Business Support Funding for Creatives: New Eligibility Criteria for Artist Driven Marketing grants.
Creative Businesses & Creative Entrepreneurs are Encouraged to Apply.
Applications are due September 6, 2022
Thursday August 25, 2022 | Arts & Cultural Affairs
Based on community interest and demand, the City of Minneapolis’s Arts & Cultural Affairs has now extended eligibility to include creative businesses and creative entrepreneurs for the Artist Driven Marketing grant opportunity. Creative businesses and creative entrepreneurs are encouraged to apply along with arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to design a marketing plan and implement initial elements of the plan. The planning phase will be aided by professional counseling services from Springboard for the Arts, resulting in a marketing plan for the grantee; the implementation phase will be initiated with professional marketing services provided by Juxtaposition Arts.
Value of services: $8,500
Applications due: September 6, 2022 by 11:59 pm CT
The deadline Business Support Fund for Creatives for Artist Driven Marketing grants has been extended to Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 by 11:59 pm CT
In 2021, the City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs received one-time Federal recovery funding from the American Rescue Plan and has partnered with Springboard for the Arts, Juxtaposition Arts and Artspace to provide Business Support Services to creative organizations that have been economically impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic. The purpose of the Arts & Cultural Affairs American Rescue Plan funded grant programing is to assist the creative sector’s recovery and to support the recovery of the creative workforce, with an emphasis on supporting the most impacted creative sector industries and Minneapolis communities.
The Artist Driven Marketing grant opportunities will support rebuilding and improving organizational capacity to not only return to business or improve business outcomes, but to plan for the future. Arts & Cultural Affairs is committed to supporting the development and growth of the creative sector, and especially women and BIPOC creatives.
Apply here.
Interested in applying or have questions?
Applicants who need technical assistance with formatting, translation, or have questions or concerns regarding this application can schedule a 15 or 30 minute call by emailing creativecitymaking@gmail.com or meena.mangalvedhekar@minneapolismn.gov. Provide your email, phone number and preferred times (8:00 am – 8:00 pm). Meena will respond to set up a call to address your questions.
Eligibility criteria:
The following eligibility criteria is required of all applicants for this funding:
All applicants must have a primary business address in Minneapolis.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate economic hardship (narrative) due to the pandemic and must demonstrate a revenue or profit drop of at least 25% over the pandemic period of 2020 and 2021.
Arts and cultural nonprofit organizations with a budget size of $400,000 or under are eligible to apply.
Creative businesses and creative entrepreneurs with annual revenues of $200,000 or under are eligible to apply.
Nonprofit social service organizations serving cultural communities with affiliated arts and culture divisions are eligible to apply but only if they can provide separate budget data for their arts and culture services for the pandemic period.
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Publisher's Note: The name, "The Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy" has been updated on August 13, 2023 where it appeared within the content of this article to "Arts & Cultural Affairs" to reflect its new name as a department of the City of Minneapolis.
