The Festivals Program provides funding and resources designed to help festival programmers meet the needs of producing, promoting, and developing festival audiences.
Donor Name: Mass Cultural Council
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,500
Grant Duration: 6 months
Details:
Program Goals
The goals of the Festivals Program are to:
- Celebrate the arts, humanities, and sciences through public programming
- Create a sense of place
- Offer diverse arts and cultural experiences
- Support Massachusetts artists and those working in the humanities and interpretive sciences
- Showcase the Commonwealth’s geographic, artistic, and cultural diversity
Funding Information
The Council is proud to offer increased award amounts (from $500 in FY21 to $1,500 in FY22).
Grant Period
March 1 – August 31, 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply for Festival funding:
- A Massachusetts-based non-profit organization in good standing with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts municipal entities such as Local Cultural Councils, public libraries, recreational departments, etc. - Applicants using a fiscal agent: Massachusetts based unincorporated group/association with a non-profit objective, or a Massachusetts based corporation in the process of obtaining a 501(c)3 designation. Fiscal agents can either be municipal entities or non-profit entities incorporated in Massachusetts or registered as a foreign corporation doing business in Massachusetts.
For more information, visit Festivals Program.
