Funding opportunities from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) http://www.actaonline.org/ for the year 2020 are now open! Read on to learn how you can apply online for ACTA's Living Cultures http://actaonline.org/content/living-cultures-grants-program and Apprenticeship http://actaonline.org/content/apprenticeship-program programs.
LIVING CULTURES GRANTS PROGRAM - Organizational project grant
Deadline to apply: JULY 15, 2019
The Living Cultures Grants Program seeks to sustain and strengthen the folk and traditional arts in the state of California with grants of $5,000 to California-based nonprofits, as well as other organizations who work with fiscal sponsors.
Click here http://actaonline.org/content/living-cultures-grants-program to learn more about ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program and apply online.
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM - Individual artists
Deadline to apply: JULY 15, 2019
The Apprenticeship Program encourages the continuity of California's traditional arts and cultures by contracting master artists to offer intensive, one-on-one training to qualified apprentices. Each $3,000 contract will support a period of concentrated learning for apprentices demonstrate a committed engagement with and talent for a specific folk and traditional art form or practice.

Click here http://actaonline.org/content/apprenticeship-program to learn more about ACTA's Apprenticeship Program and apply online.
View a recording of a webinar covering the application process for both the Living Cultures Grant and the Apprenticeship Program here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0aWm5aIuqM&feature=youtu.be.