The Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission (SCCHC) receives funding from the State of New Jersey through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA). These funds are specifically designated to be re-granted to arts institutions or for arts related special projects.
Donor Name: Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission
State: New Jersey
County: Salem County (NJ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/12/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000
Details:
NJSCA Funding Priorities
Successful project proposals will touch on one or more of the following:
- Support – Strategically support New Jersey artists and arts organizations
- Arts Education/Lifelong Learning – Quality arts education and lifelong learning opportunities for everyone
- Diversity – People of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds engaged in the arts
- Development – New Jersey communities thriving through the arts
- Awareness – Widespread public understanding of the importance of the arts.
Grant Types
- Special Project Grants
- Available to any non-profit or tax-exempt organization/municipality located in Salem County, regardless of its mission, to support a special arts project.
- Matching Requirement: 0% The NJSA matching requirement has been paused through 2024. However, this is subject to change. Re-grantees are still expected to record any matching funds, both cash and inkind.
- General Operating Support:
- Available to any non-profit or tax-exempt organization located in Salem County, whose mission is primarily arts related.
- Matching Requirement: 0% The NJSA matching requirement has been paused through 2024. However, this is subject to change. Re-grantees are still expected to record any matching funds, both cash and inkind.
- Technical Assistance:
- Available to any established or developing, non-profit/tax exempt, arts organization located within Salem County seeking financial assistance. These grants are designed to assist in the development of arts organizations in need of targeted financial assistance.
- Matching Requirement: 0% The NJSA matching requirement has been paused through 2024. However, this is subject to change. Re-grantees are still expected to record any matching funds, both cash and inkind.
Important: Organizations may only apply for one type of grant each year.
Funding Information
Technical Assistance: Maximum Request: $1,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Those eligible to participate in the re-grant program include:
- Non-profit or tax-exempt organizations located within Salem County
- Libraries, civic and community organizations, educational institutions (for non-standard extracurricular funding only), museums, historical groups, arts and culture organizations, and municipalities
- Colleges, Universities, and other Educational and Religious Institutions
- activities must be marketed to and open to the general public
- activities must be supplemented to any curriculum and separate from any religious observance
- neither the grant nor the matching funds are used to pay salaries of faculty or members of the clergy
- K-12 Schools are encouraged to seek artist residency support through the NJSCA Artist in Education program.
Notes
- You may not receive funding directly from the NJSCA and their local Re-grant Program within the same year. If you have applied directly to the NJSCA, you must disclose this information within your application or make it known to the Director of Cultural Affairs. This will ensure that you are only awarded funding from one source.
- Per this application, “Arts” refers to visual arts, music, dance, theatre, crafts, media arts, photography, design, and literature.
- Individual artists seeking fellowships must apply directly to the NJSCA.
For more information, visit Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
