Program Overview

Our national strategy for the Arts & Culture Program is focused in three areas:

Institutional capitalization

Institutional capitalization promotes sound capitalization principles and sustainable cultural facility management throughout the arts and culture field.

Beginning Oct. 19, 2011, and extending to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 1, 2012, there is an open call for applications for Facility Investments and Building Reserves. This is the final call for applications for this grant opportunity.

Arts and community building

Arts and community building promotes the integration of arts and culture into effective community-building and revitalization efforts. 

Artists’ skills and resources

Artists’ skills and resources works to boost artists’ skills and resources so they can best contribute to community life. 

Four values in particular shape the grantmaking in the Arts & Culture Program. They are:

• Creating opportunity and enhancing access to arts and culture through authentic and relevant programs that exemplify excellence in the field, involve people of all social and economic backgrounds and increase participation of new and nontraditional audiences.
• Exhibiting a high level of community impact through work that contributes to a vibrant arts and cultural ecosystem and exemplifies excellence in the field, benefits the broad local community and reflects the diversity of the community population, advances community-building efforts and embodies key principles of community planning to enhance quality of life.
• Stimulating innovation through work that furthers best practices in the field, uses new and possibly untested approaches and brings multiparty, interdisciplinary approaches to problems that defy solution by a single sector.
• Supporting institutional transformation and the capacity to profoundly influence the overall organization and its operations or create new business models to strengthen financial stability.

Eligibility

Focus areas and initiatives have specific eligibility requirements. Visit the appropriate page for complete information.

Application Process

For details on the application process, visit the focus area of interest -- Institutional capitalization, Arts and community building or Artists' skills and resources.