Grant Opportunities:

Grants in Genesee and Orleans Counties

2012 Decentralization Regrant Awards Ceremony on March 9th

Grants offered specifically for art and culture in Genesee and Orleans Counties:

Decentralization Regrant Program, administered by GO ART!

The Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council (GO ART!) is proud to administer the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Regrant Program in Genesee and Orleans Counties. Through an annual grant application process, it is our intent to increase and upgrade the arts and cultural programming in our two-county region and also to help support our local arts and cultural community.

REACH Grants distribute awards between $400 and $5,000 to individual artists, nonprofit organizations and local government agencies for Arts and Cultural Programs or Projects in Genesee and Orleans Counties. 

RIPPLE Grants will award one-time project grants to individual artists residing in Genesee or Orleans Counties who wish to create new arts and cultural projects within a community context. 

2012 Reach and Ripple Grants

GO ART! ANNOUNCES 2012 GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council is pleased to announce the Decentralization Regrant recipients for 2012 in Genesee and Orleans Counties, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. This year GO ART! received 24 applications to the Reach Grant Program requesting a total of $61,454.00.  With $37,160.00 available, 20 of the applicants were awarded grants (listed below).

GO ART! is also pleased to regrant two Ripple Grants ($2,000 each listed below) to provide funding for the creation of new work by local individual artists who wish to involve the community in their creative process.

History of the Grant Program:
The Decentralization Regrant Program (known locally as Reach and Ripple) was first developed in 1977 by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in response to a mandate by the New York State Legislature to encourage greater participation in the state’s cultural funding at the local level.  Local decision-making is the basic principle of the Decentralization Regrant Program in supporting a wide range of community-based professional and avocational arts programs in diverse communities throughout the state, and in helping to support the work of individual artists. GO ART! is proud to administer the NYSCA Decentralization Regrant Program in Genesee and Orleans Counties.

The grant process begins in the summer with grant workshops held throughout Genesee and Orleans Counties.  Individuals, non-profit organizations and local government agencies submit applications in the fall for community-minded artistic and cultural programs.  These proposals are reviewed by a panel (there are separate panels for the Reach and Ripple Grants), made up of artists, community leaders and educators from the two counties. The panel then submits funding recommendations to the GO ART! Board of Directors for approval, and grants are awarded. Through the Decentralization Regrant Program, GO ART!, NYSCA, and the New York State Legislature hope to expand, upgrade and increase arts and cultural programming in Genesee and Orleans counties. This year’s grant recipients are listed below.

In order to publicly recognize and congratulate the 2012 grant recipients, a Grant Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, March 9, 2012.  Please join us! Contact us for more information.

For more information on the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council’s Regrant Program, please contact Heather at GO ART!, 585.343.9313 or hgrant@goart.org.   

2012 GO ART! REACH GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS
to individual artists, nonprofit organizations and local government agencies for arts and cultural programs or projects in our two counties