The City of Beaverton Open Format Grant Program awards amounts up to $2,500 to arts and culture practitioners.
Donor Name: City of Beaverton
State: Oregon
City: Beaverton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $2,500
Details:
The City grant is intended to provide support for individuals or organizations that have needs not met by other traditional funding programs. They call it “open format” because they ask that applicants simply tell them what their most emergent and impactful needs are. Funds could be used to support studio, office, or venue rental; support staff positions; produce a discreet project; hire a consultant to lead strategic planning efforts for an organization, etc. The point is, you tell them what you need and they will consider funding it.
Program Goal
Informed by Beaverton’s Community Vision, the goals of the Open Grant program is to support requests for funding that meet one or more of the following goals:
- Demonstrate cultural diversity, social equity and inclusiveness and to help the City of Beaverton become increasingly welcoming, inclusive, representative, and responsive to historically underrepresented and underserved communities, particularly communities of color, immigrants, refugees and LGBTQ.
- Nurture community collaboration; encourage partnership among artists and creative industries, businesses, cultural and other non- and for-profit organizations
- Contribute to economic vitality, contribute to neighborhood revitalization and/or beautification, and promote their city as a place that is welcoming, vibrant, responsible, friendly, safe, and active.
- Inspire or accomplish creativity and innovation.
- Nurture and honor community identity and heritage; preserve and commemorate local and multicultural traditions and histories
- Create public spaces that promote health, happiness and wellbeing.
Funding Information
Funding requests may be up to $2,500 per applicant
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants will be considered, but it is advisable that the primary applicant identify as one of the following:
- Individual artists, artist collectives, curators or arts administrators
- Non-profit organizations offering arts and culture programming
- School groups that fall within the city of Beaverton
- Individual Students
Ineligibility Criteria
The following INELIGIBLE APPLICANTS may participate through endorsement or partnership with the above eligible applicants, but may not apply directly:
- Religious organizations, government agencies, political groups, district councils, hospitals, or newspapers.
For more information, visit City of Beaverton.
