Quick Grant Program
Center for Cultural Innovation
PURPOSE
The Quick Grant program provides professional development funds to San Francisco Bay Area
arts organizations and artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers in the
state of California to enroll in workshops, attend conferences, and work with consultants,
coaches, and mentors in order to build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and
strengthen the economic sustainability of an organization, arts practice, or area of cultural
production.
AWARDS
Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers meeting eligibility
requirements may receive one annual award of up to $600 in reimbursement funding to
participate in approved professional development activities.
Nonprofit arts organization staff members meeting eligibility requirements may receive one
annual award of up to $600 each in reimbursement funding to participate in approved
professional development activities. Up to two individual staff members may apply per
organization per year, including staff, board, or key volunteers.
ELIGIBILITY
The Quick Grant program is supported by a joint consortium of California arts funders. Eligibility
criteria may therefore vary slightly by region. Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, cultural
producers, and nonprofit arts organizations may apply if they meet the eligibility criteria for any
of the Quick Grant program's funding partners as follows:
Artists, Creatives, Cultural Practitioners, & Cultural Producers
Artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers living in the state of California (demonstrated by resume); and/or
Current San Francisco Arts Commission individual grantees; and/or
Individuals who have applied to the California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship since July 2012 but have not received a fellowship, with a preference for applicants of color and/or applicants from Antelope Valley, Pomona, San Fernando Valley, Southeast LA, and Long Beach.
Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Staff at a nonprofit arts organization in the city of San Francisco or the city of San José; and/or
Staff of a current Grants for the Arts (GFTA) organizational grantee receiving operational (includes Arts & Parades) and/or Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund support.
ELIGIBLE COSTS
Funding may be used to reimburse part or all of the following expenses after Quick Grant
approval:
Travel and hotel expenses, if the workshop, festival, or conference occurs outside a 60 mile radius of applicant's primary address
Registration fees for conferences, festivals, workshops, and trainings
Fees to engage a facilitator, executive coach, mentor, career counselor or other consultant, in order to build administrative and business skills
Contact: Center for Cultural Innovation
Phone: 415.288.0530
Email: quickgrant@cciarts.org
Website: https://www.cciarts.org/quick_grant.htm
Grant link: https://www.cciarts.org/_Library/docs/QG_Guidelines_English_May_2019.pdf
Deadline: 05-15-2020