CAC’s Statewide and Regional Networks Program – U.S.

CAC’s Statewide and Regional Networks Program – U.S.

Deadline: 24-Feb-21

The California Arts Council (CAC) is seeking applications for its Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) program to contribute to the health and vitality of the creative workforce in California by creating a resilient network of arts service organizations and artists.

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An arts service organization is defined as an organization that furthers the interests of artists, creators, tradition bearers, and arts and cultural organizations. They also provide specialized, practical services for artists, arts organizations, and cultural communities.

Funding Information

Applicant organizations can request up to $35,000.
Program Requirements

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Arts service organizations must provide practical services for artists, creators, tradition bearers, and/or arts and cultural organizations.
Organizations must demonstrate a commitment to reflect, include, and represent the communities to be served.
Constituent representation must be active, ongoing, effective, and relevant statewide or regional reach.
Programs and/or services must provide engagement and access throughout all counties and/or municipalities identified within the statewide or regional network.
Organizations must be committed to reflect, include, and represent the communities to be served.
Eligibility Criteria

Who can apply?
Applicants must be an arts service organization with statewide or regional reach as stated in Program Definitions. First time applicants to this program are highly encouraged to consult with the managing Arts Program Specialist prior to application submission.
CAC State-Local Partner grantees are not eligible for Statewide and Regional Networks support in the same fiscal year, with the exception of a State-Local Partner serving as a Fiscal Sponsor for a distinct network that is not supported through the State-Local Partners program.
Applicants must comply with the requirements below. All applications must include the listed items at the time of submission in order to be reviewed, ranked, and considered for funding.
California-based – Documentation as being a California-based nonprofit arts/cultural organization; an arts-based unit of municipal or county government; or a tribal government, or nonprofit social service organization with regular ongoing arts programming and/or services and a principal place of business in California.
Arts programming – Applicants must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
501(c)(3) organization as applicant or fiscal sponsor – Non-governmental applicant organizations must demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
Fiscal sponsors – An applicant organization without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding.
Racial equity statement – In January 2020, the CAC approved its Strategic Framework which articulated commitment to racial equity.
Funding Restrictions

For organizations with total operating revenue above $250,000, the sum of requests for CAC grants during the same year of funding cannot exceed 50% of the total operating revenue from the most recently completed fiscal year, as it appears in the Budget Snapshot.
Applicants to this program are restricted from applying to the CAC Arts and Cultural Organizations General Operating Relief grant.
For more information, visit https://arts.ca.gov/grant_program/statewide-and-regional-networks/