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Program Description
The Arts Learning program provides grants of up to $10,000 for high-quality, age-appropriate arts education for Minnesotans of all ages to develop knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts. MRAC's goals for the Arts Learning Program are to cultivate creativity and deepen knowledge of and/or through the arts for children, youth and adults by engaging people in extended arts experiences and activities with clearly articulated learning objectives.
Program Requirements
Requirements listed here are intended to give a sense of the program.
See program guidelines for a full description of requirements and eligibility rules.
 Project Budget
For every four MRAC dollars requested, you must match or raise one dollar from another source. In-kind donations can not be used to supply the match. Funding sources may include general operating funds, past surpluses, other grants, and earned income or revenue you plan to generate specifically for this project.
Nonprofit status
You must be able to furnish proof of your organization's IRS tax-exempt
status or furnish a letter of agreement with your fiscal sponsor
and proof of your fiscal sponsor's IRS tax-exempt status.
Eligibility
To ensure eligibility, all applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss proposal ideas with MRAC staff before beginning an MRAC application. All eligibility requirements are fully outlined in the program guidelines. For general eligibility, see the eligibility page.
Who is eligible for an Arts Learning grant?
- Nonprofit arts groups with annualized operating expenses less than $300,000.
- Informal and/or unincorporated arts-focused groups and one-time arts projects with expenses less than $300,000. The applicant group must have a board of directors or advisory committee that provides input on the project and oversight of the grant funds.
- Nonprofit, non-arts organizations with a history of arts programming and annualized arts programming expenses less than $300,000 and community education units of any size may apply if 1) the group's art budget can be isolated from the organization's other costs and 2) the applicant can demonstrate clearly that the project is specifically and primarily intended to serve and under-served community (see definition of “under-served” in program guidelines, page 7).
- Community education units with arts budgets of any size when the applicant can demonstrate clearly that the project is specifically and primarily intended to serve an under-served community (see definition, page 7).
- An organization that does not have nonprofit status may apply using a fiscal sponsor. Call MRAC for more information on finding and working with a fiscal sponsor.
For a description of what the Arts Learning grant does
not fund, see the program guidelines.
Deadlines
The Arts Learning grant program has one deadline this MRAC fiscal
year, July 1 - June 30. See "Important Dates" at the top of this page.
Before You Apply – Technical Assistance
Grant Application Workshops
Free grant application workshops are held about a month prior to the Arts Learning deadline. These workshops will be posted on the website as they are scheduled. For further information, see the grant application workshops page.
This is a new grant. Applicants are encouraged to attend an MRAC application workshop to help you understand the guidelines and program intent, allow you to ask questions, and improve your chances of getting a grant.
MRAC staff is available to answer your questions. The program director for the Arts Learning grant program is Jeff Prauer.
Application Materials
Click the links above to download the grant guidelines and form(s) in PDF format.
You must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or the commercial Adobe Acrobat
installed on your computer to view these files. Click
here to download Acrobat Reader. If you have trouble downloading or reading
these forms, call the MRAC office at 651-645-0402 and ask us to send you the
application materials by U.S. mail.
Read the instructions carefully before filling out the grant application.
You may fill out the grant application electronically by filling in the
fields and printing.
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