Deadline: 1-Mar-21
The CultureWorks is seeking applications for its Annual Grant Program to provide funding for professional artists and diverse nonprofit organizations, for initiatives that benefit the Richmond and Tri-Cities region; specifically, the cities of Richmond, Colonial Heights, Hopewell and Petersburg, along with the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and Powhatan, and Ashland.
The CultureWorks values diversity and inclusivity and believes everyone in community should have access to arts and culture, as well as the opportunity to express their culture through the arts. CultureWorks is committed to strengthening artists and arts and culture organizations to drive community health and success.
Focus Areas
- Building Capabilities funding supports specific opportunities which enable an organization’s effectiveness, overall growth and longevity as a nonprofit organization. Requests must be made for a particular initiative or project, not for general operating support. Sample initiatives that may be eligible for this funding include:
- Building infrastructure
- Enhancing relationships and collaborations in the arts and culture community
- Planning strategically
- Specific needs related to improving on-going health and safety (related to social distancing, sanitizing spaces, and other enhancements to meet local health department and other government requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic.)
- Improving technology
- Cultural Equity funding supports arts and culture projects or programming that reach underrepresented populations based on race, ethnicity, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, or religion. A goal of CultureWorks, supported through this area, is to ensure everyone in our community has access to arts and culture, and the opportunity to express their culture through the arts. Sample activities that may be eligible for this funding include:
- Innovative ideas that engage underrepresented audiences in our community’s arts and culture.
- Arts and culture events that highlight and promote the art and culture of a particular community underrepresented in the region.
- Arts and culture programming that serves the communities listed above.
Funding Information
- Building Capabilities grants are limited to 5% of an organization’s annual budget (determined by the amount of revenue for current fiscal year), with a maximum cap of $15,000, or $3,000 for an artist.
- Cultural Equity grants are limited to a maximum of $15,000 for an organization or $3,000 for an artist.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for Artist Annual Grant Program, an applicant must:
- Be a professional artist. Artists of all disciplines – performing, visual, literary, media, etc. – are encouraged to apply.
- Be the lead artist in every aspect of his/her project.
- Maintain a residence in the Richmond or Tri-Cities Region.
- Produce arts and/or culture that benefits, and focuses primarily in the Richmond or TriCities Region.
- Provide a Social Security number upon notification of a grant award.
- Use funding within the fiscal year July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022.
- To be eligible for Organization Annual Grant Program, an applicant must:
- Be headquartered or have an arts and culture focus in the Richmond or Tri-Cities Region.
- Be a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.
- Have an annual operating budget less than $500,000.
- Not discriminate in hiring of staff or inclusion of audiences, artists, board members or other volunteers on the basis of race, age, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
- Use funding within the fiscal year July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022
- Additional Eligibility Considerations:
- Separate applications for the two focus areas in the same cycle are not permitted.
- Applications for multi-year grants will not be considered. Additionally, grants will not be awarded for similar activities for more than two years.
- COVID-19 Relief Grants from CultureWorks do not impact eligibility for the annual grants program. For the 2021 Annual Grants Program cycle, CultureWorks will permit Lead Applicants that have been awarded Annual Grants for two consecutive years to apply for a third year of Annual Grant funding. Qualified Lead Applicants that have not received funding in the past two consecutive cycles will receive priority consideration.
- Applicants with incomplete or outstanding grant obligations or past-due reports due from previous grants are not eligible to apply.
- Grants will not be awarded to two or more parties for the same project, program, etc. Collaborative efforts will need to determine one eligible lead person or organization to be the applicant that will be responsible for the application and disbursement of funds to partners and required reporting on the progress of the project if awarded.
For more information, visit https://richmondcultureworks.org/grants