Applicants are invited to apply for the Professional Development Grants for Arts Organizations.
Donor Name: South Arts
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The South Arts strongly believes that skill and knowledge building for arts organizations are integral to success and sustainability. These grants supported by the National Endowment for the Arts are designed to meet the professional development needs of Southern arts organizations for increasing organizational capacity to achieve long-term sustainability, growth, and/or operational stability. This grant program is open to film, visual arts, performing arts, traditional arts, literary arts, and multidisciplinary arts organizations.
Funding Information
Grants up to $1,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only arts organizations with operating budgets of $500,000 or less (for the last completed fiscal year) are eligible for this grant program. Arts organizations can include but are not limited to artist ensembles, producing and presenting organizations, visual and performing arts centers, museums, film festivals, arts service organizations, community arts organizations, and art councils. Arts organizations must work with and compensate professional artists and/or artistic staff. Schools and community ensembles such as community theaters and community choirs are strongly encouraged to contact South Arts to discuss eligibility.
- Only nonprofit and governmental arts organizations in South Arts’ nine-state region are eligible to apply. South Arts’ nine-state region includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- Applicants must have 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, tax-exempt status; be an official unit of local, county, or state government; or be a federally recognized tribal community. Applications are accepted from any tribal community with not-for-profit, tax-exempt status. For nonprofit applicants, tax-exempt status will be verified by a third-party entity. Governmental applicants must provide proof of government status. South Arts does not accept applications from fiscal agents for this grant program.
- Applicants must have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI). Applications will not be accepted from organizations that do not have a UEI. Obtaining your UEI could take a minimum of 30 days.
- Applications are only accepted for new professional development opportunities. For the purposes of these guidelines, new opportunities are defined as events/activities that the organization has not participated in previously or “first time participation” opportunities. Proposed projects must relate to the applicant’s arts programming/services and support increasing organizational capacity to achieve long-term sustainability, growth, and/or operational stability (e.g., skill and knowledge building for organizational capacity or stability). Eligible participants include arts administrators and board members.
- Applicants are limited to one Professional Development Grant application per South Arts fiscal year or grant cycle.
- Applicants who have failed to comply with the grant terms and conditions by the application deadline for this program will not be considered for funding from this grant program until they have completed a conversation with program director Nikki Estes. This includes applicants who did not properly acknowledge South Arts’ AND the National Endowment for the Arts’ support in programs/press materials for any previous South Arts grant or applicants who did not submit the final report for any previous South Arts grant.
For more information, visit South Arts.
