Grants for Schools: Education Resource

The Delaware Division of the Arts provides Education Resource grants to foster partnerships between schools, arts organizations, and artists, enhancing arts education for Pre K-12 students. These grants promote student engagement in the arts through hands-on programs, extended-time arts initiatives, and integration with other subjects. Eligible applicants include nonprofit arts organizations and public schools in Delaware. The program aims to supplement existing arts education while ensuring compliance with state regulations.

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 (EDR) Grants
Education Resource grants 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

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.
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 to the Delaware Standards for Visual and Performing Arts.

Ineligibility

Education resource grants may not be used to meet compliance with state regulations/mandates. 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 staff.