Funding Opportunities

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• ARTE-accesible Grant

  Provides funding to support access to the arts for all abilities through program and services, planning and training, and artist engagement.

• Artist Fellowship Program

  Provides recognition and funding support for CT artists to pursue new work and advance their artisitc careers.

• Arts Learning - HOT Approach Implementation Grants

  Providing greater access to and professional development in the Higher Order Thinking Approach.

• Arts Learning Presentation Grants

  Encourages arts engagement, arts integration, arts exploration and discovery experiences for learners of all ages

• Arts Project Grant Program

  The Connecticut Office of the Arts will no longer be offering the Arts Project Grant Program.

• Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund (CAEF)

  Provides grants to arts organizations that have raised $15,000 or more in total donor contributions for two consecutive fiscal years.

• COVID Relief Fund for the Arts

  The State will provide up to $9 million in grants to help non-profit arts nonprofit organizations recover more quickly from the impact of COVID-19.

• Elizabeth Mahaffey Fellowship Award

  Supports arts administrators in Connecticut as they pursue professional development opportunities that will advance their careers in arts administration.

• If your COA-funded project or event happens during Coronavirus time

  If you have a COA grant to support a program or event taking place during this time of increased concern, be aware that COA will allow you to postpone and reschedule, and will if necessary extend the grant project period. Be sure to contact your program manager via email to alert them to the change.

• Strategic Partnership Grants

  Invests COA resources in specific, values driven initiatives to accomplish priority goals defined in its strategic plan.

• Supporting Arts Grant Program

  Provides unrestricted funding to help support Connecticut’s arts organizations and municipal arts departments as they pursue their mission.