Deadline: 6-May-22
The Oregon Cultural Trust has now open the applications for Cultural Development Grant to support significant cultural projects that preserve and enhance Oregon’s diverse arts, history, heritage, preservation and humanities efforts.
They envision an Oregon that champions and invests in creative expression and cultural exchange, driving innovation and opportunity for all. The mission of the Cultural Trust is to lead Oregon in cultivating, growing and valuing culture as an integral part of communities. They do this by inspiring Oregonians toinvest in a permanent fund that provides annual grants to cultural organizations.
Goals and Requirements
Cultural Development Project Grants must be used to:
- Address significant opportunities to advance, preserve or stabilize culturalresources;
- Invest in the development of new resources;
- Support proposals that have a broad cultural impact beyond the applicant itself;
- Support proposals from applicants with culture as a priority within the mission oftheorganization
Categories
The four program categories are:
- Access: Make culture broadly available to Oregonians;
- Preservation: Invest in Oregon’s cultural heritage by recovering, preserving and sharing historic assets and achievements;
- Creativity: Create and/or present cultural or scholarly work; Support the development of artists, cultural experts, or scholars who promote culture as a core part of vibrant communities; and
- Capacity: Strengthen cultural organizations to increase stability, improve sustainability, or measure/share cultural impacts.
Funding Information
- Cultural Development Grants generally range from $5,000 to $40,000; the maximum request amount is $40,000.
Project Activities
Projects should support the Cultural Trust’s vision and mission:
- Create an Oregon that champions and invests in creative expression and culturalexchange;
- Help drive innovation and opportunity forall;
- Cultivate, grow and value culture as an integral part ofcommunities;
- Inspire Oregonians to invest in culturalnonprofits;
- Maximize visibility for the role of culture in the lives;and
- Strengthen collaboration and support within the statewide culturalnetwork.
What they Don’t Fund?
The following are not eligible for Cultural Trust funding:
- Indirect costs not directly associated with the implementation of the project.
- Indirect costs are activities or services not directly related to the project such as operational
- expenses and salaries for staff not involved with the project. Direct costs are activities or services
- that support the specific project, e.g., salaries for project management, materials, marketing, etc.;
- Scholarships or tuition assistance for college, university or other formal degree bearing courses of study;
- Projects that have been substantially completed by September 1, 2022, the start date of the grant period;
- Requests to offset previous project expenses and or deficits;
- Events whose primary focus is to raise funds for a non-cultural cause.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Cultural Trust seeks to support a wide range of cultural organizations and projects, making investments across the state. ORS 359.400 defines a “cultural organization” as one that is “organized primarily for the purpose of producing, promoting or presenting the arts, history, heritage and humanities to the public or organized primarily for identifying, documenting, interpreting and preserving cultural resources. Organizations using a fiscal sponsorship are not eligible to apply.
At the time of the application deadline, all applicant organizations must:
- Have active registration with the State of Oregon for corporate, non-profit status
- Provide services that take place within the state of Oregon
- Have current IRS 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt statusor
- Be a cultural entity within a federally recognized Indian Tribe based in Oregon
- Be an institution of higher learning (universities and colleges) that has a significant cultural program or cultural organization
For more information, visit https://www.culturaltrust.org/grants/how-to-apply/