The City of Beaverton is inviting applicants for its Open Format Grants program to provide support for individuals or organizations that have needs not met by other traditional funding programs.
Donor Name: City of Beaverton
State: Oregon
City: Beaverton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $2,500
Details:
Program Goals
Informed by Beaverton’s Community Vision, the goals of the Open Grant program is to support requests for funding that meet one or more of the following goals:
- Demonstrate cultural diversity, social equity and inclusiveness and to help the City of Beaverton become increasingly welcoming, inclusive, representative, and responsive to historically underrepresented and underserved communities, particularly communities of color, immigrants, refugees and LGBTQ.
- Nurture community collaboration; encourage partnership among artists and creative industries, businesses, cultural and other non- and for-profit organizations
- Contribute to economic vitality, contribute to neighborhood revitalization and/or beautification, and promote their city as a place that is welcoming, vibrant, responsible, friendly, safe, and active.
- Inspire or accomplish creativity and innovation.
- Nurture and honor community identity and heritage; preserve and commemorate local and multicultural traditions and histories
- Create public spaces that promote health, happiness and wellbeing.
Funding Information
- Funding requests may be up to $2,500 per applicant.
- This is not a matching-grant but they encourage applicants to leverage other funds raised to augment their projects.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants will be considered, but it is advisable that the primary applicant identify as one of the following:
- Individual artists, artist collectives, curators or arts administrators
- Non-profit organizations offering arts and culture programming
- School groups that fall within the city of Beaverton
- Individual Students
For more information, visit Open Format Grants.