Minnesota Festival Support
Minnesota Festival Support is a pilot program designed to engage Minnesotans in festivals that celebrate the arts, build community, and expose communities to diverse art forms including folk and traditional arts.
The program provides funding for sponsoring or presenting organizations to feature Minnesota individual artists and Minnesota arts groups in arts festivals, or in the arts components of broader, community-based festivals.
Who can apply
An organization is eligible to apply for a Minnesota Festival Support grant if it is:
- A Minnesota arts producing organization, arts presenting organization or presenting affiliate, or community group, that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or has a nonprofit, tax-exempt fiscal agent.
- A Minnesota public agency such as a public school district or unit of local, state, or tribal government.
An applicant may submit only one Minnesota Festival Support grant proposal per fiscal year.
Grant Range
$5,000–$75,000
The applicant must provide at least 20 percent of the total project’s cash expenses from other sources, and may receive up to 80 percent of the total project’s cash expenses in combined support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and one of more or more the state’s regional arts councils.
This 80 percent / 20 percent match requirement will apply regardless of the size of applicant’s budget or request amount. In the future, the match requirement is likely to increase and applicants will need to be able to support a larger share of the total project’s cash expenses from other sources.
Applicants may request funds for project-related professional development. The match requirement does not apply to the professional development portion of the project budget.
Applicants are encouraged to incorporate interpretation into the festival activities, especially when presenting folk and traditional artists, and may request additional funding to cover interpretation costs. The match requirement does not apply to the interpretation portion of the project budget.
Information Sessions
The Minnesota State Arts Board is offering two free one-hour online information sessions about the Minnesota Festival Support grant program. The sessions will focus on updates to the program application. Each session is offered as a conference call with an option to view a PowerPoint presentation online.
Further details can be found on the information sessions page.
Program Officer
Contact Kathee Foran or call (651) 215-1626 / (800) 866-2787 for additional information or answers to specific questions.
Deadline
Friday, June 8, 2012
Instructions and Supplemental Materials
- Minnesota Festival Support Overview and Instructions Please read thoroughly BEFORE beginning an application
- Work sample description form—The form
is a fillable PDF document. Complete the form and submit it with the work samples that you will submit.
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