Deadline: 10 January 2025
The Department of Cultural Affair’s (DCA) Arts Workforce Empowerment Program grant category provides targeted support for staff salaries: at minority-defined organizations authentically located in neighborhoods experiencing prevalent community poverty.
The purpose of the AWE supplementary-grant category is to support staff workers (part- or fulltime payroll employees) at mid-size nonprofit arts organizations and nonprofit community-festival organizations that hire and sustain a unit of workers from the clients and neighborhoods of their services.
Funding Information
- Applicant-organizations with budgets between $400,001 and $800,000 may request $10,000 of AWE support for one (1) part-time or full-time staff member salary.
- Applicant-organizations with budgets between $100,000 and $400,000 may request $20,000 of AWE support for two (2) part-time or full-time staff members’ salaries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Competitive applicants for AWE will be able to demonstrate all three of the following attributes:
- the organization’s mission/programming serves a population which is specifically impacted by poverty as well as other systemic discriminations,
- the organization is embedded in its neighborhood/community in order to serve as a beacon of hope as well as a partner in community-empowerment with other non-arts businesses that uplift the same fragile population(s), and
- the organization is dedicated to salaried-employment of staff members who personally represent (in in the best case come from and live within) the same fragile population(s) served by the agency’s programs.
- AWE applicants must also meet the following three qualifications:
- Headquartered within the City of Los Angeles.
- Sited in a community-context that connects their mission to their audience.
- Awarded a grant from DCA as a mid-size applicant in any artistic discipline including outdoor festivals/parades.
For more information, visit DCA.
