• $10,000 – $40,000 grants to traditional artists or visual artists creating new work through collaborations with nonprofit organizations.
• Applying artists must live and nonprofit organizations must be based in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, or Stanislaus County.
• Letter of inquiry deadline: March 1, 2013, 5 p.m.
• Grants awarded October 2013
• Webinars and seminars for applicants: December 3, 2012 – February 4, 2013

For guidelines and information: www.creativeworkfund.org

Questions? Call 415.402.2793

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Click here for a link to the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s website for registration.

1. Individual Artists are Now Eligible for Up to $10K
   The loan limit for artists who have confirmed funding from the City of Oakland or the City of San Francisco has been increased from $5,000 to $10,000.
2. Individual Artists Can Apply With A Fiscal Sponsor
   If an artist is fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit organization that meets the ALF eligibility guidelines, the artist may apply for a  loan from the Benefit/Performance and Secured category. The application will be in the name of the nonprofit, not the artist, and will require a few more documents. See guidelines for details.
3. Streamlined Application for All Requests Up to $10K
   The Quick Qualifier loan application requires less paperwork and used to be available only for requests under $5,000. The new request limit is $10,000.
4. Longer Rest Periods Between Loans for Some Applicants
   Returning loan applicants with a positive repayment history are allowed to apply again three months after repaying  a loan. Borrowers with late payments and extensions must wait six months after repaying a loan to submit a new application.

What’s Still The Same? Interest Rate!

The ALF affirmed its commitment to providing loans at very low interest: one percent below the Prime Rate published by the Wall Street Journal on the date of the loan.  Currently the rate is 2.25%.

California arts administrators between the ages of 18 and 35 who are currently employed by a nonprofit arts organization may be eligible to apply for these new grant resources by registering online and completing a profile questionnaire by July 31, 2010. Please help us by sharing this post with  appropriate members of your staff. A link to that survey is provided here: http://surveymonkey.com/s/NextGenArts.

We would appreciate any help that you can give us in promoting the online registry and profile questionnaire to emerging arts leaders in California. The information collected from individual employees will be treated strictly confidentially, but we look forward to sharing a summary of findings more broadly with the arts field.

For further information about CCI’s Creative Capacity Fund and the Next Gen Arts Initiative, please visit: www.creativecapacityfund.org.

Are you an Emerging Arts Leader?  A Funder?  An Emerging Leader Network wondering how you will sustain or grow your network?  Maybe you’re an Executive Director concerned about the leadership development of the next generation?

Then you’ll want to tune into ARTSblog April 5-9.

ARTSblog is hosting a week-long national dialogue titled New Strategies to Support Next Generation Leaders from April 5-9. A broad selection of diverse leaders from across the country will blog about this theme—arising from a partnership between the Irvine and Hewlett Foundations to support Emerging Arts Leaders in California.

As arts administrators, we have all read reports and been involved in conversations about an impending generational shift.  Questions often arise about the readiness of emerging arts leaders to take over for current executive leaders, as we discuss “leadership gaps” and the lack of affordable professional development available.

To respond to this conversation, Americans for the Arts and the Emerging Leaders Council will host a national dialogue on New Strategies to Support Next Generation Leadership on ARTSblog.  The idea for this blog salon was developed out of a recent partnership between the Irvine and Hewlett Foundations to support Emerging Arts Leaders in California (See more about the Irvine/Hewlett partnership here).

This dialogue will leverage the voices of funders, Emerging Leader Network representatives, and leadership development advocates to discuss what is needed to sustain leadership growth, the skill sets that emerging leaders need to develop, and how funders are addressing the generational shift.

Make sure to visit the blog daily for updated postings, and comment often!

• Craft Emergency Relief Fund
  Offers direct financial and educational assistance to craft artists, including emergency relief assistance, business development support, and resources.
• Disaster Recovery Assistance for Performing Arts Organizations
  A disaster relief issue brief from the Performing Arts Alliance, a coalition of performing arts advocates.
• Gulf Coast Arts Recovery
  Helpful links and resouces compiled by the Mississippi Arts Commission after Katrina.
• Americans for the Arts Emergency Relief Fund
  Established in 2005 to provide timely financial assistance to victims of a major disaster for the purpose of helping them rebuild the arts in their community.
• Santa Fe Art Institute Emergency Relief Residencies
  provides respite to artists affected by the horrors of political, social, or natural disasters.
• Wet Collection Recovery
  the process of the salvage of storm damaged papers, books, art, etc. provided by the National Parks Service.
• Heritage Preservation
  maintains a web resources related to preservation of cultural heritage in the wake of disaster, as well as resources for disaster planning and response
• Burners Without Borders
  An international, grassroots collective of artists who respond to disasters with relief and rebuilding efforts

Have more? Please post!

Pre-registration is required before Friday, January 15^th.  For more information and to register, click here.

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