The Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana is seeking applications for its Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Grant Program to provide a system for funding arts and cultural projects.
Donor Name: Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana
State: Louisiana
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/04/2022
Size of the grant: $500-$5000
Grant duration: 1 year
Detail:
Funded annually by the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, this grant program ensures a high quality of programming and events for the area to encourage the continued growth of the arts in their community through a competitive grant process. As applicants compete only with other organizations in the parish, decisions about cultural priorities are made locally.
The goals of the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Grant Program are to:
- Strengthen arts organizations
- Encourage professional artists to undertake projects that have meaningful community involvement and build audiences for the arts
- Encourage a variety of nonprofit organizations to sponsor arts and cultural activities including classical, contemporary, and traditional arts in eight disciplines
- Leverage additional local support for the arts
- Provide arts activities to groups which have had limited arts experiences
- Provide funding for the arts and cultural activities that are open to the public
Funding Information
- Grant request is $500 minimum and $5000 maximum per application
- The grant activity period will be fixed from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must be domiciled within Calcasieu Parish. Applicants may not apply for projects that will occur outside of Calcasieu Parish. The official domicile is the applying organization’s official address registered Louisiana Secretary of State and is indicated on the Certificate of Incorporation. All nonprofit organizations must be in good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State.
- Louisiana nonprofit tax-exempt organizations. Organizations without nonprofit tax-exempt status from the IRS must be registered as a nonprofit corporation with the Louisiana Secretary of State.
- Public or private schools and school boards. Each school within a school system is considered a separate entity.
- Colleges of universities sponsoring activities (each university department is considered a separate entity) intended for community participation (not academic, credit-producing, or curriculum-oriented projects). Such activities must provide significant access and the probability of significant attendance by the public.
- Individuals and organizations lacking the legal status to be an applicant may apply by using an eligible nonprofit organization as a fiscal agent for projects that directly benefits the community and includes community participation. This is not a fellowship or award of merit. The fiscal agent assumes legal and financial responsibility.
For more information, visit Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Grant.
