The Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture is now accepting applications for its Capital Region Creative Corps Mid-Size Grant Program.
Donor Name: Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture
State: California
County: Alpine County (CA), El Dorado County (CA), Sacramento County (CA), Solano County (CA) and Yolo County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $117,000
Details:
The California Creative Corps is a pilot grant program developed by the California Arts Council (CAC) to engage artists to increase:
- Public health awareness to stop the spread of COVID-19;
- Public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery;
- Civic engagement including election participation; and
- Social justice and community engagement.
This program is designed to be a media outreach and engagement campaign focusing on the four target topics above. It is also an economic and workforce development program, demonstrating how artists from multiple disciplines can be instrumental in the development and implementation of critical campaigns to address their most pressing community issues.
Funding Information
20 grants of $117,000 to nonprofit organizations, collaborative, and units of local or tribal government, and nonprofit agencies working in any of the four target areas.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizational Type: (one of the following)
- Operate as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization and have been in operation since January 1, 2022. Non-profit organizations may be either arts and cultural organizations or social service, health-centered, environmentally-centered, social justice, or community-focused organizations.
- Operate as an artist or cultural collective with evidence of current nonprofit fiscal sponsorship and evidence that they have been working as a collective prior to the application deadline. (A fiscal sponsor change is not permissible during the grant period. Fiscal sponsors must have a minimum two-year history prior to the application deadline and provide proof of current status, verified by agencies listed above).
- Operate as an arts-based unit of municipal or county government.
- Operate as a unit of tribal government
- Maintain business operations or physical facilities in one of the five capital region counties.
For more information, visit SOAC.
