The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council is seeking applications for its Access Microfund Program.
Donor Name: Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
State: Pennsylvania
Counties: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $500
Details:
The Arts Council’s Access Micro fund is a reimbursement program that helps arts and culture organizations, collaboratives, and artists provide accommodations to patrons and artists with disabilities, such as American Sign Language interpretation, audio description, captioning, or materials in alternative formats.
Funding Information
The Arts Council provides up to $500.
Examples of eligible accommodations
- American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation of one performance
- Audio description of a single museum tour
- Development of a Braille program
- Interpretation, captioning, or other accommodations for an artist or patron with a disability.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit arts organizations, artist collaboratives, and independent artists serving or working in the nine counties of southwestern Pennsylvania (Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence, Indiana, Washington, and Westmoreland) are eligible to apply. The Access Micro fund is meant for those that are providing arts programming to the public.
- Funding through the Access Micro fund is not intended to support accessibility accommodations for an organization’s full series of scheduled programs. Instead, the fund is for accommodation outside your scheduled accommodated programs or if you are planning a one-time public program and need additional accessibility assistance.
For more information, visit Micro fund Grant Program.