Deadline: 15-Aug-22
The Central for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is inviting applications for the Quick Grant program to supports 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 in order to build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial sustainability of an organization, arts practice, or area of cultural production
Funding Information
The Quick Grant program awards reimbursement funds up to $600 to California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators.
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.
- Examples include (but aren’t limited to):
- Conferences, convenings, festivals
- Business trainings or workshops
- Platform memberships
- One-on-one work with consultants, coaches, and mentors including request to bring your practice or programming online
- Due to limited resources, requests by Los Angeles County applicants to work one-on-one with a consultant are extremely competitive. Priority will instead go to Los Angeles County applicants who propose group activities such as public workshops, conferences, and trainings.)
Inelligible 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
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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:
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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
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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.
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Artists, Creatives, Cultural Practitioners, & Cultural Producers
For More information, visit Quick Grant Program.
For more information, visit https://www.cciarts.org/quick_grant.htm