The California Arts Council is seeking applications for its Arts Integration Training (AIT) Grant to support nonprofit arts organizations and teaching artists to plan and deliver professional development in arts integration strategies to classroom teachers.
Donor Name: California Arts Council
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Arts Integration Training projects should be designed to pave a pathway for increased equitable student learning in, through, and about the arts. This may be realized in a specific classroom, in all classrooms across a school site, or as a central strategy for a district- or countywide arts plan. The Arts Integration Training project can stand alone or be executed in conjunction with an Artists in Schools project. The project must be planned and implemented with collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization, teaching artists, and the educational entity, with full commitment from all participants.
Program Goals
Projects should address the following Arts Integration Training program goals:
- Increase student access to and participation in school-based arts education as part of coordinated efforts with school site leaders, district staff, and County Offices of Education.
- Develop the ability of classroom teachers to design and implement culturally and linguistically responsive, sequential, standards-based arts integration projects throughout the curriculum.
- Develop site, district, and/or county-level administrators’ understanding of how arts integration strategies promote overall student educational outcomes.
- Promote educators’ positive recognition of and respect for the diverse cultural assets of the local community.
- Develop long-term, mutually beneficial relationships between arts and educational organizations, teaching artists, and the youth and families in the communities they serve.
Funding Information
- Applicant organizations can request up to $10,000 for the two-year grant period.
Grant Period
- Grant Activity Period January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must comply with the requirements below. All applications must include the listed items at the time of submission in order to be considered for funding.
- Racial equity statement – Description of the organization’s commitment to equitable policies and culture.
- California-based – Documentation of having a principal place of business in California.
- Arts programming – Applicants must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
- 501(c)(3) organization as applicant or fiscal sponsor – Non-governmental (municipal, county, or tribal) applicant organizations must demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
- Fiscal sponsors – An applicant organization without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding.
- The fiscal sponsor will provide the fiscal oversight and administrative services needed to complete the grant.
- A Letter of Agreement between the fiscal sponsor and the applicant organization must be signed by a representative from both parties and submitted with the application. A blank signature field will not be accepted. If a grant is awarded, the fiscal sponsor becomes the legal contract holder with the California Arts Council.
- A fiscal sponsor change is not permissible during the Grant Activity Period, with rare exceptions.
- Fiscal sponsors must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
- Certificate of good standing – Nonprofit organizations and fiscal sponsors (if applicable) must have “active status” with the California Secretary of State (SOS) showing evidence of “good standing” at the time of application.
For more information, visit Arts Integration Training.
