The New York State Council on the Arts (the Council or NYSCA) is seeking applications for the Statewide Community Regrants Program to preserve and expand the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York’s citizens.
Donor Name: Earlville Opera House
State: New York
Counties: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/14/2023
Size of the Grant: $5000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details
This (event, project, program) is made possible with public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Earlville Opera House.
This program is funded in all 62 counties, and funds are regranted at a local level. Through this program, not-for-profit organizations and individual artists may apply annually for grants up to $5000 to help strengthen the arts and cultural programs in their communities. The goal is to make state arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state’s population. The SCR program has been administered in Chenango County since 1986. The Earlville Opera House has administered the SCR program since 2020.
Grant Information
2023 Funded Projects MUST take place January 1 – December 31, 2023.
The maximum funding request in the Community Arts and Arts Education categories is $5,000; the minimum request for each of these two categories is $500. No match is required. Individual Artist Grants are offered in the amount of $2500 per commission. There is no match required.
Applicants may submit up to three project requests in one application in any combination of categories (Community Arts, Individual Artist and/or Arts Education) totaling no more than $5,000.
Priorities
- Community Arts Grants
- Artist fee support
- Production costs
- Marketing costs
- Administrative costs
- Virtual programming costs
- Low or no cost programming, with an emphasis on family events
- Projects that promote and celebrate diversity
- Historically significant projects
- Pooling of resources and collaborative initiatives
- Public Art
- Arts Education Grants
- Individual Artist Grants
- Artist fees
Eligibility Criteria
- In addition to the guidelines listed for each category, applicants must meet certain requirements to be considered for Statewide Community Regrants funding, including:
- The legal address of an applicant must lie within the SCR site service area of Broome, Chenango, or Otsego County. The funded activity must take place within the same county as the applicant’s legal address.
- All non-profit organizations must provide proof of non-profit status. The following documentation may be accepted:
- Letter of Determination from the IRS indicating tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3)
- Documentation of charter by the NY State Board of Regents under section 216 of the NY State Education Law
- Documentation of incorporation under Section 402 of the NY State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
- Current NY State Bureau of Charities (Office of the Attorney General) filing receipt
Official authorization as an arm of local government (i.e., a formal letter on official stationery signed by the appropriate county, city, town or village executive)
- The following entities and individuals are not eligible to apply for Statewide Community Regrants funding:
- New York State agencies and departments (including SUNY schools)
- Public universities, colleges; and public, private, or parochial secondary and elementary schools
- SCR site Staff or Board members (see Conflict of Interest section
- Student projects
- Unincorporated applicants without an eligible sponsor or partner organization (Exception: Individual Artist category)
- Non-incorporated chapters of organizations whose “parent” is incorporated outside of the SCR site’s service area
- Past re-grantees that have failed to submit final reports NYSCA-direct applicants may not apply for SCR funding and cannot serve as fiscal sponsors or community-based partners.
Additional considerations for working with direct NYSCA applicants:
- A SCR applicant may hire or “book” a NYSCA-grantee for a service with a paid fee.
A NYSCA applicant may offer their venue gratis to a SCR-funded project. The SCR grantee may pay for any direct costs related to use of the venue such as custodial, however:- The NYSCA grantee must not handle box office or ticketing
The NYSCA grantee must not profit or benefit from the SCR program (i.e. ticket sales, donations, etc.) - The program must not be advertised as part of the NYSCA grantee’s season/programming but may be included on the NYSCA grantee’s website and marketing as a “NYSCA SCR-supported project”.
- The NYSCA grantee must not handle box office or ticketing
Arts Education (AE) Grants:
AE grants offer two funding categories: (1) Pre-K-12 In-School Projects and (2) After-School & Community-Based Learning. Funds can support arts education projects for closed groups of learners. All AE projects must be carried out in partnership with a public school or in partnership with a community-based organization or artist residing in Broome, Chenango or Otsego county.
