The JUMP StArts program supports arts and culture education, apprenticeship and/or mentorship via artists-in-residence programs for system-engaged, system-impacted, and/or at-promise youth and young people through the age of 24. Activities may take place during or outside of traditional school hours at state- or county-operated correctional facilities; public settings; online; and at arts and culture venues, community centers, school sites, youth centers, and intergenerational settings.
Donor Name: California Arts Council
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/09/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Projects should prioritize system-engaged, system-impacted, and/or at-promise youth or youth who are especially vulnerable to be impacted by or engaged in the justice system, and the project should be tailored specifically to respond to their needs.
The JUMP StArts program has two project grant strands. Organizations may apply for and receive funding for projects in one strand:
- JUMP StArts – State Facilities
- JUMP StArts – Community Spaces and/or County Facilities
Funding Information
Applicant organizations can request:
- $2,500 for a planning grant
- Up to $50,000 for a full project grant
- Up to $52,500 for a planning and project grant if each request is in different funding strand: Community Spaces and/or County Facilities and State Facilities
Grant Activity Period:
July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023
Project Requirements
- Applicant organization must develop and complete a project addressing the program’s purpose to be completed by the end of the Grant Activity Period. The project description must include an anticipated timeline for completion within the Grant Activity Period.
- Project planning and completion must reflect a commitment to include and represent the communities to be served; this includes youth, young adults, and/or individuals who were previously systemimpacted, system-engaged, or at-promise input.
- The project plan must describe activities, partnership responsibilities, intended artistic and youth development outcomes, and documentation strategies.
- The project design must be human-centered, provide safe, healthy, and appropriate learning environments for youth and young people.
- The project must include professional development training for teaching staff in both facility protocols and healing and/or traumainformed practice.
- Project team members to be compensated and supported by this grant must show relevant experience and be based in California.
- Rates of compensation for individual California teaching artists and cultural practitioners to be supported by this grant must be appropriate to experience and comparable to fees for other local skilled workers.
- Individuals to be compensated by this grant may not be full-time students in a degree program directly related to any type of compensation/credit for this project.
- All CAC-funded programs, services, information, and facilities where funded activities take place, including online spaces, must be accessible for individuals with disabilities, including but not limited to individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deaf Blind, have difficulty speaking, have a physical disability, visual disability, developmental disability, learning disability, mental illness, or chronic illness.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must comply with the requirements below. All applications must include the listed items at the time of submission in order to be considered for funding.
- Racial equity statement – Description of the organization’s commitment to equitable policies and culture.
- California-based – Documentation of having a principal place of business in California.
- Arts programming – Applicants must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
- 501(c)(3) organization as applicant or fiscal sponsor – Nongovernmental (municipal, county, or tribal) 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.
- Fiscal sponsors – An applicant organization without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding.
- The fiscal sponsor will provide the fiscal oversight and administrative services needed to complete the grant.
- 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 California Arts Council.
- A fiscal sponsor change is not permissible during the Grant Activity Period, with rare exceptions.
- Fiscal sponsors must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline. (Acting as a fiscal sponsor to arts and cultural organizations is considered an arts service.) See additional information on the use of CAC fiscal sponsors.
- Certificate of good standing – Nonprofit organizations and fiscal sponsors (if applicable) must have “active status” with the California Secretary of State (SOS) showing evidence of “good standing” at the time of application. You can verify your organization’s status by conducting a search using the SOS online Business Search tool. An indication of “active” (versus “suspended,” “dissolved,” “cancelled,” etc.) confirms that your nonprofit corporation exists, is authorized to conduct business in the State of California, has met all licensing and 2022 CAC JUMP StArts Grant corporation requirements, and has not received a suspension from the Franchise TaxBoard.
For more information, visit JUMP StArts.
