Apply for Quick Grant Program in the US

Deadline: 15-May-22

The Center for Cultural Innovation is proud to announce the Quick grant program to support artists and arts organizations’ financial sustainability through professional development support.

The Quick Grant program provides professional development funds to San Francisco Bay Area arts organizations and artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers in the state of California to enroll in workshops, attend conferences, and work with consultants, coaches, and mentors to build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial sustainability of an organization, arts practice, or area of cultural production.

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 May 15, 2022 deadline, the proposed activity must start on or after June 16, 2022.
Examples include (but aren’t limited to):
- Conferences, convenings, festivals
- Business training or workshops
- Platform memberships
- One-on-one work with consultants, coaches, and mentors including a request to bring your practice or programming online

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.
- 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.