Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations 

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Deadline: January 10, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. CT

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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ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONNAIRE












Your organization is not eligible to apply.

We appreciate your interest in the Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations Program.


Unfortunately, the answers provided in the questionnaire reveal that the applicant is not eligible for consideration.

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For questions about this grant program, email us at: 
culturalsustainability@maaa.org.

Welcome! Your organization is eligible to apply.

The answers provided in the questionnaire reveal that the applicant is eligible for consideration. Please proceed to the application below.

I. APPLICANT INFORMATION

Organization's business name as it appears on its incorporation documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service or business registration with its Secretary of State office.


Name of the organization if different from its name on its incorporation documents.






P.O. Box information is NOT accepted here.







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12. Organization Legislative Information
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19. Board Leadership (or the equivalent) or Secondary Contact Person Information




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II. STAFF, BOARD, AND VOLUNTEER INFORMATION
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IV. ACCESSIBILITY
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V. ORGANIZATION BUDGET INFORMATION
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Ideally this should equal 100%.

VI. DOCUMENT UPLOADS


Limit 3 documents.


This should reflect anticipated income and expenses for the current year of operations.


Limit 4 documents, 2 pages each. This can include two letters of recommendation from community representatives (not Board Members) who know first hand how the organization makes a difference, as well as other materials such as a work sample summary document that lists websites where online photos, audio files, or videos can be viewed to better understand the work of the organization. 

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