Arts in Education Collaboration (AIEC) is a grant program that provides up to $6,000 to arts organizations, schools, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to build collaborations and community partnerships in order to increase access to high quality, sustained arts education for K-12 students in North Dakota.
Donor Name: North Dakota Council on the Arts
State: North Dakota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Arts in Education Collaboration (AIEC) grant program includes collaborations between teachers or departments within a school, between multiple schools within a district, between multiple rural school districts, or between a school and a community arts resource nonprofit organization or for-profit organization. Projects may take place in school during regular school hours, after school, during summer sessions, or during professional development in-service workshops.
Program Goals
- North Dakota school and district leadership, arts organizations, and community members are focused on providing students and teachers with increased access to K-12 arts education and implementing a vision of high quality, sustainable arts education programming
- Encourage, support, and strengthen arts education partnerships
- Support initiatives for working toward long-term, self-sustaining, participatory, and meaningful arts education experiences for students.
Funding Information
- Minimum award request: $2,500
- Maximum award request: May not exceed $6,000 or 50% of the total project cost, whichever is less.
Grants Period
July 1, 2025 – April 30, 2026.
Uses of funds
- Fees for teaching artists (including travel expenses)
- Fees for an arts education consultant or provider of professional development (including travel expenses for the consultant)
- Fee for a project coordinator
- Administrative fees, including printing costs for lesson plans or other documents, and other administrative costs related to project planning and delivery. Administrative fees may not exceed 10% of the total requested amount.
- Fees for professional performing arts groups, student tickets, and transportation expenses for exhibitions and performances when there is a clear connection to the overall arts learning plan. Funds cannot be used to support stand-alone field trips or assemblies.
- Materials and supplies required for lesson/project implementation
- Fees for performance or exhibition space.
Eligibility Criteria
A North Dakota school district, government agency, or nonprofit organization is eligible to apply and serve as the lead partner and/or fiscal agent for the grant. Applicants must be one of the following:
- Federally tax-exempt nonprofit arts organization
- Federally tax-exempt non-arts nonprofit organization – Arts budgets must be isolated from the larger entity’s budget.
- Public entity such as a unit of state, local, or tribal government
- Public and private schools
All Applicants Must:
- Be physically located in North Dakota
- Have the majority of arts programming, services, or activities take place in North Dakota
- Primarily serve and engage North Dakota audiences and participants
- Be the organization that will receive the funds, not a fiscally sponsored group.
For more information, visit NDCA.
