New Bedford Creative is seeking applications for its Art is Everywhere Program to help advance New Bedford as one of the most culturally unique and creative cities in America.
Donor Name: New Bedford Creative
State: Massachusetts
City: New Bedford
Type of the Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/02/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000 and $20,000
Details:
The 2022 grant program criteria prioritize inspiring and creative ideas that directly address a current challenge facing residents, visitors, and/or businesses in New Bedford’s neighborhoods, such as arts and culture-based solutions that expedite recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic; support the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) in all forms; or strengthen the creative network throughout the city. In all cases, projects that focus on DEIA outcomes will be prioritized.
Facilitated by New Bedford Creative housed at the New Bedford Economic Development Council, and funded by MassDevelopment/TDI and the Barr Foundation, this grant is one component of a broader “TDI Creative Cities” initiative to boost arts-based economic development.
Funding Information
- Grant awards between $1,000 and $20,000 will be invested in projects from smaller scalable ideas to larger big ideas.
Eligible Projects
There is a wide range of challenges that projects may address with this grant program, including but not limited to:
- Advancing the physical or mental well-being of a community, neighborhood, or group of people
- Highlighting underappreciated cultural or historic communities, issues, or infrastructure
- Supporting the COVID-19 vaccination, or improving public health in general
- Bringing exposure and interest to small businesses and cultural institutions through reopening
- Assisting with unemployment, job recovery, workforce training, or leadership development
- Facilitating public education, youth development, early childhood intervention, child care
- Addressing affordable housing, homelessness, rent stabilization, rent eviction
- Improving public transportation or access to safe pedestrian and bicycle transport
- Advancing solutions to hunger, food insecurity, access to nutrition
- Providing resources to empower a specific group, such as veterans, the elderly, immigrants, etc.
- Dealing with the technological divide and digital access
- Connecting people in the community that may not otherwise interact
- Developing programs for climate change, environmental, and community resiliency
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals, organizations, and project teams of nonprofit and/or for-profit status proposing projects in or for the City of New Bedford are eligible to apply for an Art is Everywhere Grant. This includes creative leaders, emerging artists, cultural assets, institutions, businesses, engaged community members, inclusive funders, and supportive programming teams. Diverse and inclusive project teams are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit Art is Everywhere.
