Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is seeking applications for its Build the Future Grant to provide participants insight and experience in the arts and/or design industry, or in which arts and design skills are used to prepare and support participants for careers or business ownership in any field.
Donor Name: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)
State: Rhode Island
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $40,000
Details:
RISCA Build the Future Grants (BTFG) is a pandemic recovery grant program that will provide between $10,000 and $40,000 in support of existing workforce development programs for arts and culture organizations, culturally specific organizations or secondary schools in Rhode Island.
These programs must provide career and technical training to a cohort of individuals over the age of 14, preparing them for career entry, career advancement or postsecondary education. Supported by American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, this program will support the arts and culture sectors response to and recovery from the pandemic by preparing Rhode Island residents for gainful employment in the creative sector and beyond.
Funding Information
Amount: $10,000 to $40,000.
Qualifying workforce development programs include
- Programs providing participants insight and experience in the arts and/or design industry, including artist specific business skills.
- Programs in which arts and design skills are used to prepare and support participants for careers or business ownership in any
Qualifying workforce development programs will have sequential learning for a cohort group. Learning environments may include either classroom style learning, like lectures and workshops, or work-based and experiential learning. Programs with classroom style and experiential learning are preferred.
This grant program will include hour-long monthly calls throughout the project period, during which grantees will share back their work, ask questions of one another and RISCA staff and provide peer support. They expect to award between four and eight of these grants.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, you must
- Be an arts and culture non-profit or a culturally specific non-profit organization or secondary school based in Rhode Island.
- Non-profit: Your organization must be incorporated in, headquartered, and conducting business in the state of Rhode Island, with 501(c)3 tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, registered with the Rhode Island Secretary of State, governed by a revolving board of directors, trustees, or advisory board drawn from the community at large and shown to be actively involved in the governance of the organization. The organization must have a Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN), a UEI (SAM) number, and have received federal tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
- Arts and culture organizations have as their primary mission regular cultural programs or services. An organization that includes arts and culture as a primary and major focus of a larger mission may apply, if its larger mission is centered in engaging a specific cultural group.
- Culturally specific organization: an organization with a significant arts and cultural program that engages a specific cultural community but might not have arts and culture as their primary mission. Many of these organizations were established to address the needs and desires communities that were historically (and in many cases continuously) marginalized from receiving equitable access to existing programs. Many of these non-arts organizations evolved to support their communities in holistic ways and as a result developed significant and meaningful arts and cultural programs to better address the needs of their communities.
- Secondary schools based in Rhode Island (public, public charter, career and technical centers) that are not-for-profit organizations and offer state approved arts or design career and technical programs, may apply. The school must appear on this list from the R.I. Department of Education.
- Present programming in ADA accessible spaces. Persons with disabilities have the right to access all RISCA-funded programs. Section 504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states, in part, that “no otherwise qualified person with a disability shall solely by reason of their disability be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that all programming facilities meet or exceed Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards for audience members and are accessible to all. In general, Rhode Island arts facilities, and the managers of arts projects in Rhode Island, must make their programs as accessible as possible to the widest number of people and work to remove barriers that may block accessibility. This includes addressing the structural, programmatic, communication and attitudinal barriers that keep people with disabilities from fully participating in arts programs.
- Non-profit: Your organization must be incorporated in, headquartered, and conducting business in the state of Rhode Island, with 501(c)3 tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, registered with the Rhode Island Secretary of State, governed by a revolving board of directors, trustees, or advisory board drawn from the community at large and shown to be actively involved in the governance of the organization. The organization must have a Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN), a UEI (SAM) number, and have received federal tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
NOTE: Organizations receiving a General Operating Support for Organizations grant from RISCA are eligible to apply for this grant program.
For more information, visit Build the Future Grant.
