ASCA: Cultural Collaborations Project Grants

The Alaska State Council on the Arts offers Cultural Collaborations Project Grants, providing matching awards of up to $6,000 to support high-quality arts and cultural programs for youth in Alaska. These grants emphasize skill acquisition and participation outside the school year. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, schools, and tribal entities, with a focus on projects that foster cultural heritage and artistic engagement. Partnerships are encouraged, enhancing community involvement in the arts.

About Alaska State Council on the Arts
The Alaska State Council on the Arts funds applications in all areas of the arts: dance, visual arts, literature, music, theater, media arts, and traditional Native arts. The Council also encourages applications that promote and develop the cultural heritage of Alaskans and the creation of new works by Alaskan artists.
Cultural Collaborations Project Grants are matching awards of up to $6,000 in support of high-quality arts and cultural programs for youth that emphasize skill acquisition and direct participation in settings outside of the school day/year, in Alaska. Cultural Collaborations Project Grants are a program of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, with support from Rasmuson Foundation. Eligible projects/programs provide regularly scheduled sessions over an extended period of time. Nonprofit organizations, schools or school districts are eligible to apply. Partnerships in support of Cultural Collaborations Project Grants are encouraged.

Eligibility

Cultural Collaborations Project Grants are a program of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, with funding support from Rasmuson Foundation.Project grants are matching grants of up to $6,000 that support high-quality arts/cultural experiences where children/youth are actively involved in skill acquisition or direct participation, in Alaska. Match may be cash and/or in-kind.Any 501(c)(3) youth-serving, Alaska-based organizations, schools, tribal organizations, libraries and other arts/cultural organizations are eligible.Projects may request multi-year funding but must submit a new grant application annually showing decreasing amounts of requested funds.Eligible programs provide regularly scheduled sessions over an extended period of time outside the regular school day or year.Funds may be used for direct costs of the proposed project including artist fees, supplies, rehearsal space, facility rent, etc.

Ineligibility

Funds may not be used to supplant resources in existing programs, for instructor salaries, re-granting, scholarships or tuition assistance, prizes or awards or for fundraising or benefit activities.