2022 Community Arts Grant Program for Artists and Organizations in New York

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Arts Council for Wyoming County.

Community Arts grants provide support to community-based organizations, groups, collectives, or artists for arts and cultural projects. Community Arts grants can fund but are not limited to exhibitions, workshops, performances, concerts (all disciplines), festivals, demonstrations and workshops, screenings, or readings.

Priorities

Not all projects will meet all of these funding priorities. This is a chance to highlight your program’s strengths!

• Allegany and Wyoming County arts and cultural organizations
• New programs or repeat projects with new components, especially underrepresented art forms such as visual arts, traditional music, classical music, and dance
• Projects that promote community partnerships and shared programming
• Projects that encourage community growth such as intergenerational support, or economic development, or increased diversity, or greater utilization of community assets or esprit de corps
• Projects that engage community members as participants in the arts
• Projects that serve communities that have not received funding in three years or more
• Projects that offer access to people with difficulty accessing the arts due to lack of transportation

Funding Information

• Minimum Grant Amount: $300
• Maximum Grant Amount: $5000

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible to apply for a Community Arts grant or to be a sponsor for an artist or artist group, organizations must be based in Allegany or Wyoming County and have one of the following with proof of the same:

• A 501(c)(3) or New York State non-profit organization with an active board of trustees either incorporated in NYS or registered to do business in NYS
• A government or quasi-government entity, or tribal organization
• With approval from ACWC, an unincorporated entity that is working with an eligible fiscal sponsor or community-based partner is eligible
  • Lead applicants must be 18 years of age at the time of submission and may not be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree program
  • Project sponsors and partners must be based in Allegany or Wyoming County

Ineligible Applicants:

• Organizations applying directly to the New York State Council on the Arts, regardless of the status of the application
• Past sub-grantees that have failed to submit final reports or have failed to comply with any other contractual obligations
• Public school districts, private or parochial schools, their affiliates or components, or activities exclusively meant to serve a student audience (although Parent-Teacher Organizations/Associations ARE eligible include a copy of charter from NYS Board of Regents with application)
• Individuals, unless formally sponsored by a not-forprofit organization meeting all other qualifications
• New York State agencies, departments, universities, and colleges
• Projects that fund
  • Start-up or seed funding for the establishment of a new organization
  • General operating expenses
  • Requests greater than an applicant’s project expenses minus total project income
  • Activities not opened to the general public such as camps, clubs, or college associations
  • Events that take place in private homes
  • Contingency funds
  • Acquisition of works of art
  • Permanent equipment or capital improvement
  • Creation of textbooks or classroom material
  • Lobbying expenses
  • Programs in which children are used as professional artists (paid a fee)
  • Regrants by applicants to fund other activities
  • Cash prizes, juried shows, fellowships, scholarships, and other awards to students
  • non-arts related activity including
    • Galas, benefits, or fundraising events including entertainment costs for receptions, food or fundraising events
    • Entertainment such as balloons, clowns, magicians, paint nights
    • Projects that are recreational, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or religious in nature include at-risk/social service programs when the purpose is primarily for rehabilitative, therapeutic, or worship