The Central Coast Creative Corps Program is now accepting applications for $140K project-based grants for Community-Based Organizations in partnership with Artists.
Donor Name: San Benito County Arts Council
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $140,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Vision
The Central Coast Arts Coalition envisions a Central Coast where all communities thrive through artistic, creative, and innovative solutions for civic, historic, and cultural injustices.
The Central Coast Creative Corps program represents an intentional departure from standard grant and fellowship models to one of greater abundance. By investing in and resourcing labor, process, and relationship development as much as product, they create the foundation for a more lasting impact. Through this holistic lens, they are committed to supporting Community Partners through multiple channels; funding for artist employment, compensation for administration, a budget for materials, an extended timeline, and ongoing opportunities for cohort-building and professional development.
This program is designed to:
- Develop new models for mutually-beneficial collaborations between Community Partners and Artists
- Deepen Community Partners’ ability to work for and with communities and constituents
- Fund creative outreach and engagement to facilitate dialogue, interrupt systems, and identify new solutions
- Increase community awareness of, and access to, opportunities and resources
- Support new platforms for communities to define their needs and help to co-develop response strategies
- Improve health outcomes, resilience in the face of climate change and natural disasters, and social justice and equity across communities throughout the region
- Foster solidarity between diverse community leaders, including artistic, cultural, civic and social leaders
- Offer first-hand education and experience of Artists’ unique skills as problem-solvers and trusted community messengers
Funding Information
- Grantees will receive a total award of $140,000 to hire an artist or artist collective to develop media, outreach, and engagement initiatives centered on one or more of the following themes:
- Public Health awareness messages to stop the spread of COVID-19
- Climate Impact public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery
- Civic Engagement including election participation
- Social Justice and community engagement
- Of the funding award, $100,000 is to be disbursed as artist compensation for full-time or full-time contract equivalent work with the organization; $20,000 is to be allocated for supplies, space rental, media buys, compensation, etc.; and up to $20,000 may be used by the grantee organization for program administration.
- Community Partners are invited to apply for grant funding to engage an artist, or individual artist collective, for a one-year project from September 2023 to August 2024.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible to serve as a Community Partner, applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- 501(c)(3) organization as applicant or fiscal sponsor – Nongovernmental applicant organizations must demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
- Local government – A unit of municipal or county government; or a tribal government.
- Applicant organizations using fiscal sponsors – An applicant organization that is without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding. For-profit businesses and individuals may not use a fiscal sponsor to apply for CAC organizational grants. Types of applicant organizations eligible to apply using a fiscal sponsor include, but are not limited to artist collectives, guilds, an501(c)(6) organizations.
- A Letter of Agreement between the fiscal sponsor and the applicant organization must be signed by a representative from both parties and submitted with the application. A blank signature field will not be accepted. If a grant is awarded, the fiscal sponsor becomes the legal contract holder with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture.
- A fiscal sponsor change is not permissible during the Grant Activity Period, except extenuating circumstances based on staff assessment.
- Fiscal sponsors must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
- Have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in community programming and/or services prior to the application deadline
- Operate a principal place of service/business in the Central Coast Creative Corps Region: Santa Cruz County, Monterey County, San Benito County, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, or Ventura County
For more information, visit SBCAC.
