The Arts Integration Training Grant Program supports nonprofit arts
organizations and teaching artists to plan and deliver professional development in arts integration strategies to classroom teachers, as well as site, district, and county-level administrators.
Donor Name: California Arts Council
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/06/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Arts Integration Training projects should be designed to pave a pathway for increased equitable student learning in, through, and about the arts. This may be realized in a specific classroom, in all classrooms across a school site, or as a central strategy for a districtor countywide arts plan. The project must be planned and implemented with collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization, teaching artists, and the educational entity, with full commitment from all participants.
Goals
Projects should address the following Arts Integration Training program goals:
- Develop long-term, mutually beneficial relationships between arts and educational organizations, teaching artists, and the youth and families in the communities they serve.
- Develop the ability of classroom teachers to design and implement culturally and linguistically responsive, sequential, standards-based arts integration projects throughout the curriculum.
- Develop site, district, and/or county-level administrators’ understanding of how arts integration strategies promote overall student educational outcomes.
- Promote educators’ positive recognition of and respect for the diverse cultural assets of the local community.
Funding Information
- Grant Request Amount: Up to $25,000
- October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025
Eligibility Criteria
- Organization must have a principal place of business in CA and a CA address.
- Organizations must demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
- An applicant organization without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding.
- Units of municipal, county, or tribal governments are eligible to apply.
- Organizations and fiscal sponsors must have “active status” with the California Secretary of State (SOS) showing evidence of “good standing” at the time of application. You can verify your organization’s status by conducting a search using the SOS online Business Search tool.
For more information, visit CAC.
