Creative Pinellas offers a new Arts and Cultural Organization Recovery Grant Program through the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Rescue Plan.
Donor Name: Creative Pinellas
State: Florida
County: Pinellas County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/14/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The grants are intended to provide financial assistance and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic to Pinellas County’s arts and cultural community.
Creative Pinellas will competitively award Recovery funds to eligible arts and cultural non-profit organizations in Pinellas County. These funds are intended to help support jobs in the arts sector, keep the doors open to arts organizations, and assist in the sector’s response to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. Organizations may not use grant funds to pay artists for work within the organization that is funded through a Pinellas Recovers Individual Artist grant. Organizational Grants will be awarded to reach communities that have had difficulty benefiting from the arts due to race, ethnicity, economics, geography or disability.
Funding Priorities
- Economic recovery for the organization and clearly demonstrated need.
- Performing arts organizations and presentation venues.
- Younger organizations with a demonstrated history of community service and/ or support.
- Organizations with a commitment to serving diverse communities or historically marginalized communities.
- Small and economically vulnerable organizations with total revenues of $500,000 or less.
- Sustainable impact either to the organization or the community/audiences the organizations serve.
Funding Information
Grant requests cannot exceed 10% of the organization’s operating budget in either 2019, 2020 or 2021, whichever is greater. Operating budget for the selected year will be required to be uploaded in the application form.
- $50,000 (3)
- $20,000 (5)
- $10,000 (6)
- $5,000 (5)
- $2,500 (6)
Grant Period
April 11, 2022 – April 10, 2023
Organizations can apply to:
- Support salaries of rehires or new hires.
- To pay fees/stipends to artists and other contracted personnel for specific operations or performances.
- Facilities or venue expenses (not capital expenses).
- Marketing and promotion to bring audiences back.
- Health and safety equipment.
- Community outreach activities and engagement (direct benefit to participating communities).
- As part of the grant award, Creative Pinellas will provide mentorship to strengthen organizational viability and for future grant readiness.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant must be a 501(c)3 non-profit organization or federally-recognized Indian tribal governments in Pinellas County with at least a 3-year history of arts programming prior to the application deadline.
- Organization’s primary focus must be around providing high-quality arts experiences to residents in and around Pinellas County. This may include arts engagement activities (performances, exhibits, events, etc.) arts education, or both.
- All applicants must have a UEI-Unique Entity Identifier, at the time of application. This may take several weeks and applicants are encouraged to begin the process immediately.
- The SAM registration must be current at the time a grant is made and throughout the life of the award. See Changes Coming for Federal Organizational Applicants and Awardees for important information.
- Fiscal sponsorships and fiscal agents are not eligible.
- Individual Artists should apply to the Creative Pinellas Recovery Grants for individual artists.
For more information, visit Pinellas Recovers – 2022 Arts and Cultural Organization Grant.