- Please note: schools may not apply directly to the SCR program. (PTAs may apply only if they have their own nonprofit status and provide cultural services for the community at large unrelated to the regular school program.)
All AE projects must provide:- Sequential, skills-based study that incorporates one or more art forms and includes a minimum of 3 sequential hands-on learning sessions
- In-depth, age and skills appropriate learning opportunities
- Hands-on, participatory creation and/or learning opportunities in one or more art forms that may culminate in exhibitions, productions, or demonstrations
- Stated learning goals, methodologies and outcomes and a means for evaluation
- It is recommended that support materials include lesson plans, evaluation plan, video/photo work samples of past Arts Education work, participant evaluation forms and letters of recommendation.
In-School Projects
- These projects must take place in-school during the school day and in partnership with a public school.
- Private and parochial schools are ineligible for partnerships.
- School partners involved in any AE projects currently receiving direct NYSCA funding are not eligible for a SCR Arts Education regrant.
- AE regrant funds must not replace, or appear to replace, the role of certified arts teachers in schools.
- Inter-curricular collaboration for in-school projects is encouraged but not required.
- A letter of commitment from the partner school to the arts organization or artist must be included with the application to be eligible for funding. The letter of commitment must outline in detail the partner(s) support of the project (monetarily and otherwise) and anticipated roles and responsibilities for each partner involved. The partnership letter should be on the partner(s) letterhead and signed by the principal.
After-School and Community-Based Learning
- Projects may take place in a community-based setting such as a library, school, community center, or arts organization.
Projects are provided to a closed group of learners, meaning they are not open to the general public. These groups may be composed of a particular age group (including adult learners), or for participants of all ages. - A letter of commitment from the partner arts organization or artist must be included with the application to be eligible for funding. The letter of commitment must outline in detail the partner(s) support of the project (monetarily and otherwise) and anticipated roles and responsibilities for each partner involved. The partnership letter should be on the partner(s) letterhead and signed by the director of the partner organization.
- Applicants may submit up to three project requests in one application in any combination of categories (Community Arts, Individual Artist and/or Arts Education) totaling no more than $5,000
Eligible Applicants
- All applicants must be working with an eligible partner school for in-school programs. Eligible applicants may apply directly for out-of-school programs.
- A 501(c)(3) or New York State non-profit organization with an active board of trustees either incorporated in NY State or registered to do business in NY State
A government or quasi-governmental entity, or tribal organization - Individual artists, groups or collectives, and unincorporated entities who are working with an eligible partner school (for in-school programs) or eligible fiscal sponsor or community-based partner if accepted by your SCR site (for out-of-school programs).
Lead applicants must be 18 years of age at the time of submission and may not be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree program
Projects must take place in the same county as the fiscal sponsor or communitybased partner. - If an individual artist or unincorporated group is working with a public school that is out of their county of residence, the applicant must have a nonprofit fiscal sponsor in the county of the public school where the project is to take place.
Individual Artist Grants
Individual Artist Grants (IA) offer commissioning support to individual professional artists for the creation of a new work in a community setting. This regrant opportunity represents a “live & work” investment in local artists. It is designed to increase support for local artist-initiated activity and to highlight the role of artists as important members of the community.
- An essential element of this funding is a community engagement component. The project must engage a segment of the community through a public program, such as an exhibition or performance that is open to the public, and/or the inclusion of community involvement in the development and creative process of the artists’ project. This can be in the form of feedback, response, interaction and/or social practice by or with community members. Some examples of this type of interaction are interviews with a segment of the community, creation of parallel work by a community group, or stories and anecdotes collected from a community group that relate to the concept or content of the project.
- Individual Artist Grants are offered in the amount of $2,500 per commission. There is no match required.
- Applicants may submit up to three requests in any combination of categories (Community Arts, Individual Artist, and/or Arts Education) totaling no more than $5,000.
Eligible applicants
- Artists apply directly for the Individual Artists Category.
- Applicants/artists must be at least 18 years of age at the time of a application.
For more information, visit Statewide Community Regrants Program.
