How can we use Supporting Arts Grant funds?
Supporting Arts awards may be used for a wide variety of operational and program costs, such as:
- Staff salaries
- Payments to contracted artistic, technical, or administrative professionals
- Telephone, shipping, and postage costs
- Space rental and occupancy costs, including maintenance, security, insurance, and utilities
- Printing, advertising, and marketing costs
- Evaluation services and documentation, including photos, video, audio, and collecting statistical information
- Travel and registration expenses for staff and/or volunteers to attend relevant local, regional, or national industry events, such as conferences, workshops, retreats, and clinics
- Production costs
- Materials and supplies
Grant funds cannot be used for:
- Expenses incurred outside of the funding period
- Brick and mortar or capital improvements/construction
- Eliminating or reducing existing debt
- Benefits, fundraisers, and social events
- Scholarship assistance for academic or non-academic programs
- Political contributions
- Lobbying activities
- Legal fees
- Religious programming, activities, or paraphernalia
- Expenses for programs that occur in spaces that are not ADA-compliant* *The Connecticut Office of the Arts grants funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and must follow the rules they set. Funded programs must occur in ADA-compliant spaces. If they don’t, you may be ineligible for funding.