The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is launching Creative Recovery LA!
Donor Name: Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $14.2 million
Details:
Creative Recovery LA is a new grant initiative to address pandemic impacts on the arts and the creative economy, one of the most economically significant and hardest-hit sectors, while leveraging the unique capacity of arts and culture to catalyze their region’s economic recovery, civic connectivity, and community wellbeing.
Through this initiative the Department of Arts and Culture will award over $26 million in American Rescue Plan funds to deliver financial relief and recovery to the LA County nonprofit arts and culture sector.
Creative Recovery LA includes five grant opportunities:
- Arts Relief and Recovery Grant
- Creative Works and Jobs for Artists Grant
- Reopening Culture, Tourism, and Marketing Grant
- Creative Career Pathways for Youth Grant
- Arts for Justice-Involved Youth Grant
What can funding be used for
Funding can support costs directly associated with:
- Financially sustaining operations (payroll, rent, technical assistance, safe reopening, etc.)
- Providing arts programs and cultural services to communities
- Hiring and retaining staff, artists, and creative workers
- Marketing and promoting arts and culture programs
- Creative career pathways and training programs for underrepresented youth
- Serving justice and systems impacted youth through the arts
Funding Information
- Relief + Recovery Grant: 14.2M
- Reopening Culture, Tourism + Marketing Grant: 1.7M
- Creative Works + Jobs for Artists Grant: 4.7M
- Creative Career Pathways for Youth Grant: 3M
- Arts for Justice Involved Youth Grant: 2.8M
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations must meet all requirements below to be eligible to apply to any of the five grant programs in Creative Recovery LA. Organizations that are eligible to apply are:
- Nonprofit arts organizations with 501(c)(3) status and/or that possess Model A fiscal sponsorship. A nonprofit arts organization is defined as an organization with a primary mission to provide arts programming, as demonstrated by more than 50% of the applicant organization’s budget devoted to arts programming.
- Nonprofit non-arts organizations with 501(c)(3) status and/or that possess Model A fiscal sponsorship* that provide arts and culture programming. A nonprofit non-arts organization is defined as an organization with a primary mission to provide services other than arts programming, as demonstrated by more than 50% of the applicant organization budget devoted to non-arts related programming and services, including social service, health and human services agencies and social justice organizations. Organizations must provide their most recent arts and culture programming budget.
- Indigenous-serving organizations with 501(c)(3) status and/or that possess Model A fiscal sponsorship that provide arts and culture or cultural heritage community programming. An Indigenous-serving organization is defined as an organization with a primary mission to serve Native or Indigenous communities as further reflected in its governance, leadership, and/or community served.
For more information, visit Creative Recovery LA.
