The Quick Grant program provides professional development funds to staff members of nonprofit arts organizations based in San Francisco or San José, as well as to California-based artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers.
Donor Name: Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
State: California
County: San Francisco County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/15/2026
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This program supports artists and arts workers with funding to enroll in workshops, attend conferences, and work with consultants, coaches, and mentors in order to build their administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial resilience of an organization, artistic practice, or area of cultural production.
Funding Information
Grants up to $600.
Eligible Activities
To be eligible for Quick Grant funding, activities must:
- Build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and/or strengthen the financial resilience of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.
- This includes activities with a focus on advocacy education, technology skill-building, and training in areas like copyright registration or other intellectual property protections.
- Begin after the application notification date. For example, for the June 15, 2026, deadline, the proposed activity must start on or after the notification date of July 16, 2026.
- Funding may be used to support part or all of the following eligible expenses:
- Travel and hotel expenses associated with the participation in an eligible activity, regardless of distance from the applicant’s primary address or the organization’s location (eligible expenses can include meals, gas, parking, tolls, public transportation, etc.)
- Caregiving associated costs (e.g., childcare, daycare, eldercare, etc.) associated with the participation in an eligible activity.
- Registration fees for conferences, festivals, workshops, and/or trainings
- Memberships or subscriptions that offer opportunities for professional networking, business or administrative skill development, and/or field knowledge
- Fees to engage a facilitator, executive coach, mentor, career counselor, or consultant to build administrative and business skills
- Regarding consultant support, for a proposed activity to be competitive, it must be made clear that the applicant will be actively engaged in enhanced learning or receiving portable skills. In other words, proposed activities MUST have an educational benefit or result in skill acquisition. Consequently, applications wherein sub-contract activities are proposed (e.g., hiring someone to moderate a webinar series, design a website on the applicant’s behalf, or facilitate online sales) are not eligible.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual Artists, Creatives, Cultural Practitioners, & Cultural Producers
- Must currently reside full-time within the State of California
- Nonprofit Arts Organization Staff Members
- Staff of a nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organization located in the City and County of San Francisco or the City of San José
- Staff of a fiscally sponsored arts organization with the majority (i.e., 75%) of the organization’s public programming occurring within the City and County of San Francisco or the City of San José
Ineligibility
At this time, Quick Grant funding cannot support the following:
- Activities focused primarily on creative or artistic skill development, art teaching/teaching artist methods and techniques, or artistic presentation/production
- Activities that support an applicant’s adjacent enterprise
- Funding to offset applicant’s regular salary or wages or fees for temporary/contract employees
- Funding to support overhead expenses
- Funding to purchase art supplies, materials, or advanced inventory
- Activities proposed by artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, or cultural producers to support the operations of a nonprofit organization or a role in arts administration, and vice versa, activities proposed by organizational staff to support an individual art or cultural practice
- Activities that begin less than one month after the nearest application deadline (applications are due on the 15th of each month); for example, if you apply by the August 15 deadline—between July 16 and August 15—the activity cannot begin until on or after September 16
- Funding to offset fees associated with college tuition or college credit activities.
For more information, visit CCI.
