The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is currently seeking applications for its Quick grant program to support artists and arts organizations’ financial sustainability through professional development support.
Donor Name: Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
State: California
Cities: San Francisco, San José
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/15/2022
Grant Size: Up to $600
Details:
The Quick Grant program provides professional development funds to San Francisco Bay Area arts organizations and artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers in the state of California to enroll in workshops, attend conferences, and work with consultants, coaches, and mentors to build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial sustainability of an organization, arts practice, or area of cultural production.
Eligible Activities
- Professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills and strengthen the financial sustainability of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.
- Activities must begin after application notification.
- Examples include (but aren’t limited to):
- Conferences, convenings, festivals
- Business training or workshops
- Platform memberships
- One-on-one work with consultants, coaches, and mentors including a request to bring your practice or programming online
Ineligible Activities
- Activities focused on artistic development, presentation, or art teaching methods/techniques
- Requests to support overhead, general operating expenses, or lost income
- Activities that have already taken place or that will occur before application notifications are sent
Eligibility Criteria
The Quick Grant program is supported by a joint consortium of California arts funders. Eligibility criteria may therefore vary slightly by region. Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, cultural producers, and nonprofit arts organizations may apply if they meet the eligibility criteria for any of the Quick Grant program’s funding partners as follows:
- Artists, Creatives, Cultural Practitioners, & Cultural Producers
- Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers living in the state of California (demonstrated by resume); and/or
- Current San Francisco Arts Commission individual grantees.
- Nonprofit Arts Organizations
- Staff at a nonprofit arts organization in the city of San Francisco or the city of San José; and/or
- Staff of a current Grants for the Arts (GFTA) organizational grantee receiving operational (includes Arts & Parades) and/or Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund support.
For more information, visit Center for Cultural Innovation.
