Deadline: 3/14/22
Amount: $8,000-$50,000
Website: https://boulderarts.org/2022-gos/
Description:
Funding is intended to benefit the community, foster a supportive atmosphere for artists, develop the City’s creative identity and cultural vibrancy, and increase culture and creativity in the public realm. Programs must benefit the City of Boulder.
The purpose of Community Project grants are to encourage innovation and exploration in order to achieve progress in the following community areas:
- Support the resiliency and sustainability of cultural organizations to enhance their ability to benefit the community.
- Create a supportive environment for artists and creative professionals, while fostering innovative thinking and leadership among them.
- Prioritize the civic dialogue about the ability of culture to positively contribute to the economy, social offerings, the environment, and the authentic expression of diversity.
- Develop Boulder’s creative identity in becoming an innovative world leader in cultural matters and project that identity to the region and the world.
- Focus on the expression of culture and creativity in the public realm through public art, the urban landscape, culture in the neighborhoods, and serendipitous encounters with the arts.
- Amplify the vibrancy of Boulder’s cultural destinations: The lively mix of museums, performance venues, events, districts, studios, maker spaces, and other facilities that make Boulder an enticing place to visit, live, play, and work. Fill in the gaps and address issues of access and affordability.
In 2022, it is also important to the Boulder Arts Commission that the Community Grants Program is responsive to ongoing pressures and ramifications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There are no questions directly related to the pandemic on the application. However, the Commission asks the community to apply with projects, emphasizing collaborations, that directly address those most impacted by the pandemic. The goal is an equitable distribution of resources throughout the community in a way that supports economic and social recovery.
Eligible applicants:
Eligible organizations are headquartered in Boulder (Governance, Non-Profit Status).
Applicants must either provide formal IRS documentation of their 501(c)3 status. Emerging organizations with revenues under $250,000 that have not yet achieved not-for-profit status or community-oriented businesses may also apply for this grant.
These organizations must be able to demonstrate the following:
– The organization has community-oriented mission and goals, services, and programming.
– The organization is currently active and has conducted programming consistently for at least two years.
– The organization has oversight from a board, advisory committee, or other stewardship group.
– That group must include community representation.
Exclusions: Funds will not be provided for projects that have occurred before the grant funding decisions have been made, the purchase of alcohol or marijuana, debt reduction, capital construction, creating or building endowments, acquisition of real estate, political activity, programming that promotes a single religion over others, or re-granting of the funds.
PROGRAM CONTACT
Lauren Click, Arts Program Manager
(720)-564-2355, clickl@boulderlibrary.org
City of Boulder’s Office of Arts & Culture
Boulder Main Public Library
1001 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder, CO 80302