Grants / Funding / Aid — COVID-19 EDIT — Californians for the Arts

Travel, Tourism & Outdoor Recreation program

Through the Travel, Tourism & Outdoor Recreation program, EDA is focused on accelerating the recovery of communities that rely on the travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors. $750 million of EDA’s American Rescue Plan funds are allocated to support the following efforts:

State Tourism Grants: $510 million in non-competitive awards to help states quickly invest in marketing, infrastructure, workforce and other projects to rejuvenate safe leisure, business and international travel.
Competitive Grants: $240 million to help communities that have been hardest hit by challenges facing the travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors to invest in infrastructure, workforce or other projects to support the recovery of the industry and economic resilience of the community in the future.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraAugust 16, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

Artist Power Convenings

Introducing the Artist Power Convenings. Investing $400,000 in artists and artist-led organizations across 10 San Francisco Bay Area counties over the next two years, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is now accepting applications for this new investment strategy aiming to fuel grassroots creative power. From August 2021–September 2022, they’re holding five investment rounds, two counties at a time.

This opportunity prioritizes historically underfunded communities and focuses investing in American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian and Asian American, Black and African American, Disabled, Indigenous and Indigena, Latinx, LGBTQIA2S+, MENASA, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander artists and artist led-organizations.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraAugust 6, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

Board of Supervisors Allocates over $22 Million for Arts and Creative Recovery

The County described its $975 million plan as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape and rebuild Los Angeles County.” The plan invests federal ARP funds in Los Angeles communities hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and advances the County’s equity focused programs and priorities. Eligibility, application, and guidelines for Arts and Culture’s ARP programs will be announced later in the year. All funds must be dispersed by 2024.

Historic investment from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan represents the largest economic development initiative in decades

The American Rescue Plan funding empowers EDA to build upon its greatest strength—flexible funding to support community-led economic development—and provide larger, more transformational investments across the nation. Under the American Rescue Plan, EDA will make grants to state and local governmental entities, institutions of higher education, not-for-profit entities, unions, and Tribes. EDA is not authorized to provide grants to individuals or for-profit entities.

Quick Grant Program

The Quick Grant program awards reimbursement funds up to $600 to California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators to participate in professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial sustainability of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.

Applications are due on the 15th of the month with a one-month turnaround.

Investing in Artists Grant

The Investing in Artists grants program is designed to support diverse working artists in the Bay Area in the performing and media arts, which includes the disciplines of dance, music, musical theatre, opera, theatre, video, film, and animation, to name a few. Applicants representing a wide range of cultural expressions and artistic practices in the performing and media arts are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: August 18, 2021, 12:00 p.m. PT

Zoo Labs Grant

Zoo Labs serves artists through online learning, unrestricted funding, mentorship opportunities, and community building. In 2021, Zoo Labs will make available $225,000 in unrestricted grants. Awards will range from $5,000 to $50,000 and will support Bay Area BIPOC and BIPOC-led artist teams with a music-based project or business.

Application Closes: August 19, 2021 at 12 PM PT

Rbhu Gives Back

We are honored to announce that we are launching the 2021 Rbhu Gives Back grants, offering $15,000 worth of free engineering services to artists in need.

What we are offering: Structural or mechanical engineering services for any size artwork, which can include analysis, construction drawings, and permit documents, depending on the project needs.

2021 WESTAF American Rescue Plan (ARP) Fund for Organizations

With support from the National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment), the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) will manage the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Fund for Organizations. WESTAF ARP is a competitive grant program that provides general operating support to arts and cultural organizations in the West that are most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The application will be available on July 1, 2021 and will close on July 15, 2021. In anticipation of high demand, WESTAF will monitor application volumes closely and provide updates as needed. Interested organizations are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

American Rescue Plan Grants to Organizations

Grants will be made to eligible organizations to support their own operations. Unlike other Arts Endowment funding programs that offer project-based support, Rescue Plan funds are intended to support day-to-day business expenses/operating costs, and not specific programmatic activities. Cost share/matching funds are not required.

