Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire regrants funds from the Mass Cultural Council to individuals and organizations for projects in the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences.
Donor Name: Mass Cultural Council
State: Massachusetts
Towns: Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Hancock, Lanesborough, New Ashford, North Adams, Monroe, Savoy & Williamstown
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/17/2022
Grant Size: $1,000
Details:
The Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire makes grants available to:
- Individuals and organizations for project grants that have a community benefit
- schools and other non-profit educational entities
- one individual artist, with the goal of supporting an eventual public exhibition
Eleven municipalities are represented. These municipalities are: Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Hancock, Lanesborough, New Ashford, North Adams, Monroe, Savoy & Williamstown.
When evaluating grants, the Council takes into account the challenges of creating community in their region, due to transportation and other rural & demographic issues. Also:
- Grant proposals with digital content are accepted, but will be evaluated on the public benefit they bring to their 11 communities, as well as the grantee’s connection to these communities.
- Grants which solely lead to personal commercial gain are not supported
- They ask council members to refrain from a vote for any application with which they have any connection
- They aim to at least partially fund all proposals which receive strong scoring
In addition to meeting the state criteria, the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire requires the following:
- If the applicant doesn’t reside in one of their 11 towns, the project must take place within one of their towns or be accessible remotely.
Venue invitation letters are required in two instances::
- If the applicant does not reside in the CCNB area, the application must contain a venue invitation letter signed by a representative from the local hosting venue, preferably on letterhead stationery, confirming that the event will take place at that venue. Phone and email contact information must be included.
- If the applicant is not the hosting venue, but is using the venue for the project.
- If a venue (school, library, theater, etc) is organizing and completing the project, no venue confirmation letter is needed.
- Venues should be handicap accessible.
- If a project is digital in delivery, no venue letter is needed.
Funding Information
In addition, one or more individual artist is awarded $1,000 each year.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications for an individual artist award are invited from individual artists. The award may support any expense that enhances the artist’s ability to create his/her/ their work such as supplies, materials, equipment, rent, travel, residencies, etc.
Artists are chosen based on the excellence of the artist’s work as evidenced by samples of recent work submitted as part of the application as well as the potential of the project to advance the artist’s work. Relevance to their communities is often considered, but is not a requirement.
For more information, visit Mass Cultural Council.
