Community Outreach Ticket Grant Program

Overview

Mission

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. promotes, preserves, perpetuates, and encourages the music, culture, and heritage of communities in Louisiana through festivals, programs, and other cultural, educational, civic, and economic activities.

Community Outreach Ticket Program

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation’s Community Outreach Ticket program provides tickets to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell (Jazz Fest), the Foundation’s main fundraising event.

The purpose of Community Outreach Tickets is to provide access to Jazz Fest for those Louisiana residents who otherwise could not afford to attend the festival.

Community Outreach tickets are distributed through nonprofit social service organizations that provide direct, ongoing services to low-income residents of Louisiana. These may include educational, religious, government, and community agencies – but only those that provide direct, ongoing services to low-income clients.

Tickets are to be distributed based on financial need and availability, and, in certain approved cases, as rewards or incentives for the clients’ good behavior. Any organization granted Community Outreach Tickets that is found to violate Community Outreach Ticket guidelines will be permanently barred from receiving tickets through this program in the future.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Only organizations in Louisiana are eligible to apply.
* Eligible Recipients
* Public and non-profit private schools offering grades 9-12 (with proof of nonprofit status and letter signed by the head of school) can apply for tickets to be used by students as rewards for good grades or outstanding behavior.
* Nonprofit organizations within the state of Louisiana that provide direct, ongoing social services to low-income residents of Louisiana
* Must provide proof of federal 501(c)(3) or Louisiana nonprofit status.
* Universities
* Charities
* Neighborhood
* Religious organizations (with proof of nonprofit status) that provide direct, ongoing social services to low-income residents of Louisiana.
* Government agencies that provide direct services to low-income residents (with letter on official stationery).
* Housing authorities
* Recreation programs
* The nonprofit status of all applying organizations must be current.
* Must be listed as “active” with the Louisiana Secretary of State.
* Organizations should be incorporated for at least one year.

Ineligibility

* Community Outreach Tickets are NOT to be used by current or former staff members, board members, donors, or sponsors of the applying organization, or their families, except as chaperons or caregivers while recipients of your organization’s services attend Jazz Fest.
* Tickets may not be sold in any way.
* Tickets are not to be used as raffle items or for fundraising purposes, or as rewards for volunteers.
* Any agencies/organizations applying without proof of nonprofit status will NOT be eligible.
* Ineligible Applicants
* We will not grant Community Outreach Tickets to the following:
* Privately owned for-profit businesses.
* Kindergarten through 8th grade schools and classes.
* Schools that serve fourth through eighth grades may apply to participate in the “School Day at Jazz Fest” program. Contact Festival Productions, Inc.
* Individuals.
* Staff, employees, board members, volunteers, or agents of city or state government departments/agencies and their family members (although applications from government agencies that provide services to the needy are eligible).

* Organizations based outside the state of Louisiana.
* 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations.
* Organizations requesting tickets to be used by or for the following:
* Board members
* Donors/Benefactors
* Paid contract employees
* Contractors or consultants
* Dues-paying members
* Executive staff
* Staff or employees (except when chaperones are required to assist those who receive the agency’s services)
* Volunteers
* Family members of staff, board, donors, benefactors, contractors, and consultants for the applying organization
* Offices of elected officials and their staff members
* Fraternal organizations or other social/benevolent groups that do not provide direct, ongoing social services to low-income individuals, social aid and pleasure clubs
* Business development organizations or associations
* Nonprofits that only provide arts or other educational programming and do not provide direct, ongoing social services to low-income individuals
* Booster clubs or fundraising arms of nonprofit organizations
* Organizations that charge clients a fee or tuition for services
* Members or staff of city or state government offices in the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial branches, other than agencies whose sole role is to provide direct, ongoing social services to low-income residents of Louisiana
* Raffles
* Fraternities or Sororities
* Contest or prize giveaways
* Fundraising activities of any kind
* Promotional uses of any kind