The Alaska State Council on the Arts is accepting applications for its Community Arts Partnership Program.
Donor Name: Alaska State Council on the Arts
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $15,000 – $20,000
Details:
This grant program was developed in 2022 to support and extend partnerships, advancing creativity as a core civic value and identity for Alaska. The implementation of this grant program, at this time, is intended as a response to the ongoing challenges faced by the creative sector in Alaska related to infrastructure, economics, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Their nation’s arts sector has been among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and this grant program is one strategy for support to the arts sector, and for helping communities heal, unite and rebuild their connections.
Place-based arts and cultural strategies can help grow and amplify social cohesion for community well-being for all. This is done particularly through strategies that:
- build and share power through community ownership,
- connect people across difference,
- include all types of community members,
- have a consistent presence in the community, and
- align with community change goals to reinforce desired impacts.
Community Arts Partnership proposals will align with the following shared goals:
- to support new partnership and the deepening of existing partnerships, between individuals, organizations and agencies throughout Alaska, with the aim of strengthening Alaska’s arts and culture infrastructure over time.
- to bring Alaskans together in community for conversation, planning, arts creation, celebration, and inspiration as a way to build an Alaskan arts and culture sector for the future and enable all Alaskans to lead expressive lives.
- to explore the role of the arts in communities as a support system for community vibrancy, resilience, and individual health and well-being of Alaskans; identify and define shared community goals, risks, concerns, challenges, opportunities, issues and community assets within the unique arts and cultures of places and peoples.
Funding Information
Eligible organizations may apply for between $15,000 – $20,000 for Community Arts Partnership.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations
- Nonprofit colleges and universities
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes
- Units of state or local government, including institutions of higher learning
- Designated Local Arts Agencies must be an arts agency that is a unit of city or county government or officially designated to operate as an arts agency on behalf of its local government
- As noted in the American Rescue Plan Act funding source guidance from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in partnership with Rasmuson Foundation, ASCA encourages applications from: Organizations that serve populations that are underserved such as those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by ethnicity, economics, geography, or disability; Organizations with small and medium-sized budgets; Organizations from rural to urban communities
- Must have—or be in process of registration for—a Unique Entity Identifier Number through SAM.gov.
For more information, visit Alaska State Council on the Arts.
