The Cultural Vitality Grant supports programs offering hands-on arts and cultural experiences for area children.
Donor Name: Hampton Roads Community Foundation
State: Virginia
County: Accomack County (VA), Isle of Wight County (VA), Northampton County (VA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
They believe the educational, social and emotional well-being of youth can be positively influenced through arts and culture programs. The goal is to help the educational, social or emotional well-being of youth through arts and culture. Programs should be available to all area youth regardless of ability to pay. They should strive to increase participation of youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Grant applicants should offer meaningful arts and cultural experiences that engage area youth in hands-on activities such as:
- Gaining skills in visual, musical or creative expression through the written word or performing arts
- Participation in visual or performing arts.
Grant proposals for program funding should address one or more of these outcomes:
- Children and youth demonstrate improved academic performance.
- Children and youth decrease occurrence of absenteeism.
- Children and youth display increased self-worth.
- Children and youth decrease engagement in risky and problem behaviors.
Eligibility Criteria
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation welcomes grant applications from 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organizations serving residents of South Hampton Roads, including those in:
- Chesapeake
- Eastern Shore of Virginia (Accomack and Northampton counties)
- Franklin
- Isle of Wight County
- Norfolk
- Portsmouth
- Suffolk
- Virginia Beach.
For more information, visit HRCF.
