Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) is accepting applications for its Community Arts Support Grants Program.
Donor Name: Region 2 Arts Council
State: Minnesota
Counties: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,000 – $7,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) Community Arts Support (CAS) Grants are made possible by the voters of Minnesota thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF). The CAS grant program is also funded, in part, by an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s General Fund.
Eligible Proposals
R2AC CAS operating support funds may not be used to cover an organization’s arts programming and project costs. This funding is designated for an organization’s operational costs; those costs that support an organization’s ability to provide arts programming.
An organization’s proposal must show both a commitment to the organization’s mission and the communities it serves by using this operational support grant funding for operations that support an organization’s capacity to offer expanded and/or new arts programming that is accessible and open to the public.
Funding Information
Two-year award amounts between $2,000 and $7,000 per year will be paid out in two installments.
Eligible Organizations
All eligible arts organizations, arts affiliates, and arts groups seeking 501(c)3 status have arts programming at the center of their mission, and have been providing arts programming to the Region 2 Arts Council communities during two years of the past four years. (Note: this criterion has been adjusted from previous years due to COVID-19 impacts on arts and cultural institutions).
Arts Organizations
Eligible arts organizations are physically located with a legal address in one of the five counties of the Region 2 Arts Council service area (Beltrami, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Hubbard).
New Arts Affiliates
Eligible arts affiliates are physically located with a legal address in one of the five counties of the Region 2 Arts Council service area (Beltrami, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Hubbard). An Arts Affiliate by definition is a distinct arts program or established arts division with an arts-focused mission that is hosted within a Minnesota nonprofit 501(c)(3) nonarts institution or public entity (such as city government or a university) or within a Minnesota nonprofit 501(c)(3), tax‐exempt, community service organization; and for whom arts programming or services represent at least 90 percent of the affiliate’s annual operating expenses.
The arts affiliate must
- provide or plan to provide a consistent menu of arts programming or services for the general public in Minnesota, not just for the host institution or its constituents, as would be the case with an academic degree program and its students;
- have a citizen advisory or governing board either independent from or acting as a subset of the host organization’s board, providing community oversight of the affiliate’s activities as distinct from the host organization’s activities;
- have a distinct budget indicating all revenue and expenses, that can be documented through financial statements;
- meet any additional Community Arts Support grant eligibility criteria.
For more information, visit Community Arts Support Grants.
