Deadline: 20-Jul-21
The Triangle Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Cultural Arts Program to provide funding to support cultural arts organizations that represent the people and places of the Triangle.
The local arts sector, and the creative people it employs, contributes to overall economic vitality. Research has shown that the arts have positive effects on health and that participation in arts programming among children has positive impacts on their social and emotional development. It’s clear that cultural arts are integral to a thriving community.
Goals
Funding will support general operations of organizations that are doing work related to two key program goals:
- Increase culturally representative arts programming
- Increase the arts in public and community spaces
Funding Information
They are pleased to phase multi-year grants into this program, offering up to $7,500 per year for a total of up to $22,500 over three consecutive years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) arts organizations serving one or more Triangle Counties (Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham); Projects with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor are eligible to apply. Organizations that:
- have a history of promoting arts programming that is created by and/or centers communities of color or other communities that are underrepresented in cultural arts spaces in the Triangle; and/or
- have a history of creating public arts projects, particularly in neighborhoods, rural places, or other places where there is otherwise limited arts available to the community
- Organizations must meet the Foundation’s non-discrimination policy.
- Only one application per organization will be considered.
Evaluation Criteria
- Foundation staff work with volunteer advisory committee members to review proposals and reach grantmaking decisions. In reviewing grant proposals, the Foundation will use the following evaluation criteria:
- Alignment of organization’s current / planned arts programming with program goals:
- Increase culturally representative arts programming
- Increase the arts in public and community spaces
- Organization’s track record of delivering programming that aligns with program goals
- Commitment to equity and community engagement
- Organization’s financial health
- They will seek to have a grantee cohort that reflects a diversity of art expressions and mediums, represents the four counties Triangle Community Foundation serves (Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake), and includes organizations with small, medium, and large budgets.
- Alignment of organization’s current / planned arts programming with program goals:
For more information, visit https://trianglecf.org/award/cultural-arts-grant-programs/
