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For Immediate Release
Dec. 17, 2014
Next deadline for KCAIC grant applications is Feb. 6
Deadline applies to AIP and SIP grant programs
Feb. 6, 2015 is the next deadline to apply for Strategic Investment Program and Arts Integration Program grants from the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC). This is the last scheduled grant application deadline for Fiscal Year 2015, which ends June 30, 2015. Applications submitted during this grant period will be reviewed on March 6.
Applicants may request support for projects that will be implemented by Dec. 31, 2015. To download an application form or learn more about KCAIC programs, please visit KansasCommerce.com/CAICPrograms. For assistance with grant applications, please contact KCAIC Director Peter Jasso at pjasso@kansascommerce.com.
Program descriptions follow:
Strategic Investment Program
Deadline: Feb. 6, 2015
Review: March 6, 2015
Grant period ends: Dec. 31, 2015
The Strategic Investment Program recognizes the important role individual artists and creative organizations play in building and sustaining cultural and economic vibrancy in Kansas. By funding a variety of professional and organizational development opportunities that impact cultural programming, these grants support initiatives that use the arts to enhance community vitality, revitalize neighborhoods, generate local business, create and preserve job opportunities and impact tourism.
Strategic Investment Program funds can be used for:
- Organizational Development: Grants for professional development opportunities for organizations that help strengthen business practices and sustainability.
- Activities that help build administrative and business skills and/or enhance workforce development.
- Develop or upgrade marketing and promotional materials such as brochures, DVDs, CDs, print ads and websites that fulfill strategies to expand audiences, outreach to underserved populations, and promote regional identity.
- New and Expanded Works: Support for new arts and culture productions, exhibitions, programs or events by individual artists or nonprofit organizations, which take place in Kansas. The purpose of this grant program is to create or preserve jobs by funding new or expanded programs that use arts and culture to enrich the quality of life for participants, promote economic development in Kansas and promote neighborhood revitalization.
- Capital Investment: Grants to improve and expand cultural assets.
- Purchase equipment, materials and/or technology upgrades to expand or improve an applicant’s organization.
- Significant expansion or alteration to an existing cultural facility by a nonprofit organization.
Arts Integration Program
Deadline: Feb. 6, 2015
Review: March 6, 2015
Grant period ends: Dec. 31, 2015
Arts Integration Program grants support the role the arts play in all levels of education, community service and workforce development. This program provides funding for educational institutions, arts organizations and community service non-profits to use the arts to increase student success, foster creative thinking, develop critical job skills and enhance community development.
Arts Integration Program funding will be awarded in two categories:
- Creative Collaboration: This program encourages the integration of Kansas artists into a variety of settings. Grants may be used to fund residencies and professional development collaborations that feature partnerships among artists, schools, arts organizations and arts programs of non-arts organizations. Creative Collaborations integrate an arts discipline into non-arts curriculum and content areas; help interpret an exhibition, performance or presentation; and support arts programming and community development goals and objectives. Projects must have a collaborative planning process that includes all partners, an exhibition or performance and artist interaction with both students and community members. Non-Kansas artists will be considered on a case by case basis.
- Innovative Partnerships: This category supports innovative programming between arts organizations and non-arts organizations to impact a variety of community and/or economic development goals. Arts organizations are encouraged to partner with other community entities (hospitals, prisons, etc.) to develop arts-centered programs that address community needs including public health, transportation, tourism, unemployment, aging and corrections.
- Integrated Arts Education: This program supports innovative educational programming that integrates arts learning into non-arts curriculum and content areas to address emerging technologies, areas of skills shortages, STEM curricula, workforce readiness and increase student performance.
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