Grant Categories
The CEG program awards grants in the following categories:
Cultural Equity Initiatives (CEI)
Level One Deadline: August 25, 2011
Level One Letter of Intent (required): August 2, 2011. Email Letters of Intent to artsandcommunity@gmail.com
Level One Draft Narrative (optional): August 2, 2011*
Level Two Assessment Interview: June 3, 2011
Level Two Narrative Draft Deadline (optional): June 8, 2011*
Level Two Proposal Deadline: June 23, 2011
*Email CEI-L2 & CEI-L1 Narrative Drafts to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.
For CEI-L2 & CEI-L1 guideline and application questions, please contact Sylvia Sherman, artsandcommunity@gmail.com.
Grants to support the development, sustainability and growth of San Francisco arts organizations that are deeply rooted in, and able to express the experiences of a historically underserved community, such as African American, Asian American, Latino/a, Native American, Pacific Islander, Disabled, Lesbian/ Gay/ Bisexual/ Transgendered and Women.
- Level One: Grants of up to $25,000, to support organizational development initiatives for a period of one year.
- Level Two: Grants of up to $100,000, to support organizational development initiatives of substantial scope and ambition over a period of two or three years.
CEI-L1 Funding Restriction clarification (found on p.13 of the Arts Organization Guidelines): An organization can receive only two consecutive years of CEI-L1 support, after which they must sit out for one cycle of CEI-L1.
CEI-L1 Applicants will be required to submit a Letter of Intent. This is a new but mandatory step in the CEI-L1 application process.
Your CEI-L1 Letter of Intent should be no more than one page and include the following
information:
1. Summary of project
2. Total amount of your project budget and your request amount (small budget
organizations that have an average cash income of less than $150,000 over
the past three years may apply for no more than 50% of their actual cash
income of their last closed fiscal year.)
3. Project period
4. Average cash income over the past three years
5. Cash income of the last fiscal year
Grant Periods
Level Two: Two or Three years from January 1, 2012
Level One: April 1, 2012 - September 30, 2013
CEI-L1 Application Workshops: 25 Van Ness
June 27, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm, Suite 70
July 27, 2011 from 2:00-4:00pm, Suite 70
August 17, 2011 from 1:00-3:00p, Suite 140 Canceled
Please email your workshop rsvp to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.
Creative Space Grants (CRSP)
Deadline: June 30, 2011
Deadline for Narrative Drafts (optional): June 8, 2011
Email draft narratives to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org
Grants of up to $20,000 to support the enhancement of arts facilities in the city. The category has two goals:
- To advance the improvement of existing arts facilities and the successful development of new ones that will support the work of San Francisco’s arts organizations;
- To promote the availability of affordable live/work spaces for low- and moderate-income artists.
Creative Space offers grants for Planning and Capital Improvement projects.
Grant Period
January 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Application Workshops: 25 Van Ness, Suite 70
June 1, 2011 from 3:30-5:00pm
June 14, 2011 from 12:00-1:30pm
Please email your workshop rsvp to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.
If you have any further CRSP questions, please contact Program Associate Beatrice Thomas, 415-252-2553, beatrice.thomas@sfgov.org.
Organization Project Grants (OPG)
Deadline: November 10, 2011
Deadline for Narrative Drafts (optional): September 30, 2011
Email narratives drafts to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org
Organization Project Grants (OPG) support arts organizations in the presentation of professional arts activities accessible to the general public in San Francisco. OPG supports–in whole or in part–specific arts projects that have been determined to be of sufficient artistic quality, and benefit or interest to the community at large, or to specific segments of the community. All art forms will be considered.
OPG-supported projects must be developed and presented in San Francisco, and must culminate in a local public presentation or a meaningful, accessible engagement of the public. They may be targeted at specific audiences, but they cannot be limited to “closed” audiences.
Grant awards are up to $15,000. To be eligible, organizations must have 501(c)(3) status or use a fiscal sponsor. Organizations that receive CEI-L1 or CEI-L2 support cannot seek an OPG grant for the term of the CEI-L1 or CEI-L2 grant.
Grant Period
June 15, 2012 - December 31, 2013
Application Workshops: 25 Van Ness
September 14, 2011 from 2:00pm-4:00pm; Suite 400
September 23, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm; Suite 70
October 18, 2011 from 1:00pm-3:00pm; Suite 70
Please email your workshop rsvp to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.
If you have any further OPG questions, please contact Program Associate Lucy K Lin, 415-252-3257, lucy.lin@sfgov.org.
Individual Artist Commissions (IAC)
Deadline: December 1, 2011
Deadline for Narrative Drafts (optional): November 1, 2011
Email draft narratives to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org
Grants of up to $10,000 to individual artists living and working in San Francisco, to stimulate the creation and presentation of high-quality works of art throughout the city’s neighborhoods. The program considers proposals for projects in alternating disciplines each year. We will consider proposals in fiscal year 2011-12, for performing arts: dance, music, and theater. Support for multi-disciplinary projects (within the disciplines being offered) are available each year.
