Small Project Grants are intended to provide support for new or unanticipated projects and those with an urgent timeline especially for emerging artists, BIPOC and LGBTQ artists, students, or organizations new to the grant-making process.
Donor Name: City of Beaverton
State: Oregon
City: Beaverton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $1,000
Details:
In Beaverton, the arts are a part of our identity, helping to build community vibrancy and shared identity. The Beaverton Arts Program contributes by presenting arts and cultural events and programs that celebrate community values and help connect residents to their artistic and cultural heritage.
Projects could include workshops, art classes, and/or art activities that serve Beaverton residents.
Program Goal
- Informed by Beaverton’s Community Vision, the goals of the Small Project Grant program is to support projects that meet one or more of the following goals:
- Demonstrate cultural diversity, social equity and inclusiveness and to help the City of Beaverton become increasingly welcoming, inclusive, representative, and responsive to historically underrepresented and underserved communities, particularly communities of color, immigrants, refugees and LGBTQ.
- Nurture community collaboration; encourage partnership among artists and creative industries, businesses, cultural and other non- and for-profit organizations
- Contribute to economic vitality, contribute to neighborhood revitalization and/or beautification, and promote their city as a place that is welcoming, vibrant, responsible, friendly, safe, and active.
- Inspire or accomplish creativity and innovation.
- Nurture and honor community identity and heritage; preserve and commemorate local and multicultural traditions and histories
- Create public spaces that promote health, happiness and wellbeing.
Funding Information
Funding requests may be up to $1,000 per applicant
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants will be considered, but it is advisable that the primary applicant identify as one of the following:
- Individual artists or artist collectives
- School groups that fall within the city of Beaverton
- Individual Students
- Non-profits
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following INELIGIBLE APPLICANTS may participate through endorsement or partnership with the above eligible applicants, but may not apply directly:
- Religious organizations, government agencies, political groups, district councils, hospitals, or newspapers.
Eligible Projects
- Small Project Grant funding may be used to cover expenses directly related to the project, such as:
- Planning & Personnel
- Project management, volunteer coordinator, community organizer
- Professional Services
- Insurance
- Marketing expenses
- Permits (parks, construction, etc.)
- Professional consultants (designer, engineer, artist, etc.)
- Material, Supplies & Maintenance
- Art supplies (paint, printing, etc.)
- Building materials
- Equipment rental (audio/visual, tents, tables, etc.)
- Landscaping (soil, shrubs, plants, mulch, rocks, logs, etc.)
- Installation/De-installation
- Maintenance needs.
For more information, visit City of Beaverton.
