CultureWorks is seeking applications for its 2022 Organization Annual Grant Program to strengthen arts and culture organizations to drive community health and success.
Donor Name: CultureWorks
State: Virginia
Counties: Charles City County (VA), Chesterfield County (VA), Goochland County (VA), Hanover County (VA), Henrico County (VA), New Kent County (VA), Powhatan County (VA)
Cities: Richmond, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Petersburg
Town: Ashland
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/24/2022
Size of the Grant: $29,500
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
CultureWorks values diversity and inclusivity and believes everyone in their community should have access to arts and culture, as well as the opportunity to express their culture through the arts.
Funding Focus Areas
Building Capabilities
- Building Capabilities funding supports specific opportunities which enable an organization’s effectiveness, overall growth and longevity as a nonprofit organization. Requests must be made for a particular initiative or project, not for general operating support. Sample initiatives that may be eligible for this funding include:
- Building infrastructure
- Enhancing relationships and collaborations in the arts and culture community
- Planning strategically
- Specific needs related to improving on-going health and safety (related to social distancing, sanitizing spaces, and other enhancements to meet local health department and other government requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic.)
- Improving technology
- Building Capabilities grants are limited to 10% of an organization’s annual budget (determined by the amount of revenue for current fiscal year), up to a maximum of $15,000.
Cultural Equity
- Cultural Equity funding supports arts and culture projects or programming that reach underrepresented populations based on race, ethnicity, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, or religion. A goal of CultureWorks, supported through this area, is to ensure everyone in their community has access to arts and culture, and the opportunity to express their culture through the arts. Sample activities that may be eligible for this funding include:
- Staff salary costs for organizations to support innovative ideas that engage underrepresented audiences in their community’s arts and culture.
- Artist stipends for arts events that highlight and promote the art and culture of a particular community underrepresented in the region.
- Facilities costs for arts programming that serves the communities listed above Cultural Equity grants to organizations are limited to a maximum of $29,500.
Funding Period
Grant Funding Period: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding an applicant must:
- Be headquartered and/or have an arts and culture focus in the Richmond and Tri-Cities Region. The Region is defined as the cities of Richmond, Colonial Heights, Hopewell and Petersburg, along with the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and Powhatan, and the Town of Ashland.
- Be a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.
- Have an annual operating budget less than $750,000.
- Not discriminate in hiring of staff or inclusion of audiences, artists, board members or other volunteers on the basis of race, age, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
- Have a mission or strategic plan that includes a focus on arts and culture.
- Application submitted is for the organization identified and not a pass-through to other entities.
- Applicant (organization or individual) cannot be disbarred, suspended, or have any other exclusions or disqualification from receiving federal funding.
For more information, visit Organization Annual Grant Program.
