Cultural Sustainability is a new pilot grant program offered by the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) in partnership with The Wallace Foundation as part of its Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative.
Cultural Sustainability acknowledges the invaluable contributions arts and cultural organizations make in our communities and the broader cultural landscape.
This program endeavors to support and understand how small, community-based arts organizations can advance their sustainability and well-being with resources to expand their practices and increase arts engagement in their communities.
M-AAA’s Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations* is available to arts and cultural organizations and arts-centric businesses in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas, and the Native Nations that share this geography. Through operational grants, capacity building, and cohort learning, Cultural Sustainability will support culturally driven organizations in M-AAA’s six-state region with annual operating expenses under $500,000.
This opportunity expands the types of operational structures eligible for support to include nonprofits as well as art-centric businesses to better serve groups that may face barriers with other grant programs. M-AAA hosted two roundtable sessions with individuals throughout our region on October 10 and 17 to help inform, define, and shape this new grant program in our six-state region.
M-AAA expects to grant a total of $1,100,000 in the region, through 22 unrestricted, non-matching organizational grants of $50,000 each.
See the
Cultural Sustainability Website for more information.
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