Deadline: 18-Nov-20
The Creative Community Response grant program recognizes artists as critical to San Francisco’s economic and emotional recovery. Artists often utilize the creative process to collaborate, solicit community input, and develop solutions to community issues. With funding from the California Arts Council, the Creative Community Response grant supports small-sized arts organizations to respond to urgent needs in BIPOC communities by using art as a vehicle for positive social change.
The San Francisco Arts Commission’s charge from the California Arts Council is to support arts and cultural organizations that serve communities of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is committed to creating a city where all artists and cultural workers have the freedom, resources and platform to share their stories, art and culture and where race does not predetermine one’s success in life.
Funding Information
Grant amounts up to $6,500
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant organization or fiscal sponsor must be tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and based in San Francisco.
- The applicant organization’s mission statement must be clearly focused on the development, production, and/or presentation of arts activities in San Francisco.
- The applying organization must demonstrate two years of programmatic activity since November 2018
- The organization’s annual budget must be under $30,000, determined by the applicant organization’s average annual operating revenue over the last two completed fiscal years.
- The applicant organization cannot be part of another City agency or department.
- Applicants must not be in default on any grants or loans from:
- SFAC,
- other City departments (including, but not limited to, the Department of Children, Youth, and their Families; Office of Economic and Workforce Development; Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development; and
- Grants for the Arts),
- Northern California Grant makers Arts Loan Fund;
- Community Vision Capital and Consulting;
- Community Arts Stabilization Trust;
- the Center for Cultural Innovation; and/or
- The California Arts Council. This default clause was expanded due to the fact that SFAC has fiduciary relationships with these particular organizations, through either shared City resources or other pooled philanthropic funds.
For more information, visit https://www.sfartscommission.org/content/creative-community-response-grant