Visit Canton in partnership with Arts in Stark will award Cultural Tourism Grants up to $20,000 to each approved marketing or event initiative.
Donor Name: Visit Canton
State: Ohio
City: Canton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/21/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Details:
Grants will be awarded for the purpose of generating increased visitation and economic impact for the region through the support of arts & culture events and marketing initiatives. The initiatives must encompass visual arts, museums, performing arts, theatres, attractions, authentic historic and cultural places, and events to encounter traditions, history, music, and art.
Cultural tourism is defined as marketing initiatives and events that encompass visual arts, museums, performing arts, theatres, attractions, authentic historic and cultural places, and events to encounter traditions, history, music and art.
Funding Information
Applicants can apply for Cultural Tourism Grants up to $20,000, per requested project.
The grant process will include:
- Visit Canton in partnership with ArtsinStark will facilitate the granting process of the Review Committee.
- The Review Committee will review and approve or reject applications for Cultural Tourism Grants.
- Visit Canton & ArtsInStark can award partial funding of the grantee’s request based on the criteria met and presented in the submission.
- Visit Canton & ArtsInStark may request additional information pertaining the grant submission to help determine funding.
- If the Cultural Tourism Grant is approved for funding, Visit Canton will distribute these funds directly to the recipient organization.
Each proposal for a Cultural Tourism Grant must include or satisfy the following criteria:
- Name and dates of project or event for which the Cultural Tourism Grant will be used (the “Grant Project”);
- Applicant organization’s name and FEIN #;
- Applicant organization’s phone, mailing address, email and website;
- Name of the person filling out the application on behalf of the applicant organization;
- Amount of Cultural Tourism Grant funding requested;
- A description of the Grant Project;
- Detailed promotional budget for the Grant Project;
- Operational budget for the Grant Project;
- Estimated attendance from both spectators and participants at or with the Grant Project;
- Media and public relations plan for the Grant Project;
- Tracking methods to plan to calculate ROI from the Cultural Tourism Grant received;
- A representation that the Grant project will be available to the public and have broad appeal that would interest guests from outside the Stark County region;
- The requirement that Grants Project must not be solely dependent on the Cultural Tourism Grant funding;
- The requirement that to submit a detailed summary of all expenditures and how all Cultural Tourism Grant funds were invested, including, but not limited to work orders, invoices, and receipts.
- The requirement to submit a detailed ROI report that tracks visitation numbers, location of visitors (zip code tracking), economic impact to the recipient organization and estimated impact to the Stark County community.
- Economic Impact shall be calculated on all projects based on attendance with a day trip visitor having the value of $116 per visitor and an overnight guest having the value of $370 per visitor. This formula represents the values as determined by Tourism Ohio, a division of the Ohio Department of Development. Unless documentation is presented all visitors within a 60-mile radius of Stark County shall be calculated as a day-visitor. Visitors from outside of the 60-mile shall be calculated as an overnight visitor.
For more information, visit Cultural Tourism Grant.
