Deadline: 1-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Delaware Division Education Resource (EDR) Grant Program to assist in the facilitation of partnerships between Delaware’s schools, arts organizations, and artists in providing standards-based arts learning experiences for pre K-12 students statewide. Education Resource projects focus on ways that Delaware arts organizations can serve as resources to Delaware schools before, during, and after the school day.
The Delaware Division of the Arts offers a variety of grants for nonprofit arts organizations chartered and based in Delaware.
Guidelines
You may contact the Program Officer for Arts in Education at the Division of the Arts to review your ideas to determine if they qualify for Education Resource support. Projects that have been supported in the past include, but have not been limited to:
- student engagement in the arts during the school day (working with an arts specialist in the classroom for hands-on programs where students are actively participating in arts activities designed to deepen and broaden learning)
- extended-time arts programs in the schools before or after the school day (curriculum- and standards-based arts programs designed to give students additional opportunities to create, produce, and learn through the arts)
- integration of the arts with other content areas and arts disciplines to provide collaborations between the arts and classroom teachers to reach mutual objectives
- development and implementation of standards-based curriculum and/or assessment models/tools
Eligibility Criteria
The following organizations are eligible to apply for Education Resource funding:
- Nonprofit arts organizations with a commitment to arts learning, based and chartered in Delaware, that are eligible to apply for General Operating Support
- Delaware public schools with an established arts curriculum and staff, pre-K through 12
- Delaware public school districts and/or consortia of public schools with an established arts curriculum and staff, pre-K through 12
Please note the following restrictions:
- Only one Education Resource application from an arts organization or school as the lead applicant will be accepted each year.
- Education resource grants may not be used to meet compliance with state regulations/mandates. Education Resource projects are intended to augment, not supplant, existing arts programs in the school. Applicant school programs and practices must be in compliance with state arts education regulations and mandates and aligned with the Delaware Standards for Visual and Performing Arts.
- The Division will not accept applications through fiscal agents.
- No individual may compile or submit an application on behalf of an organization if that individual is a member or relative of a member of the Delaware State Arts Council or Division staff.
For more information, visit Delaware Division.
For more information, visit https://arts.delaware.gov/grants-for-arts-organizations/