The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund provides financial support to catalyze an equitable statewide recovery and build resilience for New Jersey-based smaller nonprofit arts and culture organizations.
Donor Name: Princeton Area Community Foundation
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/25/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
In this round, the Fund will provide grants directly to nonprofit organizations who will act as intermediaries to re-grant funds to support artists, teaching artists, and culture workers.
The Fund cannot make grants directly to individuals. However, arts and culture service organizations or other intermediaries with a demonstrated track record of supporting a diverse group of artists, teaching artists, or culture workers can apply for funding to administer a regrant program. Funds can be distributed through the nonprofit intermediary to help support artists’ basic living and career-sustaining needs due to the loss of work and earning opportunities caused by the pandemic and other sector disruptions.
Grants will support nonprofit organizations whose primary focus is Arts & Culture and/or Arts Education. As the fund develops and the needs and priorities of the sector change, Fund priorities may evolve accordingly.
The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund (NJARCF) grantmaking will provide grants to eligible nonprofit arts and culture organizations with established relationships with a diverse network of individual artists, teaching artists and culture workers managing post-pandemic challenges, and/or negatively impacted by non-pandemic challenges. While the grant application is open to all arts and culture organizations who meet eligibility requirements, in recognition of long-standing disparities in funding, the fund seeks to create a more equitable sector by prioritizing organizations serving and/or led by Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) in New Jersey. The Fund seeks to support organizations that are embracing and acting upon cultural shifts catalyzed by the pandemic. Its philosophy and practices are committed to supporting organizations most currently and historically affected by systemic injustice. Further, the Fund seeks to address the underrepresentation and incomplete storytelling that has marginalized the creative, historical, and intellectual contributions of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) in New Jersey. The fund seeks to support organizations that highlight the creative work of BIPOC individuals, support places of historical significance to BIPOC communities and preserve and tell the histories of BIPOC people and communities.
Priority Criteria
The Foundation anticipate the number of requests will exceed the available funds in this round of grantmaking. We will consider the following aspects of the requests and give priority to:
- Arts and arts education organizations working in and/or for underserved communities in South, Central, and northern New Jersey.
- Organizations most currently and historically affected by systemic injustice.
- Organizations serving communities most vulnerable to the impact of various sector disruptions and/or pursuing social justice work through arts and arts education programming.
- Organizations that are BIPOC-led and/or BIPOC-serving
- Organizations showing clear evidence of inclusive practices in Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion (DEAI) and clear evidence of tangible progress to diversify their leadership, staff and governance.
Grant Parameters
The maximum grant award is $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation will accept applications from organizations that meet the following eligibility requirements. The applicant must:
- Be incorporated in New Jersey as a 501(c)(3) and serve New Jersey communities;
- Have primary programming in one or more New Jersey counties
- Employ at least one year-round, part-time, paid employee or unpaid year-round part time person (dedicated volunteer) working a minimum of 20 hours per week in an administrative or a combined administrative/artistic leadership role. A part-time primarily artistic employee does not meet this eligibility requirement.
- Have a primary mission focused on arts & culture or arts education
- Be in operation for a minimum of two years prior to the application
- Have budget expenditures of $5 Million or less
For more information, visit Princeton Area Community Foundation.
