The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is currently applications for its California Art Leadership Investments (CALI) Catalyst Program to support artists and arts workers who are on the frontlines of effecting greater inclusion, access, diversity, and equity in the arts and culture sector.
Donor Name: Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/27/2023
Details:
CALI Catalyst provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are shifting the arts and culture sector in ways that tangibly give underrepresented voices more power and influence.
Individuals who take bold actions do so with risks to their jobs, social standing, and reputations. But this is precisely the moment when the arts and culture sector can embrace and support people who are changing the field in ways that work better for marginalized people—BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and those with disabilities. The arts and culture sector is better for it when strong voices and actions, for example, expose discriminatory hiring and employment practices that plague the arts and culture nonprofit and commercial industries, disrupt philanthropic practices that harm communities, and dismantle barriers to entry for artists and arts workers to be supported. The CALI Catalyst grant program is meant to give such leaders financial support, understanding that the fear of financial risk is, itself, a silencer and discourages changes to the status quo.
CALI Catalyst will prioritize grant support for the following:
- Applicants whose bold actions (2020 or later) are upending the status quo that has held the arts and culture sector back from realizing greater inclusion and equity by tangibly helping underrepresented communities—including Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities—gain more influence and power at industry-wide levels. By “tangibly,” they are referring to actions that resulted in visible, measurable, and concrete impacts.
- Applicants who played a causal role in the change that occurred (i.e., they decidedly influenced change at an industry level).
- Applicants who are of underrepresented communities, but if they are not, whose bold actions are in the interest of underrepresented communities and are visibly moving the needle for these communities to have more inclusion, influence, and power in the arts and culture sector.
- Applicants who reside in a non-metropolitan region.
- Applicants who have not previously received CALI Catalyst funding.
Eligibility Criteria
CALI Catalyst applicants can be individuals or teams of individuals. To be eligible for funding consideration:
- Applicants must be artists or arts workers (e.g., arts administrators, cultural producers, culture bearers, creatives, cultural practitioners, teaching artists, or specialized technicians).
- Applicants must reside full-time in California.
- Applicants’ change-making action(s) must have taken place or commenced (i.e., the action is still in progress) on or after January 1, 2020.
The following are ineligible for funding consideration:
- Organizations (e.g., nonprofits, for-profits, fiscally sponsored orgs);
- Individuals or teams of individuals who describe a change-making action that began or took place before January 1, 2020;
- Individuals or teams of individuals who are requesting funding to support an organization;
- Individuals or teams of individuals who have a conflict of interest (family or financial relationship) with the board, staff, or directors of the Center for Cultural Innovation; and
- Incomplete applications or applications with inaccessible (e.g., password-protected, broken links) attachments.
For more information, visit CCI.
