Grants for Organizations
Arts and Culutural Heritage Community Arts Learning Grant
This program has two deadlines per year:
FY2011:
September 30, 2010
March 31, 2011
Community Arts Learning Grants provides up to $5,000 from the ACH Fund to artists and arts organizations for creating activities with clearly articulated learning objectives. Targeted audiences will have interactive contact with artists, as well as a public performance or presentation. It is ARAC's intention that such projects may take place in public schools, community education sites, parks and recreation properties, or other community venues.
Individual artists, as well as non-profit 501(c)3 organizations, may apply for these grants.
Guidelines and application forms (you may fill out the application form electronically):
Download guidelines
Download application and RAC data collection form (you must submit both with your grant)
You can also receive hard copies of the guidelines by mail. Please call us at 800-569-8134 or 218-722-0952.
Administrative Support Grants
This program has one deadline per year:
FY2011:
January 28, 2011
Administrative Operating Support Grants provide cash awards of up to $5,000 per year for two years to high-quality, established federal nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 regional arts organizations to fund projects which address their organizational and programmatic goals and objectives. This grant is not intended to present or produce programming. The goal of this program is to support projects which directly address a group's administrative, organizational, and facility needs. An applicant may receive this grant and still apply to the Council's other grant programs but they can not use this grant as a match on another ARAC application.
Guidelines and application forms (you may fill out the application form electronically):
GUIDELINES WILL BE AVAILABLE AROUND OCTOBER 1, 2010. CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATON.
Download guidelines
Download application and RAC data collection form (you must submit both with your grant)
You can also receive hard copies of the guidelines by mail. Please call us at 800-569-8134 or 218-722-0952.
Art Project Grants
This program has three deadlines per year:
FY2011:
July 30, 2010
November 19, 2010
March 31, 2011
Art Project Grants provide nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 regional arts organizations cash awards of up to $6,000 per application to support activities directly involved in the creation, performance, exhibition, or publication of art; or to present arts events by contracting for the services of other organizations or individuals. The purpose of the proposed activity should be to do one or more of the following: encourage the development of an art form; stimulate the artistic growth of artists associated with an arts organization or arts discipline; advance the development of the artistic growth of an arts organization; or present a variety of high quality arts experiences for regional audiences. Projects may be proposed in the following disciplines: visual arts, music, dance, theater, literature, film, video, and folk or ethnic art. If an organization or group has not yet registered as a nonprofit in the State of Minnesota or achieved federal nonprofit, tax-exempt status, it may apply to this program by using another 501(c)3 organization as a fiscal agent. Organizations receiving Art Project grants have twelve months to begin the project and twenty-four months to complete the project from the date they are notified of the award.
Guidelines and application forms (you may fill out the application form electronically):
Download guidelines
Download application and RAC data collection form (you must submit both with your grant)
You can also receive hard copies of the guidelines by mail. Please call us at 800-569-8134 or 218-722-0952.
ACHF/ARAC Rural and Community Arts Grants
This program has three deadlines per year:
FY2011:
September 30, 2010
January 28, 2011
April 29, 2011
The ACHF/ARAC Rural and Community Arts Grants program provides nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 regional arts groups with cash awards of up to $4,000 per application to support community or artist initiated arts activities that will impact the group and/or the community it serves. These grants may also help support arts activities in their early years of development. Applicants may be community organizations, neighborhood groups, informal groups, or a collective of three or more artists. This program only accepts applications from regional groups from outside the Duluth urban area with annual cash expenses of less than $50,000 and $8,000 or less from small groups located in the Duluth urban area. Rural and community arts activities should be collaborative efforts between community groups, artists, and/or the arts organizations and have a close relationship to a specific population or location, enabling applicants to produce or present arts activities which impact their group and the community they serve. If a group has not yet registered as a nonprofit in the State of Minnesota or achieved federal nonprofit, tax-exempt status, it may apply to this program by using another 501(c)3 organization as a fiscal agent.
The purpose of the proposed activity should be to do one or more of the following: encourage the development of an art form; stimulate the artistic growth of artists associated with an arts organization or arts discipline; advance the development of the artistic growth of an arts organization; or present a variety of high quality arts experiences for regional audiences. Projects may be proposed in the following disciplines: visual arts, music, dance, theater, literature, film, video, and folk or ethnic art. Groups receiving Rural and Community grants have twelve months to begin the project and twenty-four months to complete the project from the date they are notified of the award.
Guidelines and application forms (you may fill out the application form electronically):
Guidelines have been revised; read completely before writing your grant.
Download guidelines
Download application and RAC data collection form (you must submit both with your grant)
You can also receive hard copies of the guidelines by mail. Please call us at 800-569-8134 or 218-722-0952.
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