Opportunities for Communities

Opens: July 10, 2024
Deadline: Open Deadline

Chicago Metro Catalyst grant funds have been fully expended. Applications are still being accepted from IAC’s Northern, Western, Central, Eastern, and Southern regions.

Creative Catalyst Grant offers support to Illinois artists and non-profit organizations for arts-related projects, programming, events, and/or professional development.

Opens: June 20, 2024
Deadline: Closed

The Regional Arts Partner (RAP) Grant creates a partnership between the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) and IAC-designated organizations by providing funds to expand local mechanisms that encourage and support developing arts programs throughout the organization’s service area. Based on the assessment and perception of local needs, the RAP regranting funds make it possible for designated RAPs to develop grantmaking processes that are responsive to their service area.

Opens: May 30, 2024
Deadline: Closed
 

General Operating Support (GOS) Grants are available for Illinois non-profit organizations that provide ongoing arts programming.

Youth Employment in the Arts (YEA) Grants provide funds to GOS grantees for individuals between the ages of 14-22.

The Local Arts Network (LAN) is an initiative to build capacity and excellence amongst Local Arts Agencies so they can better serve their communities and to provide opportunities for validation and support. The LAN is open to leaders from Local Arts Agencies across Illinois.

DCEO's grant programs provide funds to organizations throughout Illinois that support and maintain a strong economy. To better assist potential and current grantees, this page contains a variety of resources to provide end to end support for grant recipients.

Deadline: October 1    

Forecast Public Art announces Midwest Memory, an initiative to fund new monuments that celebrate and preserve diverse stories and prioritize the inclusion of voices and experiences of BIPOC communities in the rural Midwest.   The program will select eight communities with monument or memorial projects needing support, providing them with funding and a collaborative cohort experience.

Local Arts Agency Resources for Individual Artists

Artist education programs rarely provide information for artists to create and develop their art as a small business. In 2018, Americans for the Arts (AFTA) and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation partnered to provide support for local arts agency administrators working with individual artists.  These resources have been updated and are now available to Local Arts Agencies so they may better support artists in their communities apply for grants and other opportunities.