The City of New Orleans is excited to offer a modest funding program to individuals and organizations that are engaging in activities that promote the cultural economy through educating their youth, training their cultural producers, providing networking opportunities, creating cultural events and much more.
Donor Name: City of New Orleans
State: Louisiana
City: New Orleans
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/31/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $15,000
Details:
What can be Fund:
- Workshops, training, and conferences that build cultural economy capacity in cultural non-profits, neighborhood organizations, and cultural businesses. Capacity Building includes networking, teaching skills such as fundraising/grant writing, working with partners to improve programming, leveraging, education about sustainability, learning of new concepts such as place-based planning, etc.
- Workshops, training, and conferences in any of the Cultural Economy segments as defined by the Office of Cultural Economy: Entertainment (dance, theater, music, film, sound recording), Design (fashion, interactive media, communications), Preservation (architecture, construction, landscape architecture, and interior design related to preserving historic buildings and assets), Culinary Arts, Literary Arts and Humanities, and Visual Arts and Crafts.
- Events with art and cultural components. Funds can be used for paying musicians or other performers, attracting tourists, or other activities that will directly impact either cultural workers or attract sales for art and cultural vendors.
Note: all funded programs, events, and activities must acknowledge support from the Office of Cultural Economy through use of their logo or written/verbal acknowledgment
Funding Information
Applications for the 2023 Grant Cycle may only request up to $15,000.
Eligible Activities
The following types of activities are acceptable for funding:
- Workshops, training, and conferences that build cultural economy capacity in cultural nonprofits, neighborhood organizations, and cultural businesses. Capacity Building includes networking, teaching skills such as fundraising/grant writing, working with partners to improve programming, leveraging, education about sustainability, learning of new concepts such as place-based planning, etc.
- Workshops, training, and conferences in any of the Cultural Economy segments as defined by the Office of Cultural Economy: Entertainment (dance, theatre, music, film, sound recording), Design (fashion, interactive media, communications), Preservation (architecture, construction, landscape architecture, and interior design related to preserving historic buildings and assets), Culinary Arts, Literary Arts and Humanities, and Visual Arts and Crafts.
- Events with art and cultural components. Funds can be used for paying musicians or other performers, attracting tourists, or other activities that will directly impact either cultural workers or attract sales for art and cultural vendors.
Eligibility Criteria
- State and federal 501(c)3 nonprofits
- For profit businesses licensed with the City and State and are in good standing Note they do not fund for-profit activities, but community/cultural activities organized by for-profit businesses qualify
- Individuals, such as artists, who have secured a fiscal agent (such as a nonprofit)
For more information, visit Cultural Economy Program.
