Applications are now open for the Stow Cultural Council Grant Program to support activities in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences that bring the diverse elements of their community together for enjoyment and cultural enrichment.
Donor Name: Mass Cultural Council
State: Massachusetts
Town: Stow
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/17/2022
Size of the Grant: $6,100
Details:
Stow Cultural Council believes in creating a closer-knit community in Stow by sponsoring and supporting activities in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences that bring the diverse elements of their community together for enjoyment and cultural enrichment. The SCC especially seeks to fund projects that bring together parts of the community that do not often interact in their day-to-day lives in order to foster understanding by experiencing events together, working together on projects, and sharing stories.
Local Priorities
- Enriching Connections: Activities jointly sponsored by local organizations that would serve the Town of Stow. All local organizations are invited to collaborate and apply.
- Exploring the Arts, Nature & Sciences: Activities providing a community forum for experiencing the arts, nature, and sciences.
- Showcasing and Developing Local Talent: Activities providing opportunities for local artists to perform or share their work. Additional classes and workshops for community members to learn and explore the arts hands-on.
Funding Information
- Amount: $6,100
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must reside or be located in Massachusetts. Local Cultural Councils may accept applications from anyone included in the following list:
- Individuals: Individual applicants must show that a public benefit results from the project for which they are applying. A public presentation of an individual’s work may provide the needed public benefit. Individual members of Local Cultural Councils may apply for funding from a Local Cultural Council but must observe all conflict-of-interest laws and regulations in the granting process. Local Cultural Councils may also establish their own rules regarding applications from council members as long as these are consistent with the state’s conflict of interest laws.
- Incorporated private nonprofit organizations.
- Unincorporated associations that can establish a nonprofit objective. A group of individuals coming together with a common purpose (e.g., local community band, theater group) that do not have nonprofit status.
- Public schools, libraries, other municipal agencies, and the Local Cultural Council itself.
- Religious organizations. Religious organizations or groups with a religious affiliation are eligible to apply for funding for cultural programming that is available to the general public. LCCs can only approve applications that are primarily cultural in their intent and do not have the effect of advancing religion.
For more information, visit Mass Cultural Council.