Grant Period:
July 1, 2012 - December 31, 2013
Application Workshops:
October 13, 2011 from 6:00-8:00pm; Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street @ Bryant
October 17, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm; 25 Van Ness, Suite 70
October 17, 2011 from 6:30-8:30pm; Bindlestiff Studio, 185 6th Street @ Howard
November 15, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm; 25 Van Ness, Suite 70
Please email your workshop rsvp to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.
If you have any further IAC questions, please contact Program Associate Lucy K Lin, 415-252-3257, lucy.lin@sfgov.org.
Arts and Communities: Innovative Partnerships (ACIP)
Exploration and Realization Grant Deadline: Friday, October 7, 2011
Deadline for Narrative Drafts (optional): September 6, 2011
Email draft narratives to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org
The Arts & Communities Initiative will support artists, arts organizations, and immigrant service organizations with established art programs of any medium, as they embrace the role of lead partners, and work closely with community partners, their leaderships and constituencies. Together, they can engage in innovative creation processes– exploring artistic practice potentially outside of one’s comfort zone – in order to address pressing community needs or celebrate community assets. The discussions and activities from these partnerships will form inventive, publicly accessible, high quality art projects, and result in an ongoing stimulation of ideas and dialogue. Together, the culminating public projects will reveal the complex life of San Francisco.
Two types of grants are available: Exploration Grants up to $10,000 and Realization Grants up to $25,000.
Grant Period
Exploration: June 1, 2012 - February 29, 2013
Realization: June 1, 2012 - November 30, 2013
Application Workshops: 25 Van Ness, Suite 70
August 26, 2011 from 12:00-2:00pm
August 31, 2011 from 3:00p-5:00pm
September 20, 2011 from 12:00 -2:00pm
Please email your workshop rsvp to corinne.matesich@sfgov.org.
If you have further ACIP questions, please contact Program Associate Beatrice Thomas, 415-252-2553, beatrice.thomas@sfgov.org.
Native American Arts and Cultural Traditions Grants (NAACT)
Application Deadline: January 25, 2012
Deadline for Narrative Drafts and Project Budgets (optional): December 14, 2011
Email narrative drafts to Jaime Cortez at jaime.cortez@sfgov.org
If you have further NAACT guideline and application questions, contact Jaime Cortez, jaime.cortez@sfgov.org.
San Francisco Arts Commission’s Cultural Equity Grants is pleased to announce the continuation of its grants initiative to support projects guided by strong and capable Native American artistic leadership, and for which there is resonance within communities. Grants can support the wide spectrum of rich cultural traditions and contemporary artistic expressions that exist within today's Native communities. Grants are for applicants based in San Francisco.
The grant categories are slightly expanded versions of existing Cultural Equity Grants categories. It is hoped that over the longer-term Native American artists and organizations in San Francisco will increasingly access the existing funding and technical assistance resources available, and participate in broader policy discussions. Grants will be available in four categories:
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS Grants: $5,000 – $7,500.
Purpose: To support Native American individual artists in their creative processes and practice of cultural traditions and contemporary artistic expressions.
Examples of Eligible Projects: research, creation, and/or presentation of a new work and/or the invigoration of cultural traditions; training between master artists and identified apprentices; the development and/or implementation of an artist’s business plan.
Presenting the Art Grants: $5,000 – $7,500.
Purpose: To encourage culturally knowledgeable presenting, exhibiting and/or educational programming of Native American artistic work and cultural traditions that engages specific communities and/or the broader public.
Examples of Eligible Projects: presentations or exhibitions of single or multiple artistic disciplines; arts festivals; creative development laboratories; documentation and archiving; educational activities and programs.
Building Sustainable Arts Grants: $7,500 – $15,000.
Purpose: To seed or strengthen services and support structures for artists, and to build the long-term arts and cultural programming capacity of organizations within Native American communities.
Examples of Eligible Initiatives: seeding new, or strengthening existing, networks or service organizations whose mission is focused primarily on the arts; developing a strategic or business plan; salaries for new arts program staff position(s); establishing an arts and/or cultural program in a service organization. Please note: This category is not intended to support general operating, but can support expansion efforts.
MINI-GRANTS Grants: up to $1,000.
Purpose: To support arts and cultural traditions based activities, cultural events and educational programs within Native American communities.
Examples of Eligible Projects: one-time, a series or on-going activities, such as pow-wows, cultural activities, gatherings, educational programs, classes and workshops.
Grant Period
July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Application Workshops: 25 Van Ness Ave.
January 6, 2012 from
12:00-2:00pm; Suite 70
January 9, 2012 from 6:00-8:00pm; Suite 345
Please email your workshop rsvp to jaime.cortez@sfgov.org.
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