The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts is seeking applications for its 2022 Community Arts Grant to provide support for arts and cultural projects to community based organizations, groups, collectives, or individual artists whose projects enhance the cultural climate in the communities and neighborhoods where they live and operate.
Donor Name: Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
State: New York
County: Clinton County (NY), Essex County (NY), Franklin County (NY), and Hamilton County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/31/2022
Details:
Community Arts grants support all genres of the arts, including, but not limited to, dance, film, folk arts, literary arts, music, theater, video, visual arts, and multidisciplinary arts. Statewide Community Regrant-supported projects can be single events or part of a series. All Community Arts grant projects must be community-based and open to the general public.
What SCR Community Arts Awards Can Fund
- Activities and projects of eligible local arts organizations
- Artists’ fees and expenses
- Supplies and materials needed for the execution of the project
- Marketing and publicity costs
- Administrative expenses directly related to the proposed project
Eligibility Criteria
- The legal address of applicant organizations must be within Clinton, Essex, Franklin, or Hamilton County, and the funded project must take place within the same county as the applicant’s legal address.
- An applicant organization must be a governmental or quasi-governmental entity, a tribal organization, or a designated New York State nonprofit incorporated or registered to do business in the state. Please note that the address on the documentation provided must be within the county where the project is taking place.
- Any one of the first four documents listed below may serve as proof of nonprofit status for such organizations and must be submitted as part of the grant application.
- The fifth document listed pertains to governmental/quasi-governmental entities and is required to be submitted as part of those entities’ applications:
- A Letter of Determination from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) indicating tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code
- Documentation of being chartered by the NYS Board of Regents under section 216 of the NYS Education Law
- Documentation of incorporation under section 402 of the NYS Not-for-Profit Corporation Law Attorney General
- Official authorization as an arm of local/county government—i.e., a formal letter on official stationery signed by the appropriate county, city, town, or village executive
- Any one of the first four documents listed below may serve as proof of nonprofit status for such organizations and must be submitted as part of the grant application.
- Organizations, collectives, or individual artists who do not meet these requirements can apply for SCR funds through a fiscal sponsor. The entity serving as the fiscal sponsor becomes the “applicant organization” and must meet the same eligibility requirements listed in this section for a direct nonprofit-organization applicant and provide the same required documents.
- An individual artist or group of artists who apply, including those who use a fiscal sponsor, must each be 18 years of age at the time of application.
- In no way may applicant organizations discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
For more information, visit Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.
