Creative Recovery LA

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is launching Creative Recovery LA!

Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, or YOLA, rehearses in Inglewood's Judith and Thomas L. Beckman YOLA Center. Photo courtesy of LA Phil.

WHAT IS CREATIVE RECOVERY LA?

Creative Recovery LA is a new grant initiative to address pandemic impacts on the arts and the creative economy, one of the most economically significant and hardest-hit sectors, while leveraging the unique capacity of arts and culture to catalyze our region’s economic recovery, civic connectivity, and community wellbeing. Through this initiative the Department of Arts and Culture will award over $26 million in American Rescue Plan funds to deliver financial relief and recovery to the LA County nonprofit arts and culture sector.

Creative Recovery LA includes five grant opportunities:

  • Arts Relief and Recovery Grant

  • Creative Works and Jobs for Artists Grant

  • Reopening Culture, Tourism, and Marketing Grant

  • Creative Career Pathways for Youth Grant

  • Arts for Justice-Involved Youth Grant

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

LA County-based 501(c)3 nonprofit and Model A fiscally sponsored organizations that are arts focused, or have a demonstrated history of arts programming, may be eligible to apply for up to five grant opportunities through a single, streamlined application process. You do not need to be a current grantee of the Department of Arts and Culture.

While all eligible organizations may apply and be awarded, Creative Recovery LA will use an equity framework to prioritize applicant organizations based on their geographic location and budget size. More information is available in the program guidelines.

WHAT CAN FUNDING BE USED FOR?

Funding can support costs directly associated with:

  • Financially sustaining operations (payroll, rent, technical assistance, safe reopening, etc.)

  • Providing arts programs and cultural services to communities

  • Hiring and retaining staff, artists, and creative workers

  • Marketing and promoting arts and culture programs

  • Creative career pathways and training programs for underrepresented youth

  • Serving justice and systems impacted youth through the arts

VIsit the county of arts and culture website to apply.

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