Application Closes: August 12, 2021 at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time

American Rescue Plan Grants to Local Arts Agencies for Subgranting

The Arts Endowment will competitively award funds to designated local arts agencies for subgranting programs. To be eligible to subgrant, a designated local arts agency must have a history of grantmaking that occurred anytime within the ten-year period immediately preceding this program’s application deadline (i.e., July 22, 2011 to present). The grantmaking program is not required to have been supported by the Arts Endowment.

Application Closes: July 22, 2021 at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time

Jade Elyssa RiveraJune 23, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

2022 Accelerator Awards

The Lewis Prize for Music is now accepting 2022 Accelerator Awards applications. Accelerator Awards are open to Creative Youth Development (CYD) music organizations seeking to influence youth-serving systems so all young people have access to learning, creating, and performing experiences that reflect their culture and identity.

Applications are open from May 18-July 16, 2021 at 5pm PST.

Guranteed Income Pilot — YBCA

Apply by April 15, 2021 at 11:59pm PT.

To support artists living and working in the City of San Francisco during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, The Office of Racial Equity at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, the Arts Impact Endowment—co-funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and Grants for the Arts—and YBCA have come together to launch the Guaranteed Income Pilot for the City of San Francisco.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraMarch 25, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

APPLICATION WINDOW EXTENDED TO MARCH 26 5PM: CA Relief Grant Program for Cultural Institutions

The application window has been extended to March 26th, 2021 at 5:00 pm. There is no revenue cap in this round. Beginning March 31, Round 4 notification of awards will be announced. To apply and learn more, please visit our CA Relief Grants webpage.

Collectively, with your voice and our lobbying, we advocated to the state for funding specifically for our sector and on Feb 23, SB 87 was signed into law approving $50 million in funding for nonprofit cultural institutions. It is critical the field knows about this funding opportunity and takes advantage of it.

Grants for Nonprofit Cultural Institutions Opens Soon

The recently signed package provides $2.075 billion – a four-fold increase to that initial $500 million – for grants up to $25,000 for small businesses impacted by the pandemic. The new package also includes a $50 million allocation for non-profit cultural institutions. Four competitive funding rounds will be conducted by CalOSBA’s selected intermediary, Lendistry.

Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions in Folk and Traditional Arts

The initiative supports the creation and premiere of 50 new works of the highest artistic quality and enduring value — works the foundation hopes will go on to inspire, engage and challenge audiences across the country and around the world in years to come. The $8 million initiative awards ten $150,000 commissions each year for exceptional new works by extraordinary artists working in partnership with San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit organizations.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraJanuary 22, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

California Arts Council Launches New Individual Artist Fellowships Program

The application and further details for the 2021 Individual Artist Fellowships opportunity can be found at https://arts.ca.gov/grant_program/individual-artists-fellowship. Applications are due April 1, 2021.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraJanuary 13, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

NALAC to Distribute $1.15 Million in COVID Relief Grants to Latinx Artists and Arts

In collaboration with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) partners, the $2,500 artist grants and $5,000 organization grants aim to support those facing critical financial emergencies due to the impact of COVID-19 in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Guidelines and additional details regarding the application process are available on the NALAC website.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraJanuary 12, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

Third Cycle of CERF+'s COVID-19 Relief Grant Program Opens on January 13

The third cycle of COVID-19 Relief Grants will provide one-time $1,000 grants to artists working in craft disciplines who continue to face dire food, housing, and medical insecurities caused by the pandemic. Priority will be given to eligible artists who have traditionally been underserved by the grantmaking community, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and materials-based folk and traditional artists.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraJanuary 11, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

Grant Database — Unrestricted Funds

This is a growing grants database with fundraising opportunities focusing on awards averaging $1,000+, prioritize BIPOC and LGBTQIA+, and unrestricted funding.

Emergency Funding & ResourcesJade Elyssa RiveraJanuary 8, 2021Grants / Funding / Aid

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