Grassroots Grant
The Grassroots Grant is funded by the North Carolina State Legislature through the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency. The Grassroots Grant provides funds to non-profit agencies and organizations planning and implementing programs in the fine and performing arts, which includes the visual arts, architecture and the visual environment, traditional or folk arts, music, dance, theater, film and video, creative writing and photography.
Alamance Arts will award $56,466.50 for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year.
Interested applicants - please read below for details pertaining to qualifications for applying and consideration given to applicants based on the guidelines set forth by the NC Arts Council:
Organizations must have been in operation for at least one year. While nonprofit 501(c)(3) status is preferred, organizations that are nonprofit in nature but lack the IRS designation may also receive GAP subgrants.
Priorities for Funding as determined by the NC Arts Council:
The first priority in awarding subgrants is to provide program or operating support to qualified arts organizations. Examples are theaters, symphonies, galleries, art guilds, choral societies, dance companies, folk arts societies, writers' groups, and arts festivals. To receive operating support from a subgrant, an arts organization may not also receive operating support directly from the N.C. Arts Council.
The second priority in subgranting Grassroots funds is to support arts learning and arts-in-education programs conducted by qualified artists. These can be artist residencies in schools, after-school summer camps, or adult arts learning classes. Grassroots funds may not be used for activities associated with a school’s internal arts programs, such as in-school student performances, the purchase of classroom supplies, or student art competitions and publications.
The third priority in awarding GAP subgrants is to support community, civic, and municipal organizations that provide high-quality experiences for the greater community. Qualified artists must conduct these programs.
Alamance Art invites you to consider how your organization can provide artistic programming this coming year. Allocations and preference will be given to requests with confirmed cash match, the highest rubric scores and together with other groups meet the required NC Arts Council’s Multicultural distribution through program delivery and artist payment. Alamance County has a 42% Multicultural requirement. Each applicant should make every effort to contribute to the multicultural requirement for strongest consideration.
