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Equity in Arts Learning for Colorado Youth
This annual collaborative grantmaking program seeks to increase sustained access to arts education for historically marginalized youth. The program is administered by Think 360 Arts for Learning. Grant awards range from $10,000-25,000. See Think360 Website for timeline.
Description
Equity in Arts Learning for Colorado Youth (EAL) seeks to increase sustained access to arts education for historically marginalized youth grades pre-K through 12. Grants of $10,000-$25,000 are available to support projects that bring professional artists and culture bearers into educational and community settings to lead programming with youth ages 4-21.
This annual collaborative grantmaking initiative is funded by Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, and Denver Arts & Venues. It is administered by Think 360 Arts for Learning. If you are a current grantee of Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, you are welcome to apply to Equity in Arts Learning in addition to your Foundation request.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicant must be a Colorado-based nonprofit organization, or a PK-12 school.
- School applicants must engage an artist or arts organization as a partner.
- Organizational applicants must:
- Be engaged with a school partner or have a strong history of working with youth
- Be registered with Colorado Secretary of State with an address in Colorado
- Have a Colorado-based staff person who will be actively engaged in the project
Funded projects may take place at schools (during the school day or after school), community centers, libraries, nonprofit arts sites, and other locations that are highly accessible to youth.
Additional Information
Projects may involve any arts & culture discipline or genre, such as theater, dance, music, visual arts, media arts, literary arts, folk and traditional arts, or interdisciplinary art forms. Arts integration projects (connecting an art form with another subject area) are encouraged.
Application Process
For more information and to access the application, please visit Think 360 Arts for Learning https://think360arts.org/grant-opportunities/
Please email grants@think360arts.org with any questions.
Program director, Chrissy Deal, welcomes your questions at chrissy@bonfils-stanton.org or 303.825.3774.
Individuals can nominate up to three candidates.
At the close of the nomination period, the Foundation will notify eligible candidates of their nomination and share a copy of each nomination and endorsement received on their behalf. Nominees, outside of self-nominations, will be able to provide additional information they feel may be relevant to their candidacy. Responses will be entirely optional and not required in order to advance in the selection process. For this reason, nominators may wish to notify the candidate in advance of recommending them for the fellowship.
The fellowship is quite competitive, so it is not unusual for individuals to be nominated several times over the years.
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Eligible candidates must be leading a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, or Jefferson county. Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s leadership decided to focus solely on arts and culture and leadership for deeper impact in 2012. In recent years, the Foundation has taken steps to gradually align the Livingston Fellowship Program’s geographic area more closely with that of our grantmaking portfolio which focuses on the city of Denver.
Nominees will be updated of their status in the selection process via email by early November 2022. The Board of Trustees of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation will approve the 2023 class of Livingston Fellows in early 2023.
Visit our website for additional information about the history of the Livingston Fellowship program, stories from fellows and their fellowship activities.
Absolutely! If you can’t find what you’re looking for on our website, please reach out to Chrissy for more information.
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