Deadline: 1-Apr-22
The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) is seeking applications for its Summer Arts Education Project Grants Program to support quality arts education programs for K-12 students between school years, through both traditional providers (arts organizations) and other organizations (e.g., social service, health, community, education) that utilize the arts to meet the educational, developmental, and social needs of K-12 students. This two-year grant supports projects occurring during the summers of 2022 and 2023.
Priorities
Priority will be given to projects or programs which:
- Include partnerships between organizations, schools, and/or other entities to meet K-12 educational goals through the arts;
- Serve specific student populations, including those living in rural or high-poverty areas;
- Serve students in, and/or are located in, Opportunity Initiative counties targeted for special attention by SCAC; and/or
- Address learning loss that has occurred as a result of COVID-19.
Funding Information
Amount: Up to $50,000 ($25,000 per summer)
Eligible Activities
Activities should
- Expand student access to arts education opportunities;
- Complement, augment, or advance standards-based arts instruction or arts integration activities delivered to students during the course of the school day curriculum;
- Be focused on or include significant components delivering quality instruction and/or experiences in the visual arts, performing arts, media arts, design arts, folk and traditional arts, or creative writing;
- Address South Carolina’s 2017 College and Career Ready Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Proficiency.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be
- A college or university; OR
- A unit of state or local government; OR
- A nonprofit community-based organization (arts or non-arts)
- currently registered with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office Note: Applicants who are exempt from this registration must upload their registration exemption approval.
- reflecting S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documents
- with federal tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service or applying through a tax-exempt fiscal agent/receiver organization Note: Applicants who are applying through a fiscal agent/receiver must submit a letter outlining the working relationship and responsibilities of both parties.
- In accordance with federal government policy, all organizations – including (but not limited to) private schools, government entities, public school districts, and nonprofit organizations – must provide a valid DUNS number to receive an SCAC grant award.
Restrictions
- Applicants may submit only one application per deadline.
- College and university departments are eligible, but only one application per department will be accepted.
- Schools and school districts are not eligible.
- Individual artists are not eligible.
- Eligible project disciplines are visual arts, performing arts, media arts, design arts, folk and traditional arts, and creative writing.
- Any arts material or activity that is already funded by an Arts Education Project Grant may not be duplicated in, or overlap with, a Summer Arts Education Project grant application. Only expenses that are not already covered by an Arts Education Project award are eligible for funding.
For more information, visit https://www.southcarolinaarts.com/grant/summer-aep/