The Waltham Cultural Council supports the arts, humanities, and sciences through grants and advocacy for nonprofit cultural organizations, schools, and artists.
Donor Name: Mass Cultural Council
State: Massachusetts
City: Waltham
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/17/2022
Size of the Grant: $31,100
Details:
Through their efforts, they strive to make their community a better place to live, work, and visit. As a public investor in the arts, humanities, and sciences, they work to ensure everyone in their community has a place in their rich cultural life.
They fund activities and events that celebrate cultural diversity and local history, engage the community and increase access to arts education for Waltham youth. Priority is given to projects that support initiatives with a specific focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
Local Priorities
- Projects that support:
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Exposing school-aged children to the arts
- Artist’s living and work spaces
- Events that:
- Celebrate local history and cultural diversity
- Involve the community and neighborhoods
- Promote arts education in schools
- Focusing on the following communities:
- Low-income
- Communities of color
- Immigrant communities
- Teens
Funding Information
- Amount: $31,100
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must reside or be located in Massachusetts. Local Cultural Councils may accept applications from anyone included in the following list:
- Individuals: Individual applicants must show that a public benefit results from the project for which they are applying. A public presentation of an individual’s work may provide the needed public benefit. Individual members of Local Cultural Councils may apply for funding from a Local Cultural Council but must observe all conflict-of-interest laws and regulations in the granting process. Local Cultural Councils may also establish their own rules regarding applications from council members as long as these are consistent with the state’s conflict of interest laws.
- Incorporated private nonprofit organizations.
- Unincorporated associations that can establish a nonprofit objective. A group of individuals coming together with a common purpose (e.g., local community band, theater group) that do not have nonprofit status.
- Public schools, libraries, other municipal agencies, and the Local Cultural Council itself.
- Religious organizations. Religious organizations or groups with a religious affiliation are eligible to apply for funding for cultural programming that is available to the general public. LCCs can only approve applications that are primarily cultural in their intent and do not have the effect of advancing religion.
For more information, visit Mass Cultural Council.
