Deadline: 1-Feb-22
The Elk County Council on the Arts (ECCOTA) is inviting applications for the Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program to pair creative entrepreneurs with existing small business consulting services, help creative entrepreneurs grow their business, audience, and revenue.
This program wants to advance the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ overarching value of diversity, equity, and inclusion, prioritize investments to creative entrepreneurs who identify as BIPOC, and prioritize investments to creative entrepreneurs located in and whose work benefits low-income communities as defined by the Small Business Administration.
Creative entrepreneurs are invaluable assets to communities. They lead innovation, deliver creative products and services, generate economic opportunity, and build community identity. Assisting creative entrepreneurs is part of the pathway to recovery and increased opportunity within a rapidly changing economic environment. Providing a pathway for creative entrepreneurs to grow their businesses strategically helps foster thriving Pennsylvania communities that are great places to work and live.
Eligible Creative Industries
- Marketing – Advertising and marketing agencies and professionals
- Architecture – Architecture firms and architects
- Visual Arts & Crafts – Galleries, artists, artisans, and makers
- Design – Product, interior, graphic, and fashion design firms and designers
- Film & Media – Film, video, animation, TV and radio businesses and creators
- Digital Games – Companies, programmers, and individuals producing games
- Music & Entertainment – Producers, venues, musicians, and performers
- Publishing – Print or electronic businesses and content creators, editors and writers
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant is at least 18 years of age and has been a resident of Pennsylvania for at least twelve months preceding the submission of this application.
- If the Applicant operates an eligible creative business, the business had gross revenue of less than $200,000 for the period covered by the business’ most recently submitted annual filing to the Internal Revenue Service.
- Be a creative entrepreneur intending to form a business or operate a business in Pennsylvania.
For more information, visit ECCOTA.
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