Deadline: 10-Jan-25
The Mid-America Arts Alliance is now accepting applications for Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations.
Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations endeavours to support arts and cultural nonprofits as well as art-centric businesses in M-AAA’s six-state region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Native Nations that share this geography).
This pilot program, in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, will offer operational grants, capacity building, and cohort learning to small, culturally driven arts organizations.
What Cultural Sustainability Provides?
- $50,000 nonmatching operational grants
- Unrestricted funding meaning funds may be used for overhead and operational expenses including salaries
- Opportunity to regularly connect and learn with fellow culturally driven organizations and businesses
- Opportunity to develop innovative strategies to catalyze broad impact
- Opportunity to inform equitable grantmaking practices and processes
- One-on-one consultations and cohort workshops with experts in evaluation and data collection
Eligibility Criteria
- Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations applicants must:
- Be a culturally driven organization or business
- Located and have an arts and culture presence in Mid-America Arts Alliance’s six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, or the Native Nations that share this geography
- Be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization; fiscally sponsored group; artist-centered or artist-led collective business (LLC, S Corps, Limited or General Partnerships); state or federally recognized tribal government
- Have at least three years of arts programming in any artistic discipline and genre. The years of activity do not need to be consecutive or connected to the date of formation/incorporation but do need to reflect the work of the entity that will receive the funding and participate in the cohort learning
- Have a current operating budget under $500,000
- Provide the three most recently completed fiscal years’ tax filings or profit/loss statements
- Have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI)
- Have an Employer Identification Number (EIN)
Ineligibility Criteria
- Those not eligible to apply include:
- Single-artist sole proprietorships
- Individuals
- Units of local, state, or federal government
- Schools, including public or private preschools, K–12, colleges, and universities
- ArtsHERE grant recipients
For more information, visit Mid-America Arts Alliance.