Deadline: 8-Oct-21
The ArtsWave is currently accepting applications for the 2022 ArtsWave Pride Grant Program to provide funding for arts or cultural heritage projects that promote and/or celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community, advancing Cincinnati’s reputation as a welcoming and inclusive community through the arts.
In alignment with ArtsWave’s intention to promote and celebrate all the ways that the region is diverse, and to create inclusive arts experiences that are also exciting and innovative, the ArtsWave Pride Grant Program requests proposals for projects that may appeal to or have relevance to the broader LGBTQIA+ community.
This grant program is designed to provide both seed funding to support the development of new programming, as well as short-term operating support for existing programming with a demonstrated impact of inclusivity.
To be eligible for the FY2022 ArtsWave Pride Grant Program, the proposed programming should:
- Be participatory and social
- Align with one or more goals of ArtsWave’s Blueprint for Collective Action
- Engage and/or celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community
- Not have received funding through another ArtsWave project grant since January 1, 2021
- Proposed programming must take place between September 1, 2021-July 15, 2022 and not be completed by grant award notification.
Funding Information
- Grant awards will be made up to $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
ArtsWave believes that strong arts create strong communities and actively seeks to promote access, equity, and inclusiveness in its grantmaking. To be eligible for the FY2022 ArtsWave Pride Grant Program, an organization must meet all the following requirements:
- Have a 501(c)3 tax status or be non-profit in nature with an established fiscal agent.
- Be based in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN MSA, which includes the following counties: Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties in Ohio; Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and Pendleton Counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn, Ohio, and Union Counties in Indiana.
- Have a primary mission to provide programs or activities in areas directly concerned with arts or cultural heritage for the general public.
- Provide programs or activities that celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community.
- Does not currently have an active ArtsWave Pride grant and has successfully completed all previous ArtsWave Pride grant requirements.
- Have not received funding through another ArtsWave project grant since January 1, 2021
- Embody ArtsWave’s commitment to access, equity, and inclusiveness.
For more information, visit https://artswave.submittable.com/submit