The Watauga Arts Council is seeking applications for its Grassroots Grants to provide support for high-quality programming in the performing, visual, literary, and traditional arts.
Donor Name: Watauga Arts Council
State: North Carolina
County: Watauga County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Programming choices are responsive to community needs and demonstrate improvement and innovation. Programming choices also engage constituents across geographic, cultural, social, and economic strata.

Fosters collaborative relationships with and provide services and support to county arts organizations and other arts resources.
Supports individual artists in the county through services and opportunities and compensates artists appropriately.

Funding Priorities
The directive is to prioritize funding for the following:

Provide program or operating support to qualified arts organizations.
Provide funds to support arts learning and arts-in-education programs conducted by qualified artists. These can be artist residencies in schools, after-school programs, summer camps, or adult arts learning classes.
To support other community, civic, and municipal organizations that provide high-quality experiences for the greater community. These programs must be conducted by qualified artists.

Funding Information
Typical requests range from $800 – $4,000.
Uses of Funds
The three primary uses of Grassroots funds are as follows:

Provide program or operating support through subgrants to arts organizations that do not receive operating support from the North Carolina Arts Council. Grassroots partners located in counties with 50,000 or more residents are required to subgrant at least 50 percent of their Grassroots allocation to other organizations in their counties to conduct arts programs.
Grassroots partners located in counties with fewer than 50,000 residents must use 50 percent of their funds for arts programs that they conduct OR for subgrants to other organizations for arts programs using qualified artists. In either case, Grassroots partners are expected to provide support to qualified arts organizations in their counties that consistently present high-quality arts programs and that are not already receiving operating support from the N.C. Arts Council.
Support high-quality arts programs that reach and impact a broad cross-section of the county’s citizens and youth.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizations must have been in operation for at least one year.
While nonprofit 501(c)(3) status is preferred, organizations that are nonprofit in nature may also receive Grassroots Arts Program subgrants.
Unincorporated nonprofits may have a fiscal agent or sponsor to receive the funds on their behalf.
Watauga County nonprofit arts organizations such as, qualified arts organizations (where they exist), such as theaters, symphonies, galleries, art guilds, choral societies, dance companies, folk arts, societies, writer’s groups, and arts festivals.
Applicant/organization must not be late on tax payments.
Subgrants of Grassroots funds may not be awarded to arts organizations that already receive operating support directly from the N.C. Arts Council.

For more information, visit Watauga Arts Council.