Deadline: 6-Sep-21
The Zellerbach Community Foundation has launched Community Arts Covid response Grants Program for arts and culture organizations in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties.
Funding Information
- Response grants are general operating support awards in the amount of $5,000, $10,000 or $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Response Grants are available to arts and culture organizations in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties. Grants made support organizations suffering revenue loss, requiring operational support, producing and presenting, and/or engaging in recovery and reopening.
- All other Community Arts grants – including Project, Stability, Collaboration and Training grants – have been suspended. Response grants will remain in place until circumstances allow a return to regular grantmaking.
- Grants are made to nonprofit organizations/organizations applying with a 501c3 fiscal sponsor
- Individual artists are not eligible to receive Response Grants.
- Organizations must primarily operate in San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties
- Organizations must primarily work in dance, music, theater, visual arts, literary arts, festivals
- Organizations must have a history of at least two years of presenting or producing work
- Organizations (excluding fiscal sponsors representing multiple organizations) may apply for one grant per submission cycle
- Organizations with no established funding history with ZFF may still apply
- Current Community Arts grantees are eligible to apply; organizations may have multiple active grants at this time.
Evaluation Criteria
- Applicants must articulate impact of the COVID pandemic on their organization
- Applicants must articulate what/how they are planning for recovery and reopening
- Applicants must articulate challenges they are facing for recovery and reopening
- Applicants must articulate the impact of their organization on the community served.
For more information, visit https://zff.org/ca-covid-response-grants/
