Arts in Education Collaboration (AIEC) is a grant program that provides up to $6,000 to arts organizations, schools, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to build collaborations and community partnerships in order to increase access to high quality, sustained arts education for K-12 students in North Dakota.
Donor Name: North Dakota Council on the Arts
State: North Dakota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Goals
- North Dakota school and district leadership, arts organizations, and community members are focused on providing students and teachers with increased access to K-12 arts education and implementing a vision of high quality, sustainable arts education programming
- Encourage, support, and strengthen arts education partnerships
- Support initiatives for working toward long-term, self-sustaining, participatory, and meaningful arts education experiences for students
The Arts in Education Collaboration (AIEC) grant program includes collaborations between teachers or departments within a school, between multiple schools within a district, between multiple rural school districts, or between a school and a community arts resource nonprofit organization or for-profit organization. Projects may take place in school during regular school hours, after school, during summer sessions, or during professional development in-service workshops.
Project Period
NDCA Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025).
This Program Funds
- Fees for teaching artists (including travel expenses)
- Fees for an arts education consultant or provider of professional development (including travel expenses for the consultant)
- Fee for a project coordinator
- Administrative fees, including printing costs for lesson plans or other documents, and other administrative costs related to project planning and delivery. Administrative fees may not exceed 10% of the total requested amount.
- Fees for professional performing arts groups, student tickets, and transportation expenses for exhibitions and performances when there is a clear connection to the overall arts learning plan.
Eligibility Criteria
A North Dakota school district, government agency, nonprofit organization, or fiscally sponsored group is eligible to apply and serve as the lead partner and/or fiscal agent for the grant. Applicants must be one of the following:
- Federally tax-exempt nonprofit arts organization
- Federally tax-exempt non-arts nonprofit organization – Arts budgets must be isolated from the larger entity’s budget.
- Public entity such as a unit of state, local, or tribal government
- Public and private schools
- Fiscally sponsored groups with arts projects must be comprised of at least three (3) people and have an advisory committee of at least three people that is responsible for the oversight of project and grant funds.
- Fiscal sponsors must be a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, unit of state or local government, or federally recognized tribal community or tribe.
All Applicants Must:
- Be physically located in North Dakota
- Have the majority of arts programming, services, or activities take place in North Dakota
- Primarily serve and engage North Dakota audiences and participants
For more information, visit NDCA.
