Saratoga Arts offers the Saratoga
Program for Arts Funding, the
Arts-in-Education Grants,
and the Fulton-Montgomery Arts
Grants with funding from the New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Other Grants Opportunities
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is a state funding agency that provides support for activities of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in New York State.
The New York State Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) provides funding opportunities, extensive fiscal sponsorship services, information resources and educational initiatives for individual artists of all disciplines. Grants offered by NYFA include: $7,000 Artist Fellowships for NY state professional artists in all disciplines; S.O.S. (Special Opportunity Stipend) grants for artists to take advantage of unique opportunities that will further their artistic careers. Application forms may be downloaded from their website.
The New York Council for the Humanities offers several grant programs to support humanities programming in New York, and sponsors State Humanities Month in October each year.
The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation provides funding opportunities and services to artists and arts organizations in the Mid-Atlantic States to encourage the growth and development of arts and cultural activities throughout the region.
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters brings performing artists and audiences together through professional development, networking, funding, advocacy and resource sharing.
The National Endowment for the Arts offers funding opportunities for artists and arts organizations in all disciplines, and provides an extensive list of other federal grant opportunities as well as links and referrals to general arts information for artists and arts organizations.
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers funding opportunities to support research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities.
The Foundation Center publishes guidebooks to grants in a wide range of categories - you can find many of them at libraries (the New York State Library has an extensive collection - call them at 518-474-5355), or purchase them for your own collection. Their website also has a searchable grants database and online librarian. In addition they publish several newsletters with information on philanthropy and available grants. Their website is worth a visit!
Art Deadline allows artists who have subscribed to search a database of artist exhibition opportunities, grants, job opportunities, etc.
Research Grant Guides, Inc. publishes grant guide books on a variety of subjects. Contact them for more information at (516) 795-6129 or by mail at: 12798 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 304, West Palm Beach, FL 33515-4704.
Grants to You provides very low cost or free volunteer grant writing and education classes to primarily seniors, students and other motivated citizens who are computer comfortable, have a strong interest in supporting their community and who will designate a particular local non-profit organizations to assist in their grantwriting efforts.
Art Opportunities Monthly offers free and paid monthly subscriptions to listsings of grants and other opportunities for artists and arts organizations.
The Grantsmanship Center is a resource for grants research and proposal writing.
Other Grant Resources for Arts-In-Education
The New York State Government Information Locator Service
(NYS GILS)
A program of the New York State Library, provides a single point of access to information on grants provided by New York State Government agencies, the State Legislature and the Judiciary. The grants database includes funding opportunities that are available through the Education Department, NYSCA and the NYS Assembly.
The New York State Department of Education Office of K-16 Initiatives and Access Programs
Administers millions of dollars in grants, contracts and scholarships to colleges and universities; schools, school districts and BOCES; community based and non-profit organizations; and students.
BOCES
(Saratoga/Washington County BOCES)
BOCES aid is a form of State aid that reimburses school districts for a percentage of the costs of services provided by BOCES. Districts pay for these services in a given school year and are reimbursed the following year. A CoSer, (short for Contract for Service) is an approved agreement to establish a shared service for one year between a BOCES and two or more schools or districts. If a Teaching Artist or arts organization is brought in to a school through the Arts Coordinator at a BOCES, there is a good chance that funds spent by the district will be partially reimbursed by the State and may be set aside by the district for arts education in future years.
BOCES offers a resource directory of area artists and presenters who have expressed an interest in working with students in an educational setting. Click HERE to view their database. You can also visit the BOCES AIE homepage.
BOCES has also put together a very informative BOCES AIE How-To PowerPoint presentation outlining some of the services they offer. BOCES aid is a great way for schools to come up with the match requirement for the AIE/LCB Budget.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
NYSCA is a state agency that supports, among other categories, arts education activities of not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations in New York State. NYSCA achieves its arts education goals primarily through grant programs to not-for-profit arts organizations. NYSCA allocates funding to every county across the state for partnerships between schools and arts and cultural organizations. There are 2 distinct local funding programs: Decentralization (DEC) and Arts-in-Education/Local Capacity Building.
