Grants The Grants Department of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge is committed to enhancing the quality of life for citizens in our community by funding diverse cultural offerings of excellence. Each year, we award approximately $450,000 in grant funds to support art exhibits, theatre productions, dance, music, festivals, literary works, media, folklife, and design arts throughout East Baton Rouge Parish and the surrounding 10-parish region.
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Free workshops to assist applicants are held before each grant round. For further information, e-mail Laura Larkin, Grants Director or call 225-344-8558.Decentralized Arts Funding
Deadline: June 1
Max request is $20,000 or half the available funds in your parish, whichever is less. DAF is a state program designed to ensure that citizens in all Louisiana parishes have access to high quality arts and cultural programs. The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge administers this program for the following parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.2011
2011 DAF Guidelines
2011 DAF Project Assistance Application
2011 Organizational Support Application
2011 Extra Provider of Services Form
2011 Technical Assistance Application
2010
2010 DAF Guidelines
2010 DAF Project Assistance round 2 Application - NEW
2010 Extra Provider of Services Form
2010 Project Assistance Final Report Instructions
2010 Project Assistance Final Report
2010 Organizational Support Final Report Instructions
2010 Organizational Support Final ReportLocal Project Assistance Grants
Deadlines: February 1st and September 1st
Request: $500-3,000
Funds specific art projects presented by nonprofit organizations.
Guidelines
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Final Report
Local Multicultural Grants
Deadline: February 1
Request: $500-3,000
Designed to improve the ability of multicultural nonprofit organizations to develop and provide arts programming, and to attract larger audiences for their artistic endeavors.
Guidelines
Application
Final ReportCharles Lamar Family Foundation Manship Theatre Subsidy Grant
Request: Amount of funding needed to rent Manship Theatre
Deadline: At least 2 months before performanceAssists nonprofit organizations to have performances in the Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts by subsidizing the theatre rental price. Pays rental costs only.
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State of Louisiana Grant Opportunities
For further information about grant
opportunities for organizations and individuals:
The Louisiana Division of the Arts
http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
www.leh.orgBaton Rouge Area Foundation
www.braf.orgNational Endowment for the Arts
www.nea.gov
Let Your Voice Be Heard: Ask Your Legislators to Support the Arts & Reinstate DAF and SAG Today!
The Executive Budget presented to the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee requests a $1 MILLION CUT to Decentralized Arts Funding (DAF) and a $1 MILLION CUT to Statewide Art Grants (SAG) for a total of $2 million or 41%. These cuts are in addition to the 12% DAF and SAG cuts sustained last spring for the current year's budget, and the 9% mid-year cuts made again in January to current DAF and SAG grants in-progress.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW! Contact your legislators and ask them to reinstate DAF and SAG funding!
Visit the Louisiana Partnership for Arts Advocacy at www.lparts.org,
Type your zip code into the "Write Your Legislators" box.
Click on the top alert "State of Louisiana - Severe Funding Cuts Proposed," and follow the directions from there.
It's that easy and only takes a few minutes.
Last year the Executive Budget requested an 81% elimination to arts funding, but strong grassroots support and the backing of Lt. Gov Landrieu convinced our Legislators to reduce the cuts to only 12%. This year Lt. Gov Landrieu is leaving to become Mayor of New Orleans. The arts need your support more than ever.
If you have ever attended a museum, theatre, festival, music or dance concert; enjoyed the free children's arts programming in libraries and schools; patronized arts and cultural organizations; applied for an arts grant; or benefited from the increased quality of life, economic development, and tourism that the arts provide your community, then these cuts WILL affect you. Loss of these funds will create a ripple effect crippling Louisiana's greatest natural resource: our culture.
Further, cutting economic drivers during a time of economic crisis is counterproductive. The state's own economic impact studies show that for every $1 the state spends on DAF, $11 is returned to state tax coffers and for every $1 the state spends on SAG, $28 is returned.
Visit www.lparts.org and ask your Legislators to reinstate DAF and SAG today.