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Grassroots Grant Application

**Note to Applicants** This online application will allow you to save work and return to it later, but you can't move forward until you have completed a section. We know that can be a challenge.

1The Main Scoop
2About Your Fabulous Project
3About Your Awesome Organization
4Wrapping It Up
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  • About Your Fabulous Project

    This section is all about the project you're proposing. If you're an arts org, and you're applying for operating dollars, then your operations (and all your programs) are your project!
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  • No later than June 30, 2026
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  • Please answer the following questions:

    Be concise and specific. No need to add flowery language! Remember that your panelists have a lot to read. Besides, you have plenty of other work to do, right?
  • 500 character max. Please write these in two numbered "To" phrases, as in: 1) To reach every community in Chatham County. 2) To pay our artists for the first time ever. (These do not have to be your goals. This is just how we want to see them written.)
  • 3a. What are the estimated racial/cultural demographics of your intended participants in the project?

    Participants are anyone who is part of the project (audience, artist, staff, etc.). You do NOT need to include numbers of participants for other programs your org provides here. We're just looking for the numbers related to your proposed project.
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  • 600 character max. Include geographic, age, gender, disability, and other demographic characteristics, if desired. Again, participants are anyone who is part of the project (audience, artist, staff, etc.).
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  • This is important. Just want to emphasize that. 1000 character max
  • (Example: “Communication with our members” is okay. “Email blasts to members” is good. “Four email blasts to our 650 members” is awesome.) 1000 character max
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  • (Example: “We will have strong attendance” is not so fabulous. “More young people will come than last year” is better. “At least 15% of our audience will be under 50” is awesome.) 750 character max
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  • Project Budget

    Please provide a projected budget for your proposed grant project using the format below. If you're an arts org requesting operating dollars (rather than project dollars), you'll enter numbers from your FY25 total annual budget projections here.
  • Total Project Expenses :: How much will the project cost?

  • Grant Request Allocation :: What part(s) of the project will you pay for with a Grassroots Arts Grant?

    This will tell us which of the above project expenses you plan to pay with this Grassroots Arts Grant.
  • Be sure this matches the total project expense you entered earlier on this page!
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    Be sure this matches the amount of your grant request on page 2 of this application!
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    Project Expense Summary

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    Be sure this matches the amount of your grant request earlier on this page!
  • Other Project Income :: Where is the other money coming from?

    The state requires that your org provide a funding match for the grant amount you're requesting. That means that if you're asking for $1,000, you have to bring $1,000 to the project, too. This can be from money you raise--or money your org already has. It cannot be in-kind donations of goods or services!
  • Not including this Grassroots Arts Grant request.
  • This is money your org already has on hand.
  • Add up all the "Other Income" you just entered, and that's your required funding match. It can be more than the grant amount you're requesting, but it can't be less!
  • Double-check: Is it equal to--or more than--your Total Applicant Funding Match? It should be!
  • This is the Applicant Funding Match + Grassroots Arts Grant Request. Double-check; This number should equal the Total Project Expense amount entered earlier on this page!
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  • About Your Awesome Organization

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  • Staff and Board

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  • Organization Budget Statements

    Please attach complete income and expense statement (an audit may be substituted) for your last completed fiscal year and complete operating budgets for the current fiscal year. Public schools and other large governmental or community agencies should attach arts program financial information only. Please copy the totals from these attachments in the spaces below.
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  • This Year's Financials

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  • Next Year's Financials

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  • Please provide the information in sections 7 and 8 for your CURRENT fiscal year for your organization.
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    7. Audience / Participants

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  • Of this number, approximately what percent are:
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  • Of the total number of participants, approximately what percent are:
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    Includes Bennett, Bear Creek, Bonlee, and Goldston
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    Includes Moncure and a small part of Apex
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    Includes Silk Hope and Siler City
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    Includes Pittsboro, Bynum, parts of Chapel, parts of Apex, and a small part of Cary
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    8. Volunteers

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  • Of the total number of staff/contractors, how many are:
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    8. Board

  • Of your total number of board members, how many are:
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  • Wrapping It Up

  • Year-round acknowledgement of the donors and legislators who provide funding for the Grassroots Grant Program is critical to the on-going strength of the program. Please check each credit line option that your organization can provide to recognize the support of the Chatham Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with insertion of the CAC logo, NCAC logo, and NCAC text credit line (see the the Resources + Reports Tab for logos and credit line):
  • If there is relevant information you haven't been able to share elsewhere in the application, please share it here. 600 characters max.
  • Certification

  • You did it! Thank you for applying for a Grassroots Arts Grant this year. Our panelists will read everything carefully. You'll receive an email copy of your application. That's how you'll know the submission went through. Good luck!
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