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
NYFA is also funded by NYSCA (among other funders) and offers financial support to individual artists and arts organizations through a competitive grant process. NYFA Source, its online search engine, includes a national directory of grant awards, services and publications for individual artists.
Federal Government Funds
National Endowment for the Arts
The most prominent public agency dedicated to “supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education.” Note that the requirements for evaluation/assessment are usually very rigorous.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED)
Provides funding to state and school districts, primarily through formula-based grant programs. Grants are funded to improve elementary and secondary schools and meet the special needs of students. They offer a full listing of their programs as well as a searchable database on their website.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services may also offer funding opportunities in the arts and education. Visit www.grants.gov and type in keywords into the search bar that meet your funding needs.
Foundation Grants
Non-governmental support comes from many sources including private foundations such as the Ford, Rockefeller, Wallace and Dana Foundations, local community foundations, small family foundations, individual donors, and corporate foundations. Occasionally corporate marketing divisions offer funds and technical assistance to support arts education in schools.
Foundation Center – Foundation Directory Online
* Many of their resources are available at the NYS Library in the State Museum building in Albany. Call 474-5355 for an appointment, or visit the library’s online catalog at www.nysl.nysed.gov
The Foundation Center is a grant information research center and database which publishes grant resources, fundraising information and non-profit management information in print, on CD-ROM, via email newsletters and on their website in a searchable subscription database. They also offer training courses throughout the year in fundraising, grantwriting and non-profit management.
Visit your county chamber website for more information on local businesses and corporations who you may want to contact about funding your project.
Service Organizations
There are many not-for-profit organizations that are in business to advance arts education/arts-in-education. Some specialize in giving up to date information regarding what funds are available, what non-monetary supports are available, or what research findings will help you advocate for your own programs. Some are more educational while others are more about the arts. All define their success by how much they can serve their clients.
Americans for the Arts
Partners with local, state, and national arts organizations, government agencies, business leaders, individual philanthropists, educators, and funders throughout the country. It provides extensive arts industry research and information as well as professional development opportunities for community arts leaders via specialized programs and services.
Arts Education Partnership (AEP)
AEP is a coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic, and government organizations. Its purpose is to demonstrate and promote the essential role of the arts in learning and development of every child as part of America’s school improvement agenda. AEP has developed several publications regarding arts education research, assessment information, partnership tools that will assist advocate sin their quest for funding. The website also includes information on state arts education policy gathered in Summer 2005.
The National Arts Education Association (NAEA)
NAEA is a non-profit educational organization that promotes art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge and leadership. It offers essential publications and resources such as “Authentic Connections: Interdisciplinary Work in the Arts” , which is a 10-page guide developed by a committee of the Consortium of Professional Arts Education Associates designed to assist and support educators ion interdisciplinary works and to clarify how the arts can be taught with integrity through the interdisciplinary content standards. It has been prepared for teacher sin all disciplines, teaching artists, administrators, teacher educators at the college level and parents.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center maintains a website called Arts Edge (artsedge.kennedy-center.org) where teachers and teaching artists can find curriculum and lesson planning resources, including lesson and unit plans, award opportunities, publications, advocacy information and more.
Other helpful websites
The New York State Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE)
The Toolkit for Teaching the Arts, produced by The New York State Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE) offers the tools and resources necessary to create, expand and improve arts education and arts-in-education programs.
National Association for Music Education
National Dance Education Organization
National Alliance for Theatre & Education
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Secondary School Teachers
National School Boards Association
Saratoga Arts often receives grant notifications from other organizations. We list these opportunities on the Opportunities page.
Saratoga Arts often receives grant notifications from other organizations. We list these opportunities on the Opportunities page.
See list of Other Granting Organizations and Opportunities
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