Deadline: 1-Jun-21
The Mississippi Arts Commission is pleased to announce the Mini-Grants Program for Organizations to support small-scale arts activities in Mississippi communities and, in light of COVID-19, to adapt their artistic focused work in an online setting.
Mini-grant priority funding will be given to organizations who have not recently received MAC funding. Priority will also be given to organizations residing in MAC’s identified underserved counties, high-poverty counties or extremely rural areas, as well as organizations led by or serving BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color), individuals with disabilities, veterans and those serving other typically underserved groups.
Type of Activities
There are types of activities that may be supported through Organization Mini-grants:
- Presenting/Hiring Roster Artists: Mini-grants can pay for up to half of the total fee of a member (or members) of MAC’s Artist Roster or another adjudicated roster program, such as the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, the Poet Laureate of Mississippi, or a program managed by another state or regional arts agency.
- Organizations may hire Roster artists or teaching artists to:
- Present a performance, workshop, or other presentation
- Create public art on/in your building or for your organization
- To create arts curriculum
- Organizations may hire Roster artists or teaching artists to:
- Adapting their artistic work to online / distance / virtual: Mini-grants can support up to half of the total fee related to eligible work needed to adapt their artistic work online, such as:
- To create digital programming, such as:
- To host an online arts related workshop or class
- To host a children’s arts activity or arts education workshop
- To create a podcast, web series or stream a concert/performance
- To create a virtual museum/gallery/exhibit/community art tour
- To interview and broadcast interviews of musicians and other artists
- To create digital programming, such as:
- Organizational or Curriculum Development: Mini-grants can support up to half of the total fee of a consultant providing assistance with organizational or curriculum development.
- Organizations may hire professional consultants to provide a short-term consultancy that is focused on overall organizational development such as:
- Organizational long range Strategic Planning
- Organizational Fundraising Planning
- I.D.E.A. Audit (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access)
- Diversity Training or other professional work to diversify and organzation’s Board of Directors
- ADA Compliance and Accessibility Trainings
- Board Member Training
- Arts Related Emergency Preparation
- Convening focus groups of different types of artists, stakeholders or members of the community touched by your organization
- Curriculum development in a K-12 school
- Conference Support: Mini-grants can support up to half of the total cost for an arts organization to send staff or board members to an in-person or online professional conference or workshop that directly relates to the organization’s work in and through the arts.
- Organizations may hire professional consultants to provide a short-term consultancy that is focused on overall organizational development such as:
Funding Information
- Organization Mini-grants range from $250 to $1,000 and require a dollar-for-dollar cash match (in-kind matches are not eligible).
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations that can apply for a Mini-grant must:
- Be based in Mississippi
- Be incorporated in Mississippi as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization OR
- Be a unit of local government, such as a school, library, or another county or municipal agency. Units of local government may be required to provide documentation of their status as a governmental agency.
For more information, visit https://arts.ms.gov/grants-for-organizations/minigrants-for-organizations/