Deadline: 1-Jul-22
Applications are now open for the Quick Support for Organizations grant program to provide organizations with more quickly accessible funds for planning and small projects.
Funding Information
Quick Support for Organizations grants are available for up to $2,500.
Types of Projects
- Art Legacy Project planning:Â Planning for a specific large-scale project that will create a strong arts legacy in the region:
- Requests for proposals from artists
- Gathering community input
- Determining available resources and costs
- Researching the feasibility or sustainability of the future project
- Small arts project
- Arts exhibits or performances
- Art classes for community members of all ages (excluding projects in schools)
- Public art
- Small equipment purchase
- Equipment that will strengthen the organization’s capacity to serve arts needs in their region.
- Arts organization development
- Training of staff or board members at workshops and conferences
- Hiring consultants/specialists to assist the organization in fundraising, marketing, financial development, board development, etc.
- Conducting surveys to determine community interest
- Developing new arts programs and services
- Arts organization start-up
- Developing articles of incorporation and bylaws
- Filing for 501(c)(3) status
Geographical Focus
- Applicant organizations must be located within the eighteen counties of the SW MN Arts Council service region (Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, and Yellow Medicine counties) or on tribal lands within their service area.
- They acknowledge that this region occupies the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakota people, who have stewarded these lands throughout the generations
Eligibility Criteria
- The Quick Support for Organizations grant program is open to nonprofit organizations as described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code with Articles of Incorporation on file with the State of Minnesota or official units of city, county, or state government of the State of Minnesota.
- Arts organization development and arts organization start-up project types are only open to arts organizations (organizations with missions focused primarily on the arts).
For more information, visit https://swmnarts.org/grants/smac-grants-for-organizations/quick-support-for-orgs/