The Strengthening the Sector grants program provides initiative-based support to organizations catalyzing systemic change at the policy level.
Donor Name: The Music Man Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/13/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The grants will support activities such as:
- advocacy training and tools that build the capacity of individuals to understand and proactively influence issues impacting arts and community vitality, and/or
- research collection and action plan designed at a scale which have the capacity to impact policy and field-wide practices.
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for funding, an organization must:
- Reflect music within the organization’s efforts,
- Operate as a non-profit organization,
- Have been conducting mission-aligned programming since March 2022 or before,
- Have had at least one paid employee since March 1, 2023 or before,
- Not have a structural deficit, and
- Have a service jurisdiction that includes either Los Angeles County, California (statewide), or the United States of America (nationwide). Programs focused on a state that is not California will not be eligible.
- For organizations that have previously received a grant from The Music Man Foundation, the organization must be in good standing with the Foundation before applying for the Award.
Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated accomplishments in systems change and the capacity for the organization’s programming to create sustainable impacts.
- Demonstrated understanding of the system the organization seeks to impact and insight as to why the organization is well-positioned to take on this system change.
- Clear connection between the organization’s initiative(s) and how these lead to system change.
- Clear description of the organization’s initiative(s) with the initiative’s (intended) participants and timeline.
- Organization has a clear vision of its future intentions. Organization has capacity to identify and track progress towards key milestones for the organization and the system the organization is impacting.
- Music is a primary component of the initiative’s efforts.
- Strategic collaborations and/or partnerships exist and reflect an intentional collaboration that showcase intentional efforts to influence system dynamics.
For more information, visit TMMF.
