Deadline: 15-Sep-22
The Arizona Commission on the Arts is pleased to announce the Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants to support projects that foster meaningful arts learning experiences in community settings for adult learners of any age.
Projects can include, but are not limited to, using creative expression to improve quality of life for older adults (Creative Aging), intergenerational projects, and/or providing sequential hands-on learning in, through, or about the arts for adult learners.
Funding Information
Organizations can request $5,000 to $7,500.
Ineligible Funding
This program does not fund the following:
- Strictly field trip or performance-based activities.
- Producing organizations to tour or present themselves.
- Support for individual professional development activities.
- Support for projects which would otherwise be eligible for a Festival Grant.
- Funding for insurance.
- Food and beverages for any purpose.
- Fundraising projects.
- Scholarships, awards and competitions.
- Indirect costs.
- Organizations that received Arts Commission funding in Fiscal Year 2022, but failed to file a final report.
- Applications submitted by for-profit organizations.
- Grant administration, overhead or processing fees taken by an umbrella/parent organization as a percentage of the total award, with the exception of fiscal sponsors.
- Religious institution-led or religious group-sponsored projects not open to participation by non-congregants.
- Religious institution-led or religious group-sponsored projects whose primary purpose is the religious socialization of individuals or which exist as parts of religious sermons or services.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organizations include: adult day centers, assisted living facilities, arts and cultural organizations, community-based service organizations, libraries, neighborhood centers, parks and recreation departments, retirement communities, rehabilitation centers, social service organizations, university/college departments and more. Unincorporated organizations may apply through a registered nonprofit fiscal sponsor.
- An applicant may submit only one application per cycle and may receive only one Lifelong Arts Engagement Grant per fiscal year.
- Across grant programs, the Arts Commission limits the number of applications that may be submitted by a given organization or unit of government to one application per funding period. While an organization or unit of government may be eligible for more than one grant program, they may only apply for one of them in a given funding period.
- Individual teaching artists or arts organizations may be listed as partners on a maximum of three funded Arts Learning Grant applications (both Lifelong Arts Engagement and Youth Arts Engagement) in a given fiscal year. If the number of applications on which a given individual teaching artist or arts organization is listed as a partner in a single funding cycle exceeds the total number that may be funded for that fiscal year, they will be asked to advise the Arts Commission on which application(s) will be withdrawn from consideration. The Arts Commission requests that prospective applicants consider this restriction before applying.
For more information, visit Arizona Commission on the Arts.
For more information, visit https://azarts.gov/grant/lifelong-arts-engagement/
