Deadline: 17-Sep-20
The purpose of the Catalyzing Impact Grant Program is to encourage a breadth of programming through arts and cultural heritage projects that support the goals of Arts Wave’s Blueprint for Collective Action.
Grant Amount
Grant awards will be made up to $10,000 or 50% of the total expenses for the proposed project.
Who May Apply?
Arts Wave believes that strong arts create strong communities and actively seeks to promote access, equity, and inclusiveness in its grantmaking. To be eligible for the FY2021 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.
- 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 not received a Sustaining Impact or Capital Grant in FY2020.
- Does not currently have an active Catalyzing Impact Grant or Capital Grant with ArtsWave and has successfully completed all previous Catalyzing Impact or Capital grant requirements.
- Embody ArtsWave’s commitment to access, equity, and inclusiveness.
- Organizations with missions that are not directly concerned with arts or cultural heritage are encouraged to apply for support of arts or cultural heritage programming.
Eligible Requests
The Catalyzing Impact Grant Program provides funding for arts or cultural heritage projects that support one of the five goals of ArtsWave’s Blueprint for Collective Action. A project is defined as a specific, connected set of activities with a start date, end date, and explicit goals and objectives.
Eligible project requests may include a new project or an existing project that demonstrates an expansion of impact.
Receiving a Catalyzing Impact grant is a competitive process. Organizations proposing existing projects that have been funded through the Catalyzing Impact program in previous fiscal years should be prepared to demonstrate how the proposed work is expanding impact. Examples may include:
- serving a new or expanded geography (e.g., neighborhood, municipality, or county);
- serving a new or expanded audience (e.g., age or culturally specific) or
- deepening impact within an existing project (e.g., expanded themes, content, or timeframe)
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
ArtsWave will not award grant support to organizations that, in their constitution, bylaws, or practices, discriminate against a person or group because of age, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or religious belief. In doing so, they seek to promote respect for all people.
Organizations may only submit one application per deadline. Organizations may only receive one Catalyzing Impact Grant in a single fiscal year.
For more information, visit https://www.artswave.org/apply-for-funding