Deadline: 15-Jan-2025
ArtsWave has launched the Catalyzing Impact Grants Program to encourage a breadth of programming through arts and cultural heritage projects that support the goals of ArtsWave’s Blueprint for Collective Action.
Funding Information
- Grant awards will be made up to $10,000 or 50% of the total expenses for the proposed project and may be funded partially or in full. Please note in the application if you cannot complete your project with partial funding.
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 FY2025 Catalyzing Impact 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.
- 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, Franklin, and Ohio Counties in Indiana.
- Did not receive a Sustaining Impact grant for the new cohort cycle beginning FY2024
- Does not currently have an open Catalyzing Impact Grant with ArtsWave that will not be completed by February 1, 2025 and has successfully completed all previous Catalyzing Impact grant requirements.
- Has not received funding for the proposed project through another ArtsWave project grant.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Catalyzing Impact Grants cannot be requested for any of the following:
- General operating support
- Fundraisers
- Re-granting
- Advancing or inhibiting a religious ideology
- Advocacy of specific political causes or candidates
For more information, visit ArtsWave.