Deadline: 11-Dec-20
The Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund has been announced that provide short-term financial relief to those in the arts, cultural, creative and humanities fields most impacted by state disaster declarations, natural disasters, and other forms of emergencies.
During the current funding round, Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program grants will be made available to support eligible Iowa artists who are experiencing financial hardship and can demonstrate lost revenue and/or increased expenditures due to the public health emergency and COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding Information
- The minimum award will be $500.
- Award amounts will be capped at 50% of total eligible revenue losses and expenses or $5,000, whichever amount is less.
- The department reserves the right to adjust funding award amounts and limits for any reason, including based on the total number and amount of requests.
Eligible Use of Funds
Grant funds must be directly tied to the following types of lost revenue and/or increased expenditures due to the public health emergency and COVID-19 pandemic related to the applicant’s creative work and must exclude expenses for which other federal, state, local or private relief funding has already been received:
- Business interruption due to cancellation or indefinite postponement of paid contracts, gigs, performances, residencies, exhibitions, commissions, or other creative work that was scheduled to occur between March 1 and December 30, 2020.
- Transitioning services to alternative means (e.g. online, outdoor, limited attendance) or adaptive upgrades (e.g. software and online services) directly related to the public health emergency and necessary in the course of creating, presenting, directing, or performing works of art.
- Goods and services (e.g. personal protective equipment (PPE), signage, cleaning/sanitizing) that were unbudgeted but necessary to ensure a safe experience in the course of creating, presenting, directing, or performing works of art due to the public health emergency.
Ineligible Use of Funds
Grant funds may not be used for any of the following expenses:
- Expenses that were funded or reimbursed in part or whole by state unemployment insurance and/or federally-funded unemployment programs, including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
- Expenses funded or reimbursed by other states, federal, or private funding sources, including but not limited to CARES Act funding, including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
- Capital expenditures, including equipment equal to or greater than $5,000 per unit.
- Damages covered by insurance.
- Foreign travel.
- Fundraisers or benefits.
- Legal settlements.
- Lobbying activity.
- Previously budgeted costs within the eligible funding period of March 1 – December 30, 2020.
- Goods or services received outside of the eligible funding period of March 1 to December 30, 2020.
- Prizes and awards.
- Reimbursement to donors for donated items or services.
- Religious activity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are allowed to receive one Round Four emergency grant award in addition to any previous emergency or regular grant awards made to date by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs in the calendar year 2020.
- Applicants that have directly received funding through CARES Act programs from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, Iowa Economic Development Authority, Small Business Administration, Arts Midwest, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museums and Library Services may receive funding from this grant program.
- Eligible applicants are limited to submitting one application to this program.
Ineligible Applicants
The following types of applicants are not eligible to apply:
- Individuals working in creative disciplines that fall outside of the definition of art, including baking, balloon, barbering, burlesque, cosmetology, event planning and production, fitness, floral design, food makers, commercial and industrial welding, henna, horticulture, marketing, martial arts, massage and healing therapy, modelling, nail design, professional speaking, soap making and yoga practitioners. Additional eligibility decisions may be made at the discretion of the funding agency.
- Event planners, managers, booking agents, promoters and similar jobs categories that support artists and artistic works but do not directly contribute to their creation.
- Individuals enrolled in any type of degree grant program from March 1 – December 30, 2020.
- Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs grantees with an outstanding final report or who have been placed on a department funding moratorium.
Applicant Requirements
Individual Iowa Artist defined as an individual who earns substantial income from activities directly related to creating, presenting, directing, or performing works of art, excluding full-time or part-time employment as a Fine Arts educator in K-12 or higher education. In addition, the individual must:
- Be a legal, current resident of Iowa.
- Individuals that are part of artist groups including bands, artist collaborative and artist collectives must apply as an individual and not on behalf of the group.
- Be 21 years of age or older.
- Maintain a business that is physically located in Iowa.
- Have incurred substantial financial loss from cancellations, closures and/or decreased customer demand as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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