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Business Support Funding for Creatives: New Eligibility Criteria for Artist Driven Marketing grants.

Based on community interest and demand, Arts, Culture & Creative Economy (ACCE) has now extended eligibility to include creative businesses and creative entrepreneurs for the Artist Driven Marketing grant opportunity. Creative businesses and creative entrepreneurs are encouraged to apply along with arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to design a marketing plan and implement initial elements of the plan. The planning phase will be aided by professional counseling services from Springboard for the Arts, resulting in a marketing plan for the grantee; the implementation phase will be initiated with professional marketing services provided by Juxtaposition Arts.

Value of services: $8,500

Applications due: September 6, 2022 by 11:59 pm

The deadline for ACCE's Business Support Fund for Creatives for Artist Driven Marketing grants has been extended to Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 by 11:59 pm CT

The following eligibility criteria is required of all applicants for this funding:

  • All applicants must have a primary business address in Minneapolis.

  • Applicants must be able to demonstrate economic hardship (narrative) due to the pandemic and must demonstrate a revenue or profit drop of at least 25% over the pandemic period of 2020 and 2021.

  • Arts and cultural nonprofit organizations with a budget size of $400,000 or under are eligible to apply.

  • Creative businesses and creative entrepreneurs with annual revenues of $200,000 or under are eligible to apply.

  • Nonprofit social service organizations serving cultural communities with affiliated arts and culture divisions are eligible to apply but only if they can provide separate budget data for their arts and culture services for the pandemic period.

Applicants who need technical assistance with formatting, translation, or have questions or concerns regarding this application can schedule a 15 or 30 minute call by emailing creativecitymaking@gmail.com or meena.mangalvedhekar@minneapolismn.govProvide your email, phone number and preferred times (8:00 am – 8:00 pm). Meena will respond to set up a call to address your questions.