The Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy is excited to announce that applications for the 2025 Cultural Economy Grant Funding Program are open now!
Donor Name: Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
For the FY25 Funding Cycle, twenty-five (25) grants of $2,000 will be awarded to individuals and organizations that are engaging in activities that promote the cultural economy through educating youth, training cultural producers, providing networking opportunities, creating cultural events, and other projects that align with the Office of Cultural Economy’s mission.
Eligible Activities
- Workshops, training, and conferences that build cultural economy capacity in cultural non-profits, neighborhood organizations, and cultural businesses. Capacity Building includes networking, teaching skills such as fundraising/grant writing, working with partners to improve programming, leveraging, education about sustainability, learning of new concepts such as place-based planning, etc.
- Workshops, training, and conferences in any of the Cultural Economy segments as defined by the Office of Cultural Economy: Entertainment (dance, theater, music, film, sound recording), Design (fashion, interactive media, communications), Preservation (architecture, construction, landscape architecture, and interior design related to preserving historic buildings and assets), Culinary Arts, Literary Arts and Humanities, and Visual Arts and Crafts.
- Events with art and cultural components. Funds can be used for paying musicians or other performers, attracting tourists, or other activities that will directly impact either cultural workers or attract sales for art and cultural vendors.
- Note: all funded programs, events, and activities must acknowledge support from the Office of Cultural Economy through use of their logo or written/verbal acknowledgment.
Eligibility Criteria
- State and federal 501(c)3 nonprofits
- For profit businesses licensed with the City and State and are in good standing (Note they do not fund for-profit activities, but community/cultural activities organized by for-profit businesses qualify)
- Individuals, such as artists, who have secured a fiscal agent (such as a nonprofit).
For more information, visit MOCE.
