Central Coast Creative Corps is a new grant opportunity funded by the California Arts Council.
Donor Name: California Arts Council
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The goal of the Central Coast Creative Corps is to invest in artists across disciplines to partner with nonprofits, government agencies, and tribal governments to collaboratively advance civic engagement, public health, social justice, and climate resilience across the Central Coast. Aiming to uplift the creative workforce and improve community health outcomes, the Central Coast Creative Corps Program will fund 23 working partnerships between community-based organizations and local artists, creative workers, or culture bearers for a one-year duration from September 2023 – August 2024.
This program is designed to:
- Develop new models for mutually-beneficial collaborations between Community Partners and Artists
- Deepen Community Partners’ ability to work for and with communities and constituents
- Fund creative outreach and engagement to facilitate dialogue, interrupt systems, and identify new solutions
- Increase community awareness of, and access to, opportunities and resources
- Support new platforms for communities to define their needs and help to co-develop response strategies
- Improve health outcomes, resilience in the face of climate change and natural disasters, and social justice and equity across communities throughout the region
- Foster solidarity between diverse community leaders, including artistic, cultural, civic and social leaders
- Offer first-hand education and experience of Artists’ unique skills as problem-solvers and trusted community messengers.
Funding Information
The grant will provide $140,000 to 23 year-long projects. $100,000 of each grant goes directly to an artist collaborating with a community-based organization.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to serve as a Community Partner, applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- 501(c)(3) organization as applicant or fiscal sponsor – Nongovernmental applicant organizations must demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
- Local government – A unit of municipal or county government; or a tribal government.
- Applicant organizations using fiscal sponsors – An applicant organization that is without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding. For-profit businesses and individuals may not use a fiscal sponsor to apply for CAC organizational grants. Types of applicant organizations eligible to apply using a fiscal sponsor include, but are not limited to artist collectives, guilds, and 501(c)(6) organizations. ○ A Letter of Agreement between the fiscal sponsor and the applicant organization must be signed by a representative from both parties and submitted with the application. A blank signature field will not be accepted. If a grant is awarded, the fiscal sponsor becomes the legal contract holder with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture. ○ A fiscal sponsor change is not permissible during the Grant Activity Period, except in extenuating circumstances based on staff assessment. ○ Fiscal sponsors must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
- Have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in community programming and/or services prior to the application deadline
- Operate a principal place of service/business in the Central Coast Creative Corps Region: Santa Cruz County, Monterey County, San Benito County, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, or Ventura County
- Work in one of the 4 issue areas outlined above by the California Arts Council for the Central Coast Creative Corps Program.
- Serve or commit to increase service levels to one or more communities that fall in the lowest quartile of the California Healthy Places Index as denoted on the Central Coast Arts Coalition’s Map OR serve a population that has been systematically excluded from accessing, or unable to receive equitable access, to health-supportive resources such as those identified by the HPI drivers.
For more information, visit Central Coast Creative Corps.
