The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy invites Minneapolis based small creative businesses, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to apply for business support funding for creatives.
Donor Name: City of Minneapolis
State: Minnesota
City: Minneapolis
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $18,000
Details:
In 2021, the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (ACCE) received one-time Federal recovery funding from the American Rescue Plan and has partnered with Springboard for the Arts, Juxtaposition Arts and Artspace to provide Business Support Services to creative organizations that have been economically impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic. The purpose of ACCE’s American Rescue Plan funded grant programing is to assist the creative sector’s recovery and to support the recovery of the creative workforce, with an emphasis on supporting the most impacted creative sector industries and Minneapolis communities.
The Creative Apprenticeship and Artist Driven Marketing grant opportunities will support rebuilding and improving organizational capacity to not only return to business or improve business outcomes, but to plan for the future. ACCE is committed to supporting the development and growth of the creative sector, and especially women and BIPOC creatives.
Applications are now open for:
- Creative Apprenticeship grants. Available to creative businesses and entrepreneurs, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations for capacity building, job creation and employment. Funding will support grantees in the design of a new apprenticeship program and onboard an apprentice into their business or organization for a 6-month period. The planning phase will be aided by professional counseling services from Springboard for the Arts, resulting in the design of an apprenticeship program.
- Artist Driven Marketing grants. Available to arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to design a marketing plan and implement initial elements of the plan. The planning phase will be aided by professional counseling services from Springboard for the Arts, resulting in a marketing plan for the grantee; The implementation phase will be initiated with professional marketing services provided by Juxtaposition Arts.
Funding Information
- Creative Apprenticeship Grants: $18,000
- Artist Driven Marketing Grants: $7,500
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are eligible to receive only one category of support.
- The following eligibility criteria is required of all applicants for this funding:
- All applicants must have a primary business address in Minneapolis.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate economic hardship due to the pandemic and must demonstrate a revenue or profit drop of at least 25% over the pandemic period of 2020 and 2021.
- Arts and cultural nonprofit organizations with a budget size of $400,000 or under are eligible to apply.
- Creative businesses and entrepreneurs with annual revenues of $200,000 or under are eligible to apply.
- Nonprofit social service organizations serving cultural communities with affiliated arts and culture divisions are eligible to apply but only if they can provide separate budget data for their arts and culture services for the pandemic period.
- Artist Entrepreneurs who have received Creative Response Funding in 2020, 2021 or 2022 are not eligible to apply (to ensure that limited resources benefit as many individuals and organizations as possible).
For more information, visit City of Minneapolis.
