The Professional or Organizational Development (POD) Minigrants provide up to $1,500 to assist non-profit arts and cultural organizations, artists, culture bearers, arts and cultural administrators and arts and cultural educators with opportunities that specifically improves their management and/or brings the individual or organization to another level professionally.
Donor Name: Holland Arts Council
State: Michigan
County: Allegan County (MI), Mason County (MI), Muskegon County (MI), Oceana County (MI) and Ottawa County (MI)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/03/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $1500
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Council guides the distribution of resources to ensure that Michigan communities thrive from the civic, economic, and educational benefits of arts and culture.
In addition, the Minigrant POD program provides Michigan based individuals or organizations a presence at national conferences and workshops.
The Minigrant program is a partnership between the Michigan Arts and Culture Council (MACC) and the Regional Services Agencies throughout the state. The MACC recognizes the importance of on-going executive education and leadership development for arts/cultural organizations, professional artists, arts administrators, arts educators and film professionals.
Grant Period
Grant funds must be expended between October 1, 2023 and September 30, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Michigan registered nonprofit arts and cultural organizations or individual artists, culture bearer, arts or culture administrators, arts or culture educators, and film professionals with a Social Security Number are eligible in this program. Organizations must be physically located in the state of Michigan and Individuals must be residents of the state of Michigan. Organizations must ensure no part of net earnings benefit a private individual. Donations to the organizations must be allowable as a charitable contribution under section 170c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended (Organizations with status under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code and local Units of Government meet these criteria.). Professional artists are defined as one who is recognized by his/her peers within the discipline, has a minimum of 2 years in the discipline and is compensated for their art form. Graduate or undergraduate level courses in a degree or certificate granting program, where credits or degree are sought, are not eligible
- Any applicant that has unmet obligations on current grant agreements, such as overdue or incomplete reports or other significant problems, is not eligible to apply for future funding. If any applicant fails to meet MACC requirements on a current grant agreement, their pending application will be removed from the review process and the newly approved grant will be rescinded
- Auxiliary support organizations (i.e. friends of xyz), federal and State of Michigan agencies, divisions or departments are not eligible to apply for funding from MACC.
For more information, visit Holland Arts Council.
