Through partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts offers small grants that compliment existing efforts by arts organizations to include audiences and artists with disabilities.
Donor Name: South Arts
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Southeast is home to some of the world’s more diverse and vibrant artistic communities. At South Arts, they believe that the arts are for everyone. The arts enrich the lives of people of all abilities and backgrounds. In commitment to amplifying the success of the Southeast’s arts ecology, South Arts offers micro-funding to supplement the efforts of arts organizations throughout service area.
Art making is for everyone too! South Arts encourages arts organizations to hire artistic personnel of all abilities at all levels; for these grants in particular, they encourage arts organizations to work directly with artists who identify as disabled.
South Arts has prioritized the following:
- South Arts prioritizes applications from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ identifying organizations.
- South Arts prioritizes applications from organizations led by persons with disabilities or organizations that provide significant programming to artists or audiences with disabilities.
- South Arts is committed to funding artists organizations in rural communities (with populations under 50,000).
Funding Information
- Applicants may request funding of $500-$2,500 for eligible projects.
- Grant period: October 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
Eligibility Requirements
The following is a top-level list of the main requirements necessary to be considered for an Accessibility Grant.
- Be a nonprofit, 501c3, tax-exempt organization, an official unit of local, county, or state government (including an institution of higher education), or a federally recognized tribal community located within the South Arts Service region states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. This grant does not provide support to fiscally sponsored projects or entities. The organization must:
- has a primary mission focused on the arts, or
- serves as the primary arts provider in its community, or
- will commit to a project that connects the arts to persons who have disabilities.
- Conduct programming/projects as outlined in the Usage of Funds section below.
- Organizations are limited to one Accessibility Grant award per fiscal year (July 1-June 30).
- Programs that include paid opportunities for disabled artists are highly encouraged.
- In accordance with federal government policy, all organizations – including (but not limited to) private schools, government entities, public school districts, and nonprofit organizations – must provide a valid Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) to receive a South Arts Accessibility grant award.
For more information, visit South Arts.
