Youth Cultural Heritage Project Grants supports youth-based projects and activities across Alaska to enable children and youth to use the arts to approach, understand, express and share their cultural heritage.
Donor Name: Alaska State Council on the Arts
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
For the purposes of this program, arts-based activities might encompass any creative, expressive and cultural art form including visual and performing arts, literary and media arts, and other allied arts and crafts. they recognize that art is one facet of culture, and in many traditions and communities, creative, expressive arts and crafts may not be identified as separate from daily life and cultural practice.
Goals
- The overarching goals of the Youth Cultural Heritage Program are as follows:
- Strengthen Alaska children and youth’s cultural knowledge and self-awareness
- Support direct, creative development opportunities for Alaska children and youth to engage with artists and culture bearers
- Engage citizens around cultural heritage
- Bridge culture and communities
- Create greater cross-cultural understanding and empathy.
Funding Information
Grants up to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
An applicant to the Youth Cultural Heritage (YCH) Program may receive a single grant award in any given fiscal year (July 1 – June 30). This means one of the following grants: YCH Project Grant, OR a YCH Alumni Grant, OR a YCH Fast Track Grant. YCH applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Applicants propose arts-based, children and/or youth-focused, cultural heritage activities, occurring within the State of Alaska.
- Applicant is an Alaska 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, school, unit of state, local or tribal government proposing YCH Program-aligned activities.
- Applicants can provide proof of State of Alaska and federally tax-exempt/non-profit status, in good standing (example: a copy of an IRS letter confirming tax-exempt status).
- YCH Tribal governmental grantees are neither requested nor required to provide a waiver of sovereign immunity to apply for or receive grant funding from the Alaska State Council on the Arts.
- If the application is from a school, the proposed activity enriches school programming and curricula but does not supplant arts or cultural instruction or programming.
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