arts & culture grant program: Due 03/22/2024
City of Phoenix Arts & Culture Grants
The City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Department believes that investing in arts and culture builds community and enhances the quality of life for residents. The agency provides a variety of funding opportunities that enable artists, arts and culture organizations, schools, and neighborhood groups to carry out high-quality public arts programming for all residents.
Our annual Community Arts Grants program strengthens the community’s access to arts and culture programming. We provide support in this program in two distinct ways:
- The General Support program provides core operating support to arts and cultural organizations of all sizes that have a primary mission to create, produce, or provide arts and cultural programming to enhance the quality of lives for Phoenix residents.
- The Project Support program promotes and encourages the breadth of arts and cultural programming in our community by supporting large and small projects throughout the City of Phoenix.
General Timeline
Feb. 12: Guidelines published | Application opens
Feb. 15 from 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.: Virtual info session - View the On-Demand Session (password: Grants25)
Feb. 23 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Grant Writing Workshop 101 at Burton Barr Central Library
Feb. 7 – Mar. 21: One-on-one application consultations with staff
Mar. 22 at 5:00 pm: Application deadline
Video one-on-one appointments and application consultations can be made with grants staff between February 7 and March 21, 2024.
AZ COMMISSION ON THE ARTS GRANT DUE: April 4, 2024
Festival Grant: Due April 4, 2024
Festival Grants support the presentation of quality arts and culture programming through festival activities, connecting artists and culture bearers (or their artistic work) with communities.
What does it fund?
Festival grants support in-person, virtual, and hybrid festivals.
For the purposes of this grant program, a festival is defined as a periodic celebration or gathering that…
- happens in a condensed period of time,
- features a varied and curated program of events, and
- has an easily identifiable and unifying theme or specified focus.
Festivals eligible for Festival Grants must…
- demonstrate a thematic emphasis on arts and culture in their programming,
- last a minimum of one four-hour day, and
- only span the duration of two consecutive weekends
Seasonal series of presented works, as well as freestanding productions or exhibitions, are not eligible activities for this program. Festival activities can include juried processes, but scholarships, pageants or standalone award ceremonies are also ineligible. Please see a more detailed list of ineligible expenses at the end of this document.
ADEQ Recycling grants Due 12/01/2023
ADEQ Recycling Grants Available:
“The Recycling Grant Program is more than just funding; it’s an opportunity for every corner of our great state. Many Arizona communities, especially those in rural areas, have faced barriers in accessing recycling resources. This grant demonstrates ADEQ’s dedication to closing those gaps and ensuring everyone has access to the tools, education and technology needed to promote a sustainable future,” said ADEQ Cabinet Executive Officer Karen Peters.
The approximate $1 million in grant funding is available to be awarded in three main categories:
- Waste Reduction Assistance (WRA): Funds initiatives like curbside recycling and household hazardous waste collections to majorly curb the solid waste stream.
- Waste Reduction Initiative Through Education (WRITE): Funds education efforts to teach Arizonans about proper disposal of solid waste, as well as recycling campaigns and outreach programs to encourage participation in recycling.
- Recycling Research & Development (RR&D): Funds development of new tools, products and information to assist in diverting material from landfills by using that material to create new products or by improving old technologies.
Grant application materials can be found at azdeq.gov/recyclinggrants.
Completed applications are due by Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, 3 p.m. MST.
“This is a golden opportunity for political subdivisions of the State of Arizona, private enterprises, local nonprofits and Arizona’s Tribal Governments to enhance their recycling endeavors! We’re collectively paving a path to take the burden off our landfills and work towards a more sustainable future,” said ADEQ Recycling Coordinator J.B. Shaw.
The return of the Recycling Grant Program provides an opportunity for small communities to create and enhance existing recycling efforts, as well as helps larger communities’ ongoing efforts to minimize landfill waste. ADEQ encourages all organizations, counties, cities, towns, Tribal governments, nonprofit organizations and private businesses with innovative recycling and circular economy ideas to apply for funding.
Contact
ADEQ Public Information Officer
Phone: 602-540-8072
Historic Preservation Exterior Rehabilitation Grant
Funds Now Available 09/01/2023
The City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department’s Historic Preservation Office is pleased to announce the return of Historic Preservation Exterior Rehabilitation grants for historically designated residences. From 1989-2006, $42 million in bond funds were used for Historic Preservation efforts, to enhance, preserve and protect dozens of city-owned historic properties in Phoenix and to establish multiple grant programs for private property owners, including the Exterior Rehabilitation Grant Program. In 2023, Phoenix City Council approved another $200,000 for Exterior Rehabilitation grants for the 2023-24 fiscal year!
Applications for the 2023-24 fiscal year are now being accepted. For additional information, visit www.phoenix.gov/newsroom/planning-and-development/2824 or email historic@phoenix.gov .
Arts Community Stretching Resources to Meet Growing Demand
May 2023 update
Arizona Citizens for the Arts congratulates the Arizona Legislature and Governor Hobbs for renewing the historic $5 million funding for the Arizona Commission on the Arts in its FY2024 state budget.
Last year, the arts and culture community celebrated the $5 million commitment as an indicator that the State was finally willing to re-invest in the arts, after two years in a row of leaving the Commission entirely out of the state budget.
While we appreciate a $5 million investment, the needs of Arizona’s creative economy are much greater than that. We know that many of our allies in the Legislature recognize this and will work with us to address those needs in the future.
Rising costs and inflation are whittling the value of last year’s $5 million appropriation, meaning that the same amount in FY2024 cannot provide the same level of support.
In addition, the Arizona arts community is growing rapidly, reflected by a 20 percent increase in general operating and other grant applications to the Commission in 2023. Therefore, the funding is being asked to serve larger numbers of artists and organizations. That reduces the value of this $5 million even further.
All of this occurs as arts organizations continue facing challenges in the post-pandemic environment, where audiences and patrons are not all back and other resources from the community are uncertain.
And, looking at the bigger picture, the State’s investment has fallen far below its past commitments for many years. Adjusting for population, inflation and growth of the field, the $20 million appropriation recommended in Governor Hobbs’ proposed budget in January is much closer to the level of investment the State should be making in Arizona’s creative economy.
Meanwhile, this year’s appropriation is another one-time investment, meaning that the Arizona Commission on the Arts remains the only state agency that was once funded with ongoing dollars in the General Fund, which still has not returned to ongoing funding. The last year for ongoing funding for the arts was 2011. This makes it hard for the Commission to carry out long-term strategic planning and attract ongoing commitments from private donors since the State hasn’t shown an ongoing commitment to the agency itself.
We look forward to working with the Governor’s Office and allies in the State Legislature to address all of these issues in the 2024 legislative session.
Meanwhile, we know that the Arizona Commission on the Arts will make the most strategic use of these funds in the next year to support the work of so many artists, community festivals and arts organizations who inspire us, heal us, educate us as they enhance the quality of our lives and produce an impressive return on investment in our economy.
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