The City of Tacoma is now accepting Community Arts Projects funding applications from eligible organizations and groups producing publicly accessible arts programming across all artistic disciplines within Tacoma city limits in 2025.
Donor Name: City of Tacoma
State: Washington
City: Tacoma
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Community Arts Projects funding can be used for a variety of arts-focused projects, including, but not limited to, artistic presentations, activities, events, workshops, experiences, festivals, performances, or other projects that are accessible to the general public – either in person and/or virtually.
All applications will be reviewed, and funding decisions made, using the Evaluation Criteria. An applicant’s proposed project does not need to meet any of the Funding Priorities listed below to be considered for funding. But, as part of the funding allocation process, the panel will prioritize funding for applicants or projects that meet one or more of the following:
- Organizations who will use Community Arts Projects funding to fairly compensate artists and collaborators, especially BIPOC artists and collaborators, to create work that is central to the project.
- Organizations, projects, or strategies that primarily give voice to:
- Racial justice and/or social justice
- Economically or socio-economically marginalized communities
- LGBTQIA+ communities
- People with disabilities
- Organizations whose primary intentions, practices, and mission are by, for, and about BIPOC communities
- Projects that will address emergent community needs.
Funding Priorities
The Tacoma Arts Commission is committed to investing in communities most impacted by racial, social, and economic inequity. This includes emerging and grassroots groups directly serving their communities and collaborations between organizations. The intention of these funding priorities is to foster programming that addresses historic and structural inequities, as they work toward justice for all.
Funding Information
Applicants can apply for either $3,000, $6,000, or $9,000 for their project.
Funded projects must provide a specific public benefit to the residents of Tacoma in exchange for the funding. Examples of public benefit include but are not limited to:
- ensuring that the artistic project is accessible to a broad range of community members
- covering admission costs so the public can access the project either for free or at a significantly reduced cost
- providing cultural experiences that are not otherwise available to residents of Tacoma
- projects that are responsive to an emergent community need
- allowing the public to access and witness the creation of new artistic work
- serving historically underserved neighborhoods or communities
- producing artistic work that intersects with other shared community goals, such as environmental justice, community safety, workforce development, and supports for mental and physical health.
Grant Period
Funded projects must take place in Tacoma and be completed between January 1 and December 31, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility extends to private non-profit corporations with a 501(c) designation, organized groups of people working together for a specific mission or purpose, for-profit businesses or educational institutions producing projects that are non-profit in nature, and tribes or Native non-profit organizations. Applicants are required to have offices or their place of business within Tacoma, or if they have no offices, a majority of their activities must take place within Tacoma city limits.
For more information, visit City of Tacoma.
