Grant Programs

  • Operating Assistance: Professional Arts Training Organizations

    Open for Intake
    October 8, 2026

    Operating Assistance

    Supports organizations that provide comprehensive programs of specialized training for professional artists and cultural workers or for those who are committed to pursuing professional careers in the arts.

  • Operating Assistance: Literary Arts

    Open for Intake
    October 8, 2026

    Operating Assistance

    Supports a sustained artistic and editorial program by organizations that includes any form of artistic expression or social, cultural or intellectual commentary or inquiry through regular publication in print or electronic form.

  • Arts-Based Community Development & Leon and Thea Koerner Award

    May 13, 2026

    Project Assistance

    The Arts-Based Community Development (A-BCD) program supports eligible organizations to either: Engage professional artists in the development and delivery of projects that provide arts-based community development impacts and benefits to a specified community through the creation and presentation of new artworks or provide training or mentoring for artists or community workers to understand and learn about how to create and safely implement or facilitate arts-based community development projects.