The Atlantic County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs (ACOCHA) is seeking applications for its 2024 Arts & History Grant Program.
Donor Name: Atlantic County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs (ACOCHA)
State: New Jersey
County: Atlantic County (NJ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Atlantic County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs (ACOCHA) is a unit of County government founded in 1975 to foster the growth and development of the local arts community. Through funds from the NJ State Council on the Arts (NJSCA), the ACOCHA is able to provide Atlantic County non-profit organizations the opportunity to apply for grant funding for projects that promote artistic excellence, provide public benefit, and are accessible to the public at large.
Funding Categories
There are four categories of funding under ACOCHA’s regrant program. For the second year in a row, the State Council received additional funding and has passed it on to its grantees for 2024, so the maximum award amounts have not changed. Since this funding is not guaranteed beyond 2024, it is imperative to not anticipate these potential award amounts when budgeting in the future.
- Technical Assistance (TA): For emerging/developing, minority arts, or special constituency organizations that demonstrate promise, and the ability to realize organizational stability through targeted financial assistance. TA grants are also available to existing arts organizations wishing to address a specific development problem within an organization. Maximum Award: $2,000
- Special Project (SP): Funding is for any nonprofit group, regardless of the intent of its charter to sponsor a special arts related project. The Special Project funding is intended to allow, for example, a civic organization to present a music program as part of its annual holiday celebration; a social organization to mount an art exhibit/festival; or the local YMCA to stage a theatrical performance. Maximum Award: $10,000
- General Programming Support (GPS): Funding is for any nonprofit group, regardless of the intent of its charter, to offset the expense of presenting major, on-going arts programming. The programming should have a mission and goals and contain multiple events or activities. Activities could include a series of concerts, art lectures or other multiple events throughout the year and is distinguished from Special Projects by having multiple events rather than a single activity within a calendar year. Maximum Award: $10,000
- General Operating Support (GOS): This funding is for groups whose charter is primarily arts related. It is designed to provide general operating support for groups that increase arts exposure within the community. This would include, but is not limited to: community theater groups, dance companies, not-for-profit museums or galleries, orchestras, and singing groups who exist primarily to create and/or perform art projects/programming. General Operating Support funding is more stringent in its requirements and more detail is required in substantiating fiscal responsibility. Maximum Award: $20,000.
Grant Period
Projects must commence no sooner than January 1, 2024 and must be completed on or before December 31, 2024 to be in compliance with the NJSCA grant cycle.
Eligibility Criteria
- General Operating Support applicants must be based in Atlantic County. For other funding levels, the events and projects for which you seek funding must take place in Atlantic County. Incorporated in the State of New Jersey as a non-profit corporation. Tax exempt status through the determination of the Internal Revenue Service in accordance with Sections 501(c)3 or (c)4.
- Any nonprofit group is eligible, including libraries, civic organizations, Y’s, educational institutions (for non-standard extracurricular funding only), museums, historical groups, festival programs, arts councils and commissions, municipalities, and creative groups in all disciplines. Non-arts groups can apply for funding only to support arts-related programs.
For more information, visit ACOCHA.
