Community Engagement Grants (CEG): New Work

The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) offers Community Engagement Grants (CEG) to support innovative community-centered arts projects. Since 1982, these grants have empowered individual artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations in The Bronx to enhance cultural connections. The program encourages applications from diverse artists, including those historically excluded, fostering a rich cultural ecosystem. Applicants can apply for three funds simultaneously, promoting a variety of artistic disciplines and community engagement.

The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) offers grant funding and program opportunities to support community-centered arts and culture projects and to recognize outstanding local artists.
Applications are accepted from individual artists, artist collectives, and nonprofit arts or community organizations for projects in a wide variety of disciplines, including dance, visual arts & crafts, theater, music, film & video, opera, folk arts, interdisciplinary arts, literary arts, multi-disciplinary art forms, and others.
Emerging and pre-professional artists, women artists, artists of color, artists with disabilities, artists who identify as LGBTQ, and artists from other historically excluded communities and demographics are strongly encouraged to apply.
Community Engagement Grants: New Work
Since 1982, the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) has offered Community Engagement Grants (CEG) to enrich the cultural life of the borough by supporting high-quality community-based arts projects in all disciplines, genres, and styles.
For this grants program, “community” is defined as: A geographic area; A cultural, social, racial, or socio-economic demographic; An artistic community.
The program is for Bronx-based artists who are not applying directly to the supporting and who are also: individual artists, unincorporated artist collectives or ensembles, or nonprofit organizations with an art mission or program.
We fund projects via three Funds. Our new process allows you to apply for all three Funds at once: Arts Fund (AF); Community Arts (CA); New Work (NW).
New Work (NW) is supported by the NYSCA SCR program. NW grants are open to individual artists who generate new work.