Vitality Grants: Supporting Arts and Culture

The Vitality Grants aim to enhance arts and culture in the eight-county region of New York by supporting nonprofit organizations. This initiative focuses on fostering access to cultural opportunities in underserved communities, ensuring sustainability for local organizations, and celebrating the region’s diverse cultural heritage. With a new grant cycle starting in early 2025 for educational programs, these grants are crucial for enriching the community's cultural landscape.

Purpose
The Arts and Culture Action Area supports our goal to strengthen regional vitality by encouraging vibrant and diverse arts and cultural offerings and improving the capacity of local arts organizations.
Applications are invited from nonprofit organizations with programs that support this goal.
Of particular interest are programs that:

• Offer access to arts and cultural opportunities in otherwise underserved communities;Need resources for long-term sustainability or growth;
• Celebrate or promote the region’s rich racial/cultural diversity.
• Applications for arts education (PreK-12th grade) programming will be accepted in a new grant cycle to launch during the first quarter of 2025.

Eligibility

Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations or 509(a)(1) public organizations in our eight-county region, which comprises Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates counties.