Deadline: 15-Jun-21
The Center for Cultural Innovation is seeking applications for its Quick Grant program to support Financial Sustainability through Professional Development.
The Quick Grant program awards reimbursement funds up to $600 to California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators to participate in professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial sustainability of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.
Funding Information
- Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers meeting eligibility requirements may receive one annual award of up to $600 in reimbursement funding to participate in approved professional development activities.
- Nonprofit arts organization staff members meeting eligibility requirements may receive one annual award of up to $600 each in reimbursement funding to participate in approved professional development activities. Up to two individual staff members may apply per organization per year, including staff, board, or key volunteers.
Eligible Activities
- Professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial sustainability of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.
- Activities must begin after application notification. For example, for the upcoming June 15, 2021 deadline, the proposed activity must start on or after July 16, 2021.
- Examples include (but aren’t limited to):
- Conferences, convenings, festivals
- Business trainings or workshops
- Platform memberships
- One-on-one work with consultants, coaches, and mentors including request to bring your practice or programming online
- Note: Due to limited resources, requests by Los Angeles County applicants to work one-on-one with a consultant are extremely competitive. Priority will instead go to Los Angeles County applicants who propose group activities such as public workshops, conferences, and trainings.)
Ineligible Activities
- Activities focused on artistic development, presentation, or art teaching methods/techniques
- Requests to support overhead, general operating expenses, or lost income
- Activities that have already taken place or that will occur before application notifications are sent
Eligibility Criteria
- The Quick Grant program is supported by a joint consortium of California arts funders. Eligibility criteria may therefore vary slightly by region. Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, cultural producers, and nonprofit arts organizations may apply if they meet the eligibility criteria for any of the Quick Grant program’s funding partners as follows:
- Artists, Creatives, Cultural Practitioners, & Cultural Producers
- Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers living in the state of California (demonstrated by resume); and/or
- Current San Francisco Arts Commission individual grantees; and/or
- Individuals who have applied to the California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship since July 2012 but have not received a fellowship, with a preference for applicants of color and/or applicants from Antelope Valley, Pomona, San Fernando Valley, Southeast LA, and Long Beach.
- Nonprofit Arts Organizations
- Staff at a nonprofit arts organization in the city of San Francisco or the city of San José; and/or
- Staff of a current Grants for the Arts (GFTA) organizational grantee receiving operational (includes Arts & Parades) and/or Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund support.
For more information, visit https://www.cciarts.org/quick_grant.htm
