Seeding Cultural Treasures is an initiative to nourish and cultivate the landscape of emerging arts and culture organizations run by and for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC).
Donor Name: Propel Nonprofits
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/20/2022
Size of the Grant: $40,000 and $100,000
Grant Duration: Three-and-a-half years
Details:
Unrestricted grants and engagement in the program are essential to building trusting relationships. Propel will provide technical assistance to grantees in financial administration and other nonprofit finance, strategy, and governance areas, and there will be peer-to-peer learning opportunities and optional workshops.
Benefits for Organizations Selected
- General operating grant between $40,000 and $100,000 over three-and-a-half years. Recipients will work with Propel to determine the distribution of the grant.
- Technical assistance to grantees in financial administration and other nonprofit finance, strategy, and governance areas.
Optional workshops and peer-learning opportunities in other focus areas as determined by recipients. To strengthen and nourish the - BIPOC arts and culture landscape, many of these workshops, peer learnings, and networking opportunities will be available to all applicants and the wider BIPOC arts and culture community, regardless of being a grantee.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations are registered in Minnesota and/or are units of the 11 tribal governments in Minnesota
- Nonprofit organizations, including 501(c)(3) organizations and organizations that have a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3) organization
- Organizations must have an arts and culture focus that is significant to their organizational programs and budget
- The organization’s Executive Director/CEO is BIPOC-identified or at least 50% of board members are BIPOC-identified, AND the organization demonstrates a significant prioritization of arts and culture to serve the BIPOC arts community or their specified/defined community of color
- Organizations have been operating for at least two years. (They are not required to have been a 501(c)(3) or fiscally sponsored for at least two years.)
- Organizations with current annual budgets with expenses less than $500,000
For more information, visit Seeding Cultural Treasures.