As a service to its grant applicants, the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) had been recording audio from its grant panels and sending interested potential grantees a CD of the proceedings. Once the arts council’s website had the capability to host the audio files in 2010, the process was streamlined to allow grantees and others to…
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the VH1 Save The Music Foundation are collaborating to provide musical instruments for qualified K-8 schools in every county in the state. As part of its goal of restoring instrumental music education to public schools, the Foundation has provided $48 million in new musical instruments to…
The Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA), which became a division of the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) in 2011, has announced a new focus on arts based place making. Starting in July 2013, COA will integrate six of its current grant programs (Arts Presentation, Creative Collaboration, Artists Fellowships, Arts Project Support, General…
The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) is collaborating with MassINC to use the arts to revitalize 11 industrial communities across the state. MassINC recently received a $125,000 grant from ArtPlace, a funding consortium combining federal funding and investments from 11 major foundations to promote creative placemaking. Each project supported by ArtPlace has been selected to demonstrate…
Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Tourism, both divisions of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, have combined resources to offer Tourism Product Development (TPD) grants. TPD grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded in fiscal year 2012 to support the role of the arts in tourism by providing financial assistance to Georgia’s creative economies,…
The Oregon Arts Commission (OAC) provides annual Career Opportunity Grants to individual artists seeking to take advantage of significant opportunities to advance their careers. Designed to support artists as both creators and entrepreneurs, these grants can be used to acquire new business or artistic skills or to participate in national or international exhibits, competitions or…
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe recently released a special $500,000 appropriation to the Arkansas Arts Council. These funds will be distributed via a new Cultural Regional Arts Grants program. The program aims to promote the public’s awareness and enjoyment of Arkansas’s heritage and creative economy by funding significant projects that: make arts and heritage programs possible…
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) is offering a series of webinars for panelists serving on the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). The PPA is a decentralized funding partnership between local organizations and PCA. With 16 partners and operating in all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, the PPA supports a wide variety of local…
The Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) recently completed the first year of the New Visions Grant Initiative. The initiative consists of ASCA providing three pilot school districts—Bering Strait School District, Copper River School District and Kodiak School District—$10,000 matching grants for three years to assist in developing new models of arts integration and…
The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA), through its New Leaders Arts Council of Michigan (NLACM) advisory group, recently offered the Retention and Engagement Youth Grant Program to Michigan nonprofit organizations. The program, designed to provide opportunities for young people to engage each other and their communities, supports youth-based projects within organizations as…
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