The South Arts is seeking applications for its 2025 Cross-Sector Impact Grants.
Donor Name: South Arts
State: Georgia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Cross-Sector Impact Grants are open to all art forms for partnership projects taking place in South Arts’ nine-state region. For FY24, eligible projects will continue to feature “Arts & …”, for example, arts and the military, arts and equity, arts and aging, arts and community revitalization. Applicants may be organizations, units of government, higher educational institutions, or artists.
South Arts’ mission is advancing Southern vitality through the arts. This program addresses two of South Arts’ strategic goals:
- Connect artists and arts professionals in the South to resources that will increase opportunities for success within and outside the region
- Advance impactful arts-based programs that recognize and address trends and evolving needs of a wide range of communities in the South
Project Requirement
Projects must utilize the arts as a tool in creative approaches to address and advance an issue that is of importance in their community. Projects should also establish or advance relationships across at least two different sectors, one being in the arts.
- Arts disciplines may include, but are not limited to:
- Performing arts, including dance, music, theater, musical theater, opera
- Literary arts, including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry
- Visual arts, including craft, drawing, experimental, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media
- Film or media
- Traditional and folk arts, including music, craft, storytelling, dance; or
- Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artforms.
- Community impact areas may include, but are not limited to:
- Education, including literacy, youth development
- Environment, including sustainability, weather impact
- Health and human services, including aging, prisons and rehabilitation, military
- Infrastructure, including housing, community revitalization, food and nutrition or
- Social justice, including immigration, community activation, equity and accessibility.
Funding Information
These grants of up to $15,000
Project Period
January 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026.
Eligibility Requirements
The following is a top-level list of the main eligibility requirements necessary to be considered for a Cross-Sector Impact Grant.
- Two partners are required (one from the arts sector and one from the non-arts sector) – both partners must be located/reside in South Arts’ nine-state region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Tennessee)
- A minimum of one of the two partners must be a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, an official unit of local, county, or state government (including an institution of higher education), or a federally recognized tribal community that has a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
- Provide a 1:2 match
Partnership Eligibility
Examples of eligible partnerships include:
- A non-profit arts organization or unit of government and a non-profit organization or unit of government from a non-arts sector
- An individual artist or ensemble and a non-profit organization or unit of government from a non-arts sector
- A non-profit arts organization or unit of government and an organization from a non-arts sector
- A university arts department and an organization from a non-arts sector
Ineligibility
Examples of ineligible partnerships include:
- An artist and/or arts organization without a non-arts partner
- A university department partnering with another university department
For more information, visit South Arts.
