Applications are now open for 2025 Arts Re-Grant Program.
Donor Name: Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission (SCCHC)
State: New Jersey
County: Salem County (NJ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/10/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission (SCCHC) receives funding from the State of New Jersey through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA). These funds are specifically designated to be re-granted to arts institutions or for arts related special projects.
Grant Types
- Special Project Grants
- Available to any non-profit or tax-exempt organization/municipality located in Salem County, regardless of its mission, to support a special arts project.
- Matching Requirement: 0% The NJSA matching requirement has been paused through 2024. However, this is subject to change. Re-grantees are still expected to record any matching funds, both cash and in-kind.
- Maximum Request: $25,000
- General Operating Support
- Available to any non-profit or tax-exempt organization located in Salem County, whose mission is primarily arts related.
- Matching Requirement: 0% The NJSA matching requirement has been paused through 2024. However, this is subject to change. Re-grantees are still expected to record any matching funds, both cash and in-kind.
- Maximum Request: $25,000
- Technical Assistance
- Available to any established or developing, non-profit/tax exempt, arts organization located within Salem County seeking financial assistance. These grants are designed to assist in the development of arts organizations in need of targeted financial assistance.
- Matching Requirement: 0% The NJSA matching requirement has been paused through 2024. However, this is subject to change. Re-grantees are still expected to record any matching funds, both cash and in-kind.
- Maximum Request: $1,000
- Examples:
- Startup costs for non-profit registration
- Administrative support
- Insurance costs
- Marketing development
NJSCA Funding Priorities
Successful project proposals will touch on one or more of the following:
- Support – Strategically support New Jersey artists and arts organizations
- Arts Education/Lifelong Learning – Quality arts education and lifelong learning opportunities for everyone
- Diversity – People of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds engaged in the arts
- Development – New Jersey communities thriving through the arts
- Awareness – Widespread public understanding of the importance of the arts.
Eligibility Criteria
Those eligible to participate in the re-grant program include:
- Non-profit or tax-exempt organizations located within Salem County
- Libraries, civic and community organizations, educational institutions (for non-standard extracurricular funding only), museums, historical groups, arts and culture organizations, and municipalities
- Colleges, Universities, and other Educational and Religious Institutions
- activities must be marketed to and open to the general public
- activities must be supplemented to any curriculum and separate from any religious observance
- neither the grant nor the matching funds are used to pay salaries of faculty or members of the clergy
- K-12 Schools are encouraged to seek artist residency support through the NJSCA Artist in Education program.
For more information, visit SCCHC.
