The Special Project Grant program is intended to spark innovation and catalyze transformative artistic endeavors across Essex County.
Donor Name: Eau Claire Community Foundation (ECCF)
State: Massachusetts
County: Essex County (MA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
By funding projects that push boundaries and explore new possibilities, the Special Projects Grants play a crucial role in advancing CCI’s mission to elevate arts and culture as essential components of community life, economic vitality, and collective well-being.
Special Project funding in the range of $2K-5K through Essex County Community Foundation’s (ECCF) Creative County Initiative (CCI) is available for a uniquely innovative aspect of an overall program within these general categories:
- Advancement of cultural planning
- Diversity, equity, inclusion and access
- Public art or creative placemaking
- Arts leadership
- Creative space development
- Organizational capacity building.
Criteria
- Grantees may request technical, promotional, and partnership support from ECCF/Creative County throughout the course of the project.
- Grantees will be expected to:
- Participate in periodic site visits or communications with Creative County Program Director.
- Utilize the CreativeCounty.org communications portal, social media, and other media outlets as needed.
- Include ECCF/Creative County in public communications when promoting the grant-funded project.
- Engage in a final reporting process to reflect on project achievements, lessons learned, how individual artist capacity was served, and visual documentation of the project.
- Grantees will be strongly encouraged to participate in Creative County-sponsored trainings and convenings as relevant to grantee partners. Such trainings and convenings are provided as a resource intended to build grantee capacity for self-sustainability.
For more information, visit ECCF.
