The Festivals Program Grants support community-based festivals in S.C. that increase public engagement and participation in arts and culture.
Donor Name: South Carolina Arts Commission
State: South Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
A festival is a day or period of celebration or gathering of people that:
- Happens in a condensed period of time (i.e. an annual celebration or anniversary or an organized series of concerts, plays, movies, or performances held in the same place).
- Has an easily identifiable or unifying theme or specified focus.
Priorities
Special consideration will be given to festivals in underserved communities; those communities in which people lack arts programs, services, or resources due to geography, economic conditions, cultural background, socio-political circumstances, disability, age or other demonstrable factors. The term “community” can refer to a group of people with a common heritage or characteristics, whether they live in the same location or not.
Priority will be given to applicants that have projects in SCAC’s Opportunity Initiative Counties:
- Allendale
- Bamberg
- Calhoun
- Cherokee
- Clarendon
- Dillon
- Edgefield
- Hampton
- Jasper
- Laurens
- Lee
- Marion
- Marlboro
- Saluda
- Williamsburg.
Funding Information
Up to $7,500.
Grant Period
August 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025.
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are limited to:
- Arts programming, temporary art installations/exhibitions, commissions, or licensing fees for original works
- Artistic, administrative, technical, marketing salary support and/or contractual fees paid to artists, musicians, curators, programmers, and/or arts presenters/performers including travel and lodging.
- Event production costs for equipment/venue rentals and operation; sound, lighting, stage rigging, visual/digital components, and insurance for the arts programming only.
- Marketing including but not limited to graphic design services, advertising space, digital/print promotional materials, website, social media, printing, or publications
- Items or services ensuring program accessibility as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which includes captioning, translation, visual enhancements, interpreters, and listening guides.
- Festival activities can include juried processes (e.g. visual or performing arts competitions, exhibitions or juried shows.)
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant must be
- a unit of state or local government, OR
- a nonprofit organization
- currently registered as a charity with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office
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- Note: Applicants who are exempt from this registration must upload their registration exemption approval.
- reflecting S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documents
- with federal tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service
- OR
- applying through a tax-exempt fiscal agent/receiver organization.
For more information, visit SCAC.
