The Term Arts Education Project Grant is designed to support arts education programs for Preschool (3k-4k) and/or K-12 students during the school term (including beyond the school day), through both traditional and non-traditional providers.
Donor Name: South Carolina Arts Commission
State: South Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/14/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
This grant supports quality arts education programs for preschool (3k- 4k) and/or K-12 students during the school term (including beyond the school day), through both traditional providers (arts organizations) and other organizations (e.g., social service, health, community, education) that utilize the arts to meet the educational, developmental, and social needs of preschool (3k-4k) and/or K-12 students. This grant supports projects occurring during the school term 2025-2026. For the purposes of this grant, a term is defined as an academic year.
Activities should:
- Expand student access to arts education opportunities; and
- Complement, augment, or advance standards-based arts instruction or arts integration aligned with school curriculum; and
- Be focused on or include significant components of quality instruction and/or experiences in the visual arts, performing arts, media arts, design arts, folk and traditional arts, and/or creative writing; and
- Address South Carolina’s 2017 College and Career Ready Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Proficiency.
- If applying for or including preschool programming, address South Carolina’s Profile of the Ready Kindergartener.
Funding Priorities
This funding category is highly competitive.
- Priority will be given to:
- Proposed activities specifically serving students in one or more Opportunity Initiative counties, targeted for special attention by SCAC; and/or
- Applicant organizations located within an Opportunity Initiative county.
- SCAC Opportunity Initiative Counties:
- Allendale, Bamberg, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clarendon, Dillon, Edgefield, Hampton, Jasper, Laurens, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Saluda, Williamsburg.
- Priority will be given to projects or programs which:
- Include partnerships between organizations, schools, and/or other entities to meet preschool (3k-4k) and/or K-12 educational goals through the arts; and/or
- Serve specific student populations, including those living in rural or high-poverty areas.
Funding Information
Up to $15,000.
Grant Period
All projects must be implemented during the normal school terms of July 1, 2025 through May 15, 2026.
Uses of Funds
Grant funds should supplement (add to) not supplant (replace) your current arts programming budget. Grant funds should allow for project funding that is BEYOND your current budget. Grant funds should NOT REPLACE your current budget so that it can be reallocated.
- Allowable Expenses:
- Salaries and professional expenses directly related to the planning and implementation of your proposed project.
- Artists to facilitate programs or projects.
- Materials, equipment, and or supplies related to your proposed project.
- Scholarships for students to attend or participate in proposed projects.
- Providing professional learning for educators, artists, and/or instructors.
- Indirect costs up to 10% of the total grant award.
- Transportation and admission to arts experiences for students.
- Examples of eligible in-school and after-school activities include, but are not limited to:
- Workshops.
- Artist residencies.
- Performances.
- Exhibitions.
- Acquisition of critical equipment or supplies.
- Program planning.
- Professional learning for educators, instructors, artists and/or administrators.
- Camps (non-summer camps).
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be
- A college or university; OR
- A unit of state or local government; OR
- A nonprofit community-based organization (arts or non-arts)
- currently registered as a charity with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office Note: Applicants who are exempt from this registration must upload their registration exemption approval.
- reflecting S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documents with federal tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service OR
- applying through a tax-exempt fiscal agent/receiver organization. Note: Applicants who are applying through a fiscal agent/receiver must submit a letter outlining the working relationship and responsibilities of both parties.
- In accordance with federal government policy, all organizations – including (but not limited to) private schools, public school districts, government entities, and nonprofit organizations – must provide a valid UEI number* to receive an SCAC grant award.
- Note: If an applicant organization is using a fiscal agent/receiver, separate UEI numbers must be provided for both the applicant organization and the fiscal agent/receiver. Exceptions to separate UEI numbers are organizations run by a local government or a school district.
- Applicants who have been awarded a Term Arts Education Project Grant for two (2) years of funding (Term 2024/20245 and Term 2025/2026) are NOT eligible to apply in the current grant cycle.
- Schools and school districts are not eligible.
- Individual artists are not eligible.
For more information, visit SCAC.
