Operating Grants (OpG) provide essentially unrestricted financial support for selected San José arts and culture organizations at various stages of development.
Donor Name: City of San Jose
State: California
City: San Jose
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/23/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
OpG levels are designed to result generally in a decreasing proportion of City cultural funding as organizations’ budgets grow. In all cases, OpG support represents a small fraction of a grantee’s finances.
The San José Office of Cultural Affairs is a division of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs, which is a part of the City Manager’s Office. The Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) awards grants to community-based organizations to enhance the cultural growth, resources, and vitality of San José.
- Invest in arts and cultural enterprises
- Foster successful festivals and events
- Support creative entrepreneurs and artists
- Build capacity of arts organizations
- Develop and sustain cultural venues
- Enhance the built environment
- Promote cultural tourism
- Increase participation in the arts
- Stimulate the creative economy
Goals
Operating Grants are intended to support the following general goals:
- A sustainable community of stable, debt-free arts and culture organizations that are responsibly governed, well managed, and adequately housed providing a large and diverse number of opportunities for residents and visitors to enjoy exhibits, performances, and other arts activities, employing professionals to achieve high standards of artistic quality;
- Enriched arts and cultural literacy among residents of all ages through arts education and outreach and opportunities for personal artistic expression and participation;
- Broad-based, community-wide participation in the arts resulting from a diversity of programming with accessibility to all people, regardless of income, background, and abilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The organization must be a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public benefit corporation in good standing at the time of application.
- The organization must have a governing body of at least five persons, a majority of whom must not be employees, the immediate family or spouses/domestic partners of employees of the organization.
- The organization must be based in San José as evidenced by its legal, administrative and program headquarters in San José.
For more information, visit City of San José.
