City of Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture Individual Artists and For Profit Creative Businesses Grant

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Who Should Apply:
Individual artists and for profit creative businesses that contribute to Sacramento’s Creative Economy.

Individual artists and creative businesses that have experienced financial hardship because of the crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) may apply for reimbursement for eligible general operating expenses between March 1 and June 30, 2020 and must be expended by December 30, 2020. Grantees are required to work with OAC mentors.

Applicants must meet the baseline requirements outlined below:

1. Applicants may apply as a natural person (an “Individual”) or as a firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity (each, an “Business”)
2. Applicants applying as individual artists must identify as a working artist whose practice is art-making, artistic production, teaching, artist residencies, arts and cultural events, or contract artistic-based work with nonprofit arts and culture organizations.
3. Applicants must be based in the City of Sacramento4.Applicant must meet City $1 million liability insurance requirement.Proof of insurance must accompany signed contract.
4. Applicant must be a Vendor with the City of Sacramento.
5. Applicant must have a current Business Occupancy Tax (BOT) certificate on file with the City. The Office of Arts and Culture can help attain if awarded a grant.
6. Applicants may apply for the City of Sacramento CRF Small Business program but will only be eligible to receive from that category or the CRF Creative Economy grant.
7. Applicants who received other Federal CARES Act assistance, such as PPP or EIDL, are eligible so long are expenses are not duplicated.

The Creative Economy Reimbursement grant provides reimbursement for eligible expenses to individual artists and creative businesses that contribute to Sacramento’s Creative Economy. For questions while completing your application, please email artgrants@cityofsacramento.org. For additional Coronavirus Relief Funding opportunities for the Arts and Culture sector, please visit arts.cityofsacramento.org.

Awards allocations will be based on total number of applicants, completeness of applications, expense eligibility as outlined by the Federal CARES Act Relief Fund and operating budget size.