The City of Beaverton is seeking applications for its 2023-2024 Open Format Grants.
Donor Name: City of Beaverton
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
In Beaverton, the arts are a part of identity, helping to build community vibrancy and shared identity. The Beaverton Arts Program contributes by presenting arts and cultural events and programs that celebrate community values and help connect residents to their artistic and cultural heritage.
This grant is intended to provide support for individuals or organizations that have needs not met by other traditional funding programs. Funds could be used to support studio, office, or venue rental; support staff positions; produce a discreet project; hire a consultant to lead strategic planning efforts for an organization, etc.
Goals
Informed by Beaverton’s Community Vision, the goals of the Open Grant program is to support requests for funding that meet one or more of the following goals:
- Demonstrate cultural diversity, social equity and inclusiveness and to help the City of Beaverton become increasingly welcoming, inclusive, representative, and responsive to historically underrepresented and underserved communities, particularly communities of color, immigrants, refugees and LGBTQ.
- Nurture community collaboration; encourage partnership among artists and creative industries, businesses, cultural and other non- and for-profit organizations
- Contribute to economic vitality, contribute to neighborhood revitalization and/or beautification, and promote our city as a place that is welcoming, vibrant, responsible, friendly, safe, and active.
- Inspire or accomplish creativity and innovation.
- Nurture and honor community identity and heritage; preserve and commemorate local and multicultural traditions and histories
- Create public spaces that promote health, happiness and wellbeing.
Funding Information
Funding requests may be up to $2,500 per applicant.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants will be considered, but it is advisable that the primary applicant identify as one of the following:
- Individual artists, artist collectives, curators or arts administrators
- Non-profit organizations offering arts and culture programming
- School groups that fall within the city of Beaverton
- Individual Students
For more information, visit City of Beaverton.
