Cultural Sustainability: Operational Grants for Small Arts Organizations, is a pilot program that will offer grants of $50,000 to culturally driven arts organizations and arts-centric businesses with annual operating expenses under $500,000.
Applications are open at bit.ly/CulturalSustainability-MAAA through January 10, 2025.
In total, M-AAA will award 22 general operating grants across our six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas including the Native Nations that share this geography.
Over the 15-month pilot program, M-AAA will offer online, monthly workshops on topics focusing on long-term visioning and sustainability planning. Grantees will also be invited to join peer networking sessions and regular check-ins with M-AAA staff.
This opportunity is part of The Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, which funds arts organizations rooted in communities of color to advance their well-being, enhance understanding of their contributions to community. Through this work, Wallace hopes to help to build a more equitable and sustainable arts ecosystem.
