective community arts programming
- Encourage development and expansion of the cultural arts in the community by using City funding to stimulate and promote additional activity
- Promote cultural arts activities at the Bloomington Center or the Arts, in the parks and throughout the community
- Promote collaboration among various arts and cultural groups and other community entities to the mutual benefit of the arts community and the City so that all residents will have an opportunity to be fully engaged in Bloomington’s cultural arts community
- Provide opportunities for cultural arts groups and organizations to expand to new audiences, increase programs and improve their community reach
- Provide general operating support to high quality, established cultural arts groups and organizations that produce, present, or exhibit works of art; to groups and organizations that provide a broad range of services to artists and art appreciators; and to organizations that make enriching, engaging, educational and entertaining cultural arts opportunities available to people of all ages, abilities and interests in the Bloomington community.
Funding Information
Awards of up to $10,000 per applicant may be available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations, groups, and artists whose primary mission is to produce or present performing arts (which include dance, theatre, opera, spoken word, puppetry, music, and other types of performance) or visual arts. Performances and presentations with Bloomington-based impact are preferred
- Informal and/or unincorporated Cultural Arts Groups whose primary mission is to produce or present a performing or visual arts activity. These groups must use a fiscal sponsor, with the sponsorship agreement formalized prior to receipt of BAP funds if awarded
- Organizations, groups, and artists whose mission may include the offering of Community Arts Education programming with Bloomington-based impact
- Cultural Arts groups and organizations that host most of their cultural arts activity in Bloomington.
For more information, visit City of Bloomington.
