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Project Grants: Guidelines and Criteria

Read through the brief Project Grant descriptions to understand the range of project grant areas available to your organization.

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Funding Criteria

The following criteria are the basis for the panel review of Project Grant applications:

  • Artistic quality and creativity of the project.
  • Ability of the project to serve the needs of the community, including potential public exposure and public benefit, and efforts to reach artists and audiences from culturally diverse groups.
  • Managerial and administrative ability of the applicant organization to carry out arts programming and properly administer funds granted.
  • History of the applicant organization in producing, presenting or serving the arts.
  • Appropriateness of the applicant's budget to carry out its proposed program(s).

Commission Funding Priorities: Rural, Disability and Ethnic-Run Organizations

The Commission has established specific areas to receive priority in funding. Funding priority has been given in the past and will continue to be given to:

  • projects and organizations in rural areas of the state (communities outside the metropolitan areas of Tucson and Phoenix)
  • ethnic-run organizations*, and projects coordinated by such organizations (*see Glossary of Terms for definition)
  • projects and organizations representing and serving, as their primary mission, people with disabilities

These priorities are reflected in the allocation process through an automatic step up to the next-highest level of priority (i.e. an organization ranked as Medium Priority in the panel process will be moved to Medium-Plus Priority, receiving a higher level of funding).

Applying for a Project Grant in Addition to an ALTE/Arts Learning Project or GOS Grant

Applicants may submit a Project/Arts Learning Project application for the same project for which they have submitted an ALTE Grant. In this case, only the expenses and fees that relate directly to economic development and cultural tourism development are eligible for support through ALTE. On the ALTE project budget, the artist and/or consultant fees through the Project Grant must be marked with a "*" and will not be considered as eligible fees through the ALTE Program.

Organizations and Local Arts Agencies applying for GOS Grants Levels I, II and Tribal Museums may also submit Project/Arts Learning Project Grant applications with no special requirements.

GOS Grant Level III applicants and Basic/Locals Aid applicants who also wish to apply for a Project/Arts Learning Project Grant MUST submit a statement of up to 200 words with their application which makes the case for how the project is "special or unusual" relative to ongoing programs. The Commission defines "special or unusual" as a project that possesses some characteristic or unifying principle that makes it distinguishable from an organization’s entire season or overall operation.

Use the following questions as a guide when preparing your "special or unusual" statement:

  • How is this project outside the scope of your regular season offerings?

  • If this is an existing project, how will it be changed or refined during this application cycle?

  • How does this project take your programming in new directions?

  • How does this project take your audiences in new directions?

Panelists will evaluate Project/Arts Learning Project Grant applications from GOS applicants Levels III and Basic/Locals Aid based on this requirement. If the "special or unusual" statement is not included, the application WILL NOT be sent to the panel for review. If the applicant does not make the case for the project being "special or unusual," the panel will not further review the Project/Arts Education Project Grant.

How To Apply

Be sure to thoroughly read all the information on Project Grants and types of projects to find the type of grant the most closely fits your project. Please use us as a resource as you put your grant application together. For assistance, contact us at (602) 255-5882 or email info@azarts.gov.

EGOR logo (Electronic Grant Online Resource) Go to EGOR (Electronic Grant Online Resource) to complete your application and don't forget to include any supplemental materials that are required.

 

Updated 01/30/06