Deadline: 15-Apr-22
The North Dakota Council on the Arts is pleased to announce the Arts in Education Collaboration (AIEC) Grant Program for arts organizations, schools, school districts, nonprofits, and government agencies to build collaborations and community partnerships that strive to increase access to high-quality, sustained arts education for K-12 North Dakota students.
This includes collaborations between teachers or departments within a school, between multiple schools within a district, between multiple rural school districts, between a school and community arts resource (teaching artists or arts organizations) nonprofit, or for-profit organization.
Projects may take place in-school (during regular school hours), after-school, during summer sessions, and during professional development in-services.
Goals
- North Dakota school and district leadership, arts organizations, and community members are focused on providing students and teachers with increased access to K-12 quality arts education.
- Encourage and support arts education partnerships, so that partnership foundations will be strengthened, and work can be sustained into the future.
- Support identification and implementation of the “first steps” towards a vision of high quality, sustainable arts education programming.
- Support initiatives that incorporate a core strategy for working towards long-term, selfsustaining, participatory, and meaningful arts learning experiences for students.
Funding Information
- Minimum award request: $2,500
- Maximum award request: May not exceed $6,000 or 50% of the total project cost, whichever is less.
Eligibility Criteria
- A North Dakota school district, government agency, nonprofit organization, or fiscally sponsored group is eligible to apply and serve as the lead partner and/or fiscal agent for the grant.
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Applicants must be one of the following:
- Federally tax-exempt nonprofit arts organization
- Federally tax-exempt non-arts nonprofit organization – Arts budgets must be isolated from the larger entity’s budget.
- Public Entity such as a unit of state, local, or tribal government
- Public and non-public schools
- Fiscally sponsored groups with arts projects – A fiscally sponsored group must be comprised of at least three people, have an advisory committee of at least three people that is responsible for oversight of project and grant funds, and a fiscal sponsor. Fiscal sponsors must be a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization, unit of state or local government, or federally recognized tribal community or tribe.
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All Applicants Must:
- Be physically located in North Dakota;
- Have majority of arts programming, services, or activities take place in North Dakota;
- Primarily serve and engage North Dakota audiences and participants.
For more information, visit Council on the Arts.
For more information, visit https://www.arts.nd.gov/grants/arts-education/arts-education-collaboration
