Arts And Belonging Grants- Community Impact Grants

The Arts And Belonging Grants by the Cambridge Community Foundation aim to enhance social cohesion through multi-year support for arts organizations in Cambridge. These grants address the unique challenges faced by marginalized communities, promoting stability and impactful programming. With funding of $50,000 annually, the initiative seeks to empower nonprofits that foster inclusivity and cultural enrichment, ensuring everyone feels welcome in the community. This strategic initiative follows insights gathered from a community listening project conducted in 2024.

CCF has a long history of supporting arts and culture through grants to community-based nonprofit organizations that enrich people’s lives and enhance Cambridge’s vitality. CCF is building upon this work with two new arts and belonging grant opportunities in 2025 that support social cohesion in Cambridge.
Our arts and belonging grants are the first step in a multi-phased arts and belonging strategic initiative developed as part of the Cambridge Community Foundation’s (CCF) ongoing commitment to fostering social cohesion and addressing the unique needs of our arts and culture community. Emerging from feedback gathered during a community listening initiative conducted in the fall of 2024, which highlighted the challenges faced by arts and culture organizations in Cambridge, these grants aim to address the need for stable, long-term funding, support for marginalized communities, and the opportunity to grow and sustain impactful programs.
The Community Impact Grants provide multi-year, general operating support to sustain and expand organizations that are making a significant impact through arts and culture.
$50,000 per year, multi-year general operating support grants for Cambridge-serving community impact organizations doing arts and belonging work.

Eligibility

Nonprofits and fiscally sponsored entities with annual budgets of over $250,000.Have been actively operating in Cambridge for at least one year.Strengthening agency, self-determination, and power among historically excluded communities in Cambridge.Serve individuals and groups who have been marginalized or made to feel unwelcome in other spaces.Act as a hub for diverse groups, activities, and connections .Provide consistent and regular arts and culture programming.