The School Arts Support Grant helps schools acquire supplies, materials, equipment, or professional development.
Donor Name: South Carolina Arts Commission
State: South Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/18/2025
Size of the Grant: $2,500
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The purpose is to help schools acquire the supplies, materials, equipment, or professional development needed to address student outcomes through innovative arts curriculum, arts-enhanced curriculum, or arts-integrated curriculum.
Funding Information
Up to $2,500 per grant request.
Grant Period
September 17, 2024 – May 15, 2025.
Uses of funds 
SAS grant funds may be used, in one of the following ways:

Materials/Equipment/Supplies. Examples could include:

Arts materials that will enhance teaching the Visual and Performing Arts Standards
Supplies/equipment for an arts-enhanced or arts -integrated lesson

Professional Development Opportunities. Examples could include:

Membership in state or national arts education associations
Conference, travel, and hotel fees for state or national conferences (travel and hotel must follow the S.C. state travel guidelines and rates).
Substitute teacher costs to allow for peer-to-peer planning for arts rich learning opportunities.

Arts Residencies

Please note: The artist in residence MUST spend peer to peer training time with the arts teacher to ensure growth in the teacher’s skill level and ability to teach the skill in future years.
Grant recipients must use members of the S.C. Arts Directory for grant-funded activities (see below for additional information).
SAS Grant funds can purchase materials to support the arts residency.

Creative Arts Therapy Project/Experience

Grant recipients must use members of the S.C. Arts Directory for grant-funded activities (see below for additional information).
A letter of support from your school’s guidance counselor will be required if pursuing an art therapy project the letter will need to include the following information:

A statement of support from the guidance counselor of the proposed Creative Arts Therapy Project/experience.
Details about the school’s policy on mandated reporting if a student were to disclose information during the art therapy experience that requires immediate action to ensure their safety and well-being.
A commitment to obtaining verbal consent from parents for a credentialed therapist to deliver programming in their child’s classroom.

Geographical Areas 
Priority may be given to:

Schools on this S.C. Department of Education list of schools with low-income student populations above 70%
Schools in SCAC FY25 Opportunity Initiative Counties:

Allendale
Bamberg
Calhoun
Cherokee
Clarendon
Dillon
Edgefield
Hampton
Jasper
Laurens
Lee
Marion
Marlboro
Saluda
Williamsburg

Eligibility Criteria
The applicant must be a public, private, or charter K-12 school in South Carolina.

Private and charter schools must

be currently registered with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office.
reflect S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documents.

For more information, visit SCAC.