Pilot Collaborative Support

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The Pilot Collaborative Support program is a new grant to encourage and support collaboration between geographic and artistic spaces in our region.

  • Projects must include two 501(c)3s, government entities, or schools.

  • The two applicants must be from two separate counties in the region. This includes the counties of of Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Le Sueur, Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca, or Watonwan.

  • Applicants must each apply separately for up to $12,500. The applications will be considered together and either both awarded or neither. Grant money will be issued to each applicant separately.

  • The award must be spent on the same project(s) within the 9-county region.

  • The project must be complete within 2 years of funding.

Grant Amount:

  • $12,500 is granted to two organizations for a total of $25,000 and can be spent for two years after the award is dispersed.

Eligibility:

  • Arts groups and organizations

    • Federally tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations whose missions are related to the arts.

  • Cultural groups and organizations

    • Federally tax-exempt 501(c)(3) culturally-specific non profit organizations that provide arts and non-arts programming with annual arts programming expenses.

  • Non-arts and non-cultural nonprofit organizations

    • Non-arts and non-cultural 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations with annual arts programming. 

    • Non-arts and non-cultural nonprofit organizations must be able to isolate their arts programming revenues and expenses from non-arts and non-cultural financial activity.

    • A public entity such as a unit of state, local, or tribal government with arts expenses.

    • Community education units of a school district in the 9-county region with arts budgets of any size.

    • Eligible nonprofit, non-arts and non-cultural organizations must describe how this request will create access to the arts and ensure connection to audiences within the 9-county region.

  • K-12 public or private nonparochial schools.

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