The Arts and Culture Neighborhood Recovery Program is a City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS)-funded program to provide grants for arts and cultural events/activations in neighborhoods through community-based Lead Organizations.
Donor Name: Historic South Downtown
State: Washington
City: Seattle
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $25,000
Details:
Cultural events, experiences, and spaces provide the reason for people to gather, share identify, and build community which are ever more critically important during the current COVID pandemic and recovery process. This program seeks to support recovery efforts through collaboration, equity, resiliency, and safety in alignment with the City of Seattle’s vision of One Seattle.
These activations/events seek to reach underserved communities and audiences and those most impacted by COVID-19, in particular, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), low-income, and under-served communities. Activations/events should seek to rebuild and assist in arts and culture recovery; events do not need to be entirely new events.
Uses of Funds
Funds May Be Used For:
- Costs directly related to event/activation (staffing, equipment rental, paying performers, materials, etc.)
- Examples of public activations or events:
- A series of performances at an indoor or outdoor venue
- Temporary public art or lighting (permit/approval must be secured prior to award)
- Festivals, fairs, or public events (funds may be targeted for specific part of a larger event)
- Art exhibits
- Art or cultural workshops or classes
Funding Information
- Awards will be made to successful applicants from $10,000 to $25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants shall be either:
- Non-profit organizations (arts and culture, and others) focused on events/activations within the designated neighborhood or community.
- Small businesses with a City of Seattle business license, however, a small business who is a sole proprietor can apply but must collaborate with other individual artists or others for the proposed project.
- For the purposes of this grant, “small business” is defined by RCW 39.26.010(22) as: an in-state business, including a sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity, that: (a) Certifies, under penalty of perjury, that it is owned and operated independently from all other businesses and has either: (i) Fifty or fewer employees; or (ii) A gross revenue of less than seven million dollars annually as reported on its federal income tax return or its return filed with the department of revenue over the previous three consecutive years; or (b) Is certified with the office of women and minority business enterprises under chapter 39.19 RCW.
- Applicants should have a history and track record of direct connection to the arts and cultural life of Pioneer Square, the CID or both neighborhoods.
- Applicants do not need to be located within the boundaries of Pioneer Square or the CID (Current district maps C-ID and Pioneer Square). However, the event supported by ARTS Neighborhood Recovery Grant must occur within one or both communities.
- Activations/events must be broadly advertised and accessible to the public. Free event admission is preferred, or using a low-cost or sliding fee scale, and events should be accessible to those with a variety of physical capabilities.
- Applicants must have capacity to successfully manage the proposed project, prepare regular reporting, and complete final reports due no later than September 8, 2023.
- Applicants must be either a non-profit organization or have an active fiscal sponsorship agreement. Learn more about fiscal sponsorships.
- All events shall provide event liability insurance and name Pioneer Square Chinatown International CPDA and City of Seattle as additionally insured.
- Awarded programs will be required to follow all current Federal, State, County, and City COVID-19 mandates and protocols. More information and in other languages are available on the City of Seattle COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement website.
- Applicants can apply to more than one Lead Organization for this city-wide program. However, successful applicants may receive funding from only one Lead Organization (see list of other Lead Organizations at end of this document).
For more information, visit Historic South Downtown.
