SCAC: Term Arts Education Project Grants

The SCAC Term Arts Education Project Grants support quality arts education for preschool and K-12 students during the 2025-2026 academic year. The grants aim to enhance access to arts education, integrate arts with school curricula, and address South Carolina’s educational standards. Eligible applicants include colleges, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Priority is given to projects serving underserved communities and addressing learning loss caused by COVID-19, ensuring a broad impact on students' educational development.

This grant supports quality arts education programs for preschool (3k- 4k) and/or K-12 students during the school term (including beyond the school day), through both traditional providers (arts organizations) and other organizations (e.g., social service, health, community, education) that utilize the arts to meet the educational, developmental, and social needs of preschool (3k-4k) and/or K-12 students. This grant supports projects occurring during the school term 2025-2026. For the purposes of this grant, a term is defined as an academic year.
Activities should:
Expand student access to arts education opportunities; andComplement, augment, or advance standards-based arts instruction or arts integration aligned with school curriculum; andBe focused on or include significant components of quality instruction and/or experiences in the visual arts, performing arts, media arts, design arts, folk and traditional arts, and/or creative writing; andAddress South Carolina’s 2017 College and Career Ready Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Proficiency.If applying for or including preschool programming, address South Carolina’s Profile of the Ready Kindergartener.
Examples of eligible in-school and after-school activities include, but are not limited to:

• Workshops
• Artist residencies
• Performances
• Exhibitions
• Acquisition of critical equipment or supplies
• Program planning
• Professional learning for educators, instructors, artists and/or administrators
• Camps (non-summer camps)
• Funding
• Up to $15,000 Matching Requirement: 1:2 (grantee:SCAC)This funding category is highly competitive.

Eligibility

A unit of state or local government; OR
A nonprofit community-based organization (arts or non-arts)currently registered as a charity with the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office
Applicants who are exempt from this registration must upload their registration exemption approval reflecting S.C. as the primary address on all current official organizational documentswith federal tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service ORapplying through a tax-exempt fiscal agent/receiver organization.Applicants who are applying through a fiscal agent/receiver must submit a letter outlining the working relationship and responsibilities of both parties.In accordance with federal government policy, all organizations – including (but not limited to) private schools, public school districts, government entities, and nonprofit organizations – must provide a valid UEI number to receive an SCAC grant award. Learn about the new grant requirement: Unique Entity ID (UEI)If an applicant organization is using a fiscal agent/receiver, separate UEI numbers must be provided for both the applicant organization and the fiscal agent/receiver. Exceptions to separate UEI numbers are organizations run by a local government or a school district.Eligible project disciplines are visual arts, performing arts, media arts, design arts, folk and traditional arts, and creative writing.Students under age 3 may benefit from proposed programming, but programs should not be focused on students below the 3K level.Applicants may submit only one (1) application per deadline.
College and university departments are eligible, but only one (1) application per department will be accepted.

Ineligibility

Schools and school districts are not eligible.
Individual artists are not eligible.Any arts material or activity that is already funded by a Summer Arts Education Project Grant may not be duplicated in, or overlap with, a Term Arts Education Project Grant application. Only expenses that are not already covered by a Summer Arts Education Project award are eligible for Term Arts Education Project Grant funding.