The Baltimore City Arts & Cultural Organizations (BCAC) Grant Program provides funding to key Baltimore City organizations that serve the citizens of Howard County.
Donor Name: Howard County Arts Council (HCAC)
State: Maryland
County: Howard County (MD)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/10/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
BCAC grants broaden opportunities for Howard County audiences, artists, and arts organizations and promote regionalism. While several of the organizations that are eligible for grants in this category are not arts organizations, the same criteria are used to judge their programs and services by substituting cultural or educational merit for artistic merit. At this time, only previous recipients of the Baltimore City Arts & Cultural Grant Program are eligible to apply to this program.
Purpose of the Program
- To foster excellence, diversity, and vitality in arts and cultural offerings for Howard County residents
- To broaden opportunities for Howard County audiences, artists and arts organizations and to promote regionalism
- To increase the availability of arts activities in Howard County
- To promote countywide awareness of arts resources and opportunities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organization must be incorporated as nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, in good standing with both the State and Federal governments
- Applicant organization must be incorporated as an arts or cultural organization as documented within your articles of incorporation, and whose primary purpose is producing or presenting through public programs and services
- Applicant organization must provide significant services to the citizens of Howard County.
- Applicant organization must be soundly managed and financially accountable, and may be asked to provide proof thereof
- Applicants’ activities must be open to the general public
- Applicant must comply with Title VI, Section 601, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which states that no persons on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination related to the arts
- Applicant must comply with Title IV, Section 1681, of the Education Amendments of 1972, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Section 6101, which prohibit discrimination on the basis of age or sex
- Applicant must comply with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 which states that no otherwise qualified person shall, solely by reason of his or her handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination related to the arts
- Applicant organizations must hold their activities in spaces accessible to the disabled. Also, activities must be altered to meet the needs of the visually and hearing impaired upon appropriate notification of need.
For more information, visit Howard County Arts Council.
