Arts Grant Program
Arts Grant Program
The City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission is pleased to announce that applications are now available for its Arts Grant Program.
The Arts Grant Program is designed for eligible, nonprofit arts organizations to produce, perform or present art programs and projects in West Hollywood to serve the West Hollywood community. Projects that celebrate some aspect of City culture, history, or other civic element, are particularly welcome. The maximum award under the Art Grant Program is $7,500. Applications are due no later than September 5, 2008 at 5 pm. Applications and forms can be found below:
Applications will be reviewed by an independent panel of arts and community representatives who will assign each application a score. The panel's recommendations will be forwarded to the Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission for review and assignment of grant funds based upon the organization's panel score. Final approval for all grant awards is made by City Council.
Applications will be reviewed with the following criteria: artistic quality of programs or work; involvement in and service to the West Hollywood community; managerial and fiscal competence; overall merit and completeness of the application of the grant request.
A workshop on the Arts Grant application will be held on Tuesday, July 15th at 5:00pm in the Plummer Park Community Center, Art Room #1.
Additional Information for Arts Grant Program Applicants
This year the City of West Hollywood, along with its fellow municipal arts funders in Culver City, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Monica and LA County are introducing two new components in their grant programs designed to make the grant process more streamlined and effective for organizations to apply to more than one municipal funder. These initiatives are the California Cultural Data Project and the LA County Municipal Arts Funder Common Questions.
The California Cultural Data Project (CACDP) requires that an applicant organization create an on-line profile which contains financial and other quantitative information about the organization. Applicant organizations should allow a minimum of 2 weeks to complete this profile the first time the organization does this. This is not because the actual input of the information takes that long, but that it may take that long for the organization to gather all the statistics, financial and other information that is required to complete the profile.
Once the profile has been completed, the organization will have a better understanding of how to organize their quantitative information going forward, so subsequent years will not be as time consuming. The good news is that this is a statewide initiative and other funders will also be participating in this initiative, so applicant organizations will be able to seek funding through statewide sources such as foundations and corporations with granting programs.
To start the organization's profile, visit http://www.caculturaldata.org/. A help desk is available during regular business hours to assist arts organizations with any questions they might have. Workshops will also be provided in the Southern California area including West Hollywood (Thursday, July 10 at 5 pm at Great Hall in Plummer Park). Please check the CACDP website for more information about these workshops.
Once the information is entered, applicants to the City of West Hollywood Arts Grant Program will simply need to select and print a funders report for the program that will be attached to the West Hollywood application.
The City of West Hollywood Arts Grant Program application contains the LA County Municipal Arts Funder Common Questions as well as questions that are West Hollywood specific and are asked in relation to the project for which funds are being requested. The LA County Municipal Arts Funder Common Questions are a series of questions that all the municipal funders in LA County will be using as part of their application. These questions will be exactly the same, so that once these questions are answered for one municipal application, they may be used in other municipal applications as well.
The City of West Hollywood's participation in the California Cultural Data Project has been supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.