Youth Arts Project Grants fund high-quality arts and cultural programs that encourage creativity, develop new arts skills and foster success for young people.
Donor Name: New Hampshire State Council on the Arts (NHSCA)
State: New Hampshire
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/22/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000 – $6,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Recognizing that opportunities to experience and engage in the arts, such as music, dance, theater, visual arts, crafts, photography and creative writing, may be limited in classrooms, this grant provides funding for artists to work directly with young people. The overall goal of this grant category is to afford all young people opportunities to engage in the arts so that they can develop creative problem solving skills, positive forms of personal expression, and become more engaged in their communities through the arts.
Funding Information
Funding requests may be made for $1,000 – $6,000. For Fiscal Year 2023, no matching funds are required, but your budget should reflect the total cost of your proposed project.
Project Period
Projects occurring between July 1, 2022- June 30, 2023
Grant Requirements
Projects in this category are required to:
- Clearly articulate a plan for making the program accessible for youth of all abilities, and for underserved and under-represented populations.
- Identify core participants, consult with special education professionals if applicable, and develop accommodations as needed.
- Compensate artists at a professional level.
- Describe how the program is responsive to the academic and cultural needs of the youth being served. For example, the program may:
- Provide experiences in diverse artistic disciplines
- Reflect the racial, cultural, and aesthetic background of the youth population
- Broaden access to artistic disciplines from diverse cultural traditions
- Be designed with input from the youth being served
Projects funded in this category are strongly encouraged to:
- Foster deep connections within the community by establishing partnerships and collaborations between organizations, artists, youth, and schools.
- Work with New Hampshire artists as teachers and mentors. The NH Arts Education Roster is a resource for finding juried artists who have worked in education. For FY2023, preference will be given to projects that request NHSCA funding to employ NH artists and/or NHSCA Roster Artists.
- Develop projects with arts integrated approaches to interdisciplinary studies that include other subjects, such as STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), history and social studies.
Eligibility Criteria
Any organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the IRS and not-for-profit incorporation in the State of New Hampshire; state, federal, county, municipal, or government agency; or unit of a postsecondary educational institution that meet the following conditions:
- Make all programs and facilities accessible to people with disabilities
- Have submitted all required reports on past State Arts Council grants
- Good standing with the N.H. Secretary of State’s Office and the N.H. Attorney General’s Office
- Arts organizations only: at least one-year of arts programming prior to the application deadline.
- All awardees will be required to submit a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) issued through SAM.GOV
For more information, visit Youth Arts Project Grants.
