The City of San Diego is seeking applications for the Impact Program Funding.
Donor Name: City of San Diego
State: California
City: San Diego
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The City of San Diego (City) advances and drives an equitable and inclusive creative economy and cultural ecosystem by investing in the work of artists and creatives, and the institutions and systems that amplify creative work and experiences; cultivating local participation and access; and advancing San Diego as a global city.
The City acknowledges that many artists and organizations are hard at work between and often outside traditional systems of arts and culture. Transforming the future of the city for all requires new models for creative change-making in and through the arts. Many artists and organizations can work across disciplines and sectors to forge new paths o transformation the arts, cultural and creative sectors, and therein, impact the very communities they serve in more meaningful, sustained ways.
For this Impact cycle, the City is calling on artists and organizations, a.k.a. changemakers, to submit ideas with transformative potential. Impact invites visionary organizations and mission-driven artists that work within, across, or in a manner related to one or more of Impact’s focus areas.
Focus Areas
Importantly, the City is looking for San Diego organizations and artists doing unique work based in, reflective of, and relevant to San Diego-designated Communities of Concern or San Diego Promise Zone, and have the commitment and capacity to work with a community(ies) to innovate in one or more of the three focus areas:
- Arts + Heritage: Your project works to sustain and innovate living traditional or folk-art practices and cultural knowledge to ensure they remain vibrant and visible parts of community life
- Arts + Sustainability: Your project promotes courageous experimentation while contributing to the sustainability of the arts sector by proposing new ways of working, new outcomes for communities, and supportive outcomes for artists (i.e., financial, beyond financial)
- Arts + Just City: Your project builds innovative arts or cultural pathways toward a more just city, with focus on local expertise and testing new ideas to address local community opportunities or challenges.
Funding Information
In the 2024-2025 (January 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025), the City through Impact will support organizations and artists working with communities to help coco-create new ideas that create change. The City will award up to 10 collaborations with phased of approximately $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Collaborations of organizations and artists applying for funding must designate a lead applicant who will submit an application on behalf of the collaborative partnership. The lead applicant should be the artist or organization that has the responsibility for managing the funding award for the collaborative partnership.
Lead applicant must:
- Be an artist or team of artists who have a history of working together, organized under a group name; an arts and culture organization with tax-exempt nonprofit status under 501(c)(3) or (6) of the Internal Revenue Code at the time of application; or an organization with tax-exempt nonprofit status under 501(c)(3) or (6) of the Internal Revenue Code and history of producing art projects at the time of application.
- Be must be based in city of San Diego’s Communities of Concern (COC) or San Diego Promise Zone when applying through completion of the activity period.
- Artist lead applicant must reside within the city of San Diego’s COC or in San Diego Promise Zone for at least two consecutive years, be at least 18 years old, and not be enrolled as a full-time student.
- Organization lead applicant must be headquartered in and primarily serving city of San Diego’s COC or San Diego Promise Zone and have two full and consecutive years of operating with its own independent governing board. Priority consideration will be given to lead applicants whose collaborative partners are also based in San Diego COC and/or San Diego Promise Zone.
- Have an annual operating budget below $500,000 as must each of its collaborative partners.
- Form and lead a city of San Diego-based collaborative partnership that at a minimum includes:
- If lead applicant is an artist, are you collaborating with an arts and culture organization or an organization with history of producing art projects? OR,
- If lead applicant is an arts and culture organization, are you collaborating with an artist or organization with history of producing arts projects? OR,
- If lead applicant is an organization with a history of producing art projects, are you collaborating with an arts and culture organization or an artist?
- Ensure project has a clear presentation that is open to the public, or meaningful and accessible engagement component within the performance period in alignment with Impact pilot cycle requirements. While presentations and participation must be open to the public generally, they may reach specific audiences or charge a fee as long as such restrictions do not discriminate on the;
- Ensure project takes place within the city of San Diego’s designated COC and/or in San Diego Promise Zone.
- Ensure project aligns with one or more of the Impact pilot cycle focus areas.
- Participate in networking and peer learning activities.
- Track, collect, document, and report project data.
For more information, visit City of San Diego.
