Arts Organizations: Education Resource Grant

Arts Organizations: Education Resource Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Delaware Division of the Arts
Last Updated: February 13, 2026

Summary

The Delaware Division of the Arts provides the Education Resource Grant to foster collaboration between Delaware schools, arts organizations, and artists, enhancing arts education for pre K-12 students. This grant supports projects that engage students in hands-on arts learning, integrate arts with other subjects, and develop standards-based curricula. Eligible applicants include nonprofit arts organizations and public schools in Delaware. The initiative aims to enrich educational experiences through arts, benefiting both students and the broader community.

Overview

Delaware Division of the Arts The Delaware Division of the Arts offers a variety of grant programs for individual artists; nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations chartered and based in Delaware; and schools and government entities that support arts activities. Education Resource Grant These grants are intended to assist in the facilitation of partnerships between Delaware’s schools, arts organizations, and artists in providing standards-based arts learning experiences for pre K-12 students statewide. Education Resource projects focus on ways that Delaware arts organizations can serve as resources to Delaware schools before, during, and after the school day. Projects that have been supported in the past include, but have not been limited to: student engagement in the arts during the school day (working with an arts specialist in the classroom for hands-on programs where students are actively participating in arts activities designed to deepen and broaden learning)extended-time arts programs in the schools before or after the school day (curriculum- and standards-based arts programs designed to give students additional opportunities to create, produce, and learn through the arts)integration of the arts with other content areas and arts disciplines to provide collaborations between the arts and classroom teachers to reach mutual objectivesdevelopment and implementation of standards-based curriculum and/or assessment models/tools.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The following organizations are eligible to apply for Education Resource funding:Nonprofit arts organizations with a commitment to arts learning, based and chartered in Delaware, that are eligible to apply for General Operating SupportDelaware public schools with an established arts curriculum and staff, pre-K through 12Delaware public school districts and/or consortia of public schools with an established arts curriculum and staff, pre-K through 12Only one Education Resource application from an arts organization or school as the lead applicant will be accepted each year.

Ineligibility

Restrictions: Only one Education Resource application from an arts organization or school as the lead applicant will be accepted each year.Education resource grants may not be used to meet compliance with state regulations/mandates. Education Resource projects are intended to augment, not supplant, existing arts programs in the school. Applicant school programs and practices must be in compliance with state arts education regulations and mandates and aligned with the Delaware Standards for Visual and Performing Arts.The Division will not accept applications through fiscal agents.No individual may compile or submit an application on behalf of an organization if that individual is a member or relative of a member of the Delaware State Arts Council or Division staffIneligible Expenses for Education Resource Projects:Awards or cash prizesActivities outside DelawareMeals/refreshmentsCapital expenditures (purchase of equipment such as computers, musical instruments, kilns, etc.)Expenses incurred outside the grant period