The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is inviting applicants for its Cultural Grants Program.
Donor Name: City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
City:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/08/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $80,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
DCA’s Grants Program Office provides panel scores that can be held for two consecutive years, so applicants are encouraged to propose a project which can be repeated for a second year/term.
Applicants in odd-numbered calendar years are encouraged to apply within one of these categories: culture/history presentations, literature or publishing projects, media activities or presentations, design/visual art exhibitions or museum projects, or traditional/folk arts activities/presentations.
DCA’s Cultural Grants Program invests in free and low-cost activities and projects for the public proposed by the following types of vendors/applicants:
- A non-profit arts organization may propose an Artistic Project, in one primary art form or discipline (which is also the selection to the expertise of the review panel). In the special case of youth-education projects with in-school lesson plans, an applicant should not apply under their discipline, but instead select SAIL-CAPE, Sequential Arts in-school learning Culminating in Afterschool Public Events. This category specifically supports youth-learning projects that begin within enrollment-only classrooms yet culminate in one (or more) presentations which are after-school and marketed-to-the general public. Three variety-arts categories are available for projects which cross disciplines (culture/history, multidisciplinary (for avant-garde fusions) and traditional/folk arts).
- A partnership between a non-profit community-service organization (an organization whose mission and programs are not arts-exclusive but include cultural offerings) may ONLY propose to plan and present an outdoor festival or parade in partnership with a tribal elder, arts curator, or arts agency. For DCA’s Outdoor Festivals/Parades category, nonprofit organizations may request up to $40,000 for large outdoor festivals/parades (more than 2,000 attendees in the prior year), while producers of a small outdoor festival/parade (500 to 2,000 attendees from the prior year) may request $15,000. Outdoor festivals/parades that gather fewer than 500 in-person attendees may request up to $6,000. Outdoor festival/parade proposals are accepted each year, but it is best that outdoor performing-arts festivals be submitted in even-numbered years, while outdoor craft fairs be submitted in odd-numbered years.
Funding Information
- Up to $80,000
- Grant Period: It will place between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025).
Eligibility Criteria
Qualified applicants:
- Are nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations with a primary purpose to provide arts/cultural services, or arts-friendly charitable organizations (e.g. 501(c)3, 501(c)6, etc.) that will partner with an arts expert/agency to present an outdoor festival or parade, and
- Are headquartered in Los Angeles County and proposing projects that will specifically serve residents, visitors, and/or tourists within the City of Los Angeles boundaries, and
- Have a minimum of one year of prior experience with the project they propose to make “bigger, stronger, or faster” with City of LA support, and
- Have an arts/culture mission statement as well as specific metrics about the project-audiences they recently served within the City of LA, and
- Fulfill all of the additional qualifications for the category in which they apply.
For more information, visit DCA.
