Time Limited Grant Opportunities

The California Arts Council is accepting applications for the Arts and Youth grant program.

This program expands meaningful arts participation and learning in diverse settings and contexts for infants, children, and youth ages 0-25 by prioritizing programs that directly bridge barriers to access and participation.

• The project must engage youth (ages 0-25) that may not otherwise have access to or participate in arts learning activities.
• The project plan must reflect a collaborative relationship between the applicant organization, artists and/or culture bearers, youth, and the participating community.
• The anticipated project timeline must show how it will be completed on budget within the grant activity period in alignment with the program’s purpose and goals.
• The project may occur during or outside of traditional school hours and take place at arts and culture venues, schools, community centers, court/school sites, juvenile halls and camps, county-operated correctional facilities, social services agencies, and other youth-oriented settings.
• The project design must include safe, healthy, and appropriate learning and community engagement environments for youth.
• If proposing therapeutic outcomes, applicants must establish the qualifications of service providers, how strategies are appropriate to the clinical and/or community arts setting, and how support is culturally responsive to participants.

• Organizations serving historically and systemically underserved communities located in the lower two quartiles of the Healthy Places Index, including rural and inland areas, as well as regions with a history of low investment from the CAC;
• First-time grantees, who have not previously received direct CAC funding (except for organizations whose only previous CAC funding was a Cultural Pathways grant); and
• Small organizations with total revenues of $250,000 or below.Office Hours