Building Cultural Diversity Program (Ohio)

 
  • Grants Office Grantwriting service fee is currently unavailable for this grant
    Get more information on grantwriting

    CFDA#

    None
     

    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    C - Funds little to no technology

    Authority

    Ohio Arts Council

    Summary

    The Building Cultural Diversity program supports new and emerging organizations whose mission, programs, staff, and board represent culturally diverse communities. Awards support arts programming and projects that celebrate communities' unique arts and culture or preserve a culturally significant artistic tradition or practice. These awards help ensure a vibrant range of arts and cultural experiences are shared with residents, visitors, and communities, both today and in the future.

    Funds may be used to support general operating and programming costs, with other allowable expenses including artist fees, training or workshop costs, marketing, and planning and evaluation costs.
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    Building Cultural Diversity grants are one-year or six month awards for activities representative of a culturally diverse community. Funds may be used to support general operating and programming costs, with other allowable expenses including artist fees, training or workshop costs, marketing, and planning and evaluation costs. The budget section of the Building Cultural Diversity application provides a full list of allowable expense areas. Organizations may receive only one Building Cultural Diversity grant per year. 


    For additional information, please contact the Ohio Arts Council at the information provided in the contact section of this posting.

    Contacts

    Jim Szekacs

    Jim Szekacs
    30 E. Broad Street, 33rd Floor
    Columbus, OH 43215-3414
    (614) 728-4449
     

  • Eligibility Details

    • All applicants must possess nonprofit status or nonprofit intent, but need not be registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Additional eligibility requirements for Building Cultural Diversity include:
    • Organizations must be representative of the American Indian/Alaskan Native, Appalachian, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or other culturally specific population.
    • Applying organizations must be authentically representative of the population they serve, as evidenced by the following:
      • At least 50 percent of staff and board combined is made up of individuals from a culturally specific population
      • Arts and culture programming focused on and reflective of that population
    • Applicants may be: 1) arts and cultural organizations in any arts discipline (literature, performing arts, visual arts, traditional arts, multidisciplinary arts, etc.); or 2) other organizations providing arts programming (government entities, social service agencies, etc.) that demonstrate a commitment to arts programming in a larger community setting.

    Deadline Details

    Applications must be submitted by June 1, annually (for activities taking place August 1 - June 30) or December 1, annually (for activities taking place January 15 - June 30).

    Award Details

    Awards range between $1,000 and $3,000 each. Awards last for 6 months or 1 year. Cost matching of 50% is required. Up to 25% of the match may come from allowable in-kind donations.

    Related Webcasts Use the links below to view the recorded playback of these webcasts


    • Top 10 Local Grant Programs You Won't Want to Miss in 2015 - Sponsored by Sprint - Playback Available
    • Funding IT Security in Government and Education - Sponsored by VMware - Playback Available
    • Funding Technology-Fueled Innovation in State and Local Government - Sponsored by NetApp and Avnet Technology Solutions - Playback Available

 

You have not selected any grants to Add


Please select at least one grant to continue.


Selections Added


The selected grant has been added to your .



  Okay  

Research Reports


One of the benefits of purchasing an UPstream® subscription is
generating professional research reports in Microsoft® Word or Adobe® PDF format
Generating research reports allows you to capture all the grant data as
well as a nice set of instructions on how to read these reports


Watchlists and Grant Progress


With an UPstream® subscription you can add grants to your
own personal Watchlist. By adding grants to your watchlist, you will
receive emails about updates to your grants, be able to track your
grant's progress from watching to awards, and can easily manage any
step in the process through simplified workflows.

Email this Grant


With an UPstream® subscription, you can email grant details, a research report,
and relevant links to yourself or others so that you never lose your
details again. Emailing grants is a great way to keep a copy of the
current details so that when you are ready to start seeking funding
you already know where to go