Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant
This grant is provided by Center for Cultural Innovation
Open date
March 16, 2025Application Deadline
April 15, 2025Grant Frequency
$600 per individual applicant
About This Grant
The Quick Grant Program supports California artists, cultural practitioners, and nonprofit arts organization staff by providing up to $600 to enhance their financial resilience and administrative capabilities. Funding can be used for professional development opportunities like workshops, conferences, and consulting services, with a focus on time-sensitive activities that build business and organizational skills. Applications are accepted monthly, prioritizing first-time recipients and small organizations with budgets under $500,000.
How You Can Use the Funds
- Registration Fees: Conferences, workshops, festivals, trainings, or seminars focused on professional or organizational growth.
- ravel and Lodging Expenses: For activities outside a 60-mile radius of the applicant’s residence.
- Memberships or Subscriptions: Access to networks, business development tools, or field knowledge.
- Consultant, Coach, or Mentor Fees: One-on-one training or support to acquire skills in areas like financial management, marketing, or online programming.
- Funds cannot be used for subcontracted work (e.g., hiring someone to moderate a webinar or design a website without actively acquiring the skills).
- Activities must have clear educational benefits or directly result in skill acquisition.
Documents Required
- Résumé: For individual applicants, demonstrate eligibility based on your artistic career. For nonprofit staff, show your current position at the organization.
- Activity Details: Provider Information (e.g., event details, consultant bio, and a timeline for work with mentors or coaches). Activity Description and Goals.
- Budget: Itemized breakdown of activity costs (registration fees, travel, lodging, etc.).
- Consultant Letter of Commitment (if applicable): From mentors/coaches confirming participation, fees, and scope of work.
- Fiscal Sponsor Documents (if applicable): Fiscal sponsorship agreements and proof of programming location.
Eligibility Requirements
- California-based individuals: Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers residing in California (verified by résumé).
- Nonprofit arts organization staff: Employees (including board members or key volunteers) of nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organizations located in San Francisco or San José. Fiscally sponsored organizations based in these cities may also be eligible, pending approval and submission of sponsorship documentation.
- Activities must build administrative or business skills, not focus on artistic creation or teaching methods.
- Applicants must not apply for activities beginning less than 30 days after the application deadline.
- Organizations can request funding for up to two staff members per fiscal year, with a maximum combined total of $1,200