The Community Arts Grant provides financial and technical assistance for community-based arts activities that are presented by eligible nonprofit organizations and/or individual artists with community partners in Erie, Niagara, and Chautauqua counties.
Donor Name: Arts Services Inc. (ASI)
State: New York
Counties: Erie County (NY), Chautauqua County (NY), Niagara County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/05/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
This funding is intended to expand, promote, and increase arts and cultural programming at the local level including, but not limited to, projects in the following areas:
- Dance
- Design Arts
- Folk Arts
- Humanities
- Literature/Poetry, Media (film, video, radio),
- Multi-Disciplinary
- Music
- Opera/Musical Theater
- Photography
- Skilled Crafts
- Textile Arts
- Theater, and Visual Arts.
These grants are administered by Arts Services Inc. (ASI) and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
The goals of the Community Arts grants:
- Provide quality arts/cultural programming in Erie, Niagara, or Chautauqua County.
- Assist emerging artists, arts/cultural organizations, and arts/cultural programming.
- Support cultural expression of their diverse ethnic groups.
- Make arts and cultural programming accessible to under-resourced or marginalized audiences, and economically disadvantaged communities.
Funding Information
Requests can be made between $500 and $5,000.
Grant Duration
The projects occurring between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- All project requests must have arts-related activities as the primary focus of the proposed project.
- Community Arts grant applicants are required to make their projects accessible to all individuals and hold their events at accessible sites.
Eligible applications must meet the following requirements
- Applicants must be one of the following: a nonprofit or 501c3 organization, a local government municipality, tribal organization, an individual representing a collective or informal group, or an individual artist legally located in Erie, Niagara, or Chautauqua counties.
- Your program or project must take place in the same county in which you reside/are physically located.
- Programs have, as their core, an arts-based or cultural activity that takes place within one year
of receiving your grant payment. - An individual artist or collective may apply if working in partnership with a community-based nonprofit organization that meets the above eligibility. In addition:
- You must attach a letter of commitment or tentative agreement from the partner organization that confirms and outlines the partnership with the applicant, including each partner’s investment or contribution (in-kind and/or cash) toward the proposed
project.- The applicant and the partner organization must both be based in the same county the event is taking place – either Erie, Niagara, or Chautauqua County.
- Projects MUST be open and accessible to the public.
For more information, visit Community Arts Grant.
