The California Arts Council is currently seeking to contract with new and returning Coordinating Organizations to further diversify the program to promote healing and well-being through creativity based on the recent assessed needs of the institutions.
Donor Name: California Arts Council
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/11/2022
Grant Size: up to $1,000,000
Details:
The CAC’s Arts in Corrections (AIC) program contracts with nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, arts-related units of government, or other entities (also known as Coordinating Organizations) to provide arts workshops with Arts Providers in creative projects, cultural practices, design, literary, media, multidisciplinary, performing, traditional, and visual arts to people currently incarcerated in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) adult facilities. The AIC program upholds the following values:
- People experiencing incarceration are deserving of dignity and respect.
- Policies should dismantle the root causes of incarceration.
- Community-based interventions reduce harm and make communities safer by replacing state-sanctioned systems of retribution and punishment.
- Individual and collective accountability for harm, and the healing of trauma, can create a more safe and just society for all.
Funding Information
Organizations of all sizes are encouraged to submit proposals for up to $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Proposers should review, understand, and meet the expectations and minimum qualifications of Training Organizations below before submitting a proposal. Training Organizations must:
- Be a California-based nonprofit, unit of government, or other entity that can coordinate the appropriate personnel for the AIC program.
- Fiscal Sponsors are permitted if they meet the guidelines in the policy.
- If the applicant is a multi-state organization with headquarters in another state, the applicant must have physical offices in California and currently provide services to California residents.
- Demonstrate the ability to administer the program efficiently and effectively to meet program outcomes.
- Additionally, administrative personnel must have at least five (5) years of administrative experience within the last ten (10) years.
- Demonstrate the ability to provide and/or coordinate access to training for personnel.
- Demonstrate the ability to collect and provide program information/data to CDCR and the CAC as required.
- Demonstrate experience with AIC programs at the state or local level, or experience in providing participatory arts programming in a comparable setting or to comparable populations.
- Demonstrate the ability to provide qualified Arts Providers who can deliver services within CDCR institutions.
- Proposer should factor in probation/parole timeframe or other issues that could potentially jeopardize the Arts Provider’s ability to provide services within institutions.
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Arts Providers must have:
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Actively participated in their art practice for at least three (3) years.
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Provided arts services in correctional or comparable settings for at least one (1) year.
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For more information, visit California Arts Council.
